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• Ricky Gervais makes Hollywood sex abuse joke in Walk of Fame speech

I’m happy to join ‘exclusive club’ of Jackson, Cosby and Arbuckle, British comedian says as he accepts coveted star

• Cate Blanchett: #MeToo never took root in Hollywood

Australian actress ‘distressed’ people have tried to ‘dismantle and discredit’ movement that sought to end sexual violence in film industry

• Eddie Murphy vs Bill Cosby: Inside the bitterest feud in comedy history

In 1987, ‘America’s Dad’ took the Beverly Hills Cop star to task for talking ‘filth’ – starting a savage rivalry that rages to this day

• We Need to Talk About Cosby, review: fine series refuses to let anyone off the hook

Fans of the disgraced television star have had a difficult time reckoning with the allegations; this documentary gave them due process

• Janis Ian: ‘Losing my voice has been horrible – like a death’

The singer-songwriter talks about releasing her swansong album, her struggles as a gay woman in the industry and her friend Nina Simone

• Bill Cosby sexually assaulted teenager at Playboy Mansion, jury finds

Claimant awarded $500,000 in damages after California court finds comedian molested her when she was 16

• We Need to Talk About Cosby, review: tries too hard to tell a story bigger than Cosby

Screening at Sundance, this TV documentary about the disgraced comedian has great emotional heft, but it packs too much in and lacks focus

• Bill Cosby plans to perform on London stage in comeback tour

The comedian is eager to return to the stage despite widespread backlash to his release from prison

• ‘Go into your mansion and disappear’: why comedians will never let Bill Cosby come back

The disgraced funnyman cast a long shadow over today's comics. But from Eddie Murphy to Tina Fey, they won't let him get away with it

• As Bill Cosby walks free, is America’s ‘justice’ system broken?

The star's acquittal is a reminder that, with enough wealth behind the accused, legal loopholes to secure their freedom can always be found

• Bill Cosby was proof that #MeToo had worked – so was it all in vain?

The overturning of Cosby's conviction is a sad day for a movement that has simultaneously grown and floundered since its inception

• How Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team hopes to secure her release on basis of Bill Cosby ruling

Cosby, the disgraced former comedian once beloved as “America’s dad”, was released from jail on Wednesday

• Hollywood’s avenging angel: how Gloria Allred – almost – took down Bill Cosby

The pioneering feminist lawyer has built a career putting powerful, abusive men behind bars. But she can’t always ensure they stay there

• Q&A: Why Bill Cosby was let out of jail – and could he face a retrial?

The comedian was convicted of sexual assaults in 2018, but a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling has seen him released from prison

• Watch: Bill Cosby walks free after judge overturns sex assault conviction

Pennsylvania Supreme Court finds that testimony in retrial was tainted as star says: 'I have always maintained my innocence'

• Beverly Johnson, US Vogue's first Black cover star: 'I was hit by arrows from everywhere'

Supermodel Beverly Johnson, 67, on being the first black model on the US Vogue cover and helping bring sexual predator Bill Cosby to justice

• The Angel Heart scandal: why Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet's voodoo sex bedeviled Bill Cosby

Rourke and Robert De Niro's Angel Heart feud continues to this day. But it pales next to the drama between Lisa Bonet and her prudish TV dad

• Meet the mother-daughter duo fighting Hollywood's most powerful sex abusers in court

Gloria Allred, lawyer for two women who testified against Weinstein, and daughter Lisa Bloom on their next quest for justice