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Juneau Planning Commission approves scaled-down Áak’w Landing project

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NOTN- The Juneau Planning Commission has unanimously approved a scaled-down version of Huna Totem Corporation’s planned Áak’w Landing cruise ship dock and waterfront development in downtown Juneau.

The commission voted Tuesday to amend its 2023 approval, allowing the company to reduce the size of the upland facilities, eliminate underground parking and reconfigure bus staging and parking areas.

In a story by KTOO, officials with Huna Totem Corporation say construction costs have climbed from an estimated 150 million dollars to more than 250 million, largely due to steel tariffs and market volatility.

The revised project would still include a welcome center, waterfront shops and restaurants, a small cultural center, a park and event space.

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Stolen election rhetoric from Trump isn’t new. His ability to act on those claims is

A woman feeds her ballot into a scanning machine at an early voting site in Haverstraw, N.Y., Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

AP- Democrats, election officials and voting rights groups have long wondered whether President Donald Trump, upon his return to the Oval Office, would again attempt to overturn an election when his party is trailing.

It’s no longer hypothetical.

Late last week, the president directed his Department of Justice to preemptively contest a potential Republican loss in the U.S. Senate race in Alaska. The department is demanding a court hold up certification of a possible Democratic win until it’s determined whether voters were confused by having two candidates with the same name on the ballot.

Trump followed that by calling for the prosecution of Democratic candidate Mary Peltola, a former congresswoman, based on a New York Times report that her campaign helped recruit someone named Dan Sullivan to siphon away votes from the Republican incumbent, also named Dan Sullivan. The governor has ordered an investigation.

Academics believe the lawsuit is the first time since the Civil Rights era that the federal government has sued to halt certification of an election, a duty the Constitution places in the hands of states.

Trump, for years, has claimed elections are rigged when he or his party loses, and this time is no exception. He has used his midterm rallies to say Democrats cheat, criticize election officials by name and call the ranked choice voting system in Alaska, which might hold the key to Senate control, a scam.

But the certification lawsuit elevates Trump’s crusade beyond mere rhetoric, indicating that he is preparing to use the power of the presidency to try to reverse a possible loss as his party struggles to hold its control of Congress in Tuesday’s elections.

Earlier this week, the president also announced a $1 million bounty for anyone who provides proof of prior or current voter fraud in the country. It wasn’t clear whether or how he planned to follow through.

“For at least the last year and a half, they’ve been laying that groundwork,” said Theresa Lee, a senior attorney with the ACLU. “We’ve been preparing for just as long, if not longer.”

Trump says he’ll accept results if the election is ‘honest’

Trump told reporters this week that he would accept the election results, but with his typical caveat: “If they’re honest elections,” he said.

That follows a pattern. Trump has preemptively claimed that upcoming elections will be rigged and labeled elections he’s lost as stolen. It started with the 2016 Republican Iowa caucuses, when he came in second to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa,” Trump said at the time. “He stole it.”

Democrats and other groups that oppose Trump have been concerned that his words would turn into directives to have his administration interfere in the midterms. They have been running exercises for months and have lawsuits pre-written. They also plan to have tens of thousands of people monitoring the polls on Election Day.

So far, early voting has been quiet, with about 35 million people already casting ballots without any notable disruption.

In that respect, this year’s election so far resembles 2025’s off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia and a handful of other states. Democrats braced for possible Trump action then, but the election proceeded with no major issues. But the Justice Department’s more aggressive actions this month already make 2026 different from any election in recent memory.

It has sued California to block it from counting ballots after it alleged the state had 20,000 noncitizens on its rolls and made a similar demand of Washington related to about 400 voters in that state. Both states said the demands came too close to the election to fulfill, and a federal judge Wednesday rejected the federal government’s California demands.

Earlier, the Justice Department seized ballots and election records related to the 2020 presidential election in Georgia’s Fulton County, and the administration launched a sweeping investigation of that vote, though it has yet to turn up evidence supporting Trump’s false claims of fraud.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department does not want to intervene in elections, but had no choice in Alaska.

“We are not doing anything improper,” Blanche said Sunday on CNN. “But I do think it’s important for the American people to understand that we are not — (and) President Trump is not — trying to take over a state election in any way, shape or form.”

After the lawsuit was filed, Trump told reporters he was the one who pushed for it: “I’m the one that said do it,” the president said.

Lawsuits seem more ‘impulsive’ than strategic

Though the Trump administration claimed to be acting on behalf of Alaska’s voters in its lawsuit to hold up certification, the president’s Republican allies in the state didn’t appear happy.

Sen. Sullivan would not say whether he supported the lawsuit. Alaska’s Republican-controlled state government filed court papers to try to have it dismissed. The state’s other Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, said the administration “should never have filed” it.

While controversial, the situation in Alaska is not that unusual. Political parties often support extra candidates on the ballot to try to pull votes from their rivals. If state courts allow it, legal experts say, the federal government has no role challenging the results.

Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, wrote that the Alaska lawsuit’s legal argument was “one of the worst ones I’ve ever seen.” He said that should reassure the public that Trump won’t be able to change election outcomes.

“The notion that there’s going to be something systemic that’s going to thwart the will of the voters seems much more speculative,” he said. “A lot of the conduct seems impulsive rather than strategic and planned.”

The courts have repeatedly rebuffed the administration, in many cases because the Constitution gives the president no direct power over how elections are run. Courts put on hold two Trump executive orders seeking to change voting procedures. The administration also has lost more than two dozen cases trying to get detailed voter information from the states.

That resembles 2020, when Trump and his allies tried to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden and in the process lost dozens of lawsuits.

Can the institutions hold?

Pat McCrory, a former Republican governor of North Carolina, is part of Right Count, a group of conservatives pushing back against election conspiracy theories and intervention in local elections. He said he’s confident the system will hold.

“The only thing that protects us from anarchy is this thin piece of paper called the Constitution,” McCrory said. “That thin piece of paper is, to me, a cement wall.”

It’s one that many analysts expect will continue to stymie Trump in the courts.

“The courts are likely to throw most, if not all, of these charges out,” said Matt Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University. “But this is a way of intensifying the signal to Trump’s supporters that the elections are rigged.”

The Justice Department in 2020 refused to join Trump’s allies in litigation. In his second term, Trump has pushed out career staff and stocked his administration with people who helped him challenge the 2020 election. That’s led to mounting concern he could deploy immigration agents, the FBI or even the military to the polls or seize ballots or voting machines, although multiple administration officialshave denied they have such plans.

All of that could happen before courts even have a chance to weigh in, said Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth political scientist.

“The threat is that he’ll take actions that can’t be undone,” Nyhan said.

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Alaska candidates for governor vary on approaches to outmigration, state support for families

By: Corinne Smith, Alaska Beacon

Voters walk across the map of Alaska on the floor of the Alaska State Library, Archives and Museum on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

With affordability top of mind this election, Alaska candidates for governor offered varying perspectives on how their administrations would support working families and cap the ongoing tide of outmigration from the state, if elected. 

Alaska has seen a steady exodus of people leaving the state. Last year, state demographers reported more people left than moved to Alaska —  the 13th consecutive year of net outmigration. The median household income in 2024 was nearly $94,000 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And a recent study by the non-profit United Way estimates nearly 40% of Alaskans do not earn enough to cover basic expenses like for food, housing, child care and healthcare. 

Coupled with fuel prices at a record high this year, driven by the U.S. war on Iran, Alaskans have seen rising costs of groceries and transportation, as well as housing, healthcare, and child care. Families and officials also point to school districts facing severe budget shortfalls forcing cuts, larger class sizes and some closures as a driver of families leaving the state. 

Three of the four candidates — Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Republicans Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor — participated in an online forum on Monday with the Alaska Children’s Trust, a non-profit advocacy group that focuses on supporting children and families and preventing child abuse and neglect.

Three of the four Alaska gubernatorial candidates, Republican Dave Bronson (left) Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Republican Treg Taylor participate in a forum hosted by the Alaska Children's Trust on Oct. 26, 2026. (Screenshot of Facebook livestream)
Three of the four Alaska gubernatorial candidates, Republican Dave Bronson (left) Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Republican Treg Taylor participate in a forum hosted by the Alaska Children’s Trust on Oct. 26, 2026. (Screenshot of Facebook livestream)

The fourth candidate in the running for governor, Republican Bernadette Wilson, did not participate due to a scheduling conflict, organizers said. 

Trevor Storrs, executive director of the Alaska Children’s Trust, moderated the forum and noted that Alaska’s economy “depends on families, not just resource development” and asked the candidates how they would support working families and stem the tide of outmigration. 

Kreiss-Tomkins said his priority would be the supply side, and boosting state investments across sectors. “There should just be more housing, more abundant energy, more availability of childcare,” he said. “And the scarcity of all of those things is driving up costs in a big way in Alaska, and around the country, and it’s working families that feel that squeeze.” 

On housing, Kreiss-Tomkins said his administration would focus on accelerating construction: finding appropriate state lands to make available, and reducing permitting and regulations for all types of housing. Similarly for child care providers, he said he would seek to reduce state regulations hindering new facilities and available space. 

Taylor said he also supports reducing regulations on new housing projects and on childcare providers. He said his main focus in reducing costs for families and businesses would be reducing the cost of energy. 

“It’s all about energy,” he said. “I would pursue an all of the above approach to energy, (and) reducing energy costs. Whether it be dams, whether it be solar, whether it be the AKLNG line, which I think is absolutely critical for Alaskans to reduce long-term costs for Alaskan families.”2026 Voter Guide

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He said he would also pursue making more state lands available for housing development and reducing regulations in order to build. “I also want to do a modern day Homestead Act where families are able to build a home and create an environment where they can grow and grow their families,” he said.

Bronson said he would work to reduce costs by opposing tax increases on families and businesses. “Adding those on is an expense burden to the people of Alaska. That’s not how you move forward,” he said. 

He said he also opposes imposing family and medical leave as an “interruption to the private enterprise process.”

Widening gap between need and access to Medicaid and SNAP

Candidates were asked how they would address delays and errors in state public assistance programs, including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Nearly 60,000 Alaskans have lost Medicaid coverage since Jan. 2025, including over 20,000 children according to data collected by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Some of those children lost coverage due to paperwork rather than ineligibility, Storrs noted. Thousands more are expected to lose coverage with new eligibility requirements enacted by the Trump administration’s Big Beautiful Bill Act that go into effect in January.

Alaska also has had the highest SNAP error rate in the country for four consecutive years, and some residents face months-long delays in food assistance. But state officials say modernization efforts to improve administration of the program and processing times are underway.

All three candidates agreed the state assistance programs have major problems that need more state investment and focused attention. Kreiss-Tomkins and Taylor said they would publish the backlog numbers so that the public can monitor the progress to reduce it, and hold officials accountable. 

“It’s going to be brutal at the beginning because those numbers are going to be ugly as all heck, but it needs to be out there, and then the numbers need to go in the right direction,” Kreiss-Tomkins said.

Taylor cited his experience as attorney general working on reducing the backlog in processing sexual assault examination kits. He called the SNAP backlog “unacceptable” and pledged to fund technology improvements for the system and improve access to benefits. “This should not be happening,” he said. 

Bronson said he would boost pay for state workers in the Division of Public Assistance to help reduce the backlog in SNAP and Medicaid processing. “We don’t have enough people because we don’t pay enough. I’m a fiscal conservative, a strident fiscal conservative, and I just look at it this way: if we’re going to do certain things in government, if we decide we’re going to do them, we better do them well,” he said.

He criticized Dunleavy for underfunding the state’s social assistance programs and said he supports boosting funding for social services. “We have to smartly, efficiently and economically add money to the pot because if not, this failing is just going to keep going on,” he said. 

All three candidates said they support increased funding for the state’s foster care system, run by the Office of Children’s Services, which has been a focus of lawsuits and legislative scrutiny after an audit showed the agency has failed to implement reforms.  

“Some of that may be resources, I think there’s also potentially a management leadership restructuring question,” Kreiss-Tomkins said.

Youth mental health and suicide prevention

The candidates presented varying approaches to supporting youth mental health and suicide prevention. Last year, Alaska youth suicides hit a 10-year high — a rate that is six times higher than the national average.

Kreiss-Tomkins said he supports expanding access to mental health providers, including through telehealth and easing licensing requirements. He noted that supporting Native cultural activities, particularly in rural Alaska, can help support a sense of cultural identity and belonging, including subsistence activities and language learning.  

Taylor said he would “supercharge” the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, a state corporation that manages roughly one million acres of state lands and a trust that generates revenue for mental health services each year. 

“Right now they feel like just handing out a few checks every year to charities is what their duty is. No, their duty is to create a comprehensive system of mental health in the state of Alaska,” Taylor said. 

He said he would also seek to improve the K-12 education system to create more opportunities and pathways for viable jobs for youth: “You have to have economic opportunity for these kids, and they need a sense of purpose, they need a sense of opportunity, they need a sense of hope, and they need a sense of pride.”

Bronson agreed the state needs more mental health providers. He described meeting a woman who is working on suicide prevention in communities along the Yukon River, where salmon runs have crashed dramatically altering residents’ ways of life.

“That’s a trigger,” Bronson said. “And in the immediate, you’ve got to have someone right there in front of them, whether it’s a hotline or a person, so they can call and get to help in the immediate. But then, long term, systemically, you’re going to have to spend money to deal with this. We just are.”

All three candidates expressed support for boosting state spending on K-12 schools, which has been a major topic of discussion this election season. 

Early voting is underway in Alaska, and continues through Election Day at 8 p.m. on Nov. 3.

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Trump calls for Peltola to be criminally charged, removed from Alaska’s U.S. Senate race

ByJames Brooks and Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon

Mary Peltola listens to a question posed by moderator Michelle Egan at a candidate forum held by the Alaska Oii and Gas Association on Aug. 27, 2026. Next to Peltola is i Sen. Dan Sullivan. Peltola, a Democrat and former U.S. House member, is challenging Sullivan. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Alaska Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola to be criminally charged and drop out or be removed from the ballot.

His comments followed the publication of a New York Times article revealing that her campaign worked with the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to recruit spoiler candidates that could dilute votes for her principal opponent, incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.

The U.S. Department of Justice has already filed a Trump-directed but legally dubious lawsuit seeking to prevent the state from declaring anyone but Sen. Dan S. Sullivan the winner of the election.

Alaska’s U.S. Senate race is one of a handful of “toss-up” races nationally that could be won by either a Democrat or Republican and thus decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.

Peltola has consistently been polling ahead of Sullivan, and the Times article was published less than a week before Election Day, in the middle of early voting, with more than 58,000 Alaskans already having cast ballots.

Third-party Republican and Democratic groups have already spent millions of dollars in all three of Alaska’s statewide races in attempts to boost spoiler candidates. In the U.S. House race, Democratic candidate Eric Hafner — a felon who has never lived in Alaska — is being boosted by Republican groups.

The Times article alleges that early on in the Senate race, Democrats sought to recruit people with the same name as the incumbent — including Petersburg’s Dan J. Sullivan, who is on the general election ballot alongside Peltola, Sen. Sullivan and Palmer Republican Gerald Heikes. The article is based in large part on internal text messages provided by a former Peltola aide. 

Dan J. Sullivan did not return emails and phone calls seeking comment on Wednesday.

The Alaska Beacon has not independently confirmed the Times reporting.

Legal experts, including some in Alaska, said the actions described in the article are not illegal but do amount to a dirty trick. 

Fairbanks political writer Dermot Cole, a Peltola supporter, wrote online, “What Peltola and her backers did was juvenile and stupid. The Peltola campaign lied to Alaskans about this and should come clean. There’s no excuse for how Peltola has handled this.”

Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski supported Peltola in her 2022 and 2024 campaigns for U.S. House but endorsed Sullivan this year. After the publication of the Times article, she issued a statement criticizing what she called “a pattern of lies and coverups.”

“While some may try to write this off as just how politics works now, ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process. Run and win on your merits: your views, your policy ideas, and your accomplishments. By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong. Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign,” Murkowski said in a statement.

Peltola and her campaign had denied any relationship with Dan J. Sullivan.

The Peltola campaign issued a statement implying that she will stay in the race, and she has not canceled any scheduled appearances before Election Day.

“Mary got in this race because Alaskans deserve a champion who is fighting to lower their costs and put Alaska first, and no tweet or threat from any DC politician will keep her away from that fight. The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign,” wrote a campaign spokesperson. 

Alaskans for Mary is a political group formed earlier this year; most of the allegations in the article appear to predate its creation.

At a campaign event Wednesday on the Kenai Peninsula, Peltola did not answer questions from reporters asking about the Times article but alluded to it in public remarks.

“Nobody’s waking up worried about ballot composition,” she said, according to local public radio station KDLL-FM. “Not even me. I’m worried about my bills. I’m worried about affordability in health care.”

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice, following instructions from Trump, filed a lawsuit against the Alaska Division of Elections, asking a judge to prevent the state from certifying a victory by anyone other than Dan S. Sullivan from being declared the winner of the ongoing Senate election.

Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have asked to intervene in the lawsuit, and the federal government opposed that intervention until the Times article published.

Now, the DOJ is urging Judge Sharon Gleason to allow Peltola to be part of the lawsuit so it can “seek expedited discovery from the campaign regarding the reported conspiracy.”

The DOJ lawsuit is legally tenuous — under the U.S. Constitution, states and not the federal government have principal jurisdiction over elections — but the Times reporting nevertheless supportsRepublicans who have repeatedly referred to Dan J. Sullivan as “Decoy Dan”, suggesting he was recruited and supported by Democrats.

“Alaskans deserve to know the truth. Mary Peltola, her campaign, and her senior advisors colluded with the DSCC, national Democrat lawyers, and Alaska Democrat operatives to recruit a candidate to deliberately deceive and confuse voters, and then repeatedly lied about it,” said Nate Adams, spokesperson for Sullivan’s campaign. “Not one player in this operation has acted in good faith with Alaska voters. Mary Peltola and her campaign have spent months gaslighting Alaskans, denying a scheme they were running all along. We always knew this was a concerted effort to deceive voters, and Mary Peltola was hoping it would stay hidden until after the election.”

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Anonymous Celebrity Threatens Suicide If Named In Sexual Misconduct Investigation

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An unnamed celebrity is fighting to keep his identity out of the headlines as he faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

And his legal team is warning that exposing his name could have potentially fatal consequences.

The unidentified man, referred to as “PPT” in court documents, is seeking an injunction to prevent The Guardian and ITN from publishing his identity alongside allegations that he abused his celebrity status to pursue sexual relationships with young women and teenagers.

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A man talks on a cell phone in New York City. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

The allegations have not been proven, and the man vehemently denies the claims.

According to reports from the London High Court, his attorney, Sara Mansoori KC, argued that publishing the allegations would make another suicide attempt “highly likely.” She told the court that her client had already attempted suicide twice after the news organizations contacted him seeking comment.

Mansoori also said her client had been hospitalized for months, involuntarily detained, and examined by more than 10 doctors.

“This is not a case where an individual has spuriously raised ‘mental health’ concerns in the face of an impending publication that they do not wish to occur,” she argued.

The attorney maintained that the threat to her client’s life was genuine, insisting that the consequences of publication could be catastrophic.

However, the news organizations are pushing back against the effort to keep the celebrity anonymous.

Gavin Millar KC, representing The Guardian and ITN, argued that journalists had conducted a wide-ranging investigation involving more than 100 people, including 30 individuals who provided firsthand accounts.

The outlets contend that the allegations raise serious questions of public interest, particularly regarding the potential abuse of fame and influence. Their legal team also argued that many of the women who came forward had experienced significant emotional distress as a result of the alleged conduct.

The organizations maintain that preventing publication would undermine legitimate journalism and potentially prevent other women from learning about the allegations.

A medical assessment presented to the court reportedly found that inpatient treatment could substantially reduce the celebrity’s suicide risk, although it could not eliminate that risk entirely.

The case puts the court in a difficult position, weighing concerns about an individual’s safety and privacy against freedom of expression and the public’s interest in reporting allegations of potentially serious misconduct.

Justice Nicklin acknowledged the significance of the dispute, emphasizing that his responsibility was to determine whether the publications could legally proceed, not to establish whether the allegations were true.

The judge has reserved his decision and is expected to rule next week. Reporting restrictions remain in place while the parties await his decision.

The judge also issued a pointed warning against online speculation about the celebrity’s identity, making clear that repeated rumors do not transform speculation into established fact.

For now, the identity of the man remains protected, and the allegations against him remain unresolved.

We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.

Anonymous Celebrity Threatens Suicide If Named In Sexual Misconduct Investigation was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Tyler Perry Fights to Keep Texts Private in Sexual Assault Lawsuit

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The texts that we’ve already seen are embarrassing enough.

One of the former employees accusing Tyler Perry of sexual misconduct has possession of conversations that the mega-producer exchanged with others.

These texts are not yet public. Perry is asking the court to ensure that it stays that way.

Perry argues that these messages are private and could embarrass others.

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Mario Rodriguez is in possession of text-based conversations

TMZ reports that Perry is fighting Mario Rodriguez in court over private text messages.

As part of the legal battle, Perry reportedly turned over private texts that he had with others over to Rodriguez’s legal team.

Perry is adamant that these conversations remain confidential.

One major issue, he argues in court, is that there are financial matters that come up in these conversations.

Another note is that the associates with whom he spoke believed that their own conversations were private. So it is no longer merely about Perry’s privacy.

As such, he does not want Rodriguez to release these conversations, in part or in whole.

His legal argument, the report details, is that these associates have nothing to do with the lawsuit.

Disclosure of their texts, he notes, would cause both annoyance and a public embarrassment.

Rodriguez did not immediately fire back in court.

However, with a $77 million lawsuit on the line, his own attorney is sure to have a rebuttal soon.

These are not the same texts as those released over the past year or so

Rodriguez is one of two men who have acted on Perry’s projects only to later accuse him of sexual misconduct and sexual assault.

(The other man, Derek Dixon, appears in text exchanges in which he and Perry nervously discuss anxieties about guilt, sex, religious trauma, and more in a tone that many argue is inappropriate between a boss and employee.)

In 2015, Perry and Rodriguez apparently met in 2015 at a gym.

This, Rodriguez has since described, led to his casting in Boo! A Madea Halloween.

It took a few years, Rodriguez alleges, before working for Perry turned into becoming a victim of sexual assault.

Rodriguez’s $77 million lawsuit details that Perry allegedly asked him if he liked oral sex during a 2018 visit to the producer’s home. Perry then allegedly groped his genitals.

At a later date, when Rodriguez apparently felt comfortable believing that this was a one-time transgression, Perry allegedly repeated the offense, grasping at his penis.

Both times, the lawsuit claims, Perry would give him small payments ($5k) alongside an apology.

Perry’s legal team has argued that Rodriguez only filed this lawsuit after Perry declined to offer him further financial assistance, claiming that he is simply after money — not justice.

Rarely, that can happen. But sometimes, a victim knows that money is the best justice that they’re likely to get.

Tyler Perry Fights to Keep Texts Private in Sexual Assault Lawsuit was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Luke Bryan Cut Zach John King From ‘Idol’ — Now They’re Touring

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