Posted on 10/12/2017 6:23:40 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Roy Price, the executive in charge of Amazon’s growing investment in movies and television shows, was suspended by the company on Thursday after a Hollywood producer publicly accused him of making unwanted sexual advances toward her.
Mr. Price, the head of Amazon Studios, was accused of lewdly propositioning Isa Dick Hackett, a producer of one of its most popular shows, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published earlier in the day.
In the interview, Ms. Hackett, an executive producer of the Amazon series “The Man in the High Castle,” said that Mr. Price had repeatedly made unwanted sexual advances toward her two years ago after a dinner at Comic-Con in San Diego.
When reached by The New York Times on Thursday, Ms. Hackett said she was “talked out” but said that the details in the article, written by Kim Masters, were accurate.
“I just wanted to get that out,” Ms. Hackett said in the brief phone interview.
According to the Hollywood Reporter article, Ms. Hackett entered a cab on July 10, 2015, with Mr. Price and Michael Paull, then an executive at Amazon and now the chief executive of BamTech, as they were making their way to an after party. Ms. Hackett said that Mr. Price repeatedly propositioned her in the cab, once making use of a vulgar term for male genitalia. At the party, Ms. Hackett said, Mr. Price approached her while she was speaking to other executives and shouted “Anal sex!” directly in her ear.
In a statement, an Amazon spokesman said, “Roy Price is on a leave of absence effective immediately.” Albert Cheng, currently the chief operating officer of Amazon Studios, will assume Mr. Price’s duties on an interim basis, an Amazon spokesman said.
Ms. Hackett is a daughter of the late science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. “The Man in the High Castle” series, which was renewed for a third season in May, is based on one of his 44 published novels. Although Amazon does not release viewership numbers, the company said in 2015 that “The Man in the High Castle” was its most-streamed show.
Isa Dick Hackett in 2015.
CHARLEY GALLAY / GETTY IMAGES FOR AMAZON STUDIOS Ms. Hackett is also a producer of “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,” an anthology series that premiered in Britain last month and will be streamed by Amazon Video next year.
Allegations that Mr. Price had made unwanted sexual remarks to Ms. Hackett surfaced in August in an article by Ms. Masters that was published on the tech news website The Information.
That article included few specifics about Ms. Hackett’s claims, with Ms. Hackett providing a statement that she did not “wish to discuss the details of this troubling incident with Roy except to say Amazon investigated immediately and with an outside investigator.”
In The Hollywood Reporter article, Ms. Hackett said she had been inspired to come forward after the publication of articles in The Times and The New Yorker that detailed accusations of abuse from numerous women against the film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Be interesting to see how WaPoo reports this: Drunk Amazon exec sexually harasses hard core lesbian. Best part is he wasn’t suspended until this became public! Dems are in total melt down. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
They are all pervs and more numerous than we can imagine. Maybe this is the crack in the wall they have built around themselves that brings them down.
Maybe he was talking about his signed first edition Dick novel?
Right now this is trending on twitter, not for long til they kill it..just like they killed every single negative Hillary Clinton story
> Be interesting to see how WaPoo reports this <
Drunk Amazon exec driven to despair by Trump’s policies, sexually harasses hard core lesbian.
Her name sounds like a warning.
How long till Bezos is in prison? Most of these leftists are criminals.
Yep. A warning baked in the cake!
Strange name for a woman. Perhaps Dick was her maiden last name?
Not that you would want it, but that right there was so good they’d hire you immediately, lol!
Who names their kid Isa Dick? They are sick.
The rats are clawing each others’ eyes out while going down on their sinking titanic. #MixingMetaphors
She is the daughter of Phillip K.Dick, I believe.
This whole sexual harassment explosion on the left may be the storm that Trump was teasing just a few days ago. It would be a hoot if Steve Bannon is behind it all.
Phillip K. Dick’s daughter. She’s a producer of the excellent “Man in the High Castle” series.
Yet another actress with a Harvey tried to bed me. Read this as it shows what he’d do if they didn’t become a “F.O.H” - Friend of Harvey is how his women were identified at his company.
Wikipedia:
“Dick was married five times:
Jeanette Marlin (May to November 1948)
Kleo Apostolides (June 14, 1950 to 1959)
Anne Williams Rubinstein (April 1, 1959 to October 1965)
Nancy Hackett (July 6, 1966 to 1972)
Leslie (Tessa) Busby (April 18, 1973 to 1977)
Dick had three children, Laura Archer (February 25, 1960),
Isolde Freya (now Isa Dick Hackett) (March 15, 1967), and
Christopher Kenneth (July 25, 1973).
Here’s the updated list — which isn’t even current after this evening (I’ve seen two more come forward)— from the Los Angeles Times.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-weinstein-accusers-list-20171011-htmlstory.html
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