0:00 Roger Ailes interviews Alan Dershowitz about his book ‘The Abuse Excuse’ (1994)

8:48 Dershowitz’s sexual abuse allegations (2019)

10:56 Ailes’ sexual harassment accusations (2016)

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Excerpt from They Said We’d Never Make It by Erik Menendez’s wife Tammi Menendez:

A new term was popularized by a famed and critical defense attorney Alan Dershowitz around the Menendez trial: Abuse excuse. The man wrote a book about it. The term implied that Erik and Lyle Menendez were citing "abuse" as a justification for homicide. Ignorance is contagious. Others picked up on the term. The book even sold well.

The argument is non-sensical. Take, for example, a woman who has been raped. Sometime later, be it a minute or a month, she retrieves a gun and kills her rapist. According to the "abuse excuse," her rape is incidental and unrelated to the killing she has committed; it is an excuse that should not be considered, goes the argument.

Such craziness swirled around the case as if it had wings of its own. The term "abuse" itself is a silly one. The definition needs to be changed. Emotional torture is not abuse. Molestation is not abuse. Physical torture is not abuse. All of these are violent acts.

Perhaps the man should have published his book under "rape excuse" or "torture excuse". But then he would have just looked ridiculous.

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"In 2016, a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against Ailes by former Fox journalist Gretchen Carlson kickstarted an internal investigation at the news network and, eventually, a wave of sexual harassment claims against Ailes."

"At least 20 women came forward to the lawyers conducting the internal investigation or Carlson's own attorneys with stories of harassment at the hands of Ailes. One woman said that Ailes videotaped her and used the footage to blackmail her into pressuring other women into situations in which Ailes could harass them."

https://time.com/5748267/bombshell-tr....

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"Well-known attorney and Miami Beach resident Alan Dershowitz emphatically denied allegations made in newly-filed court papers that he had sex six times with an underage girl who at the time was serving as a "sex slave" for wealthy financier -- and convicted sex offender -- Jeffrey Epstein.

"This is a woman who is a serial liar," Dershowitz told Local 10 News reporter Bob Norman. "She's lied, lied, lied, lied."

"But she wasn't lying about being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein," said Norman.

"That is a different issue," said Dershowitz. "That is between her and Jeffrey Epstein."

The woman is Virginia Roberts, one of as many as 40 women who allege that Epstein recruited them while they were minors into a sex ring based at Epstein's Palm Beach mansion.

Roberts alleges in a 14-page affidavit -- which included newly-released photos she said were taken by Epstein when she was 15 -- that Epstein groomed her as "sex slave" to gratify not only him but his powerful friends.

She wrote that she was introduced to Epstein at the mansion by heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the late British publisher Robert Maxwell, on the pretext that she would be paid to give him a "massage," which she wrote was Epstein's "code word for sexual encounters."

https://www.local10.com/news/2015/01/...

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Menendez Brothers Trial Footage:
CA v. Lyle & Erik Menendez (1993)
https://www.courttv.com/trials/ca-v-m...

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