LOS ANGELES: Morgan Freeman’s lawyer demanded Tuesday that CNN retract a story accusing the 80-year-old movie star of multiple cases of sexual harassment. In a letter sent to the television news network, the lawyer accused CNN of “malicious intent, falsehoods, sleight-of-hand, an absence of editorial control and journalistic malpractice.”Schwartz said in a later statement that “we proved to CNN, beyond any doubt, that the whole story was built on fakery. In his letter, Schwartz accused Melas of “baiting and prodding” a number of “so-called witnesses” to malign Freeman. Tyra Martin, one of the television journalists cited in the CNN report, denied she was one of the accusers and said the news network “totally misrepresented” a video in which she had interviewed Freeman. She said, however, that her interviews with the movie star “were always fun for me.”Despite his initial apology, Freeman later issued a denial of the claims against him.

Source: New Strait Times May 29, 2018 21:22 UTC