{"id":118247,"date":"2023-11-09T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/09\/sharon-stone-says-ex-sony-head-sexually-harassed-her-in-the-1980s\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:26:36","slug":"sharon-stone-says-ex-sony-head-sexually-harassed-her-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/11\/09\/sharon-stone-says-ex-sony-head-sexually-harassed-her-in-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Stone says ex-Sony head sexually harassed her in the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actress Sharon Stone has said a former head of Sony Pictures exposed himself to her during a meeting in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Stone did not name the executive, but she said the encounter was &#8220;not the last of many weird experiences&#8221; throughout her long career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sony Pictures did not immediately return the BBC&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oscar-nominated 65-year-old talked about the incident during a podcast with US talk show host Kelly Ripa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article contains content some people may find distressing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She says she was called to the office of the former &#8220;head of Sony&#8221; for a meeting when she first moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Stone claims the executive told her: &#8220;It&#8217;s true what they say about you and you&#8217;re the most gorgeous. We haven&#8217;t seen anyone like you in decades. Everybody&#8217;s talking about you, and look at you. You&#8217;re the most articulate. You&#8217;re so smart and beautiful &#8211; and that hair&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Then he went, came walking right up in front of me, and he said, &#8216;But first,&#8217; and he took his penis right out in my face,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Stone said she got hysterical and the executive backed off and left through a door behind his desk. She said his secretary later led her out of the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Stone said there was &#8220;no way I could have told this story before&#8221; and &#8220;Sony would never hire me again&#8221; if she did at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she was promoting her\u00a02021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice,\u00a0Ms Stone said she felt pressured to reveal whether she had experienced sexual abuse in Hollywood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book came out a few years after the #MeToo movement exposed systemic sexual abuse by some of the entertainment industry&#8217;s most powerful figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Stone shot to sex symbol status in the early 1990s via the\u00a0hit movie Basic Instinct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She went on to star in critically acclaimed films such as Casino, for which she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar.<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n                <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                         \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Sharon Stone has said a former head of Sony Pictures exposed himself to her during a meeting in the 1980s. 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