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Essex County Native Chris D'Elia Accused Of Exposing Himself To Hollywood Actress
Essex County native Chris D'Elia has again been accused of sexual misconduct -- this time, the accusations are coming from a Hollywood actress. Megan Drust says the comic and former Montclairite had asked her for a ride home from a restaurant in Los Angeles when he got into her car and unzipped his pants, exposing himself in 2011, CNN reports. Drust is among a trio of women including Laura Vitarelli and an anonymous women who all allege D'Elia exposed himself to them. D'Elia "emphatically states that he has never engaged in any sexual conduct with any woman without her consent," his lawy…
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Rubbing People The Wrong Way: More Massage Therapists Lose Licenses In NJ
New Jersey authorities this week revoked the license of the ninth massage therapist in the past year for “inappropriate and unwanted sexual contact” with a client who literally put her trust in his hands. John R. Popper, 48, of Little Egg Harbor was convicted earlier this year of harassment by offensive touching for placing his hand on a client’s vagina during a massage at Hand and Stone spa in Somers Point. In turn, the state Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy permanently barred him from working as a massage therapist in New Jersey ever again because he “engaged in professional miscond…
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‘RoastMaster,’ NJ Native Jeff Ross Accused Of Sexual Relationship With Teenage Girl
Comedy Central’s “RoastMaster General" and North Jersey native Jeff Ross has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Born in Springfield Township and raised in Newark and Union, Ross is known for hosting insult-themed comedy roasts of celebrities including Bob Saget, Donald Trump, James Franco, Justin Bieber and Rob Lowe. In a public Facebook page named “Iwas15hewas33,” 15-year-old Jessica Radtke describes her alleged relationship with Ross, which began when the teen worked as an under-the-table receptionist and hostess at the Boston Comedy Club in New York Cit…
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Authorities: Burlington Gym Teacher Had Sex With Ex-Student
A 43-year-old teacher has been arrested for having sex with a former student from a regional high school in Burlington County, authorities said. Gary Jiampetti, a health/physical education teacher from Camden County, was taken into custody on Thursday morning and charged with having a sexual relationship with a student while she was enrolled at Rancocas Valley Regional High School in Mount Holly, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Mount Holly Township Police Chief Richard W. Spitler said in a joint statement. The girl was no longer a minor, they said, and at…
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Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90
Faced with footage from a hidden camera, a home health aide from North Bergen admitted that she abused a 90-year-old patient in the bedridden woman’s Clifton home, authorities said Tuesday. Emma Llanes, 57, “put a cloth over the patient's face without reason, grabbed [her] by the back of the neck and pushed the patient’s head forward, slapped [her] legs and failed to assist the patient while getting dressed,” a complaint filed by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) says. The footage was captured by a hidden camera that the victim’s family obtained from the DCA’s Safe Care Cam …
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NJ Comic Chris D'Elia Accused Of Making Advances Toward Teen Girls
Funnyman and Montclair native Chris D'Elia is accused of making advances toward teenage girls when he was in his early 30s. Simone Rossi posted screenshots of emails she said D’Elia, now 40, sent her in 2014 and 2015 resurfaced Tuesday night. Rossi's screenshots from July 2014 show D'Elia asking for a photo of her -- she sent him a panda bear. The following January, D'Elia asked Rossi if she wanted to meet up while he was in Tampa, AZ, the screenshots show. Rossi said the actor knew she was in high school at the time, as her Instagram account that he apparently asked to see and later bega…
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NJ Child Services Worker Charged With Groping Client, Texting Her Masturbation Pics
A former caseworker for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families groped a mother he was assigned to investigate and texted her videos of himself masturbating, authorities charged. Gilberto Ortiz Jr., 50, “made sexual advances on the woman while warning her she was involved in a serious case of negligence” during home visits to the woman and her child last month, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Ortiz, a bilingual family services specialist from the Gloucester County town of Woodbury, said he’d “help her” if she had a relationship with him, Grewal added. He also touch…
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