A federal judge has dismissed most of the accusations made by actress Blake Lively against actor, director, and co-producer Justin Baldoni. The performer sued him in 2024 for sexual harassment and retaliation, in thirteen lawsuits filed in court, after sharing filming for the movie It ends with us, which Baldoni directed, co-produced, and co-starred in. Now a New York judge has determined that ten of these lawsuits cannot be admitted for trial due to "legal reasons": the magistrate considered that Lively was not an employee hired by Baldoni, but rather worked on the film independently. Specifically, Lively did not sign the actor's release agreement, which would have protected her in relation to the rules on sexual harassment on set.

The former PP councilor from Móstoles who She suffered a situation of alleged sexual and workplace harassment The mayor of the municipality, Manuel Bautista, intends to take the case to court. In statements to Europa Press, her lawyer, Antonio Suárez-Valdés, explained that he is preparing a complaint against the mayor for sexual harassment and other offenses, which he intends to file next week. The lawyer maintains that she did not report the case earlier because she felt "coerced" by the party. From the PP headquarters in Madrid, the party's general secretary, Alfonso Serrano, counters that "there has never been any sexual harassment" and alleges that the concept of sexual harassment "was only introduced" in the last email she sent to her lawyer, before she resigned as councilwoman and party member. At that time, the case was referred to the Spanish PP's Committee on Rights and Guarantees, which closed the investigation due to a lack of evidence. "The PP's reaction was deplorable at the time, and now it's disgusting and repugnant to threaten the victim in an attempt to silence her. It's a desperate attempt to cover up the uncoverable, even though they have full knowledge of what happened," Suárez-Valdés stated. Ayuso's right-hand man in the Madrid PP insists that they always treated it as a "labor conflict or dispute" or a case of discrimination—he reiterates that the former councilwoman denied any sexual abuse—and attributes it to a "vendetta policy".

With more media attention than answers, three days before the elections in Aragon, Paco Salazar appeared for two hours before the Senate's Koldo case investigation committee. the former PSOE leader who had to resign from his positions on the party's executive committee and as institutional coordinator for the Spanish Prime Minister's Office after being internally denounced for alleged cases of sexual harassment and sexist behavior. Following the outbreak of the Santos Cerdán case, he was slated to be part of the new team in the organizational secretariat, but he was never appointed.

The People's Party (PP) of Madrid pressured a councilwoman from the party in Móstoles not to report the town's mayor, Manuel Bautista, for sexual and workplace harassment. as published The CountryThe newspaper has obtained a copy of the complaint the woman filed with the Popular Party's national committee on rights and guarantees, in which she explains the events and details up to six attempts to seek support from her party. She says it was all in vain. The party denies having covered anything up and claims that the internal investigation it opened was closed because there was "no evidence to support the complaint." "It's a fabricated case against the PP," reacted the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, also sided with the mayor and said that the party did not consider the conduct proven, while the mayor himself defended his innocence and ruled out resigning. Feijóo, in any case, said that any woman has the right to seek justice, in statements made in Aragon and reported by Europa Press.

A minor's complaint in Tarragona has uncovered a sexual predator who used fake Instagram profiles to obtain child pornography and had harassed at least eight victims across Spain, six of them minors. The 26-year-old man lived in Santander and had even arranged in-person meetings with some of the victims, both minors and adults. With the man now in custody, the police investigation continues to clarify the full extent of the crimes.

A misstep by the Interior Ministry. The department, headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will dismiss Commissioner Antonio José Royo Subías as head of the National Police in Lleida shortly after appointing him a week ago, on December 9, according to ministry sources. This high-ranking police official was convicted of sexual harassment two decades ago. The minister asserted on Tuesday that his department was unaware of the sexual harassment conviction because it was no longer on Royo Subías's record when he was appointed to the position, as the law requires such records to be expunged after a certain period. According to the minister's explanation in the Senate, in response to questions from ERC parliamentarian Sara Bailac, the person responsible for making these appointments (the Director General of the Police) was unaware of the conviction, but it came to light thanks to "third parties," allowing for the commissioner's immediate dismissal. After expressing the Interior Ministry's commitment "to the fight against all types of sexual assault," Marlaska acknowledged that the situation could cause "great harm" because it could affect the trust of victims of sexual or gender-based violence in policies on this matter. In fact, this is not the first time the Interior Ministry has dismissed this officer. In 2018, he was in charge of the Regional Judicial Police Brigade of Aragon, which oversaw the Family and Women's Unit. He was appointed by the previous Interior Minister, Juan Ignacio Zoido, and his successor ended up dismissing him, a move that also generated controversy at the time, according to reports. Aragon Newspaper.

"We are the party of women." Amid the earthquake caused by the trickle of alleged sexual harassment cases within the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), the party's organizational secretary, Rebeca Torró, has reaffirmed the socialists' feminist character at a time when their ability to wave that banner is being questioned most vehemently. She made this statement before learning that the mayor of Belalcázar (Córdoba), Francisco Luis Fernández, had resigned from all his positions following the publication of a case directly implicating him, and that the secretary for equality of the Galician socialists, Silvia Fraga, had also stepped down, criticizing the party's actions in the case of José Tomé Roca in Lugo. Furthermore, on Friday afternoon, it emerged that the PSOE had received two complaints against another official: the party's second-in-command in the province of Valencia and mayor of Almussafes, Toni González, who on Saturday requested the suspension of his party membership and resignation from his party positions, but not from the mayoralty.

The Catalan Academy of Cinema announced at the last Gaudí Awards gala that it was creating a department for attention and prevention of abuse in the audiovisual and performing arts sector, the first initiative of its kind in Catalonia and Spain. Two months later, the Academy has presented the department and explained that this initiative comes after having detected approximately 150 cases of abuse committed in public and private institutions in the sector. Of these 150, less than 10% ended up in court.

Institut del Teatre will send the files opened against twelve former teachers Barcelona's Provincial Prosecutor's Office so that it may determine whether there was "sexual harassment, abusive behaviour or abuse of power" in their behaviour with students. Thus, one year after ARA uncovered the abuse of power and harassment denounced by a score of students, the school informed the authorities of the findings made by its own Commission for the Prevention and Investigation of Sexual Harassment. At this point the twelve teachers are retired and one of the names that appears is that of theatre director Joan Ollé

The Institut del Teatre has reported teacher Boris Dausà, who had been accused of sexual harassment by a student, to the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona. Seven months after ARA uncovered cases of sexual harassment and abuse of power by different teachers over the years, the Institut del Teatre has passed on the file opened against one of the thirteen staff that appeared before the prevention and investigation commission investigating the accusations. In May, this commission concluded that files would be opened on three teachers and one of them, Boris Dausà, would be reported to the Prosecutor's office due to evidence of sexual harassment. "Once the Diputació de Barcelona finished its investigation, and given that the indications of sexual harassment have been confirmed, we have informed the public prosecutor's office", the centre wrote in a statement.

The case of abuse of power and sexual harassment uncovered by ARA at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona continues its course. The institution concerned has released the first results of the work carried out by the prevention and investigation commission set up to investigate a matter that has shaken the profession and public opinion, and which led to the resignation of the centre's entire management team. The conclusions of this commission the conclusions of this monitoring committee affect thirteen teachers, of whom three will be disciplined and one might face charges of sexual harassment. Out of the ten complaints received from nineteen students and former students, the commission has only focused on the cases of students or former students who have left the school a year ago at most. The human resources department of the Institut itself will have to deal with the rest. Much remains to be clarified. And it is important to get to the bottom of it, out of respect for both the victims and the institution itself.

In two weeks it will be a year since the ARA uncovered the case of alleged sexual harassment in the Catalan Foreign Office. But it has not been until this Tuesday that the executive has finally decided to open a sanctioning file. This comes despite the fact that both the alleged harasser, Carles Garcias, and the then minister, Alfred Bosch, are no longer part of the Catalan government. The file will is exclusively against Bosch for not having activated the Generalitat's protocol for possible cases of harassment. In this case it affected several Foreign Office female workers.