After this year, the name Harvey will forever be linked with disaster. First Hurricane Harvey drowned Houston, then Harvey Weinstein’s fall triggered an earthquake in Hollywood. The first one is history, but the aftershocks from the second continue. Yesterday saw new allegations against Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Piven and — I kid you not — Dustin Hoffman.
One welcome development has been renewed attention to actor Corey Feldman’s long-voiced warnings of predatory pedophiles in Hollywood. Yesterday he visited Tower Hill alum Dr. Oz to talk about his assault by a pedophile actor, whom he finally named on air: John Grissom. Didn’t ring a bell with me, either, but they appeared together in a couple of ’80s movies. Grissom later served prison time for a 2003 child molestation conviction.
Meanwhile allegations emerged that Danny Masterson, best known from “That ’70s Show,” faces rape charges that are being “slow-rolled” through the legal system. This particular case drags another Hollywood secret society, Scientology, into the mess. Scientologists are known to try to keep police out of such matters between members, adding a layer of paranoia to the ickiness parfait.
Forget the Richter scale. For Hollywood, this is the Big One.