http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/27/business/fi-33122
Michael De Luca is the former president of production at both New Line Cinema and DreamWorks, has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Picture (”The Social Network” was his last one) and today produces the “Fifty Shades of Grey” films.
What I am asking you is do you REALLY think consensual sex in Les Moonves’ office was actually that strange of a thing to happen when EVERYONE knew what happened with De Luca and his very willing paramour at Arnold Rifkin’s party? I’m sure some of Moonves’ conquests are angry that what they did didn’t get them ahead in the biz, sure, but I was around Hollywood back then so I just find the accusations of “rape” being thrown around these days to be, well, a little funny knowing that executives, in the ‘80s and ‘90s, didn’t have to rape anybody. There was a line of willing want to be actresses and models. Ask Mike De Luca.
All of that being said, of course, I have zero doubt that Moonves is an awful person who was probably a vindictive and petty boss who likely did take it out on these women - one of them blew him in a car and the one who was his intern admits she blew him in a hotel room and even described his underpants - when they stopped responding to his advances. That does not, however, make him the exception when it comes to Hollywood executives in the ‘80s and ‘90s. It makes him the rule.