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Ed Westwick Rape Allegations

Madison Paloski
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Lasell chapter.

In recent weeks, Ed Westwick, best known for his role as Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl, has been accused of raping three Hollywood celebrities.  This hasn’t been the first celebrity to be accused, however. Just these past few weeks, Hollywood figures like Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein also have been accused.

              

The first account started with actress Kristina Cohen, who made it public on Facebook that she was raped three years ago by the star when she met him at his house with her boyfriend.

Cohen wrote, “I wanted to leave when Ed suggested ‘we should all f**k’. But the producer didn’t want to make Ed feel awkward by leaving.” Allegedly, after her producer boyfriend convinced Cohen to take a nap, she woke up to find Westwick on top of her, and then was raped.

Westwick then came out with a statement on both Twitter and Instagram:  

 

 

Just two days later, former actress Aurélie Wynn also came out to say she was sexually assaulted by Westwick.  In a Facebook post she announced that she had been attacked by Westwick in 2014 while she was sleeping.

“And like Kristina, I said no and he pushed me face down and was powerless under his weight,” Wynn wrote. “I was wearing a one-piece bathing suit that he ripped, I was in complete shock, I am also very tiny.”

In response, Westwick posted another Instagram photo found below:

 

 

A third woman is now coming out against Westwick.  Rachel Eck has told Buzzfeed News that Westwick assaulted her in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2014, the same year that both other girls said their events happened as well.

“Ed pulled me onto the bed and aggressively groped me,” Eck said. “I shoved him off as quickly as I could and left. I have never felt so uncomfortable in a situation like that in my entire life.”

In response to these claims, BBC has suspended the release of an upcoming Agatha Christie adaptation that Westwick is a part of.

*photos from Instagram @edwestwick

 

Madison Paloski is a senior at Lasell University studying fashion communication and promotion and graphic design.  She is currently the Editor in Chief of her school's chapter of Her Campus, an editorial stylist for POLISHED Magazine and Founder and Creative Director of the Fashion Styling and Photography Club on her campus.  She can most likely be found with an old film camera in hand, eating Chipotle, or at any local Saver's.  Her Instagram can be found at @maddiiiooyx and other work can be found at madisonpaloski.wixsite.com/portfolio.