Call it an extremely inconvenient grope.
While hosting the Nobel Peace Prize concert for the winners (apparently there is one), Kevin Spacey decided to help himself to a member of the Norwegian nobility.
Ari Behn is the former husband of Princess Martha Louise of Norway, who is fourth in line to the Norwegian throne. Behn recently told a Norwegian radio station that back in 2007 he was groped by actor Kevin Spacey while attending a Nobel Peace Prize Concert hosted by Spacey...
Spacey was hosting the 2007 concert to celebrate that year’s Peace Prize winners: Al Gore and the International Panel on Climate Change. Stars performing at the gala included Kylie Minogue, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox and Melissa Etheridge. In essence, this was a party celebrating a former Democratic presidential candidate’s work on a cause dear to progressive’s hearts.
This is actually the second allegation of creepy behavior involving the Nobel prizes. And at the 2007 one in particular. Because it seems like Kevin Spacey was just doing what everyone was doing.
A man with close links to the Swedish Academy – which hands out the Nobel Literature Prize – has been banned from the awards ceremony after sexual assault accusations.
Eighteen women accused the man – a well-known figure on Stockholm's cultural scene – of sexual assault and harassment, detailing the allegations in an article by the Dagens Nyheter (DN) daily this week.
Swedish author Gabriella Håkansson told the newspaper he touched her inappropriately at a party in 2007, in front of her boyfriend. "He didn't say many words before he grabbed me between my legs, and did a pussy grab. It was like he was digging. Nothing motivated the incident, and there had been no flirtation or touch. I just found a hand up my crotch," she told DN. She slapped him in the face and he then left the room.
Several other women describe similar incidents (with accusations dating from 1996 to 2017), with one telling DN one of the incidents took place at the Nobel Prize banquet, the royal party to celebrate the Nobel laureates.
But the Gore/IPCC awards were apparently the creepiest ever.
Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the UN's discredited Global Warming promoting IPCC, has been forced to resign after complains about his sexual harassment. Despite the IPCC's complete lack of credibility, the panel won a Nobel prize alongside Gore while Pachauri was chairman. Something he had in common with Al Gore. That and sexual harassment allegations.
In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details sexual encounter after sexual encounter.
Other passages in the novel involve group sex and more risqué sexual practices.
In the acknowledgement of his novel, Dr Pachauri admits to writing the book while flying around the world between meetings as IPCC chairman or else in his capacity as head of a research institute in Delhi.
Gore, of course, had his own allegations.
The question is, do you trust these people? If you don't, why believe their claims about the world ending?