sexual assault

El depredador de Sevilla is a Netflix docuseries about Manuel Blanco Vela, a Sevillian tour guide who sexually assaulted multiple U.S. students between 2013 and 2017.

Manuel Blanco Vela, a Seville-based tour guide, was convicted of sexually assaulting American students during organized trips through Morocco and Portugal between 2013 and 2017.

Room 2806: The Accusation is a Netflix docuseries about the 2011 sexual assault accusation against IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn by Guinean housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo at a Manhattan hotel.

Manuel Blanco Vega was convicted of sexually assaulting three women during tours in Spain, Morocco, and Portugal, receiving a nine-year prison sentence.

Sexual assault allegations against Agama Yoga founder Swami Vivekananda Saraswati by at least 14 students on Koh Phangan, Thailand, surfaced publicly in 2018.

Anna Stubblefield, a Rutgers philosophy professor, was convicted of sexually assaulting a severely disabled man she claimed consented through facilitated communication.

Spencer Herron, a former Georgia Teacher of the Year, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a student at Kell High School in Cobb County.

A US civil case in which actor Anthony Rapp sued Kevin Spacey for alleged sexual assault in 1986 when Rapp was 14, ending in Spacey's acquittal in 2022.

The Denise Huskins kidnapping is a 2015 California abduction case in which a woman was drugged, kidnapped for ransom, and sexually assaulted by former attorney Matthew Muller.

The Bikram Choudhury case is a series of U.S. civil sexual-harassment and assault lawsuits against the hot-yoga founder, culminating in a 2016 Los Angeles jury verdict of over $7 million.

The Strauss-Kahn case is a 2011 New York criminal case in which IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexually assaulting hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo at the Sofitel in Manhattan.

The Harvey Weinstein case is a series of US sexual assault prosecutions against the former Miramax producer, resulting in convictions in New York and California between 2020 and 2025.

The Morbid podcast has re-released its episode on Mary Vincent, who survived a savage attack by Lawrence Singleton at age 15 in 1978 — a case about strength, survival, and a justice system that fell dangerously short.

In September 2024, a Michigan circuit court judge issued a stunning $100 million default judgment against hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs after he failed to appear at a hearing. The plaintiff was Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, a 51-year-old inmate serving time for sexual assault and kidnapping, who claimed Combs had drugged and assaulted him at a 1997 Detroit-area afterparty. Days later, the judgment was vacated.