THE SUNDAY TIMES – Elijah Wood, the former child actor and star of the Lord of the Rings films, claims that Hollywood has been gripped by cases of sexual abuse similar to the Jimmy Savile scandal in Britain — and it may still be continuing.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Wood, 35, sympathised with British victims of Savile and said: “Jesus, it must have been devastating.”
He said his mother had protected him from abuse when he arrived in Hollywood aged eight, but “I’ve been led down dark paths to realise that these things probably are still happening”.
Wood, who played Frodo Baggins, the hobbit protagonist in the films of JRR Tolkien’s books, said there were “a lot of vipers in this industry . . . there is darkness in the underbelly”.
Allegations that powerful Hollywood figures have been protecting child abusers have circulated widely in recent years and Anne Henry, co-founder of Bizparentz, a group set up to help young actors, said: “Hollywood is currently sheltering about 100 active abusers.”
After the convictions of several industry figures and claims by Corey Feldman, another former child actor, that he had been “surrounded” by molesters when he was 14, Henry warned that a “tsunami of claims has begun”.
Wood said that when he first started acting as a child his mother, Debra, had been “far more concerned with raising me to be a good human than facilitating my career. I never went to parties where that kind of thing was going on.” Yet he believes other actors remain in danger.
“If you’re innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world and you want to succeed,” he said, “people with parasitic interests will see you as their prey. What upsets me about these situations is that the victims can’t speak as loudly as the people in power.”
Henry estimated about 75% of child actors who “went off the rails” later in their career had suffered abuse. “This problem has been endemic in Hollywood for a long time and it’s finally coming to light,” she said.
“I don’t believe the most powerful people in Hollywood are sitting in a darkened room plotting to spread paedophilia. But very bad people are still working here, protected by their friends.
SOURCE: THE SUNDAY TIMES
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Folks, this should be listed under the “no shit Sherlock” category. If you don’t already know ALL concentrations of power and influence peddling are populated by those that seek power and the ability to influence others and that these people are ALL psychopaths because they seek power and influence peddling you are not paying attention or are unable to parse facts or are unfamiliar with human nature. As I always say sometimes “We institute governments to protect us from what only governments machinate”. To complain about what the only result of handing personal responsibility to outside (yourself) authorities and organizations can result in is unknowing insanity. To obey, fund and believe governments, of which centralized media is an inextricable arm of are required for society to function is to put the people seeking this kind of life in the positions to HAVE these kinds of lives! If you want to end a behaviour you must end the mechanisms and the positions that attract these kinds of people. to begin with how about actually learning what income taxation law is and imposing it against government? http://www.losthorizons.com
reckon the nyt (only news acceptable to jews) and wash post (skunk water news) will be all over this
Just read INSIDE THE LC: THE STRANGE BUT MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF LAUREL CANYON AND THE BIRTH OF THE HIPPIE GENERATION: PARTS 1 ~ 3.
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.ca/2012/06/inside-lc-strange-but-mostly-true-story_27.html
Years ago I posted the entire series which has now disappeared off line. MK Ultra, deviance and child abuse in Hollywood during the hippie era.