Weinstein Accuser Ambra Gutierrez Takes on the Modeling Industry
Another scandal was brewing, and it would become the fight of her career. She would stand accused of attempting to cover up a sexual assault and get suspended from her sport. Even the subreddit page for Cheer turned on her—thousands of strangers once united by fandom were now essentially unanimous in their scorn. “Monica is absolutely disgusting,” ... See more
Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ Made Monica Aldama a Star. Her Life Has Been Hell Ever Since.
John Dodson got the same message when he, too, became a government whistleblower in 2011. “You’re, in a sense, drowning where you can’t seem to find the surface,” Dodson tells me of the massive smear campaign he withstood. “It’s not just drowning; you’re trapped in this cube of water and you don’t know which way is up, which way to get out.” Dodson
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violating election law after making large donations to the DNC (which were later returned); and Chinese-born John Huang—a DNC fundraiser and Commerce Department official in the Clinton administration—was convicted of campaign finance fraud.