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Nov 17, 2017 · On Thursday, Leeann Tweeden, a radio host and former model, came forward with the accusation that Senator Al Franken of Minnesota had kissed her against her will during a 2006 United Service ...
Nov 26, 2017 · Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., broke eight days of media silence and addressed sexual harassment allegations in a series of interviews on Sunday. "I'm not going to make any excuses. I am...
- Leeann Tweeden
- Lindsay Menz
- Two Unnamed Women
- Stephanie Kemplin
- An Unnamed Elected Official in New England
- A Former Democratic Congressional Aide
- Tina Dupuy
The allegations: Tweeden, a radio host, wrote in an essay publishedon the website for KABC radio in Los Angeles that Franken groped her and kissed her without her consent in 2006 when he was working as a comedian. The two were set to appear in a sketch for a USO show for military members overseas at the time. Tweeden said Franken scripted a kiss in...
The allegations: Menz told CNN that Franken grabbed her behind during a photo opat the Minnesota State Fair in 2010. Franken was serving as a U.S. Senator at the time of the alleged incident. She said that she had a cordial conversation with Franken, and then her husband took a photo of the two. Menz alleged that Franken “put his hand full-fledged ...
The allegations: Two anonymous women told the Huffington Post that Franken touched their behinds in two separate incidents. The first woman alleged that Franken groped her while they took a photo together at a June 2007 event hosted by the Minnesota Women’s Political Caucus. At the time of the alleged incident, Franken was runningfor the U.S. Senat...
The allegations: Kemplin, an Army veteran, told CNN in a story published on Thursday that Franken allegedly gropedher in December 2003. She said she was stationed in Kuwait, and she met Franken when he toured with the USO. She said that Franken groped her right breast while the two took a photo. “I remember clenching up and how you just feel yourse...
The allegations: The woman told Jezebel that Franken attempted to give her a “wet, open-mouthed kiss” in 2006 at a live taping of Franken’s show at the time,Air America. “I was stunned and incredulous. I felt demeaned. I felt put in my place,” she told Jezebel about the alleged incident. Franken’s response: Franken has not yet commented on the woma...
The allegations: The unnamed woman told Politico that Franken tried to forcibly kiss her after the taping of his radio show in 2006 when she was in her mid-20s. She said that the alleged incident occurred once her boss had left the room. When she tried to leave the room, Franken allegedly told her: “It’s my right as an entertainer.’” Franken’s resp...
The allegations: In an essay for theAtlantic, Dupuy alleged that Franken groped her at a Media Matters party during President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. “He immediately put his hand on my waist, grabbing a handful of flesh. I froze. Then he squeezed. At least twice,” Dupuy wrote. “Al Franken’s familiarity was inappropriate and unwanted. I...
Jul 21, 2022 · During the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, a woman named Leeann Tweeden accused Al Franken of sexually harassing her during his comedian days and produced a photo of him pretending to...
Nov 27, 2017 · One woman alleges Franken forcibly kissed her on a USO tour and took a sexually suggestive photo while she was sleeping; three other women allege Franken grabbed their buttocks while posing...
Nov 27, 2017 · On the pictures in which he is alleged to have grabbed women’s bottoms, Franken made clear that he doesn’t remember these two incidents. Here’s what he said Monday: “I take a lot of ...
Jul 22, 2019 · The damning image, Tweeden said, was the culmination of a campaign of sexual harassment that Franken had subjected her to after she had spurned his advances at the start of the U.S.O. tour,...
