Author: Michael Cavna / Source: Washington Post
BuzzFeed News reported Thursday “Ren and Stimpy Show” creator John Kricfalusi “preyed upon” two fans when they were teenagers, making him the latest Hollywood leader to be accused of sexual misconduct in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations.
Both women, who were fans of “Ren and Stimpy” in childhood, say Kricfalusi promised them his studio, Spumco, would hire them someday, according to the article.
One of the women, Robyn Byrd, said she sent Kricfalusi a fan video in 1994, when she was just 13, and that she one day hoped to work for his influential Nickelodeon show, according to BuzzFeed; by age 16, she was both a Spumco intern and his girlfriend — a relationship described as “an open secret within animation.” “In the end,” the article says, “she fled animation to get away from him.”
A decade ago, Byrd says, she reconnected with an artist she had first met through Kricfalusi: Katie Rice, who says the “Ren and Stimpy” creator began hitting on her when she was a minor. He offered her a job in 2000, when she was 18, and then began sexually harassing her, she told BuzzFeed.
Both women reportedly have documents, transcripts of online conversations and witnesses to support their claims….
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