Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner has now been added to the ever-increasing list of men who have recently been accused of sexual harassment.
Then-freelance writer Ben Ryan tells BuzzFeed News that when he got a call from Wenner in 2005, he thought it was his big break, telling his father, “the beginning of the end of waiting for something to happen professionally.” After a few meetings, Ryan says that Wenner invited him to his Upper West Side home, where he made some drinks for himself and his guest.Then suddenly, said Ryan, his host pounced. “I had Jann Wenner’s tongue in my mouth,” Ryan said. “I went along for a second but then said something to the effect of ‘Oh please, I’m not that kind of girl.’”
Ryan then describes,
“It was like the entire temperature of the room changed in a flash.” Wenner “got very upset and was pseudo-threatening of how bad it could be if this got out.”
Ryan recalls feeling terrified. “All of a sudden I was the bad guy and I felt like I was in the hot seat and being grilled.”
He got up to leave. He was in the foyer, he said, when Wenner made him an offer: Stay, and I’ll give you a writing contract.
“I think there was that moment where it’s like time stood still, and you’re imagining…
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