Just as Oz actor John Jarrant enjoys financial success late in life with his 'Wolf Creek' "horror" films that have been a huge box office success, comes an accusation and charges from the 1970s.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/john-jarratt...20180825-p4zzri.html

Wolf Creek actor charged with historical sexual assault

A woman who lived with John Jarratt in a share house in the mid-1970s alleges she was sexually assaulted by him.

"It made it easier for me to come forward". Do these people really believe this? Is it self delusion? Can they not see that publicity makes people think #MeToo?

She must have smelled the money. It seems very unfair that he could be charged with something like that from 40 years ago. Hard to see how it's going to be easy for him to defend himself, especially if they shared accommodation.

I've never seen Wolf Creek but did discover McLeod's Daughters a few years ago, so recognise him from that.

"On Saturday police confirmed a 66-year-old man was issued a Future Court Attendance Notice on Friday for the offence of rape."

Not the ALLEGED offence of rape? A Freudian slip perhaps?

I wondered if this was somehow connected to the fanatical ex-TV talking head Tracey Spicer and yes..so it is.

This woman is bizarre..eyes blazing and full of self-confidence that her Downunder @MeToo campaign is righteous and good.

In November last year, Jarratt’s talent agency Ignite Elite Artists said the actor “emphatically and completely denies the allegations of sexual assault”.

“These allegations are completely unfounded and untrue,” Ignite Elite Artists said in a statement.

The agency’s statement came after media personality Tracey Spicer asked her thousands of followers on Twitter to send her stories about the entertainment industry.

“Please, contact me privately to tell your stories,” she wrote on October 18.

Spicer later said more than 1600 women had contacted her, one of whom alleged John Jarratt sexually assaulted her in 1976.

Speaking to The New Daily last year, Spicer said she advised the woman to go to the police and file a report, which the woman did.

“I gave her the advice to talk to a female officer, and she did. It’s courageous to take that kind of action,” Spicer said.

Jarratt strongly denied the allegation when Spicer went public.

www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-...7095ac4597ff9a8c6803

Australia's answer to MWT?

Jo wrote:
She must have smelled the money. It seems very unfair that he could be charged with something like that from 40 years ago. Hard to see how it's going to be easy for him to defend himself, especially if they shared accommodation.

I've never seen Wolf Creek but did discover McLeod's Daughters a few years ago, so recognise him from that.

Smell what money, there is no evidence of people getting lots of money from #metoo allegations. If there is then please show me. I agree that people are now complaining about things that they may have shrugged off years ago, but there is no indication that money is been made.

robbiex wrote:
Jo wrote:
She must have smelled the money. It seems very unfair that he could be charged with something like that from 40 years ago. Hard to see how it's going to be easy for him to defend himself, especially if they shared accommodation.

I've never seen Wolf Creek but did discover McLeod's Daughters a few years ago, so recognise him from that.

Smell what money, there is no evidence of people getting lots of money from #metoo allegations. If there is then please show me. I agree that people are now complaining about things that they may have shrugged off years ago, but there is no indication that money is been made.

This is what they said about the Savile compo. And the Rolf Harris compo. Nobody was in it for the money but they took it anyway.
Even the woman from Rolf's non existent appearance in the crummy community centre got to keep it when that conviction was quashed.

Money has been made in Australia from accusations of this kind, so an accuser most definitely could have it in mind.