Sitcoms Online - Main Page / Message Boards - Main Page / News Blog / Photo Galleries / DVD Reviews / Buy TV Shows on DVD and Blu-ray

View Today's Active Threads (No Chit Chat/Chit Chat Only) / View New Posts (No Chit Chat/Chit Chat Only) / Mark All Boards Read / Chit Chat Board


Sitcoms Online Message Boards - Forums  

Go Back   Sitcoms Online Message Boards - Forums > 2010s and 2020s Sitcoms > Best Friends Whenever
Register Community View Today's Active Threads (No CC/CC Only) Search Photo Galleries Calendar FAQ

Notices

SitcomsOnline.com News Blog Headlines Facebook X/Twitter Bluesky Threads Instagram YouTube RSS

Netflix Adds to the Cast of A Hundred Percent; Disney Channel's Descendants: Wicked Wonderland Trailer
Tubi's Breaking Bear Premieres July 24; Adult Swim Greenlights Heist Brothers, Announces Robot Chicken Specials
Sitcom Stars on Talk Shows; This Week in Sitcoms (Week of June 29, 2026)
SitcomsOnline Digest: First Look at New Seasons of King of the Hill and The Paper; Ben Feldman Upped to Regular for Season Six of Ghosts
The Paper Season 2 Premieres September 9; President Curtis Trailer and Premiere Date
NBC Fall 2026 Premiere Dates; Leanne Season 2 Premieres August 27 on Netflix
Trailer for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe; Terry Crews to Host 50th Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular


New on DVD and Blu-ray

Happy's Place - Season One (Blu-ray) Two and a Half Men - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) Abbott Elementary - The Complete Fourth Season (DVD) I Love Lucy - The Complete Series - 75th Anniversary Edition (DVD) The Office - The Complete Series - Superfan Extended Episodes (Blu-ray)

11/04/25 - Happy's Place - Season One (Blu-ray) (DVD)
11/11/25 - Rick and Morty - Season 8 (Blu-ray) (DVD)
11/11/25 - SpongeBob SquarePants - The Complete Fifteenth Season (DVD)
11/11/25 - Two and a Half Men - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
12/02/25 - Tom and Jerry - The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
12/16/25 - Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
12/16/25 - Wally Gator - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
01/20/26 - The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection (Blu-ray)
01/27/26 - The New Fred and Barney Show - The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
02/11/26 - Tom and Jerry - The Complete CinemaScope Collection (Blu-ray)
03/24/26 - Looney Tunes Collector's Vault - Volume 2 (Blu-ray)
04/11/26 - Abbott Elementary - The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)
04/21/26 - Famous Studios Champion Collection (Blu-ray) (DVD)
05/19/26 - I Love Lucy - The Complete Series - 75th Anniversary Edition (DVD)
05/19/26 - Looney Tunes Cartoons - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) (DVD)
07/14/26 - The Office - The Complete Series - Superfan Extended Episodes (Blu-ray)
07/28/26 - I Love Lucy - The Complete Series - 75th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)

More Recent and Upcoming TV DVD and Blu-ray Releases / TV Shows on DVD, Blu-ray and Prime Video / DVD Reviews Archive


Search Sitcoms Online:



Donate

Please make a donation if you can help with Sitcoms Online's web hosting costs. Thanks for your support!

We receive a small commission on all DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, Books, and any other items ordered through our Amazon.com links as an associate. Thanks for using our links for your online shopping!

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 09-11-2019, 08:24 PM   #1
TMC
Member
Forum Idol
 
Join Date: Jan 09, 2001
Posts: 125,912
Eek Former Disney Channel actor alleges manager sexually assaulted him 'almost weekly'

Former Disney Channel actor alleges manager sexually assaulted him 'almost weekly'

Quote:
A former Disney Channel star is taking action after he says he suffered years of abuse.

Ricky Garcia, of Disney's "Best Friends Whenever," has filed a complaint against talent manager Joby Harte of Hot Rock Media, alleging Harte raped him throughout his adolescence.

In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles and obtained by USA TODAY, Garcia's attorneys allege years of sexual abuse by Harte, beginning when Garcia was 12. The lawsuit names Harte, four entertainment companies and four other individuals.

USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Harte for comment.

The suit says Harte initially began having conversations with Garcia about sexuality and later intoxicated Garcia before stripping him naked and sexually assaulting him. By the time Garcia was 16, his lawsuit claims, Harte sexually assaulted him "on an almost weekly basis."

Garcia encouraged people with sexual assault experiences to come forward with their stories.

"YOU are not alone," he wrote on Instagram. "This can can happen to anyone that you know. It's just a matter of talking about this to people and letting your close ones know that it's not okay."

Garcia's attorneys Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok condemned Harte in a joint statement to USA TODAY.

"Our client, Ricky Garcia, was a preteen and teen music and acting star in the making," they wrote in the statement, provided by Popok. "Tragically, and as alleged by him under oath in the complaint, high-powered male entertainment industry executives, led by his former manager Joby Harte, who were responsible for nurturing his career, instead sexually preyed on his economic and emotional vulnerability, and sexually assaulted and raped him. In twisted fashion they inflicted injuries and shame on our client that have derailed his promising career and that will take him a lifetime to recover from."

They added: "Mr Garcia has bravely stepped forward to join the #MeToo movement, to reclaim his dignity and declare that victims like him must be heard."

In one incident outlined in the lawsuit, Harte arranged for a two-night songwriting retreat for himself and Garcia's boy band Forever in Your Mind on Catalina Island. Parents were not allowed to attend.

During this trip, Garcia's attorneys say Harte sexually assaulted Garcia while he was drunk.

Garcia's attorneys allege Harte not only raped and sexually assaulted him "dozens of times throughout his teenage years" but also "groomed" him into a "personal sexual play thing that could be passed around" among Harte's colleagues.


Garcia's career took off when he auditioned for Fox's talent competition show "The X Factor" at 14. Though eliminated in the boot camp round, judge Simon Cowell noticed Garcia's talent and connected him with two other musicians to form Forever in Your Mind.

At the 2017 Teen Choice awards, Garcia was nominated alongside Zac Efron and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for choice comedy movie actor for his work in the film "Bigger Fatter Liar."
TMC is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-12-2019, 04:22 PM   #2
dakert
Member
Forum 3000 Club Member
 
dakert's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 10, 2007
Location: Altoona PA
Posts: 3,411
Default

No one can rape anyone weekly unless they are being held captive
dakert is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-13-2019, 07:28 PM   #3
Babalu
Member
Forum 4000 Club Member
 
Babalu's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 22, 2014
Posts: 4,779
Default

This will get very little attention because it is homosexual rape not connected to the Catholic Church. The media loves priest/boy rape stories so they can blame religion but the truth is that virtually all male molestations are committed by homosexual men, be they priests or not.
__________________
.








I just nailed Mrs. Trumbull
Babalu is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply



Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:05 AM.


Although the administrators and moderators of the Sitcoms Online Message Boards will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of the Sitcoms Online Message Boards, nor vBulletin Solutions Inc. (developers of vBulletin) will be held responsible for the content of any message. The owners of the Sitcoms Online Message Boards reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2026, vBulletin Solutions Inc.