Ben Affleck

Two Miami-Dade police officers sued Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and their company Artists Equity, claiming that The Rip reproduced highly specific details of a real 2016 case and falsely associated characters based on them with corruption, theft and murder.

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In a lengthy Howard Stern interview, Affleck said he would probably have continued drinking had he remained married to Jennifer Garner and described feeling 'trapped', prompting backlash over what was interpreted as blaming his former wife.

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During a 2003 appearance on MTV's Total Request Live, footage shows Ben Affleck making inappropriate physical contact with presenter Hilarie Burton. When the episode resurfaced in 2017, Burton said she had not forgotten it.

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A 2004 promotional interview shows Affleck with Canadian presenter Anne-Marie Losique sitting on his lap while he makes numerous sexualised comments and suggests, among other things, that she undress. The video resurfaced in 2017 in the #MeToo context.

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In 2017, make-up artist and author Annamarie Tendler publicly alleged that Affleck had grabbed her buttocks at a Golden Globes-related party in 2014, describing the alleged contact in detail.

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After Affleck publicly condemned the revelations concerning Harvey Weinstein, Rose McGowan accused him of knowing as early as 1997 that she had experienced sexual misconduct by Weinstein and subsequently presenting a misleading image of his level of knowledge.

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Internal emails revealed that Affleck had asked for the existence of a slave-owning ancestor to be excluded from his episode of Finding Your Roots. An internal PBS investigation concluded that the co-producers had breached editorial standards by failing to protect the process from the influence exerted and by failing to notify PBS.

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Following an incident at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Affleck acknowledged having learnt and practised card counting at blackjack. The casino asked him to stop playing that game.

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Argo, directed by and starring Affleck, was criticised by former Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor and other historical participants for exaggerating the CIA's role and minimising Canada's contribution to the extraction of six American diplomats from Iran.

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