Kate Taylor

Schneider asked two female Nickelodeon writers to massage him and preform embarrassing tasks for money, according to a gender discrimination claim.

Equifax fired the remote workers in recent months as part of a probe dubbed ‘Operation Home Alone’ that investigated thousands staff and contractors.

The Court TV founder Steven Brill’s daughter Emily says she’s sunk every dollar of her trust fund into her controversial dog site, The Canine Review.

In October 2009, Anya Samek, then a graduate student, was thrilled to speak at the North American Economic Science Association Conference in Tucson, Arizona. That was, until another grad student told her she was “really brave” to show up. Samek had unknowingly become a target on Economics Job Market Rumors, an anonymous forum started in 2008 to discuss professional hiring in the world of academia and economics. Her crime, according to posters, was being accepted to the prestigious University of…

To be a true superstar in behavioral science, you need to achieve a few things.A TED Talk, obviously. Best-selling books with bright covers filled with pop-science buzzwords like “predictable irrationality” or “expecting better.” Thousands upon thousands of followers on Twitter and LinkedIn. Tenure, ideally at a top business school such as Harvard or Wharton.It’s not enough to just teach anymore. These professors want to build “an empire,” Syon Bhanot, an associate professor of economics at Swar…

For years, the Duke professor Dan Ariely was at the top of his game. He published seven best-selling books about cheating and irrationality, landed speaking gigs with Google, and sold his own set of cards: Dan Ariely’s Irrational Game. He even inspired a TV show, “The Irrational,” on NBC, with Jesse L. Martin playing a wisecracking character based on Ariely, down to the facial scar.But in 2021, it all seemed poised to disappear. Three professors behind the blog Data Colada reported evidence of f…

Drake Bell is speaking out for the first time about sexual abuse he says he experienced as a 15-year-old child star.Bell is sharing his story in the coming Investigation Discovery series “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” set to air March 17 and 18.In the documentary, Bell says he was abused by Brian Peck, a dialogue coach who worked on Nickelodeon’s “All That” and “The Amanda Show.” Bell starred on “The Amanda Show” from 1999 to 2002 before landing his own Nickelodeon series, “Drake & Jo…

When 18-year-old Drake Bell arrived at Brian Peck’s sentencing in October 2004, he didn’t expect the courtroom to be packed with people supporting Peck.“His entire side of the courtroom was full,” Bell said in the Investigation Discovery docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.” “There were definitely some recognizable faces on that side of the room. And my side was me, my mom, and my brother.“Peck, an acting coach, was charged in 2003 with sexually abusing an unnamed child. Until now…

When Lindsay Tusk checked her inbox in January, she felt like the wind had been knocked out of her.She’d gotten an email from “Quince” — the name of the three-Michelin-starred restaurant she and her husband, Michael, had founded in San Francisco in 2003. It announced the launch of a line of “MICHELIN-WORTHY COOKWARE,” “Made in Italy, used in Michelin-star restaurants worldwide.” The photos of pots and knives alongside scattered tomatoes, shallots, and garlic looked as if they could have been pul…

In 2004, Drake Bell was officially a teen idol.After getting his big break on “The Amanda Show,” the 17-year-old landed his own Nickelodeon series, “Drake & Josh.” The show premiered in January 2004 and exploded among tweens who fawned over Bell’s character: a guitar-playing, charismatic troublemaker. Dan Schneider, the show’s creator, said of Bell at the time, “He just has it all.“But behind the scenes, Bell was grappling with a secret he would keep for the next two decades.When Bell was 15, he…