Kate Taylor

Brandy Melville employees say the brand is built on exploitation and discrimination. One staffer called it a “disgusting company” that “needs to be shut down.”

Brandy Melville employees say the brand is built on exploitation and discrimination. One staffer called it a ‘disgusting company’ that ‘needs to be shut down.’

Pacsun, the sole Brandy Melville wholesaler in the US, is reevaluating its partnership with the teen favorite following an Insider investigation.

Stephan Marsan put copies of “Atlas Shrugged” in stores, donated to Ron Paul, and named a brand after the famous Ayn Rand character.

Tyra Banks’ “ANTM” was reality-TV gold. But many models said it came at the cost of their mental — and physical — health.

The famed restaurant reopened with new purpose and a $335 vegan tasting menu. Workers describe low pay, understaffing, and “farm to trash” practices.

Jennette McCurdy’s book fueled rumors about Dan Schneider, a kids-TV legend. Crew members, writers, and ex-stars reveal what working for him was like.

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.

Bryan Freedman is one of Hollywood’s most celebrated attorneys. He’s a founding partner of the law firm Freedman & Taitelman, and his celebrity clients have included Seth Rogen, Julia Roberts, and FKA Twigs, whom he is representing in her sexual-assault-and-battery lawsuit against Shia LaBeouf. He’s also a top attorney for A-listers facing sexual-misconduct scandals. Freedman represented Kevin Spacey as the actor faced a string of accusations of sexual misconduct in 2017. When Insider reported o…

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…

Lori Beth Denberg remembers Dan Schneider calling her into his office and telling her to shut the door.It was 1995, around Denberg’s 19th birthday, and Nickelodeon’s hit comedy show “All That” had recently wrapped its first season. Denberg was one of the show’s stars. So when Schneider, the head writer of “All That,” heard that a female producer had met with Denberg to discuss her weight gain, he was angry.Schneider told Denberg that he should have been the one to have that conversation. After a…

Stephen Pasterino wanted his Bosu Balls back.On August 13, 2022, Pasterino arrived at the SoHo flagship of Pvolve, the trendy fitness business he’d founded five years earlier. Pasterino, a chiseled trainer with puppydog eyes, hadn’t visited the studio since he and his cofounder, Rachel Katzman, had divorced in 2020. He walked past the cursive “your personal evolution starts here” sign in the entryway, past the racks of Pvolve-branded leggings and hats, past the VIP-only elevator for celebrity cl…