Comedian Andy Dick is scheduled to have his first pretrial hearing today in a case involving a male Uber driver who says he was groped by the comedian in 2018.
Dick is charged with one misdemeanor sexual battery count for allegedly grabbing the man’s crotch in West Hollywood in April 2018.
Now, we know what you’re probably thinking.
“Wait, didn’t that happen in New Orleans in August 2018?”
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Yes, but also no. That was a different male Uber driver who accused the bisexual comedian of grabbing his crotch. In response, the driver punched him in the face, knocking him out for 15 minutes and requiring him to be taken to a local hospital, where he was treated for head injuries.
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The alleged West Hollywood incident happened four months earlier.
According to a report filed with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, the unnamed male driver says Dick reached over and grabbed his crotch during a car ride.
Dick has pleaded not guilty to the charge. If convicted, he could spend up to 180 days in jail.
But this isn’t the first… or second… or third time he’s found himself in trouble for this sort of behavior.
In 2018, Dick was charged with sexual battery when he allegedly groped a woman on the street. He pleaded no contest to lewd conduct and battery to avoid any jail time.
And in 2017, he was dropped from the film Raising Buchanan amid accusations of sexual misconduct on set, which included grabbing people’s genitals, kissing and licking them without permission, and propositioning at least four crew members for sex.
Then there was the time in 2013 when he settled a lawsuit in which he was accused of flashing his genitals in a Dallas comedy club and rubbing his penis in the face of a male audience member.
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Donston
Andy Dick is a rather unfortunate queer stereotype: bi identifying/behaving dude who clearly has issues with substance abuse, mental health, hyper sexuality, paraphiliacs and perhaps some frustrations with fluidity, internalized phobias, or where he is in the gender, romantic, sexual, emotional investment, relationship commitment spectrum. It doesn’t help that he’s a rather untalented person who acquired money and fame and then felt he could treat people whatever way.
I’m just grateful that this isn’t a new case.
Hdtex
Do you have anything to contribute or nah?
Mr. Stadnick
Aptly named man.
Chrisk
Damn. How desperate and sleazy can you get.
Donston
I don’t think it’s about being “desperate”. He may not be conventionally handsome. But he’s rich and famous enough (or at least he was rich and famous enough) that he can get whatever he wants. He just gets off on the “thrill” of randomly touching people and shocking people.
rjulian
He rented the house next door to mine in Palm Springs a few years ago – lived there for about a year. He was always with a posse of really young gay guys who looked like he’d just picked them up off the street. I didn’t have them over.
Fahd
He must have picked them up off the street in LA. In my experience, one couldn’t pick a posse of really young gay guys up off the street in Palm Springs. “Really young” is of course relative and otherwise I love Palm Springs.
Fahd
Shows how backed up the courts in California are on account of the pandemic. A prosecution for a crime allegedly committed in April 2018 is having the first pretrial hearing in April 2021. Speedy trial?
LumpyPillows
So, how many guys did he do this to besides the ones who called him out on it? Tragic mess.
Morg
jesus what has happened to his mouth in that picture?
humble charlie
I think he’s talented. I just wouldn’t want to know him or dine with him in a restaurant.
lykeitiz
AND – He was indicted in 2010 in Huntington, WV, for groping a bar employee and a patron.