I have mixed feelings about the Stallone allegations. He's accused of assaulting a16 year old girl, but the article doesn't specify whether he knew her age. She was a fan who received a key to his hotel room, went up there and, from what it sounds like, had sex with Stallone and his bodyguard willingly. From the BBC article:
She claimed a bodyguard gave her keys to a hotel room, where she later had sex with both men.
The officer wrote: "She said that after she got dressed, Stallone made the comment to her that they were both married men and that she could not tell anybody about the incident and if she did, that they would have to beat her head in."
Case dropped
A separate report from the sexual assault unit stated the men then laughed, "and she took it as a joke also", but after the alleged victim left the room she "became very distraught and frightened, and wasn't sure that that threat had been a joke after all".
It added that she said she was not physically forced to have intercourse but felt "intimidated".
I really wish it had clarified what she meant by feeling "intimidated." of course, that begs the question of whether she clarified. Did Stallone make a threat or behave in a menacing way? Was she simply intimidated because he was a star? Did she express that? I know it probably sounds awful for me to be asking these questions, and I don't want to blame the accuser for how she reacted, but this situation seems incredibly unclear. Even the bit about beating her was at first taken as a joke. She only decided after she left that it might not be.
I guess what I'm saying is, it seems entirely possible that Stallone had no idea that the accuser felt intimidated if they did have sex. I get that there may have been an inherent power disparity if one assumes fame gives a celebrity power over a fan, but I have no idea whether celebrities can tell the difference between someone going along with a behavior because they're scared or because they are star-struck and attracted to the celebrity. Granted, affirmative consent might resolve these things, but even then, if Stallone asked, and she said yes because she felt intimidated, then that potentially still creates a really muddy situation depending on why she felt intimidated (e.g. maybe the bodyguard behaved in a scary way). Hopefully more details will be released that clarifies these things.