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'Search Party' PA Accuses Showrunner Charles Rogers of Sexual Assault

Max series cocreator Charles Rogers "unequivocally denies" the allegations, which were previously retracted after an internal investigation

A production assistant who worked on the Max original series “Search Party” has accused showrunner Charles Rogers of drugging and sexually assaulting him in 2020. A past investigation by the network into the alleged assault cleared Rogers, but Evan Schwartz said he was “gaslit” into “exonerating” the writer-producer in social media posts shared on Saturday. He added that a year later he suffered “severe psychosis and delusions” and that the network’s human resources investigator “gaslit me into exonerating Charles… Because of the psychotic episode, I believed I made this all up, and I even sent him an email telling him he did nothing wrong.”

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