Demi Moore

At Cannes, Moore said the industry probably could not win a battle aimed at stopping AI and should instead learn to use it as a tool without losing the humanity of artistic work. The wording fuelled debate about employment, consent and creativity in cinema.

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In Inside Out, Moore claimed that Kutcher had been unfaithful and that she had agreed to threesomes in an attempt to be a 'cool' wife, before coming to regard those choices as a mistake. The revelations revived public controversy over their marriage, Moore's sobriety and the responsibilities of each partner in the breakdown.

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In her memoir and interviews, Moore recounted being raped at 15 by an older man who subsequently allegedly asked her what it felt like to be prostituted by her mother for $500. She said she did not know for certain whether money had changed hands but believed her mother had given him access to her.

Moore was hospitalised following an episode in which witnesses described her experiencing convulsions after smoking a substance. The emergency call recording triggered intense media coverage of her health, weight and possible substance use problems.

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A W magazine cover prompted allegations of excessive digital retouching, notably around Moore's left hip. She publicly denied that her body had been altered in the manner alleged, and her lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to a blogger who had repeated the claim.

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Moore's relationship with Ashton Kutcher, fifteen years her junior, prompted exceptional media coverage and repeated comments on the age gap, making the couple emblematic of the different treatment of older women dating younger men.

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G.I. Jane, in which Moore plays a woman joining a Navy SEAL-type unit, fuelled intense public debate about women in combat, physical standards, feminism and the military credibility of the screenplay.

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Moore's fee of approximately $12.5 million for Striptease, then a record for an actress, fuelled her media image as a demanding star and the derogatory nickname 'Gimme Moore'. The film's commercial failure subsequently intensified criticism of her salary, on-screen nudity and commercial value.

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The Scarlet Letter, starring Moore as Hester Prynne, was strongly criticised for its transformation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel and the promotional description 'freely adapted'. The controversy preceded the release and continued with overwhelmingly negative reviews and commercial failure.

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The Vanity Fair cover showing Moore nude while seven months pregnant prompted major cultural controversy. Several retail chains refused to sell the issue or placed it in opaque packaging, while Annie Leibovitz's photograph became an iconic image of pregnancy.

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Moore recounted that her cocaine use had led director Joel Schumacher and the production of St. Elmo's Fire to require her to enter rehabilitation and remain sober as a condition of keeping her role. She subsequently worked with a sobriety companion during filming.

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