MTV Movie & TV Awards under fire for hiring of former Girls writer who was accused of rape

TheWrap

Prosecutors declined to charge Murray Miller after actress Aurora Perrineau accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was underage. Still, her dad, actor Harold Perrineau, questioned why he was on the award show's writing staff. “Did you really hire Murray Miller as a writer after (he was) accused of raping a minor?” he tweeted the morning after the MTV Movie & TV Awards. Meanwhile, The Wrap reports that many of the award show's writers had no idea of Murray's involvement since he reported to the show's director and producer, Joel Gallan, who has known him for 20 years. “I do not like that I share credits with him,” one writer for the show told TheWrap, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “I don’t like the idea that people might think that I actually worked with him. And I know for a fact that L.A. isn’t running low on comedy writers — there are a lot of people who never sexually assaulted anyone who would love to have that job. A lot of them are women.”