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What does the hateful slur ‘oven dodger’ mean and who did Mel Gibson allegedly say it to?
MEL Gibson is a longtime actor and director in Hollywood who has been accused of making horrific anti-Semitic statements.
His representative has denied allegations that have recently surfaced.
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Here is more on the movie star's history of inappropriate comments.
Who is Mel Gibson?
is a 64-year-old actor and filmmaker who won an Oscar for Best Director for Braveheart in 1996.
He also produced in starred in the epic period film, which won Best Picture.
The actor was born in Peekskill, , but his family moved to Australia when he was a child.
Peekskill is a city in Westchester County that is located about 40 miles from .
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Gibson is also known for starring in the Lethal Weapon movies alongside Danny Glover and originating the role of Mad Max in the Road Warrior franchise.
He was nominated again for Best Director for 2016's Hacksaw Ridge starring Andrew Garfield, but lost out on the Oscar to Damien Chazelle, who helmed La La Land.
What does the hateful term 'oven dodger' mean?
The despicable term refers to the manner in which Jewish prisoners were massacred in Nazi death camps during World War II
Six million Jews were killed by the Nazis, the majority in purpose-built gas chambers.
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Who has accused Gibson of saying 'oven dodger'?
Actress Winona Ryder claims Gibson asked her if she was a Jewish "oven dodger" at a 1995 party.
“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar,” Ryder recently told the UK-based .
The Jewish faith came up during their discussion, and Gibson said, "you’re not an oven dodger, are you?” according to Ryder.
Ryder also says that Gibson asked her friend, who is gay: “‘Oh, wait, am I gonna get AIDS?’”
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The actress claims that Gibson later tried to apologize, according to the Sunday Times.
A representative for the actor called the allegations “100 percent untrue.”
The rep told The Sun that the actor reached out to Ryder when the allegations were first reported ten years ago and "she refused to address them with him.”
Gibson has been in wake of Ryder's claims.
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What did Gibson say during a 2006 arrest?
Gibson made a series of anti-Semitic statements when he was stopped on suspicion of drunk driving in , according to the police report obtained by .
"F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," Gibson said, according to the report.
He then asked the deputy who stopped him: "Are you a Jew?"
Gibson later told that the outburst was caused by a "nervous breakdown" and that he does not discriminate against anyone.
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He was also accused of making homophobic statements in 1991 during an interview with a Spanish newspaper.
Who was Mel Gibson's father?
His father was author Hutton Gibson, who once said in an interview that the Holocaust was “fiction.”
''Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body,'' Hutton Gibson told in 2003.
''It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes.
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"Now, six million?''
Mel Gibson was the sixth of Hutton Gibson's 11 children.
Hutton Gibson died last month at the age of 101.
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