Editing Russell Crowe (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Russell Crowe Danielle Spencer Sept 14 2011.jpg|thumb|Crowe with then-wife [[Danielle Spencer (Australian actress)|Danielle Spencer]] in September 2011]]

In 1989, Crowe met Australian singer [[Danielle Spencer (Australian actress)|Danielle Spencer]] while working on the film ''The Crossing'' and the two began an on-again, off-again relationship.<ref name="PeopleMarriage">{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=Samantha |date=21 April 2003 |title=A Beautiful Time: A Teary Russell Crowe Weds Danielle Spencer Amid a Down Under Weekend of Camaraderie, Cricket and ABBA |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139818,00.html |journal=People |volume=59 |issue=15 |access-date=20 November 2011 |archive-date=26 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826061956/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139818,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2000, he became romantically involved with American actress [[Meg Ryan]] while working on their film ''[[Proof of Life]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 April 2009 |title=Meg Ryan admits to breaking Russell Crowe's heart |url=http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/meg-ryan-admits-to-breaking-russell-crowes-heart-20090403-9qzr.html |access-date=16 August 2012 |website=The Age |archive-date=11 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911062028/http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/meg-ryan-admits-to-breaking-russell-crowes-heart-20090403-9qzr.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2001, Crowe and Spencer reconciled, and they married two years later in April 2003. The wedding took place at Crowe's cattle property in [[Nana Glen, New South Wales]], with the ceremony taking place on Crowe's 39th birthday.<ref name="PeopleMarriage" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Quaintance |first=Lauren |date=20 April 2010 |title=What Danielle Spencer knows about men |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |format=Interview |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/what-danielle-spencer-knows-about-men-20100420-sq2d.html |access-date=20 November 2011 |archive-date=7 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207050820/http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/what-danielle-spencer-knows-about-men-20100420-sq2d.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The couple have two sons: Charles Spencer Crowe (born 21 December 2003)<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 December 2003 |title=Russell Crowe and wife have baby boy |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-88862580.html |url-status=dead |access-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518111551/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-88862580.html |archive-date=18 May 2013}}</ref> and Tennyson Spencer Crowe (born 7 July 2006).<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 July 2006 |title=Russell Crowe, Wife Have a Boy |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1208356,00.html |access-date=14 October 2012 |website=[[People (American magazine)|People]] |archive-date=26 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826043754/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1208356,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In October 2012, it was reported that Crowe and Spencer had separated.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sams |first=Christine |date=14 October 2012 |title=Crowe, Spencer split amid actor's hectic filming schedule |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/crowe-spencer-split-amid-actors-hectic-filming-schedule-20121014-27kwk.html |access-date=14 October 2012 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |archive-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014142524/http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/crowe-spencer-split-amid-actors-hectic-filming-schedule-20121014-27kwk.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Phillp |first=Matthew |title=How Russell Crowe Turned His Divorce Auction Into a Multi-Million-Dollar Career Boost |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/russell-crowe-divorce-auction |website=Vanities |date=9 April 2018 |access-date=10 April 2018 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810224144/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/russell-crowe-divorce-auction |url-status=live }}</ref> They divorced in April 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burns |first=Lindsey |date=10 April 2018 |title=Russell Crowe Has Finalized His Divorce After Five-Year Separation From Wife Danielle Spencer |url=http://www.closerweekly.com/posts/russell-crowe-ex-wife-danielle-spencer-divorce-157836 |access-date=11 April 2018 |website=Closer Weekly |archive-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428202906/https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/russell-crowe-ex-wife-danielle-spencer-divorce-157836/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
A longtime resident of [[Nana Glen]], Crowe is well known in the community and is a frequent patron of the local rugby games. During the [[Australian bushfires]] in 2019 and 2020, he raised over {{nowrap|A$400,000}} for the [[NSW RFS]] by selling his [[South Sydney Rabbitohs]] hat in an online auction.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 November 2019 |title=Rusty's dirty hat has sold, resulting in a huge donation to the NSW RFS |url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/russell-crowe-auctions-souths-hat-to-raise-money-for-fireys/news-story/7acbaea26712bb8fbe0cf49bac141f88 |website=NewsComAu |access-date=30 March 2021 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308102906/https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/russell-crowe-auctions-souths-hat-to-raise-money-for-fireys/news-story/7acbaea26712bb8fbe0cf49bac141f88 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to ''[[GQ]]'' magazine that prior to his attending the [[73rd Academy Awards]], [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents had approached him and told him that the terrorist group [[al-Qaeda]] wanted to kidnap him.<ref name="al-Qaeda threats">{{Cite web |last=Kevin Roxburgh |title=Russell Crowe Biography |url=http://www.american-gangster.net/russell-crowe-biography.php |access-date=26 October 2011 |publisher=american-gangster.net |archive-date=3 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903220425/http://www.american-gangster.net/russell-crowe-biography.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> He recalled, "It was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either [[Libya]] or [[Algiers]]... it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan."<ref name="Perry">O'Riordan, Bernard. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/09/alqaida.film How Bin Laden put the word out: get Russell Crowe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923004714/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/09/alqaida.film |date=23 September 2016 }}, ''The Guardian'', 9 March 2005. Retrieved 12 July 2008.</ref>

At the beginning of 2009, Crowe appeared in a series of Australian special-edition postage stamps called "Legends of the Screen", featuring Australian actors. Crowe, [[Geoffrey Rush]], [[Cate Blanchett]], and [[Nicole Kidman]] each appear twice in the series, once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-nominated character. Crowe is the only non-Australian to appear in the stamps.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20256753,00.html "Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman Happy to Be Licked&nbsp;– On Stamps."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205150210/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20256753,00.html |date=5 February 2009 }} ''People'' Alan Doyle. 4 February 2009.</ref>

In June 2010, Crowe, who started smoking when he was 10, announced he had [[smoking cessation|quit]] for the sake of his two sons.<ref>{{cite news |title=My son made me feel ashamed – Crowe |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/my-smoking-habit-was-bigger-than-ben-hur-says-russell-crowe-ng-336dce9b870cc771b2ba9ade03ef5c0f#:~:text=RUSSELL%20Crowe%20has%20revealed%20the,out%20a%20late%2Dnight%20cigarette. |access-date=24 May 2022 |work=PerthNow |date=27 July 2010 |language=en |archive-date=24 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324131643/https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/my-smoking-habit-was-bigger-than-ben-hur-says-russell-crowe-ng-336dce9b870cc771b2ba9ade03ef5c0f#:~:text=RUSSELL%20Crowe%20has%20revealed%20the,out%20a%20late%2Dnight%20cigarette. |url-status=live }}</ref> In November, he told [[David Letterman]] that he had smoked more than 60 cigarettes a day for 36 years, and that he had "fallen off the wagon" the night before the interview and smoked heavily.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Snyder |first=Steven James |date=11 November 2010 |title=The Night Shift: Now A Serious Word or Two From Russell Crowe (Video) |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2010/11/11/the-night-shift-now-a-serious-word-about-smoking-with-russell-crowe-video/}}</ref> 

=== Ambassador of Rome in the world ===
On 20 December 2022, Crowe was appointed by the mayor of [[Rome]] to be its ambassador of Rome in the world.
On the day of the appointment, Crowe declared that it would be important to host the next [[FIFA World Cup]] in Italy.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe diventa "Ambasciatore di Roma nel mondo" |url=https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2022-10-14/russell-crowe-diventa-ambasciatore-roma-nel-mondo-18446122/ |access-date=20 December 2022 |agency=agi.it |publisher=agi.it |date=20 December 2022 |archive-date=17 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817145627/https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2022-10-14/russell-crowe-diventa-ambasciatore-roma-nel-mondo-18446122/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe diventa "Ambasciatore di Roma nel mondo" |url=https://tg24.sky.it/roma/2022/10/14/russell-crowe-ambasciatore-roma-mondo |access-date=20 December 2022 |agency=tg24.sky.it |publisher=tg24.sky.it |date=20 December 2022 |archive-date=20 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220200952/https://tg24.sky.it/roma/2022/10/14/russell-crowe-ambasciatore-roma-mondo |url-status=live }}</ref>

In July 2023, on holiday in Italy visiting the archaeological site of [[Ostia Antica]], to please fans of ''Gladiator'', including those who asked about [[Gladiator II|the sequel]], Crowe pretended to have a phone conversation with Cicero, servant of Crowe's character Maximus. 'Max' asks Cicero where the men are, why they have gone away, then says he understands why: "I'm dead... It's perfectly understandable."
<ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe torna Gladiatore a Ostia Antica: "Hey, sono Max. Ma dove sono finiti gli uomini?" |url=https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/07/07/news/russell_crowe_ostia_antica_gladiatore_video-407000363/ |access-date=7 July 2023 |agency=roma.repubblica.it |publisher=roma.repubblica.it |date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707212658/https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/07/07/news/russell_crowe_ostia_antica_gladiatore_video-407000363/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe a Roma per Il Gladiatore 2? Foto e selfie in centro |url=https://www.iltempo.it/personaggi/2023/07/07/gallery/russell-crowe-roma-ostia-gladiatore2-foto-video-36315366/ |access-date=7 July 2023 |agency=iltempo.it |publisher=iltempo.it |date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707213116/https://www.iltempo.it/personaggi/2023/07/07/gallery/russell-crowe-roma-ostia-gladiatore2-foto-video-36315366/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/gladiator-2-maximus-reprisal-cicero-call-russell-crowe-video/|title=Gladiator 2: Russell Crowe Challenges Original Movie Betrayal While In Rome|date=7 July 2023|website=ScreenRant|access-date=6 September 2023|archive-date=22 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822095417/https://screenrant.com/gladiator-2-maximus-reprisal-cicero-call-russell-crowe-video/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Political views===
Crowe has supported the [[Australian Labor Party]] (ALP).<ref>{{cite tweet|url=https://twitter.com/russellcrowe/status/360201456705478656|number=360201456705478656|title= @conceravota @hilto80 I don't get a vote, but I will have an opinion. Been a labour supporter all my life, right now we need a statesman|user=russellcrowe|date=25 July 2013|accessdate=2 May 2022}}</ref> He endorsed former Australian prime minister [[Julia Gillard]] in June 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/25/russell-crowe-lack-of-gallantry|title=Russell Crowe condemns 'lack of gallantry' in Australian politics|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=25 June 2013|accessdate=2 May 2022|archive-date=2 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502162047/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/25/russell-crowe-lack-of-gallantry|url-status=live}}</ref> and narrated an advertisement for the Labor Party's election campaign in May 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/rusty-lends-his-voice-to-albanese-s-big-show-20220501-p5ahlc.html|title=Rusty lends his voice to Albanese's big show|work=[[The Age]]|first1=Stephen|last1=Brook|first2=Samantha|last2=Hutchinson|date=2 May 2022|accessdate=2 May 2022|archive-date=1 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501212752/https://www.theage.com.au/national/rusty-lends-his-voice-to-albanese-s-big-show-20220501-p5ahlc.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Crowe has been an outspoken critic of [[Australia's immigration detention facilities]], describing them as "a nation's shame" and "fucking disgraceful". In November 2017, Crowe offered to resettle displaced refugees who were held in Australia's offshore detention facility on [[Manus Island]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/fing-disgraceful-russell-crowe-unloads-on-manus-island-crisis-20171102-gzdaxr.html|title='F—ing disgraceful': Russell Crowe unloads on Manus Island crisis|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|first=Fergus|last=Hunter|date=2 November 2017|accessdate=2 May 2022|archive-date=2 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502162047/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/fing-disgraceful-russell-crowe-unloads-on-manus-island-crisis-20171102-gzdaxr.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Altercations ===
[[File:Russell crowe nypd.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|Crowe escorted from [[NYPD]] in handcuffs to his arraignment for the phone-throwing incident, 6 June 2005]]
Between 1999 and 2005, Crowe was involved in four altercations, which gave him a reputation for having a bad temper.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schorn |first=Daniel |date=2 November 2006 |title=Explaining Russell Crowe |publisher=[[CBS News]] |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/explaining-russell-crowe/ |access-date=1 July 2007 |archive-date=8 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208121842/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/explaining-russell-crowe/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1999, Crowe was involved in an altercation with a woman at the Plantation Hotel in [[Coffs Harbour]], in which he was caught on a security camera kissing a man trying to placate him.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sutton |first=Candace |date=7 April 2002 |title=Russell's brawl no Oscar winner |work=[[The Sun-Herald]]}}</ref> Two men were acquitted of using the video in an attempt to blackmail him.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |date=25 June 2002 |title=Counting Crowe |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/06/25/judge-tosses-russell-crowe-blackmail-case/ |access-date=24 February 2014}}</ref>

In 2002, when part of Crowe's appearance at [[55th British Academy Film Awards|that year's BAFTA Awards]] was cut out to fit into the [[BBC]]'s tape-delayed broadcast, Crowe used strong language during an argument with producer Malcolm Gerrie. The part cut was a Patrick Kavanagh poem in tribute to actor Richard Harris, which was cut for copyright reasons. Crowe later apologised, saying, "What I said to him may have been a little bit more passionate than now, in the cold light of day, I would have liked it to have been."<ref>{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=4 March 2002 |title=Crowe sorry over Bafta outburst |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1853227.stm |access-date=28 May 2007 |archive-date=12 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212221631/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1853227.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> 

Later in 2002, Crowe was alleged to have been involved in a brawl with businessman [[Eric Watson (businessman)|Eric Watson]] inside the London branch of Zuma, a Japanese restaurant chain{{emdash}}the fight was broken up by English actor [[Ross Kemp]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=14 November 2002 |title=Crowe in restaurant 'brawl' |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2472145.stm |access-date=28 May 2007 |archive-date=18 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618090608/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2472145.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=14 November 2002 |title=Russell Crowe and Eric Watson in London brawl |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=3004358 |access-date=24 February 2014 |archive-date=30 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230115700/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=3004358 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2005, Crowe was arrested and charged with second-degree assault by the [[NYPD]] after he threw a telephone at the concierge of the [[Mercer Hotel]] who had refused to help him place a call when the system did not work from Crowe's room. He was also charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon (the telephone).<ref>{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=6 June 2005 |title=Russell Crowe appears in court |publisher=[[CNN]] |location=New York |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/06/crowe.arrest/ |access-date=24 February 2014 |archive-date=2 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302051907/http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/06/crowe.arrest/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The concierge was treated for a facial laceration.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Resnick |first=Rachel |date=November 2005 |title=Russell Crowe gets slap on the wrist for phone-throwing |work=The Justice}}</ref> After his arrest, Crowe underwent a [[perp walk]], a procedure customary in New York City, exposing the handcuffed suspect to the news media to take pictures. This procedure was under discussion as potentially violating Article 5 of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2023|reason=for this sentence regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights}} Crowe later described the incident as "possibly the most shameful situation that I've ever gotten myself in".<ref>{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=18 November 2005 |title=Crowe admits hotel phone assault |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4451302.stm |access-date=28 May 2007 |archive-date=11 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111182308/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4451302.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Crowe pleaded guilty and was conditionally discharged. Before the trial, he settled a lawsuit filed by the concierge, Nestor Estrada.<ref>{{Cite book |last=MacKenzie |first=Margaret A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0275991253 |title=Courting the Media: Public Relations for the Accused and the Accuser |date=30 November 2006 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Praeger Publishers]] |isbn=978-0-275-99125-8 |page=14 |access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Siegel |first=Larry J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0495599778 |title=Introduction to Criminal Justice |date=5 January 2009 |publisher=[[Cengage Learning|Wadsworth Publishing Company]] |isbn=978-0-495-59977-7 |access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref> Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but amounts in the six-figure range have been reported.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rush |first=George |date=25 August 2005 |title=Crowe & Clerk in 6-figure deal. Actor near to paying off hotel worker in phone beaning |work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |location=New York |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/crowe-clerk-6-figure-deal-actor-paying-hotel-worker-phone-beaning-article-1.557952 |access-date=24 February 2014 |archive-date=28 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228135317/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/crowe-clerk-6-figure-deal-actor-paying-hotel-worker-phone-beaning-article-1.557952 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The telephone incident had a generally negative impact on Crowe's public image, an example of negative public relations in the mass media, although Crowe had made a point of befriending Australian journalists in an effort to influence his image.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 June 2006 |title=I Was Russell Crowe's stooge |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/when-i-was-russell-crowes-stooge/2006/06/06/1149359738242.html |access-date=12 June 2014 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |archive-date=21 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621151211/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/when-i-was-russell-crowes-stooge/2006/06/06/1149359738242.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer]]" revolves around a lampooning of his aggressive tendencies. Crowe commented on the ongoing media coverage in November 2010, during an interview with American television talk show host and journalist [[Charlie Rose]]: "I think it indelibly changed me. It was a very, very minor situation that was made into something outrageous. More violence perpetuated me walking between the car to the courtroom with the waiting media than anything I'd done ... it very definitely affected me ... psychologically."<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Crowe |first=Russell |interviewer=[[Charlie Rose]] |title=Russell Crowe |url=https://charlierose.com/videos/13103 |access-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121041933/https://charlierose.com/videos/13103 |archive-date=21 November 2017 |url-status=live |work=Charlie Rose |date=18 November 2010}}</ref>

In October 2016, [[Azealia Banks]] filed a police report against Crowe, claiming that he choked and spat at her before proceeding to call her the 'n-word' during a party in his hotel suite. However, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office dropped the case in December. The following year during an interview with ''[[The Breakfast Club (radio show)|The Breakfast Club]]'', [[RZA]] acknowledged only Banks’ claim that Crowe had spat, though "on the floor" rather than at her directly, going on to condemn her alleged "obnoxious and erratic" behaviour.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Azealia Banks and Russell Crowe clash over hotel party altercation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/17/azealia-banks-russell-crowe-hotel-altercation |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Updated: RZA Admits Russell Crowe Did Spit at Azealia Banks, As She Originally Claimed |url=https://www.papermag.com/rza-azealia-banks-russell-crowe |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=[[Paper]] }}</ref> Crowe asserted that he removed Banks from the premises because she had threatened to physically assault other attendees.<ref>{{Cite news |title='Racist, misogynist pig': Azealia Banks responds after Russell Crowe hotel room fracas
|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/racist-misogynist-pig-azealia-banks-responds-after-russell-crowe/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=19 October 2016 |last1=Saunders |first1=Tristram Fane }}</ref> RZA denied hearing Crowe use the 'n-word' and confirmed Crowe's account of threats of violence by Banks, saying "(Banks) threatened to cut a girl in the face with a glass, then actually (grabbed) a glass and physically (attacked) for no logical reason. Russell blocked the attack and removed her from the suite."<ref>BBC News. 21 October 2016. "RZA backs Russell Crowe in Azaelia Banks row, says the rapper is 'obnoxious'." https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-37725956</ref>