Update (Friday, March 16, 2018, 4:37 p.m.): The Academy has released a statement, presumably in response to the Variety report about John Bailey, though it does not directly name the Academy president or confirm that it has received complaints about him. The statement reads, in full:

“The Academy treats any complaints confidentially to protect all parties. The Membership Committee reviews all complaints brought against Academy members according to our Standards of Conduct process, and after completing reviews, reports to the Board of Governors. We will not comment further on such matters until the full review is completed.”

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Months after the #MeToo movement began sweeping Hollywood—and less than two weeks after the 90th Academy Awards—it has arrived at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s own doorstep. John Bailey, the cinematographer who was elected president of the Academy this past August, is currently being investigated for three allegations of sexual harassment, according to Variety. The trade writes that the Academy was notified of the claims Wednesday, and opened the investigation immediately. There is not yet any further information about what the claims may have entailed.

This news is just the latest evidence that Hollywood’s long-overdue sexual misconduct reckoning—kicked off in October, when investigations in The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed an alleged decades-long pattern of abuse perpetrated by Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein (who has denied all claims of nonconsensual sex)—is far from over. Scores of powerful men have been accused of sexual misconduct in the wake of Weinstein’s downfall, both within and outside of the entertainment industry.

There is a particular sting, however, in these new allegations against Bailey—which come not just shortly after an awards season marked and charged by the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, but also weeks after the Academy set new protocols for its members, outlining a new official code of conduct that details how individuals may report claims of workplace misconduct by Academy members. The Academy now has a task force that will determine how to respond to allegations, formed shortly after the group voted in October to expel Weinstein from its ranks. (That decision, by the way, was quasi-controversial at the time for some Academy members: “There are all sorts of people who’ve done all sorts of things in the Academy,” one Academy governor told Vanity Fair’s Rebecca Keegan at the time. “Did we throw out Roman Polanski? Did the TV Academy throw out Bill Cosby? I’ve never heard of this happening with anyone. That’s not the way business is done.”)

Bailey was elected this past summer, winning the Academy presidency over stiff competition, including acting branch governor Laura Dern. He succeeded marketing executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who shepherded the organization through a tumultuous period, including the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, and through a dramatic membership expansion that greatly increased the body’s diversity and female participants.

Bailey, too, has professed a commitment to diversity, though he has also cautioned that the Academy cannot change the industry by itself: “I have been hiring men and women of different ethnic, socio economic, and racial types ever since I have been shooting movies, because it is important to me. This whole notion of the Academy moving toward diversity I completely support and laud, realizing there is only so much the Academy can do,” he told Deadline in August.

If Bailey is forced to step down due to the allegations, Variety reports, he would be replaced temporarily by Academy Vice President Lois Burwell until the next election, which will be in July. The Academy has not yet responded to Vanity Fair’s request for comment.

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