After human-rights organizations criticized her paid appearance at Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s birthday party, Hilary Swank denied knowledge of her host’s decidedly bad human-rights record and offered to donate her check to charity. Reportedly, the penance-paying continued last week with the firing of her manager of nearly a decade, Jason Weinberg. (Two CAA representatives have also been “moved off her team.â€) Of course, Swank herself was also probably capable of knowing better but, as one source said, “What can she do? She can hardly fire herself.†Everyone else, though — they can definitely get fired. [Independent UK]