- In 2021, Johan Palmgren's documentary film "Benny and the Culture House" came out , where a number of colleagues and Anne Sofie von Otter talk about what happened.
- His wife Sofie von Otter accused the media of exaggerating allegations of unwanted behavior during the Metoo campaign and that pornographic undertones became a strategy for the media to attract readers. In March 2019, Aftonbladet was condemned by the Press Opinion Committee for its publications.
- An investigation by the city of Stockholm, whose results were published after Fredriksson's death, revealed there was no evidence of sexual abuse.
- After finishing his education, he worked as an actor and director at the Royal Swedish Opera, Gothenburg City Theatre, National Swedish Touring Theatre, Drottningholm Palace Theatre and Stockholm City Theatre.
- In July 2020 , Kulturhuset Stadsteatern and Anne Sofie von Otter established an annual prize of 100,000 kroner, the Benny prize , in memory of Fredriksson.
- He served as art director at Parkteatern and ensemble boss at Stockholm City Theatre before he became CEO and theatre chief at Stockholm City Theatre in 2002.
- After sixteen years as CEO, Fredriksson resigned in December 2017.
- Lars Truedson at the Institute for Media Studies wrote in June 2020 that the name publications surrounding Fredriksson "developed into one of the absolute most tragic and shocking cases Swedish media ethics has ever experienced.".
- Accusations emerged in the Swedish press that Fredriksson, 58, had behaved like a "capricious dictator," tolerating sexual abuse and harassing his own employees. Aftonbladet, a tabloid, cited the anonymous accounts of dozens of people in describing an alleged culture of fear and harassment under Fredriksson's leadership. According to the newspaper, the theater director had required an actor to rehearse naked, had told an employee to choose between having an abortion and giving up a role, and had protected male employees accused of sexual abuse. "Human dignity is zero," one woman said. Expressen - another tabloid, whose symbol is a wasp and whose motto is "it stings" - followed with an account in which an actor called Fredriksson a "little Hitler." An internal city investigation did not substantiate the claims leveled in the tabloids.
- From 1989 until his death in 2018, he was married to Anne Sofie von Otter, Sweden's most notable mezzo-soprano.
- In her interview with "Die Zeit", Sofie von Otter said she was in London with the couple's younger son when the explosive allegations appeared. She said her husband was "at a loss" in responding to the "character assassination." He quickly resolved to step back from his job, she said. At first, he was relieved, she said. But depression soon set in. No one would defend him publicly, she said, for fear of being "dragged into the muck by the media.".
- While on holiday in Sydney, Australia, Fredriksson committed suicide on 17 March 2018. Three months previously accusations had been made of sexual harassment and that he had allowed a culture of sexual harassment as CEO of the Stockholm City Theatre.
- Toward the end of his life, his widow disclosed, Fredriksson was afraid of going out into the street for fear of being recognized.
- Fredriksson's death was the tragic and terrible product of the ongoing sexual harassment witch-hunt, spreading within affluent upper middle-class circles from country to country like a plague. Many of the vices of this social layer-selfishness, subjectivism, vindictiveness, professional jealousy and ambition-show themselves in the Fredriksson case.
- The Irish Times labeled Benny Fredriksson 's wife Sofie von Otter "the world's most prominent #metoo widow.".
- The Irish Times reported on July 27 the 2018 that in 2017 December Aftonbladet "printed anonymous accusations that Fredriksson was a 'little Hitler' who bullied and terrorised ... The newspaper interviewed 40 people who claimed he had turned the centre into his own personal 'dictatorship', forced women to rehearse naked and pressed a woman to either have an abortion or forfeit a role." None of this was true. In March 2018, the Irish Times pointed to the results of the city investigation, which "found no evidence of sexual misconduct by Fredriksson. On the contrary, the report presented in part said the claims against him-particularly the abortion allegation-were misleading. ... Instead it appears Fredriksson expressed regret that an actor would not be able to take on a role as she would be eight months' pregnant by the premiere.".
- Benny Fredriksson was named Stockholmer of the month in October 2003.
- He was a Swedish actor, theatre director, and CEO of Stockholm City Theatre, Sweden.
- From 1979 to 1982, Fredriksson studied at the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Stockholm.
- At the age of sixteen, he was a ticketer at Stockholm City Theatre.
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