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David Duchovny

David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer and director. He has won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication.

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David Duchovny miffed over being featured in article about sex addiction being a 'myth,' report says

David Duchovny is unhappy about being named and pictured in a story about sex addiction being a "myth" and an excuse "for men who are in trouble with their wives.

"The " X-Files " star, who famously went into treatment for sex addiction in 2008 when he and wife Tea Leoni briefly separated, won a Golden Globe for his role as a womanizing novelist on Showtime series "Californication."But he was not amused and called in his lawyers when the New York Post ran a story on Sunday by clinical psychologist David J. Ley.Ley, author of "The Myth of Sex Addiction," stated that while stars including Duchovny, Tiger Woods and Michael Douglas have been treated for the condition, "Sex addiction is nothing more than a pop-psychology phenomenon."Ley wrote in the article, "Sex has no tolerance or withdrawal effects. No one has ever died from being unable to have sex, nor has anyone ever overdosed from sex."He continued, "The majority of men who enter sex- addiction treatment do so because they're in troub...

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