While the tone of the Oscars on Sunday is expected to be more serious in the #MeToo era, the stars will still be handed frivolous swag valued in the six figures. 
 
 Endless brands have lined up to lavish the VIPs with goodies this year, from extravagant free trips to Tanzania, Hawaii and Greece to more mundane Mexican sodas. 
 
 That being said, the staid academy shuns the freebies and even sued one swag-bag distributor for using “Oscar” in its giveaways. 
 
 With the suit resolved, LA-based Distinctive Assets (which also hands out gifts at the Grammys) is just calling the swag it gives to nominees the “Everyone Wins” bag. 
 
 This year, the bag is said to be worth up to $100,000 and includes those aforementioned luxe vacations along with a free “gum rejuvenation” dental procedure, sessions with a celebrity trainer, a “conflict-free” diamond necklace and other jewelry, a “24K gold facial,” locally grown oranges, Jarritos soda, and — naturally — an “18-minute phobia-relief session.” 
 
 If that’s not LA enough for you, the stars also get a $10,000 donation to the animal shelter of their choice, plus fancy pet food for their own pampered pooches. 
 
 And the bonanza doesn’t end there when you take into account the myriad gifting suites that compete to hand out even more freebies. 
 
 GBK Productions is doling out an estimated $40,000 in swag that includes “gluten-free” chocolate vodka, vacations to Mexico and Granada, Spain, a private jet trip in California, and a catered, private Italian dinner for 16. 
 
 The Oscars has also slammed some swag bags for including “less-than-wholesome” products in the past such as sex toys, pot vaporizers and plastic surgery. ||||| It’s a stark display of how the #MeToo movement has hit every corner of Hollywood. 
 
 This year, among the usual plane tickets, holidays and luxury cosmetic items given away to Oscar nominees, will be a canister of pepper spray and other personal safety products. 
 
 “This event is a unique opportunity for us to lend a helping hand in the #MeToo movement with solutions that take aim at the harassment culture that’s been pervasive most notably in the entertainment industry and in broader society,” said David Nance, the CEO of security systems company Sabre. 
 
 “We hope to help others by inspiring self-empowerment.” 
 
 Sabre is giving away five products in the Oscar gift bag, including a key-ring sized pepper spray, a gel pepper spray, two personal body alarms and a kit to test whether your drink has been drugged. 
 
 The organisers of the Oscars have previously taken legal action over the unofficial gift bags, provided by outside companies, but still the bags, sometimes worth as much as $100,000, are given to nominees. 
 
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 As well as the items from Sabre, there’s also another branded lightweight pepper spray called Pepperface. 
 
 “In the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, PepperFace is arriving in Hollywood at the perfect time.” said the company’s CEO Brian Pennington. 
 
 “We want to be an awareness symbol to help end violence against women and also provide resources for those unfortunate enough to have become a victim of violence.” 
 
 Other items in this year’s offering include a 12-day trip to Tanzania, a ’24 karat gold facial’, and a ‘conflict-free’ diamond necklace. 
 
 Strangely, pepper sprays have appeared in the Oscar gift bags in the past, in 2014 when a pink and camouflage-print mace pepper gun was given away. 
 
 The ceremony takes place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on March 4. 
 
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– The swag bag handed out to this year's Academy Awards nominees is worth up to $100,000—and, in the wake of the sexual assault allegations rocking Hollywood, you may not be surprised to hear that one of the freebies included in the goodie bag is pepper spray. "This event is a unique opportunity for us to lend a helping hand in the #MeToo movement with solutions that take aim at the harassment culture that’s been pervasive most notably in the entertainment industry and in broader society," David Nance, the CEO of security systems company Sabre, tells Yahoo News. In addition to two types of pepper spray, Sabre's additions to the bags include two personal body alarms and a kit to test whether a drink has been drugged; another company is also including its pepper spray product in this year's bags. "In the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, PepperFace is arriving in Hollywood at the perfect time," says PepperFace CEO Brian Pennington. "We want to be an awareness symbol to help end violence against women and also provide resources for those unfortunate enough to have become a victim of violence." This year's bags—which are not officially tied to the Oscars and of which the Academy is no fan, Page Six reports—also include free trips to Hawaii, Greece, and Tanzania; health and beauty products like a "gum rejuvenation" dental procedure, a "24K gold facial," an 18-minute "phobia relief session," and sessions with a celebrity trainer; food including Mexican soda and locally grown oranges; pricey pet food and a $10,000 donation to the animal shelter of the nominee's choice; and jewelry including a conflict-free diamond necklace.