After the Weinstein scandal, celebrated personalities like Kevin Spacey, Dustin Hoffman, Jeremy Piven, and Brett Ratner face fresh accusations.
As the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues, new names from the Hollywood’s A-list artistes have popped up with charges of sexual misconduct. While controversies continue over the recent charges of sexual assault leveled against Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, other celebrated personalities – including actor-director Dustin Hoffman, “Entourage” star Jeremy Piven and “Rush Hour” director Brett Ratner – also face fresh accusations of sexual harassment. Furthermore, Mexican actor Roberto Cavazos claimed that the number of accusers against the “House of Cards” actor, Kevin Spacey, could be in dozens.
Here are a few Hollywood’s A-listers who faces fresh allegations of sexual misconduct:
Dustin Hoffman
Actress Anna Graham hunter accused that Dustin Hoffman had groped her and spoken to her inappropriately about sex in 1985 – during the shoot of ‘Death of a Salesman’ TV movie – when the actress was just 17 years old. Just a day after Hoffman issued an apology for his past behavior, another woman – writer producer Wendy Riss Gatsiounis – also came forward to claim that even she had faced harassment from the Oscar winning actor.
Gatsiounis claimed that she was been sexually harassed by the actor at the outset of a meeting held with Hoffman and Tootsie screenwriter Murray Schisgal. According to Gatsiounis, the meeting was held to discuss a prospective movie adaptation of her play ‘A Darker Propose’. The actress, who was in her 20s at that time, claimed that Hoffman allegedly asked her whether she had sex with a man over 40.
“I’ll never forget – he moves back, he opens his arms, and he says, ‘It would be a whole new body to explore.’ The whole thing was just a source of torment for me. I was just this writer and he had been my hero, and it stayed with me for a long time” said Gatsiounis.
Brett Ratner
As many as six actresses – including Natasha Henstridge, Olivia Munn and Jamie Ray Newman – alleged that they had earlier been sexually harassed by Brett Ratner – the director and producer of Rush Hour series, X-men and Horrible Bosses.
While Natasha Henstridge claimed that she was forced to perform oral sex with Ratner in 1990s, Jamie Newman alleged Ratner of “loudly describing sex acts he wanted to perform on her in explicit detail” – while she was sitting next to him in a flight.
Jeremy Piven
Over multiple posts on Twitter, actress Ariane Bellamar accused Jeremy Piven of groping her breasts in a trailer on the set of the HBO hit show Entourage.
“‘Member when you cornered me in your trailer on the #Entourage set? ‘Member grabbing my boobies on the [couch] without asking??” she tweeted.
In another Tweet the actress wrote, “Jeremy Piven, on two occasions, cornered me & forcefully fondled my breasts & bum.”
Days after Bellamar’s accusation, another actress, Cassidy Freeman alleged that Piven sexually harassed her on the day when Stephen Colbert’s Late Show dropped him from its broadcast. Over a post in her Instagram account, Freeman wrote, “I know what you did and attempted to do to me when I was far too young.”
Kevin Spacey
Following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, Netflix on Tuesday suspended the shooting of the sixth season of the ‘House of Cards’. However, in continuing trouble against the Oscar-winning actor, new allegations have emerged against Spacey.
After actor Anthony Rapp claimed that Kevin Spacey tried to “seduce” him when he was just 14 years old, filmmaker Tony Montana came up with fresh allegations. Montana alleged that he was groped by the ‘House of Cards’ actor in a Los Angeles bar in 2013.