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More women accuse Hoffman of sexual misconduct

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Three more women have accused actor Dustin Hoffman of sexual misconduct, including a 16-year-old high school friend of his daughter more than three decades ago.
Three more women have accused actor Dustin Hoffman of sexual misconduct, including a 16-year-old high school friend of his daughter more than three decades ago.
Hollywood trade magazine ‘Variety’ published the accounts from the three women, bringing the number of women to publicly accuse the 80-year-old double Oscar winner of harassment in recent weeks to six.
Hoffman’s lawyer told the publication the claims were “defamatory falsehoods”.
Playwright Cori Thomas said she spent a Sunday afternoon with Hoffman and his daughter in 1980 when she was a 16-year-old student at the elite United Nations International School in New York, ‘Variety’ reported.
But after dinner, she alleged she was left alone in Hoffman’s hotel room, waiting for her mother to collect her, when the actor disappeared into the bathroom before coming back and “standing there naked”.
Hoffman then asked her to massage his feet, ‘Variety’ reported. “I didn’t know that I could say no, so I did it,” she was quoted as saying. “And he kept telling me, ‘I’m naked. Do you want to see?'”
She said she was “saved” by her mother arriving downstairs. “I was humiliated,” she told ‘Variety’. “I was so mortified, I never said anything.”
Crying
Two other women said Hoffman assaulted them on 1987 movie ‘Ishtar’.
Melissa Kester said that afterwards she “sat in the bathroom crying. I thought, ‘Oh my God.’ I felt like I’d been raped. There was no warning.”
The other woman remained anonymous. She told ‘Variety’ that she was a 22-year-old extra when Hoffman offered to give her a ride home after a wrap party.
She said he sexually assaulted her. “He’s smiling at me. I was frozen,” she was quoted as saying.
Three other women have come forward in the last six weeks accusing Hoffman of sexual harassment that they said took place more than 30 years ago. Hoffman issued an apology to the first woman, who was a teenage intern on the set of his 1985 TV film ‘Death of a Salesman’. He said in a November 1 statement the behaviour the woman described was “not reflective of who I am”.
He has declined to comment on the other accusations.
The actor also angrily defended himself earlier this month during a surprise grilling by British comedian John Oliver on stage at a panel discussion.

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