A Hollywood costume designer has accused Robert Knepper of sexual assault on the set of “Gas Food Lodging.”
A Hollywood costume designer has accused Robert Knepper of sexual assault on the set of “Gas Food Lodging.”
Susan Bertram told the Hollywood Reporter that she had gone into Knepper’s trailer during filming in 1991 when the actor “jumped up,” grabbed her crotch under her dress “as hard as he could” and pushed her against the wall.
« I’m going to f–k your brains out,” Bertram claims Knepper said to her.
The then-31-year-old costume designer said she ran out of the trailer and locked herself in a bathroom, where she discovered that the crotch of her tights were ripped and she was bleeding.
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« I just sat there and cried for a while. My dress was torn, I was dirty, » she told the Hollywood Reporter.
“I just sat there and got myself together and went back to the wardrobe trailer.”
Bertram told her assistant, who described her as “very upset, very shaken” but both said they didn’t feel like they could report the « Prison Break » star.
She decided to come forward more than 15 years later in part due to President Trump’s “Access Hollywood” “grab them by the p—y” tape.
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In the past several weeks, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, James Toback, Brett Ratner, Ed Westwick and Terry Richardson, as well as others, have been accused of sexual misconduct.
A rep for Knepper did not immediately return a request for comment.
