Film star Dustin Hoffman is accused of harassing a 17 year old intern on the set. "He asked me to massage my legs, cupped my buttocks and talked to me about sex," the complainant said. In addition, director Bart Rattner is accused of harassing six women, including actress Jamie Newman, the wife of Israeli director Guy Nativ
The Hollywood stories continue to be published: actor Dustin Hoffman (80) is accused of having molested a 17-year-old intern in 1985, it was reported. On the Hollywood Reporter site.
Earlier, six women accused director and producer Bert Rattner ("Red Dragon" trilogy, "X-Men: The Last Refuge") of sexual harassment. Their claims were revealed in a major investigative report in The Los Angeles Times.
In a personal column published on the Hollywood Reporter site, writer Anna Graham Hunter reveals that the actor cupped her during the filming "Death of an Agent" and spoke rudely to her when she was 17 and worked as an intern. "He asked me to chew his feet on my first day on the set, he grabbed my butt and talked to me about sex improperly." Graham describes a case in which she asked Hoffman what he would like to eat for breakfast. After looking at her for a long time, he replied: "I want a well-cooked egg."
In the past month, many stories about Hollywood stalkers have come to light, following a huge investigation that revealed that producer Harvey Weinstein had harassed many women over the past three decades. Earlier in the day, the Los Angeles Times reported that six women had accused director Bert Rattner of harassment.
Actress Natasha Hastridge said that when she was 19, as a model, Rattner forced her to have oral sex with him in his apartment in 1990. She said they watched television with other people until she fell asleep. When she awoke, she saw that she was left alone. Rattner blocked the exit before her, began to touch himself and forced her to have oral sex with him. "He was strong, he forced himself physically on me, and at some point I gave up," she said.
This complaint joins five other complaints against the director and producer, one of which is Olivia Mann, who in 2010 claimed, without mentioning his name, that the director masturbated while she was visiting his set of photographs. Although she did not mention his name, Rattner said in response to a television show: "I slept with her a few times, but I forgive her," and he meant the man.
Actress Jamie Newman, the wife of Israeli director Guy Nativ, also revealed that Ratner harassed her during a 2005 flight. According to her, as an actress starting on the way to filming "supernatural" sat excitedly next to the director and was happy to talk and create a professional relationship with him. Within five minutes of taking off, Rattner began to explain to her what sexual acts he would have liked to perform and showed her nude pictures of his wife at the time. Newton claims she was so shocked by the incident and told him about a large number of people, including her mother and a close friend who confirmed this to the investigative reports. According to Ratner, these are ridiculous accusations.
A few days ago Gal Gadot was supposed to award a special prize to Ratner of a large Jewish fund in the United States, but she canceled her participation in the event due to constraints on the schedule. Many argued that the cancellation was rooted in Rattner's problematic sexual harassment history and that the busy schedule was merely an excuse. It seems, then, that Hollywood is changing its approach to sexual harassment and is choosing to take action against the stalkers. For example, the filming of the sixth season of "The House of Cards" at Netflix was suspended due to charges against Kevin Spacey. Roy Price, a senior official at Amazon, was fired after being charged with sexual harassment, and of course Harvey Weinstein was not absent, and it is doubtful whether he will ever be able to work in the industry again.
