Kevin Spacey to receive lifetime achievement award amid sexual assault allegations
Kevin Spacey set to receive a lifetime achievement award in Taormina, Sicily, amidst ongoing sexual assault allegations.
Actor Dustin Hoffman has been accused of sexually harassing Anna Graham Hunter when she was an intern aged 17 in 1985.
Hunter, now a writer, has alleged that the actor, now 80, groped her on the set of the movie Death of a Salesman and spoke inappropriately about sex with her, reports theguardian.com.
“He asked me to give him a foot massage on my first day on set; I did,” Hunter wrote in the guest column for hollywoodreporter.com.
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“He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me. One morning I went to his dressing room to take his breakfast order; he looked at me and grinned, taking his time. Then he said, ‘I’ll have a hard-boiled egg … and a soft-boiled clitoris’. His entourage burst out laughing.
“I left, speechless. Then I went to the bathroom and cried.”
Hunter detailed Hoffman’s alleged treatment of her over her five weeks on set in a diary that she mailed to her sister at the time.
“Today, when I was walking Dustin to his limo, he felt my a** four times. I hit him each time, hard, and told him he was a dirty old man,” she wrote.
She claimed that on set, she was told to put up with his behaviour by a supervisor who told her to “sacrifice” some of her values for the sake of the production.
Hoffman has responded to the article with an apology: “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”
The story comes after a deluge of similar stories of sexual harassment within Hollywood against producer Harvey Weinstein, filmmaker James Toback and actor Kevin Spacey.
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