Another Harvey Wienstien type...
https://theinformedamerican.net/another-of-the-hollywood-elite-hit-with-several-dozen-sex-abuse-charges/
38 women said director James Toback sexually harassed or sexually assaulted them.
Over three dozen women filed a joint lawsuit against an alleged “serial sexual predator” on Monday for sexual misconduct.
In the court documents obtained by the outlet, the women claim the director “used his reputation, power, and influence in the entertainment industry” to “lure young women through fraud, coercion, force and intimidation into compromising situations where he falsely imprisoned, sexually abused, assaulted, and/or battered them.”
Despite the alleged abuse spanning over the last 38 years, the victims allege they are only speaking out now due to his “explicit and implicit threats of blacklisting them in the industry, physically harming them, and/or even killing them if they did not comply with and remain silent about the sexual abuse they endured.”
The plaintiffs further alleged that Toback, a longtime filmmaker who received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay he wrote for the 1991 film Bugsy, “repeatedly used the prestige and privacy” of the Harvard Club in Manhattan’s Midtown neighborhood “to lure women — including at least Plaintiffs Jolene Hayes, Nicole Hodges, and Jane Does 4, 15, 16, and 21 — into a secluded place at the Club for a meal, alcohol and a private room” while “promising them opportunities in his movies.”
“For decades, Defendant Toback falsely imprisoned, sexually assaulted, abused and/or battered women at the Harvard Club, including six of the Plaintiffs, in its dining room, hallways, stairwells, bathrooms, and hotel rooms,” the complaint alleged.
Further allegations claim that Toback, who graduated from Harvard University in 1966, “sexually assaulted his victims including Plaintiffs” around the city in various locations, “including his editing studio, his apartment, hotel rooms and public parks,” as well as his mother’s apartment.
According to 100percentfedup, back in January 2018, Selma Blair told The Talk she was afraid after Toback threatened her, ‘I’ve literally been afraid for 17 years of James Toback who threatened to murder me and, you know, put cement shoes on and gouge my eyes out with a Bic pen if I ever told anybody.’