Chris Noth accused of sexually assaulting two women
Actor Chris Noth, who stars as “Mr. Big” on “Sex and the
City,” has been accused by two women of sexual assault, according to a new
report that comes days after the release the HBO show’s much awaited spin-off.
The 67-year-old TV legend allegedly preyed upon two
star-struck young women — one in 2004 and the other in 2015 — after luring them
to private areas where he forced himself on them, The Hollywood Reporter said
Thursday.
Noth — whose character was killed off in the first episode
of “And Just Like That…” — is alleged to have been so rough with one woman that
he made her bleed and left her needing hospital treatment. The other woman said
she was left “totally violated,” but then didn’t report it after he called and
left her a message trying to minimize what happened.
The actor, who has become beloved by millions of women for
playing the role of love interest to Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw
character, has “categorically” denied the claims.
But the woman who claims to have been attacked in 2004 —
identified only as Zoe by THR — says that Noth left her feeling brutalized.
“It was very painful and I yelled out, ‘Stop!’” recalled the
woman, who said she was prompted to speak out after all the hype around the
recent “SATC” spin-off, “And Just Like
That…”
“And he didn’t. I said, ‘Can you at least get a condom?’ and
he laughed at me.”
Zoe says she was just 22 when she met a then-49-year-old
Noth while working as an assistant at a talent agency in 2004.
Noth had gotten hold of her phone number and struck up a
flirtation.
“This was peak ‘Sex and the City,’” Zoe’s former boss at the
time said. “He was like a god to us.”
Zoe alleged that in August 2004, she took her best friend to
soak up the sun at the pool at Noth’s West Hollywood apartment complex — but
things took a turn when he asked her to bring a book upstairs to him.
She alleged that when she got upstairs, she started trying
to kiss her. She tried to get away and get back to her friend, but Noth drew
her towards the bed and pulled off her shorts and bikini bottoms, raping her
from behind, THR reported.
Zoe said it was a painful experience made worse by Noth
mocking her for requesting a condom.
When it was over, she said: “I realized there was blood on
my shirt. I got out of there.”
She headed over to the apartment of another friend who also
lived in the best friend.
Her best friend, who was visiting from college, allegedly
told her ‘You’re scaring me’.
That friend, now a child psychologist in Boston, told THR
that she took Zoe to the hospital.
“She wouldn’t talk. She wouldn’t make eye contact. When we
got in the car, I started pressing her: ‘You have to tell me what happened.
Something’s wrong.’ I don’t remember the words she said, but I said, ‘I’m
taking you to the hospital.’”
The friends went to Cedars-Sinai in LA, where Zoe told staff
she had been assaulted. “I had stitches. Two police officers came. I wouldn’t
say who it was,” Zoe said.
Fearing that she would not be believed, and possibly fired,
if she made a public accusation, Zoe kept quiet and left the hospital with a
counseling brochure and medicine. Cedars told THR it does not keep records
dating back to 2004.
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