Mr Selfridge star Jeremy Piven hit by three more sexual assault claims… including one dating back to when he was just 21
ENTOURAGE star Jeremy Piven is facing more accusations of sexual harassment, it has been reported.
The three women claim Piven, who has strongly denied the allegations, acted in a physically aggressive or threatening manner - which means eight women have now accused the Mr Selfridge actor of inappropriate behaviour.
The women said they were speaking out because of frustration over Piven's previous denials.
reported that one incident allegedly involved Susan McCain Olson, a high school student working as an extra in 1985 on the star's first film, Lucas, when she was 17 and he was 21.
She claims he followed her into a trailer, tried to kiss her and then groped her.
She said: "At one point I kind of was like, 'This is it, this is where I’m going to get raped'," McCain Olson said.
"I kept trying to push him away. I was like, 'No, get off me'."
The other encounters took place in the 1990s, BuzzFeed said.
The third, described as an executive with an international organisation, asked that her name be withheld.
The 52-year-old actor's lawyer provided BuzzFeed with the results of a lie detector test about the accusations that he says he passed.
In a written statement, Piven said: "These allegations, which in one case goes back more than 30 years and the two others more than 20 years ago, are false.
"As evidenced by the lie detector test I took and passed, I have never forced myself on anyone, nor have I ever exposed myself or restrained anyone against their will.
"To the contrary, if any woman ever said no, I stopped."
The actor’s lawyers even threatened to sue BuzzFeed News – the second time they have issued a threat of litigation in response to a story about Piven’s alleged sexual misconduct.
One woman told BuzzFeed that Piven followed her into a set trailer, held her down and attempted to grope her.
She fended him off and fled, she said.
Another said she met Piven in 1996 when he was appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres sitcom Ellen and she was an extra.
She described a consensual romantic encounter at Piven's home that changed when he allegedly exposed himself and tried to force himself on her, BuzzFeed reported.
The third woman alleged that Piven pushed her against a hotel room wall in Montreal in the early 1990s and attempted to force himself on her.
In November actress and ex-Playboy model Ariane Bellamar claims Piven groped her on two occasions, once on the set of the Emmy winner's show Entourage, and again at the Playboy Mansion.
Actress Cassidy Freeman said on her Instagram page that Piven engaged in "predatory behaviour" against her when she was "far too young".
Advertising executive Tiffany Bacon Scourby, 39, claimed that Piven forced himself on her in a room at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York, holding her down for 15 minutes and ejaculating on her.
Porn star Isis Taylor said that Piven had exposed himself and asked him to "touch it" at a party in Los Angeles in 2011.
Last autumn, The New York Times published allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has denied any non-consensual sex.
The report unleashed a range of accusations against other prominent men in entertainment, media and politics.
A number of the men facing allegations have lost their jobs or work.
Piven's CBS crime drama, Wisdom of the Crowd was left up in the air after 13 episodes aired and the network said in November it wouldn't expand its order, but didn't say outright that the show was cancelled.
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