Two women claim they were sexually assaulted by actor Richard Dreyfuss
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is accused of sexually assaulting two women when they posed for pictures with him
TWO women claim they were sexually assaulted by Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss when they posed for pictures with him.
The friends had gone to see the Close Encounters star in the 2004 Broadway production of Sly Fox when they were invited backstage to meet him.
One woman, named only as Beth, now 48, said: “He gave me a hug and he stuck his hand almost in the crack of my butt.
“Then he grabbed me by the boob. And he grabbed right above my private area. Like he was tickling me.
“I was giggling, but not in a happy way. I was so nervous. I was so uncomfortable. It was such a weird, awkward feeling.
“He told me I had nice lips.”
The second woman, Susan, now 52, said: “He kissed me without permission. It was creepy and weird.”
In a series of snaps, Dreyfuss is seen squeezing a woman’s bottom and wrapping his arms around her waist so one hand is touching her breasts while the other is extending down toward her crotch.
Beth also recalled that Dreyfuss was "sweaty and talking fast."
"I couldn’t understand why he was being so touchy with people he’d never met before," she added.
Dreyfuss is said to have asked the women to stay and hang out with him, but they made excuses and left.
In November, Dreyfuss denied exposing himself to writer Jessica Teich in 1987.
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The veteran actor told New York Magazine’s blog Vulture that he recalled flirting with Teich over the years in exchanges he thought were consensual.
Teich claimed that Dreyfuss hired her to help develop a script for an ABC show and harassed her with lewd comments.
She said at one point, he invited her to his trailer on a film set in 1987 and exposed his genitals.