Actor Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual misconduct against more women
Anna Graham Hunter said Hoffman had harassed and groped her when she was 17 - and says other alleged victims got in touch
HOLLYWOOD star Dustin Hoffman has been accused of more sexual misconduct against women who are too terrified of going public.
Anna Graham Hunter, a production intern on the TV retelling of ‘Death of a Salesman’ in 1985, claimed that Hoffman had harassed and groped her when she was 17.
She now says she has been contacted by further women who say the superstar actor, 81, behaved inappropriately with them in the past.
But Hunter said the accusers will not risk speaking for “fear of retribution” from protective Hollywood stars and studios.
Speaking at the TheWrap’s Power Women Summit in Los Angeles, she said: “After my story came out a year ago, I heard from a lot of people, including 400 trolls that I blocked.
“But I also heard from women who had similar stories and some who had similar stories with the same person.
“There are women who we know of who have not come forward and they’re never going to come forward.”
Speaking of Hoffman’s alleged abuse, she added: “It was predatory, it was violent, it was horrible, and it has affected many lives permanently.”
Contacted by The Hollywood Reporter, after Hunter’s claims last year, Hoffman responded: “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.”
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Hunter spoke alongside actress Kathryn Rossetter, who claims she was groped by Hoffman regularly during a run of the play Death Of A Salesman in 1983.
Rossetter added that her “brave or dumb” decision to speak out has left her unable to discuss the matter with her family.
Playwright Cori Thomas, 54, also made headlines last year when she claimed the actor exposed himself to her in a hotel room in New York in 1980 when she was 16.
Hoffman through his lawyer has branded all Thomas’s claims “defamatory falsehoods”.
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