Dustin Hoffman has been met with more accusations of sexual harassment, just one month after author Anna Graham Hunter accused the veteran actor of sexual misconduct.
The most recent claim hails from Hoffman’s former co-star Kathryn Rossetter, who was allegedly abused by him while working together on the 1984 Broadway production of Death Of A Salesman.
Rossetter alleged she experienced a “horrific, demoralising and abusive experience at the hands (literally) of one of my acting idols.”
In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Rossetter alleged that the Oscar-winning actor had continuously groped her and demanded foot rubs and that he once exposed her body to the backstage crew by lifting her slip up over her head.
The actress also went on to claim that Hoffman would “grab” her breast while posing for pictures, with no consent sought on his part, and that following the play she “returned to acting by day and crying by night”.
In November of this year, Graham Hunter, a production assistant on the set of the film version of Death Of A Salesman, claimed that Hoffman had demanded she give him a foot rub and then went on to make sexually explicit comments to her. At the time, she was 17 and he in his late forties.
Just this week, John Oliver confronted Hoffman on allegations of his misconduct at a 20th-anniversary screening for Wag The Dog on Monday night.
Hoffman said that he did not recall ever knowing his alleged abusee. He went on to tell Oliver: “If I met her, it was in concert with other people.”
However, Oliver dismissed Hoffman’s apology, mentioning that it’s “that kind of response to this stuff that pisses me off”.
