A fifth woman accused the actor Chris Noth of sexual abuse, popular for his role as Mr. Big in the series “Sex and the City”, who in 1995 received a restraining order after threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend.
In the past week, two other women accused the actor of two separate incidents that allegedly occurred in 2004 and 2015, the first in Los Angeles and the second in New York, according to an article published by The Hollywood Reporter newspaper.
In his reply, Noth did not deny the encounters but claimed they were “consensual”.
“The accusations against me made by people I knew years, even decades ago, are categorically false. These stories could have been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago. It doesn’t always mean no. That is a line that I did not cross,” he told CNN news network.
After that publication, a third woman, who spoke anonymously, told The Daily Beast that she was sexually assaulted by the actor in New York in 2010, when she was 18 and he was 55.
What’s more, a substitute actress of the series “Sex and the City” published a letter in The Independent medium in which she assured that Noth’s behavior on set was “indecent” and “toxic” since he harassed the actresses and asked them to get into his dressing room.
The fifth woman to accuse Noth is singer Lisa Gentile, who recalled at a press conference that in 2002 the actor forced her to have sex and after her refusal he began to kiss her and touch her breasts.
“I was trying to stop him,” Gentile stated. According to the singer, Noth called her the next day to ask her to “not to tell anyone about the night before,” since if she did “it would ruin her career and put her on the industry blacklist”.
After the accusations, some Internet users have rescued some court documents in which a restraining order was imposed between the actor and his ex-girlfriend, Beverly Johnson, who assured that he had threatened to kill her and physically assaulted her in 1995.
For their part, the protagonists of “Sex And The City”, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, lamented the allegations of sexual abuse against their co-star and supported the alleged victims in a statement.
The actresses have come together again to premiere “And Just Like That”, a series that serves as a continuation of “Sex And the City” and in which Noth’s character dies in the first episode, shot long before the allegations came to light.
In addition, the agency that represented the actor has terminated his contract and the series in which he is currently participating, “The Equalizer”, he will not have his presence again in new episodes, confirmed the CBS network.