Celebrated actor Dustin Hoffman is the latest in a string of Hollywood stars to be accused of sexual misconduct - this time by an intern who shared a movie set with him.
In a lengthy recount of her experiences written for The Hollywood Reporter, Anna Graham Hunter says she was harassed by Hoffman while working as an intern on the set of 1985's Death of a Salesman.
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Hoffman has apologised, telling the magazine he has "the utmost respect for women" and "feels terrible" if he put Ms Hunter "in an uncomfortable situation".
"I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am," he said.
Ms Hunter was 17 at that time, and accuses Hoffman of repeatedly groping her rear, asking for foot massages and openly talking about sex to her.
She says on one occasion she was taking his breakfast order and he asked for "a hard-boiled egg and a soft-boiled clitoris" - a moment that left his entourage laughing and her in tears.
She recalled another incident in which he allegedly grabbed her on the bottom four times while she was walking him to his limousine after a day on set.
Upon complaining about him to a colleague, Hoffman heard she had been saying things about him and confronted her so loudly the entire studio could hear. Ms Hunter claims he later apologised for being inappropriate towards her, but she was called up by her supervisor for making it an issue.
She also recounted a moment on set when a production assistant asked what he wanted for lunch and he allegedly told her "your left breast". When she responded irritably, he changed his mind: "Your right breast."
When the production assistant retorted by calling him a pig, an office assistant said she would have been fired had the producer heard the altercation.
Ms Hunter says the on-set experience left her confused, but she admits to still being somewhat drawn to Hoffman and other older men like him, even when she knows they're bad news.
She insists however that he is "a predator", and that she was a victim of sexual harassment.
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