Dustin Hoffman faces more predatory sexual abuse allegations

  • 20/12/2017

Pressure is growing on one of Hollywood's leading men to answer accusations of predatory sexual misbehaviour.

Five women say Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman touched and abused them - and three of them have appeared on a US television network to name and shame him.

Cori Thomas, Anna Graham Hunter and actress Kathryn Rossetter appeared in a joint interview on NBC's Nightly News on Monday (local time), where they shared their personal stories of Hoffman's alleged abuse of power.

"As hard as it is, I think that I wanted to choose truth over shame," said Thomas, who claims that Hoffman exposed himself to her when she was 16.

Rossetter described a feeling of relief in finally telling her story.

"I've been lying for 34 years," she said. "People go, 'How is it to work with Dustin?' and I tell the half-truth, which is, as an actor working with him, I owe him everything.

"I learned so much, and then I would stop and there would always be a knot in my stomach about what the real truth was, which is he was abusive and he was a bully."

Hoffman, 80, has yet to respond, although his lawyer has dismissed the allegations as "defamatory falsehoods".

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