Hoffman ‘flashed at daughter’s friend,16’
5 more women claim they were sexually harassed by film megastar
DUSTIN Hoffman has been accused of exposing himself to his daughter’s 16-year-old school friend.
Playwright Cori Thomas, now 53, is one of five more women to come forward claiming they were sexually harassed by the Oscar winner.
Two said they were under age at the time.
Ms Thomas claimed she spent a Sunday with Hoffman and daughter Karina in 1980 when both were at school in New York.
She ended up alone with the actor in his hotel room while waiting for her parents to pick her up.
Thomas claimed Hoffman took a shower then appeared in a towel, which he dropped. “It was the first time I had seen a naked man,” she said. “I was mortified. I didn’t know what to do. And he milked it. He milked the fact that he was naked. He stood there. He took his time.”
She alleged that after putting his robe back on, Hoffman asked her to massage his feet and said: “I’m naked. Do you want to see?”
Another woman, named only as Pauline, said she met Hoffman in 1973 when she was 15 and working at a New York clothing store.
She said the actor, now 80, invited her to a premiere of his movie Alfredo, Alfredo. He then invited her to his flat, claiming he had a puppy he bought for his daughter.
When she arrived she didn’t see a dog. After rejecting Hoffman’s request to see his daughter’s room, Pauline claimed the
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dad-of-six asked: “Do you want to see something else?” before exposing himself and performing a sex act on himself. “I’d never even seen a naked man before,” she said. “I didn’t know what to say, what to do. He told me ‘I’ll be finished soon’.”
Another accuser, Melissa Kester, said Hoffman assaulted her in a recording booth as he worked with her boyfriend on the music for 1987 film Ishtar.
She said the Rainman star, who is married to second wife Lisa, “stuck his fingers down my pants”.
She added: “I felt like I’d been raped. There was no warning.”
A fourth un-named woman said that while making the same film the actor put his hand up her skirt. She added: “There are people inches from us. I didn’t know what to do. He’s smiling at me.” A fifth woman, using the alias Carolyn, said she was invited to Hoffman’s hotel room in 1975 when she was a 21-yearold Washington tour guide. When she asked to leave he blocked the door and said: “You don’t think you’re getting out of here without having sex, do you?” He then allegedly offered her a choice of two sex acts, of which she said she chose oral sex.
She claimed he then gave her $20 for a cab home and she left. Hoffman’s lawyer said the claims, made to two Hollywood magazines, were “falsehoods”. Eight women have now accused the actor of sexual harassment.
He appeared in a towel which he dropped..i’d never seen a naked man CORI THOMAS