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GET HOFF ME!7

Weinstein feels heat Dustin is branded ‘sex pest’

- By LOUISE BERWICK louise.berwick@dailystar.co.uk

HARVEY Weinstein is to be burned at the stake.

An effigy of the Hollywood producer wearing just a bathrobe will go up in flames on Saturday at a charity bonfire event.

More than 10,000 people are expected to turn out to see the giant lookalike burn in Edenbridge, Kent.

Celebrity effigies set alight in the town in previous years include Donald Trump, Katie Hopkins and Wayne Rooney.

Weinstein denies claims he sexually assaulted a string of young actresses and other women during his career. ®

ACTOR Dustin Hoffman has been accused of sexually harassing a schoolgirl intern.

The Hollywood star allegedly told her he wanted a “hard-boiled egg…and a softboiled clitoris”.

Author Anna Graham Hunter says he also groped her bum and made lewd remarks while she was just 17 and on the set of 1985 TV hit movie Death Of A Salesman with him.

The double Oscar winner, who was then 48 at the time, also repeatedly asked about her sexual history and told her he wanted her breasts for lunch, Hunter claims.

Then, she says, he handed out key rings inscribed with the slogan “Love, Willy”.

Predator

Anna, who was still at school at the time, said yesterday: “At 49, I understand what Dustin Hoffman did as it fits into the larger pattern of what women experience in Hollywood and everywhere.

“He was a predator, I was a child, and this was sexual harassment.”

Last night The Graduate star, now 80, apologised.

He said: “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomforta­ble situation.

“I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”

Mr Selfridge star Jeremy Piven, 52, was yesterday accused of groping US actress and former Playboy Playmate Ariane Bellamar on the set of hit American show Entourage.

But last night the Golden Globe award winner said: “I unequivoca­lly deny the appalling allegation­s.” ‘IGNORED CLAIMS’: May

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SORRY: Hoffman has apologised to writer
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ACCUSER: US author Anna Graham Hunter
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