More women allege Halperin harassment

FOUR MORE women came forward Friday to accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment as the “Game Change” author issued his second mea culpa of the week.

The complaints from the now roughly 12 women include allegations that Halperin, 52, propositioned them and touched them inappropriately at work.

A woman on Friday also told CNN that Halperin masturbated in front her in his ABC office. A second woman said he threw her against a restaurant wall when she refused his kiss and told her she’d never work in media.

The alleged sexual harassment is centered around Halperin’s time at ABC News, where he worked as a political analyst in the 1990s.

Halperin on Friday denied masturbating in front of anyone and said that some of the accusations about him are not true. As for the rest, he apologized.

“Towards the end of my time at ABC News, I recognized I had a problem,” Halperin wrote in the fifth paragraph of his 10-paragraph statement posted on Twitter.

He called his behavior “aggressive and crude” and said he attended weekly counseling sessions for years after leaving ABC to address his personal problems. “I am profoundly sorry for the pain and anguish I have caused by my past actions,” he wrote.