Aziz accused of sex assault
Claims sex ordeal after dinner date
Award-winning actor and comedian Aziz Ansari is being accused of sex assault by a Brooklyn woman who says she is speaking up because she resents that he wore a “Time’s Up” pin at the Golden Globes last week. The unidentified 23-year-old accuser described the alleged incident during an interview with Babe.net, saying it occurred at Aziz’s Tribeca apartment after a dinner date last September. Using the name Grace, she told the site that the “Master of None’’ star ignored numerous “cues” indicating that she “wasn’t interested” in getting physical — and proceeded to take her clothes off anyway and engage in oral sex. Ansari, 34, repeatedly shoved his fingers down the woman’s throat, and simultaneously touched her genitals, she said. “The move he kept doing was taking his two fingers in a V-shape and putting them in my mouth,” Grace claimed, dubbing it “the claw.” “I know I was physically giving off cues that I wasn’t interested,” she said. “I don’t think that was noticed at all, or if it was, it was ignored.” “It was 30 minutes of me getting up and moving and him following and sticking his fingers down my throat again,” said the woman, identified as a Brooklyn photographer. “It was really repetitive. It felt like a f--king game.” Grace claims to have met Ansari at an Emmys after-party the week before their dinner date. She said she initially liked him, but quickly became disgusted when the sweetfaced funnyman turned aggressive. “Most of my discomfort was expressed in me pulling away and mumbling,” Grace told Babe.net. Still, she said that she remained in the apartment and that when Ansari asked for oral sex, she complied.
It wasn’t until he broke out “the claw” and became more unrelenting that she became completely upset and wanted to leave, she said.
“Where do you want me to f--k you? Do you want me to f--k you right here?” Ansari asked her at one point, according to Grace.
“I just remember looking in the mirror and seeing him behind me. He was very much caught up in the moment and I obviously very much wasn’t,” she recalled.
“After he bent me over is when I stood up and said no, I don’t think I’m ready to do this.”
The next day, Grace said the former “Parks and Recreation” star texted her, “Hey — it was fun meeting you last night.”
She says she responded, “Last night might have been fun for you, but it wasn’t for me. You ignored clear non-verbal cues; you kept going with advances.
“I want to make sure you’re aware so maybe the next girl doesn’t have to cry on the ride home.”
Ansari allegedly responded, “I’m so sad to hear this. Clearly, I misread things in the moment and I’m truly sorry.”
Copies of the texts were posted on Babe.net.
Grace told the site that she chose to finally come forward after seeing Ansari at the Golden Globes wearing an anti-sexual-harassment “Time’s Up” pin.
Ansari responded to her claims in a statement Sunday night, saying, “It was true that everything did seem okay to me, so when I heard that it was not the case for her, I was surprised and concerned. I took her words to heart and responded privately after taking the time to process what she had said. I continue to support the movement that is happening in our culture. It is necessary and long overdue.”