38 women accuse filmmaker James Toback of sexual misconduct in a new lawsuit that also names the Harvard Club of New York City as a defendant. The suit alleges Toback met several of the women at the private venue for Harvard University alumni.
into sexual harassment allegations against James Toback, 38 women filed a joint lawsuit against the filmmaker on Monday claiming sexual misconduct.
The lawsuit accuses Toback, who earned an Oscar nomination for writing the 1991 crime drama “Bugsy,” of using his reputation and power to entice young women “through fraud, coercion, force and intimidation into compromising situations where he falsely imprisoned, sexually abused, assaulted, and/or battered them.
Six of the 38 alleged assaults described in the lawsuit occurred at the Harvard Club, according to the complaint. Toback took women to the club for meals and drinks, the lawsuit reads, “attacking them in the Harvard Club’s dining room, stairwells, bathrooms and hotel rooms.” Toback, who has withdrawn from the public eye since 2017, was served in Manhattan on Monday, according to Ross Leonoudakis, one of the attorneys filing the lawsuit. A call to Toback’s most recent legal representation was not immediately returned.
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