Dustin Hoffman has been added to the growing list of men accused of sexual harassment and misconduct in the wake of Harvey Weinstein, with writer Anna Graham Hunter saying the actor groped, propositioned, and generally behaved lasciviously toward her when she was 17.
In a column for
The Hollywood Reporter, Hunter shares excerpts from letters she wrote to her sister while interning as a production assistant on the 1985 TV movie of Arthur Miller's
Death Of A Salesman, co-starring John Malkovich and Stephen Lang. In them, Hunter details her very first encounter with the actor, then in his mid-40s, where he asked Hunter for a foot massage. She complied, opening the door to a series of flirtations and advances from Hoffman that included asking Hunter about her sex life and—on one occasion—groping her four separate times as she walked Hoffman to his limo.
One of Hunter's diary entries reads:
January 31, 1985 Today, I realized some things about this business that scare me. First of all, Dustin's a lech. I'm completely disillusioned. After Tootsie, I thought I wanted to marry him.
Elizabeth asked him what he wanted for lunch and he said, "Your left breast."
"You're disgusting."
"OK, your right breast."
"You pig." She walked away.
Pam* [office assistant] said, "If [producer] Bob Colesberry had heard that, she would have been gone in a second." I know Dustin would never let that happen, but it's still scary.
Today, when I was walking Dustin to his limo, he felt my ass four times. hit him each time, hard, and told him he was a dirty old man. He took off his hat and pointed to his head (shaved for the part) and said, "No, I'm a dirty young man, I have a full head of hair." So would Bob have fired me if he'd seen me hit Dustin?
