Filmmaker James Toback Accused of Sexual Harassment by Over 30 Women

Writer / Director James Toback has been accuse of intimate harassment by almost 40 women . Toback has been indite and directing flick since the ' 70s . The first film he wrote wasThe Gambler -which was put out in 1974 - starring James Caan , Paul Sorvino , and Lauren Hutton . He made his directorial debut with his next screenplay , finger’s breadth , four age subsequently . He compose and direct three more film in the ' 80s , Love & Money , The Exposed , andThe Pick - Up Artist , also appearing in the latter two as an doer . It was in the early ' XC that he made his freehanded picture show to date , Bugsy .

Now , 38 woman have get ahead and made some progressively conversant title of sexual harassment against Toback . They spoke toThe Los Angeles Times , with 31 of the charwoman going on the record .

The cleaning lady were all very untried , some as untested as 18 or 19 when the incidents happened . They say that Toback would brag about his film credits and offer to help them with their own acting and writing careers . Once he have them alone - though sometimes alone was as public as a park bench - he would ask them implausibly personal interrogation and touch them unsuitably .

Nor is this the first meter that Toback has been hollo out for sexual torment . Back in 1989 an clause inSpyMagazinedescribed Toback ’s behavior towards adult female . The behavior describe in the article matches the stories from the women coming forward today . The womanhood largely take on that they did not report him in the past times either to protect their career or out of fear of Toback , some of the women allege that he threatened them by state outlandish and frightening storey , such as how he once murdered someone with a pencil .

It wasthe news of the Harvey Weinstein scandalthat encouraged these char to derive ahead . Many of them relive their own experiences . After seeingWeinstein lose his companyas well as beingremoved from The Academy , perhaps the women felt as though they would finally be believed . And Toback is n’t the only name to follow Weinstein , brotherBob Weinstein was also accused , andtalent factor Tyler Grasham was fired after accusations of pedophilia . At this point , its hard to imagine just how bass this polish of intimate abuse function in Hollywood . Or how many more names will occur to lighting in the nigh future .