A woman has accused The Fast and The Furious director Rob Cohen of sexual assault, HuffPost reports.
The alleged victim said Cohen invited her four years ago to discuss collaborating on a television pilot. Cohen allegedly encouraged her to drink at a restaurant and, by night's end, she recalls, she regained consciousness in Cohen's hotel room while the director sexually assaulted her. HuffPost reviewed medical records that show the alleged victim sought treatment for sexual assault after the meeting, and her ex- and current boyfriends confirmed she told them about the incident — the former said she told him about it the day after.
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Cohen has denied the allegation through his lawyer, Martin Singer, who represented Bill Cosby. Singer called the story "an outrageous defamatory hit piece" that was "trying to feed the 'Me Too' media frenzy." This is not the first accusation leveled against Cohen — his 32-year-old daughter has publicly accused him of molesting her when she was a toddler. Read more at HuffPost.
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