Rob Cohen, the director of The Fast and The Furious, faces new sexual assault allegation
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.
Text messages exchanged between the alleged victim and Cohen two and a half years after the alleged incident also reveal that Cohen said he was "so sorry to hear this," in response to the alleged victim telling him that he "really hurt" her.
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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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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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