Chris Noth accused of sexual assaults; actor denies claims

LOS ANGELES – Actor Chris Noth has been accused of sexually assaulting 2 women successful abstracted encounters that took spot successful 2004 and 2015, according to a study Thursday.

The women’s identities were withheld by The Hollywood Reporter successful bid to support their privacy, said the commercialized publication, which utilized pseudonyms for them instead.

Noth, 67, who starred successful “Sex and the City” and appears concisely successful its recently released sequel, “And Just Like That...,” said successful a connection to the Reporter that the encounters were consensual.

“The accusations against maine made by individuals I met years, adjacent decades, agone are categorically false. These stories could’ve been from 30 years agone oregon 30 days agone — nary ever means nary — that is simply a enactment I did not cross,” Noth said successful a connection to the Reporter.

"It’s hard not to question the timing of these stories coming out. I don’t cognize for definite wherefore they are surfacing now, but I bash cognize this: I did not battle these women,” helium said.

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Noth's publicist did not respond to a petition for further comment. A telephone to an lawyer listed arsenic representing him was not instantly returned.

The 2 women reached retired independently and months isolated to the Hollywood Reporter, the work said. One, with the pseudonym Zoe, said the revival of Noth's “Sex and the City” character, a man-about-town nicknamed Mr. Big, “set thing disconnected successful me” and prompted her to spell nationalist with “who helium is,” she told the Reporter.

She asked her sanction beryllium withheld due to the fact that she works successful the amusement manufacture and feared repercussions if she were identified.

Noth’s quality dies successful the opening occurrence of “And Just Like That…” aft suffering a bosom onslaught pursuing an aggravated workout connected a Peloton bike. The bikemaker poked amusive astatine the attraction the occurrence generated with an advertisement featuring Noth, but the spot was pulled connected Thursday aft the Reporter’s communicative posted.

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The allegations prompted a blunt online station from histrion Zoe Lister-Jones, who worked with Noth erstwhile helium starred connected “Law & Order” and she was a impermanent star.

“Last week, my person asked maine however I felt astir Mr. Big's decease connected And Just Like That, and I said, honestly, I felt relieved," she wrote. "He asked wherefore and I told him it was due to the fact that I couldn't abstracted the histrion from the man, and the antheral is simply a intersexual predator.”

Lister-Jones recalled how, during 1 take, helium leaned successful to sniff her cervix and said, "‘You odor good.'"

At media requests, the Los Angeles Police Department checked into whether determination was an unfastened probe involving Noth and recovered none, constabulary Sgt. Hector Guzman said. The peculiar victims bureau of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department besides has nary unfastened investigation, sheriff's Capt. Richard Ruiz said.

Zoe, present 40, alleges she was assaulted successful Noth’s Los Angeles flat successful 2004, erstwhile she was 22. She’d met Noth due to the fact that helium did concern with the steadfast wherever she was employed, the insubstantial said.

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A person told the Reporter that she took Zoe to Cedars-Sinai hospital, wherever she told unit she'd been assaulted and was treated for an injury. The friend, who's not identified successful the story, said constabulary were called but Zoe declined to sanction her assailant to them.

Her then-boss, who was not identified, said that Zoe told her of the onslaught aboriginal that time but asked to support it private, according to the story. In January 2006, Zoe sought counseling astatine a rape situation center, which the halfway confirmed to the Reporter portion keeping details private.

The different woman, called Lily, present 31 and a journalist, said she met Noth successful 2015 erstwhile she was 25 and moving arsenic a server successful the VIP conception of a now-closed New York nightclub. She recounted crying and feeling “violated” erstwhile Noth abruptly initiated sex.

According to a friend, identified by the Reporter arsenic Alex, a distraught Lily called her and said that Noth has “pretty forcibly” had enactment with her successful his apartment. Alex said she declined her proposal to telephone police.

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Lily told the work she didn't retrieve the call.

In texts said to person been exchanged by Noth and Lily and reviewed by the Reporter, Noth allegedly referred to “our nighttime past week,” calling it “a batch of fun" and adding, “I wasn't rather definite however you felt.”

In her reply, according to the paper, Lily said she “certainly enjoyed” his institution but “I did consciousness somewhat used.” She said she enactment disconnected his further attempts to meet.

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