And Just Like That... and Sex and the City star Chris Noth has been accused of sexual assault by two women, whose allegations date back to 2004 and 2015.
Using the pseudonyms Zoe and Lily, the accusers have provided their accounts of the assaults in separate statements to The Hollywood Reporter.
UPDATE (12/16, 4:26 p.m. ET): Variety reports that Peloton, which recently teamed with Noth and Ryan Reynolds for an SATC spoof ad campaign, has removed all traces of the accused actor from its marketing materials following these accusations.
"Every single sexual assault accusation must be taken seriously," a representative said in a statement to Variety. "We were unaware of these allegations when we featured Chris Noth in our response to HBO's reboot. As we seek to learn more, we have stopped promoting this video and archived related social posts."
The following article contains potentially triggering material relating to sexual assault and violence. If you believe you have experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct and are looking for support, consult the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime to find resources in your area.
Zoe, who was 25 at the time of the alleged assault, detailed meeting Noth at the high-profile Los Angeles firm where she worked in the 2000s: "He would walk by my desk and flirt with me. He somehow got my number from the directory and was leaving messages on my work phone. My boss was like, 'Mr. Big's leaving messages on your voicemail.'"
Zoe claims she once went to Noth's house to return a book, and upon her arrival, he began kissing her, at which point she tried to leave. He then allegedly "pulled her toward him, moved her toward the bed, pulled off her shorts and biking bottom, and began to rape her from behind."
"It was very painful and I yelled out, 'Stop!'" Zoe said. "And he didn't. I said, 'Can you at least get a condom?' and he laughed at me."
Zoe said she later escaped to an apartment in the same building where her friend, who took her to the hospital, resided. "I had stitches. Two police officers came. I wouldn't say who it was," Zoe told THR, explaining she feared she would be fired if she accused him publicly.
Lily alleges a similar account, this time in New York City in 2015, where Noth invited her to meet for dinner at SATC shooting location, Il Cantinori.
"I was truly star-struck," she says. "He was hitting on me, for sure. I was flattered. I knew he was married, which is shameful of me to admit."
Lily continues on to say that she got drunk — but not blackout — at dinner, at which point Noth invited her to his home. She explained she did not believe the actor was trying to have sex with her. "I thought, 'We're going to drink whiskey and talk about his acting career.' It sounds so stupid."
Lily continued: "He tried to make out with me. I cautiously entertained it. He's older and looked older. He kept trying and trying and trying, and I should have said no more firmly and left. And then the next thing I knew, he pulled down his pants and he was standing in front of me."
Noth then allegedly forced his penis into her mouth, and the next thing she knew, "He was having sex with me from the back in a chair. We were in front of a mirror. I was kind of crying as it happened."
A friend of Lily's, Alex, claimed she listened to a voicemail the actor left Lily after the incident. "It was, 'Hey, hope you didn't take anything wrong last night. We had fun. Just want to make sure you didn't take it the wrong way.'"
In a statement provided by Noth to THR, the actor denied all wrong-doings:
The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false. These stories could've been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago — no always means no — that is a line I did not cross. The encounters were consensual. It's difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out. I don't know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women.
Using the pseudonyms Zoe and Lily, the accusers have provided their accounts of the assaults in separate statements to The Hollywood Reporter.
UPDATE (12/16, 4:26 p.m. ET): Variety reports that Peloton, which recently teamed with Noth and Ryan Reynolds for an SATC spoof ad campaign, has removed all traces of the accused actor from its marketing materials following these accusations.
"Every single sexual assault accusation must be taken seriously," a representative said in a statement to Variety. "We were unaware of these allegations when we featured Chris Noth in our response to HBO's reboot. As we seek to learn more, we have stopped promoting this video and archived related social posts."
The following article contains potentially triggering material relating to sexual assault and violence. If you believe you have experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct and are looking for support, consult the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime to find resources in your area.
Zoe, who was 25 at the time of the alleged assault, detailed meeting Noth at the high-profile Los Angeles firm where she worked in the 2000s: "He would walk by my desk and flirt with me. He somehow got my number from the directory and was leaving messages on my work phone. My boss was like, 'Mr. Big's leaving messages on your voicemail.'"
Zoe claims she once went to Noth's house to return a book, and upon her arrival, he began kissing her, at which point she tried to leave. He then allegedly "pulled her toward him, moved her toward the bed, pulled off her shorts and biking bottom, and began to rape her from behind."
"It was very painful and I yelled out, 'Stop!'" Zoe said. "And he didn't. I said, 'Can you at least get a condom?' and he laughed at me."
Zoe said she later escaped to an apartment in the same building where her friend, who took her to the hospital, resided. "I had stitches. Two police officers came. I wouldn't say who it was," Zoe told THR, explaining she feared she would be fired if she accused him publicly.
Lily alleges a similar account, this time in New York City in 2015, where Noth invited her to meet for dinner at SATC shooting location, Il Cantinori.
"I was truly star-struck," she says. "He was hitting on me, for sure. I was flattered. I knew he was married, which is shameful of me to admit."
Lily continues on to say that she got drunk — but not blackout — at dinner, at which point Noth invited her to his home. She explained she did not believe the actor was trying to have sex with her. "I thought, 'We're going to drink whiskey and talk about his acting career.' It sounds so stupid."
Lily continued: "He tried to make out with me. I cautiously entertained it. He's older and looked older. He kept trying and trying and trying, and I should have said no more firmly and left. And then the next thing I knew, he pulled down his pants and he was standing in front of me."
Noth then allegedly forced his penis into her mouth, and the next thing she knew, "He was having sex with me from the back in a chair. We were in front of a mirror. I was kind of crying as it happened."
A friend of Lily's, Alex, claimed she listened to a voicemail the actor left Lily after the incident. "It was, 'Hey, hope you didn't take anything wrong last night. We had fun. Just want to make sure you didn't take it the wrong way.'"
In a statement provided by Noth to THR, the actor denied all wrong-doings:
The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false. These stories could've been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago — no always means no — that is a line I did not cross. The encounters were consensual. It's difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out. I don't know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women.
