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Dustin Hoffman s-xually harassed 17-year-old production assistant

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Updated on July 6, 2023

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The wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal has resulted in some stunning Hollywood discoveries. S-xual misconduct charges have long been thrown under the rug in Hollywood, and the wave has inspired more and more individuals to come forward with revelations about powerful figures like filmmaker James Toback, actor Kevin Spacey, and director-producer Brett Ratner. Another name was added to the list recently: Dustin Hoffman.

Anna Graham Hunter, now 49, claims she worked as a production assistant on Death of a Salesman, a 1985 TV movie that garnered Hoffman his first and only Emmy, when she was 17 and a senior in high school.

Hunter published notes she wrote as a teenager outlining what happened on the sets during the five weeks she was there in an article for The Hollywood Reporter.

Hunter has mixed feelings about the actor. In her op-ed, she said, “I loved the attention from Dustin Hoffman. Until I didn’t”

Hunter stated in the Hollywood Reporter, “He asked me to give him a foot massage my first day on set; I did. He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my a**, he talked about s-x to me and in front of me. One morning I went to his dressing room to take his breakfast order; he looked at me and grinned, taking his time. Then he said, ‘I’ll have a hard-boiled egg … and a soft-boiled clitoris.’ His entourage burst out laughing. I left, speechless. Then I went to the bathroom and cried.”

“At 49, I understand what Dustin Hoffman did as it fits into the larger pattern of what women experience in Hollywood and everywhere,” she said. “He was a predator, I was a child, and this was s-xual harassment. As to how it fits into my own pattern, I imagine I’ll be figuring that out for years to come.”

Hoffman said in response to the piece: “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.”

Hoffman was undoubtedly at the pinnacle of his career in the mid-’80s, although his reputation has been questioned in the past. During the making of the 1979 Oscar-winning picture Kramer vs Kramer, he admits to slapping co-star Meryl Streep to aid with her believability. He allegedly taunted Streep during shooting, according to her.