TV producer is second woman to accuse Dustin Hoffman of sexually harassing her
The second woman to accuse Hoffman was a 25-year-old playwright in the 1990s when he propositioned her and asked her to go to a hotel with him during a business meeting
A second woman has come forward accusing Dustin Hoffman of sexually harassing her more than two decades ago.
Genius producer Wendy Riss Gatsiounis, who was a struggling playwright in the ’90s, claims Hoffman propositioned her and asked her to accompany him to a nearby hotel during what she thought was a business meeting to discuss her pitch for a film version of A Darker Purpose, according to Variety.
She had an initial meeting with Hoffman and Tootsie screenwriter Murray Schisgal, where Schisgal began the conversation by asking her if she had a boyfriend or husband.
“Dustin Hoffman was playfully like, ‘Murray, shut up. Don’t you know you can’t talk to women that way any more? Times are changing,’” Riss Gatsiounis recalled to Variety.
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The meeting ended with the two men telling Riss Gatsiounis to work on a rewrite, which she did before returning to meet three weeks later.