Thursday, October 02, 2003

Arnold the Groper

LA Times has the story.

Six women who came into contact with Arnold Schwarzenegger on movie sets, in studio offices and in other settings over the last three decades say he touched them in a sexual manner without their consent.

In interviews with The Times, three of the women described their surprise and discomfort when Schwarzenegger grabbed their breasts. A fourth said he reached under her skirt and gripped her buttocks.

A fifth woman said Schwarzenegger groped her and tried to remove her bathing suit in a hotel elevator. A sixth said Schwarzenegger pulled her onto his lap and asked whether a certain sexual act had ever been performed on her.

According to the women's accounts, one of the incidents occurred in the 1970s, two in the 1980s, two in the 1990s and one in 2000.

Steve G. says:

So Oprah, are you gonna have your friend Arnold back to explain his sexual harassment of women? Groping, grabbing, normal men get sued for this. How blind is Maria? And god knows, what has he done to women too scared to talk?

Indeed.