A third woman has accused Sex and the City starChris Noth of sexual assault. The woman described the 2010 event, which allegedly occurred when she was 18 years old. Noth was 55.
Noth’s publicist said that Noth “denies this as ever happening and has no idea who this woman is.”
Recently, two women have come forward accusing Noth of sexual assault. Noth calls these claims “categorically false.”
On Thursday, the newest woman joined voices against Noth, and provided her account of the alleged assault. Her identity has not been made public.
In 2010, she was a working as a hostess and lounge performer at Da Marino, a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. According to her, Noth visited the restaurant multiple times, always intoxicated. “I cannot remember in detail how many times we spoke, but with great familiarity, one night he told my boss I would sing with him,” she said.
The two sang a few duets. After, they talked at Noth’s table, where he allegedly proceeded to grope her and repeatedly pull her on his lap “onto his erection.”
The teenager felt conflicted. Noth was a celebrity, whom she had watched on the iconic Sex and the City. In some ways, his attention felt exciting for the young girl.
At 1 a.m., her shift ended, and her manager said she could collect her pay in the office. In the office, the lights shut off behind her. Noth allegedly entered, and “acted as if we had intentionally snuck off together clandestinely.” Then, he allegedly began kissing her and pressing her against a desk. She characterized his manner as “sloppy,” “heavy” and “strong.”
She repeatedly told him to stop, but Noth ignored this. “At first, it felt as though I was the only person in the universe who could hear me saying no,” she said.
He allegedly pulled down her tights and attempted to digitally penetrate her. However, she was wearing a tampon. “I was so hopeful that would be the end of it,” she said. Instead, she claims, Noth continued to grope her.
She slid into an office chair to distance herself from him. Then, she used her arms and legs to push him away. He continued advancing, though she pushed him so forcefully that her “limbs hurt in the morning.”
Eventually, she convinced Noth to stop by lying that she would join him in another location. “He wasn’t hearing ‘no,’ but he heard me when I said ‘not here,'” she said. Noth allowed her to leave, and promised that he would send a car to her once he returned to his apartment.
Noth allegedly texted her and asked for her address later, but she never responded.
The next day, she told her parents what had happened. They had become friends with the restaurant staff and were shocked that they would not protect her. When she called them, the management allegedly said Noth “would never be interested in someone as insignificant as me. I never went back.”
