Dustin Hoffman Accused Of Exposing Himself To A Minor

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Accusers named Cori Thomas, who says Dustin Hoffman exposed himself to her in a hotel room; Melissa Kester, who says Dustin allegedly sexually assaulted her while recording audio for the film Ishtar; and an anonymous woman who says he manipulated her into a a sexual encounter at the back of a station wagon, all have spoke to Variety.

The victims described Dustin’s predatory behavior to the magazine, which his lawyers have yet to comment on.

Cori herself was only 16, and a classmate of Dustin’s daughter Karina, at the United Nations International School in New York City. On day, she had spent a Sunday afternoon with Karina and Hoffman walking in Manhattan: “This was at first one of the greatest days of my life,” she said. “One of my idols was spending time with me and talking with me respectfully.”

They eventually made it back to the hotel, where at one point she was alone with Dustin while waiting for her parents to come get her. That’s when he emerged from the shower: “He came out of the bathroom with a towel at first wrapped around him, which he dropped,” she said. “He was standing there naked. I think I almost collapsed, actually. It was the first time I had ever seen a naked man. I was mortified. I didn’t know what to do. And he milked it. He milked the fact that he was naked. He stood there. He took his time.”

Then he asked her to massage his feet: “I didn’t know what to do in the circumstance,” she said. “I didn’t know that I could say no, so I did it. And he kept telling me, ‘I’m naked. Do you want to see?’” Thomas said that she pretended not to hear Hoffman as he made suggestive comments to her.

“What saved me was that the phone rang, and it was my mother downstairs to pick me up,” Cori said. “So I left.” She did not tell her mother about the story until decades later. “I was humiliated. My mother always had some instinct that something untoward had happened. She kept asking me, and I was so mortified, I never said anything.”

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