Washington D.C.: Filmmaker Rob Cohen, best known for Fast and Furious, has been accused of sexual assault. He has allegedly molested a 28-year-old woman when she was unconscious.
According to a leading newswire, the incident took place in 2015 after the filmmaker invited the woman to a business meeting in Manhattan. She was called to discuss collaborating on a TV pilot.
Reportedly, the woman met Rob at a cigar lounge where she claimed that he ordered her a drink which she was not comfortable with. After they moved the meeting to a restaurant next to the director's hotel, she said he insisted her to drink more.
By the end of the night, the accuser said she began to feel uneasy. At some point, she said that she blacked out but remembers waking up naked in Cohen's hotel room with his "face in her crotch and his fingers inside her." She said that she never consented to get physical with the director.
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The medical records obtained and reviewed showed the victim sought treatment as a victim of sexual assault, as reported.
However, Cohen rubbished the misconduct in a 13-page letter from his attorney Martin Singer to the publication.
"The proposed Story is an outrageous defamatory hit piece, making extraordinarily offensive assertions that my client engaged in heinous sexual misconduct, criminal wrongdoing, and other inappropriate behaviour, which are vehemently disputed and denied by my client," wrote Martin.
According to Martin, Cohen also denied that the woman was unconscious in the director's presence, and claims that she left immediately after the business meeting ended.
This is not the first time that the filmmaker has been accused of sexual harassment. Earlier this year, Cohen's daughter Valkyrie Weather accused of molesting her when she was a child him in a lengthy social media post.
With inputs from ANI.
