Chris Noth Has Been Accused of Sexual Assault - The Cut

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Two women have accused Sex and the City star Chris Noth of sexual assault. According to The Hollywood Reporter, both accusers reached out to the publication earlier this year, prompted by the impending release of And Just Like That …, the Sex and the City reboot. The revival, which premiered last week, is centered largely around the death of Noth’s character, who plays a prominent role in the first episode.

The first woman, “Zoe,” said she worked at a “high-profile firm” where Noth “did business” in 2004, when Sex and the City was in its sixth and final season. She claimed Noth flirted with her at work, eventually inviting her to the pool in his West Hollywood building. According to her account, he kissed her, at which point she says she tried to leave. Instead, she alleges Noth started raping her from behind in front of a mirror. By the time she made it to a friend’s apartment, Zoe said she refused to say what had happened, at which point the friend took her to Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Zoe claims that two police officers came, but she refused to identify her assaulter.

A second woman, “Lily,” told THR she met Noth in 2014, when she was a server in the VIP section of a New York nightclub. After inviting her to dinner, she says, Noth met her at a restaurant whose kitchen had already closed and then asked her to come to his Greenwich Village apartment to continue the date. She claimed he kept trying to kiss her, which she “cautiously entertained,” and says he then suddenly started raping her, also from behind and in front of a mirror.

Both stories are backed up by multiple sources, including the friend Zoe visited after her alleged assault, her former boss — whom Zoe called the same day to tell her what had happened — and a counselor at the UCLA Rape Crisis Center, where she was treated two years after the incident. A friend of Lily’s, who says Lily called her from her Uber home, says that Lily told her Noth had “pretty forcibly” had sex with her, and said that she listened to a voice-mail Noth left the next day making sure Lily “didn’t take it the wrong way.”

Noth denied the allegations in a statement to THR, claiming that the accusations are “categorically false” and that both encounters were consensual. “No means no,” he wrote. “That is a line I did not cross.” He also wrote that he found it “difficult not to question the timing” of the stories.

On Thursday, actor Zoe Lister-Jones also accused Noth of sexually inappropriate behavior while on the set of Law & Order, where Lister-Jones was a guest star.

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