He is accused of trying to rape a young woman four years ago. This year, his daughter accused him of abusing her
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Film director Rob Cohen, 70, is once again in the eye of the hurricane and not precisely because of a new contribution to the seventh art. The filmmaker of the first installment of Fast and the Furious has to face a sexual scandal. The American is credited with an attempted rape . Facts that date back four years. This is not the first time he has been splattered by a murky story outside the cameras. In February of this year, Valkyrie Weather used Twitter to publicly denounce his father. According to her testimony, her father had abused her when she was just two years old. She also claimed that Cohen took her to see prostitutes in establishments in Thailand and the Czech Republic during her teens.
The Huffington Post has just published an extensive report where a woman, identified as Jane, 28, reveals how the Hollywood director tried to rape her in 2015 after a meeting in New York for a pilot television episode that was not He never rolled. During the meeting, Cohen encouraged her to drink and made her feel uncomfortable flirting with her and telling her about her own sexual experiences. Later, Cohen moved the meeting to a restaurant that was located next to the hotel where he was staying. There he asked for a jug of wine and encouraged her to drink a little more. At the end of the night, Jane began to regain consciousness in the hotel room of the filmmaker, naked, while the director abused her.
Although Jane's memory of the last parts of the night is "blurry" and incomplete, there are details that she keeps in her memory. Remember that she went with Cohen to a restaurant because "she was excited about the professional opportunity " and later suddenly feel alone with Cohen after the other diners at the place had left. Also that he leaned down to kiss her cheek and thought it was strange. The next thing he has stuck in his retina is Cohen's face in his crotch and his fingers inside her, without her consent. In addition, the woman reports that, upon regaining consciousness, she immediately went to the bathroom and vomited, being again in a vulnerable state and being assaulted a second time by the filmmaker.
When the events took place, Jane's boyfriend was very worried. As he revealed to HuffPost , Jane had told him that he had a meeting with Cohen and hoped to be home around 10 p.m. By then, he had not received any text message. He thought it was strange for an older man to turn a business meeting with a 28-year-old woman into a party night, but he knew the show was a good opportunity for his girlfriend because he needed to find work.
Jane finally arrived at her boyfriend's house in a taxi around 1:30 in the morning. I wanted to know what had happened that night , but they were both tired and went to bed. When they woke up, Jane was distant. At first, Jane didn't know what to do with her experience with Cohen. I had a vague memory about last night. The night after the alleged abuse, Jane went out to dinner with her boyfriend . Once they were seated, she began to remember and panicked. Unable to hide her anxiety, she told her boyfriend what had happened.
The victim has also shared medical documents, showing that she had gone to a clinic seeking treatment for victims of sexual assault , a few weeks after her meeting with Cohen. He also sought psychological support after the event. And even years after the heinous event and with the Wenstein case already kicking in the industry, the young woman dared to face what happened and send a message to the filmmaker. "The night we met you hurt me and screwed me . " Then Cohen was "sorry to hear this" and apologized by phone the next day.
Cohen's lawyer, Martin Singer, has responded to the girl's accusations with a 13-page letter to HuffPost. "The proposed story is a scandalous and defamatory piece, which makes extraordinarily offensive claims that my client participated in atrocious sexual behavior, criminal misconduct and other inappropriate behavior, which my client disputes and vehemently denies," Singer said.
For his part, the director has also denied the allegations of sexual assault against him, including the allegations of his daughter and an alleged victim, identified as Jane. " I have never attacked, raped, drugged or abused anyone, " Cohen told Page Six in a statement. In his statement, the filmmaker continued: "I hope and pray that the thousands of people who know me, work with me and / or simply just-minded people will see that this is a false and unfounded story, that it is out there due to a odious daughter and a mother / ex-wife. " " I still pray that my daughter can find peace and happiness, so that she can free herself from this network of lies and lies, and can live her life fully and without hate," he said.
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