Prosecutors will interview man over claims Spacey groped him

George Takei, Steven Seagal, Richard Dreyfuss also are accused of sexual misconduct.

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  • Monday, November 13, 2017 10:34am
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Clockwise from top left: Kevin Spacey, George Takei, Steven Seagal and Richard Dreyfuss

Clockwise from top left: Kevin Spacey, George Takei, Steven Seagal and Richard Dreyfuss

The son of a former Boston news anchor, who claims Kevin Spacey groped his genitals when he was 18, will discuss the allegations with prosecutors.

Heather Unruh said in a press conference last week that her son suffered “tremendous anger and anxiety” after Spacey, 58, reportedly grabbed his genitals at a club on Nantucket Island in the summer of 2016 when he was 18.

District Attorney Michael O’Keefe told the Boston Globe on Saturday that a meeting with Unruh’s son will take place soon and that he is interested in “everything that’s relevant and material” to the alleged sexual assault.

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Unruh claimed that Spacey gave her son alcohol and thrust his hand into his pants, grabbing his genitals at the club. She added that a criminal investigation had begun.

Takei blames Russian bots

George Takei had an out-of-this-world explanation for why so many people were talking about the sexual assault claim against him.

In a now-deleted tweet, the “Star Trek” actor blamed Russian bots for spreading the story after Scott Brunton, an ex-model and actor, accused Takei of groping him in his Los Angeles condo in 1981.

Brunton told the Hollywood Reporter that he became friends with Takei when he was 23 and the actor was in his mid-40s. The two met for dinner one night and then went back to Takei’s condo where Brunton had two drinks and began to feel dizzy.

“The next thing I remember I was coming to and he had my pants down around my ankles and he was groping my crotch and trying to get my underwear off and feeling me up at the same time, trying to get his hands down my underwear,” Brunton said.

Takei denied the allegations.

‘All My Children’ actor accuses Seagal

Another actress has accused 1980s movie star Steven Seagal of sexually harassing her at an audition.

Eva LaRue, who appeared on “All My Children” for years before moving to “CSI: Miami,” told Deadline that Seagal locked her in a room at his home in 1990 and then whipped open his kimono.

The “Above the Law” star stood there in only his underwear, said LaRue, who was 22 at the time.

“It was clear he was not just getting cozy,” said LaRue, who joins actresses Portia de Rossi, Julianna Margulies and Jenny McCarthy in lodging complaints against Seagal.

McCarthy said Seagal told her to take off her dress during an audition before he unzipped his own pants.

De Rossi shared her account on Twitter, writing that Seagal told her “how important it is to have chemistry off set” as he unzipped his leather pants during an audition. Like LaRue, De Rossi said her agent was unfazed when she relayed what happened.

Margulies, who did not go into specific details about what happened during a hotel meeting with Seagal, said he was armed with a gun.

“It’s a long story … but I never was raped, and I never was harmed, and I don’t know how I got out of that hotel room,” Margulies said. “It always starts with, ‘I’m a healer, I want to massage you.’ I sort of screamed my way out.”

Rocker apologizes amid sex allegations

Brand New singer Jesse Lacey apologized Saturday amid sexual misconduct allegations — including claims he solicited nude photos from a teenage girl in 2002.

Lacey, 39, penned a lengthy message on the rock band’s official Facebook page saying he was “absolutely sorry” for his past actions, though he did not directly address the accusations against him.

“The actions of my past have caused pain and harm to a number of people, and I want to say that I am absolutely sorry. I do not stand in defense of myself nor do I forgive myself,” he wrote.

“I was selfish, narcissistic, and insensitive in my past, and there are a number of people who have had to shoulder the burden of my failures. I apologize for the hurt I have caused, and hope to be able to take the correct actions to earn forgiveness and trust.”

Lacey continued by admitting a past “addictive relationship with sex” and multiple instances of infidelity, and wrote that he is working on his “self-obsession.”

Wilson details ‘disgusting’ proposition, hotel room encounter

Rebel Wilson revealed she was sexually harassed by both a powerful male star and a top director early in her career.

The “Pitch Perfect” star came forward with her accounts, including one lewd incident with an unnamed actor, after hearing countless women’s stories of sexual harassment in assault in Hollywood.

“A male star, in a position of power asked me to go into a room with him and then asked me repeatedly to stick my finger up his a —,” she described on Twitter.

“All whilst his male ‘friends’ tried to film the incident on their iPhones and laughed. I repeatedly said no and eventually got out of the room.”

Wilson, 37, said she immediately called both her agent and lawyer and her lawyer was able to file a complaint with the studio.

Dreyfuss accused of exposing himself to woman in 1980s

Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss was accused Friday of sexually harassing a woman writer in the 1980s — charges he emphatically denied.

Jessica Teich said the “Jaws” actor had invited her to his trailer in 1987 when they were both working on a film and greeted her with his erect penis exposed.

“The idea was that I was going to give him (oral sex). I didn’t, and I left,” Teich told Vulture.

For the next several years, she said, the married Dreyfuss subjected her to constant sexual harassment.

“He created a very hostile work environment, where I felt sexualized, objectified, and unsafe,” she told Vulture.

Teich said she decided to speak up after reading Dreyfuss’ supportive tweet to his son, who says he was abused by actor Kevin Spacey as a teen.

Dreyfuss, 70, said he didn’t recall “exposing” himself to Teich and denied that allegation.

But he had pursued Teich for several years in what he thought was an acceptable way, he said.

“I did flirt with her, and I remember trying to kiss Jessica as part of what I thought was a consensual seduction ritual that went on and on for many years,” Dreyfuss said.

He described himself as “horrified and bewildered” to discover the flirtation wasn’t welcome by Teich.

“I didn’t get it. It makes me reassess every relationship I have ever thought was playful and mutual,” he said.

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