Actor Chris Noth — best known for his role in HBO’s Sex and the City — is denying two sexual assault allegations, including one of the accusations that goes back to 2004. Noth, who played ‘Mr. Big’ in Sex and the City, is facing the explosive allegations of sexual assault detailed in The Hollywood Reporter by two women who used pseudonyms.
One woman, identified as Zoe, says in 2004, when she was 22 years old, Noth raped her from behind inside his Los Angeles apartment. She says she received medical treatment [stitches] and counseling.
The other woman, named as Lilly, says she was raped inside Noth’s New York apartment after a night of drinking in 2015.
(CBS News, December 16, 2021)
“And just like that,” Noth became the latest man to face his long-overdue, MeToo reckoning.
Rule of thumb: For every one woman who comes forward, there are probably ten who are at a point in their lives where, well, they see no point in coming out of the woodwork.
But, with all due respect to Zoe and Lilly, Beverly Johnson (her real name) will probably end up being his most high-profile and most damning victim. Here in part is how the Daily Mail reported her decades-old complaint yesterday:
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Johnson, now 69, alleged that Noth – whom she dated between 1990 and 1995 – ‘beat her’ during their relationship, and that he also made death threats against her while phoning her ‘up to 25 times a day’, threatened to disfigure her, and even ‘vowed to kill her dog’. …
Beverly told a pal: ‘I’ve never been so frightened in my life. I just can’t believe that someone who had once been so tender and sweet could turn into this raging wild man.’
Johnson also reportedly tried to get a restraining order against Noth, who was starring in the role of Detective Mike Logan on popular crime show Law & Order at the time.
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The irony, of course, is that Noth was, er, too big to touch back then. But the fact that even Peloton has already dropped him like a hot potato shows how much times have changed.
Well, except for that antebellum, master-slave presumption of white privilege that made him think he could rape Black women with impunity…
Whatever the case, he can kiss his career goodbye, and pray he does not end up like Harvey Weinstein. Indeed, it turns out the writers of this Sex and the City Reboot were pretty prescient to kill off his Mr. Big character in the first episode. Even so, the reputational stench from his association might still doom ratings.
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