A woman who alleges that actor Warren Beatty pushed her into having sexual relations with him when she was a teenager about 50 years ago has filed a lawsuit against him seeking damages.
Warren Beatty attends the preview of “Uncle Vanya” at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York City on May 26, 1973. Betty Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, is the most recent attempt to claim compensation for alleged violations that occurred decades ago, pursuant to a California provision enabling complaints that would have otherwise past the statute of limitations.
In the lawsuit, Kristina Charlotte Hirsch claims she met the “Bonnie and Clyde” star on a film set when she was 14 or 15 years old.
According to the lawsuit filed on Monday, he later invited her to the hotel where he was staying and took her on automobile drives.
It did not mention the film Beatty was making at the time, but the successful social comedy “Shampoo” was released in the mid-1970s, in which Beatty played a priapic hairstylist.
Beatty, who was approximately 35 years old at the time, “used his position and status as an adult and Hollywood movie star to coerce sexual contact with Plaintiff on multiple occasions, including oral sex, simulated sex, and finally coerced sexual intercourse with the minor child,” according to the lawsuit.
According to the application, Hirsch was “initially pleased” by the circumstance and believed it to be a romantic relationship.
Hirsch, who now resides in Louisiana, is seeking compensation for psychological, mental, and emotional pain in a lawsuit that does not identify Beatty but refers to him as the actor nominated for an Oscar for his performance as Clyde in the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde.”
The legal representatives of Beatty did not immediately respond to calls for comment from the AFP.
Beatty, who is now 85 years old, has a long-standing reputation as a womanizer whose sexual involvements have occasionally overshadowed his acting career.
He has been associated to Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Diane Keaton, and Britt Ekland in the past.