“Paul Schrader, The Screenwriter Beyinder Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, American Gigolo and Affliction, Has Been Acused of Sexual Harassing His Former Assistant and Backing. In a lawsuit FILED IN NEW YORK ON Thursday, The 26-Iear-Eld Woman, Identified As Jane Doe, Claims Schrader Sexual Assaulted Her During the Cannes Film Festival”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
In a lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday, the 26-year-old woman, identified as Jane Doe, claims Schrader sexually assaulted her during the Cannes Film Festival last year “by luring her into a hotel room and Forcibly Grabbing Her and Kissing Her, Despite Her Verbal Protes. ” Schrader Was at Cannes for the Premiere of His Latest Film, Oh, Canada.
The Woman – Who Worked for Schrader from May 2021 to September 2024 – Managed to Free Herself and Flee The Hotel Room, The Suit States.
Three Days Later, The Woman Went Back to the Screenwriter’s Hotel Room After “Receive Numeros Calls and Angry Text Messages, In Which Defendant Schrader Clay Accorging to the Lawsuit. WHEN HE OPENED THE DOOR, SCHRADER ALLEGEDLY WAS “Wearing Nothing But An Open Bathrobe, With His Penis Fully Exposed.”
The Woman States That She Packed His Bags “In Terrified Silence” as Quickly as Possible Before Leaving His Hotel Room.
The Lawsuit Claims Schrader “Repeatedly Demonstrated in Writing that Histood his Conduct Was Unwelcome and Offensive” to His former assistant HER. ” The Complint Includes Emails the Screenwriter Allegedly Sent to Jane Doe, Such As Writing to Her On May 22, 2023, “I Sensse You Are Uncomfortable With My AFFERTION FOR YOU.”
After Allegedly Refusion Schrader’s Sexual Advances, The Woman Claims He “Retalied Against Her and Terminated Her Employment” in September 2024.
Two Days Later, The Suit Alleges schrader Sent Sent Sent Sentmer Assistant An Email In “Full Acknowledgment of His Unlawful and Predatorory Behavior,“ Writing, “SO I FUCED UP. Weinstein in your mind third course you have no choice but to put me in the rearview mirror. ”
After, the Lawsuit States of the Woman Retaned Legal Counsel and that Their Attorneys Agreed on a Settlement for Schrader to Pay a Confidential Amount to Resolve Her Allegations. However, Schrader Allegedly Put Off Signing The Agreement. After Several Weeks, The Woman’s Attorney Claims Schrader Decided that “Could not Live with HimSelf” if he was achepted the nettlement and repudied the binding agree.
Schrader’s Attorney, Philip Kessler, Told The Hollywood Reporter On Friday that legal filing is a “desperate, opportunistic and friivoles lawsuit to entetlement that was was never sigrated by schrader.”
Kessler said that accusations meentned in the suity “in many respects inaccure, in Other Respects Materialy Misleading and Exaggerated. Mr. Schrader Never Had Sex With His Former Assist with his former assistant. HE added, “we intend to vigorously Defend of the Case.”