Actress alleges Dustin Hoffman groped her during 1983 Broadway production
In a new essay published by The Hollywood Reporter, actress Kathryn Rossetter alleged Dustin Hoffman repeatedly groped her during the 1983 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman.
Rossetter, who played the mistress to Hoffman’s Willy Loman in the production, said she idolized Hoffman upon her initial casting opposite him and enjoyed the experience of working with him until he invited her back to his hotel room. He asked for a back rub, she claimed, leading to a pattern of increasingly inappropriate behavior. “That was the beginning of what was to become a horrific, demoralizing and abusive experience at the hands (literally) of one of my acting idols,” she said.
Rossetter alleged that from there Hoffman would behave inappropriately during nearly every performance, at times grabbing her breasts or groping the inside of her thighs. “Six to eight shows a week,” she wrote. “I couldn’t speak to him in the moment because I was on a live mic. He kept it up and got more and more aggressive. One night he actually started to stick his fingers inside me. Night after night I went home and cried. I withdrew and got depressed and did not have any good interpersonal relationships with the cast.”
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