Hollywood's new Weinstein?

More than three dozen women filed a bombshell lawsuit on Monday against director James Toback, who made his directorial debut in 1978 with “Fingers,” accusing the filmmaker of using his influence in the entertainment industry to lure and sexually abuse, assault, or batter them throughout the span of four decades.

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The lawsuit, which was filed with a New York state court, comes five years after the majority of the women first made the allegations public through interviews with The Los Angeles Times, during the burst of the #MeToo movement when accusations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein also came out. …

According to the claims, Toback, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1991 for the film “Bugsy,” used a repeated ploy to target potentially hundreds of victims.

“Defendant Toback targetted young women using the same ruse over and over again with hundreds of victims, often using the same lines, enablers, and locations where he was able to perpetrate his abuse upon unsuspecting young women, including Plaintiffs, for decades,” the lawsuit claims.

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