More women are stepping into the light and recounting their experience with writer-director James Toback.
Following the Los Angeles Times' report on Sunday, Oct. 22, wherein 38 women accused Toback of sexually harassing them, more women have called in and emailed the publication to recount similar encounters with the writer-director. The number of women allegedly victimized by Toback has grown exponentially to more than 200.
One of the women who recently came forward as having been victimized by Toback is "Today" show anchor Natalie Morales, who posted a tweet recounting her experience with Toback near Central Park.
Morales also told the LA Times, "In all honesty I thought he was just a creep hitting on me with the oldest line in the book. Like I said on our show I was just lucky. I saw pretty quickly what he was up to."
Prior to the story breaking out, there had been a lot of whispers and stories about the director and his so-called womanizing behavior, but all of that became clear for everyone when the expose was published.
Hollywood was both surprised and angry at the number of women that were allegedly harassed by Toback. James Gunn weighed in on the issue in a lengthy Facebook post. The "Guardians of the Galaxy" director wrote that he spoke to many other women at parties or dinner who shared their interactions with Toback.
Toback, who wrote the films "Bugsy," "Tyson" and "The Gambler," has denied these accusations, saying that he had never met any of the women or has no recollection of meeting them. He also claimed that it was "biologically impossible" for him to engage in the alleged sexual acts for over two decades due to his diabetes and heart condition.
