"Star Trek" actor George Takei accused of groping struggling model in 1980s
NEW YORK -- "Star Trek" actor George Takei has denied he groped a struggling model in 1981.
Takei said Saturday in a series of tweets that events described in an interview with Scott R. Brunton "simply did not occur." He says he didn't know "why he has claimed them now."
Friends,
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) November 11, 2017
I'm writing to respond to the accusations made by Scott R. Bruton. I want to assure you all that I am as shocked and bewildered at these claims as you must feel reading them. /1
Brunton told The Hollywood Reporter he was living in Hollywood when he met Takei at a bar. They exchanged numbers, he said, and then Takei invited him out and back to his condo after Brunton broke up with a boyfriend.
Brunton said he "must have passed out" after a drink, awaking to Takei groping him.
"This happened a long time ago, but I have never forgotten it," Brunton told The Hollywood Reporter.
Takei called the accusations a "he said/he said situation" and added that the "very idea that someone would accuse me of this is quite personally painful."