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Actress Selma Blair Says Filmmaker James Toback Threatened to Kill Her If She Exposed Sexual Harassment

HeadlineOct 27, 2017

Back in the United States, actress Selma Blair has accused disgraced filmmaker James Toback of threatening to kill her if she publicly accused him of sexual harassment. More than 200 women, including Blair, have now accused Toback of sexual harassment. Blair says Toback harassed her in 1999, trapping her in a hotel room and then masturbating in front of her. Afterward, she says, he told her, “There is a girl who went against me. She was going to talk about something I did. I am going to tell you, and this is a promise: If she ever tells anybody, no matter how much time she thinks went by, I have people who will pull up in a car, kidnap her and throw her in the Hudson River with cement blocks on her feet. You understand what I’m talking about, right?”

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