On the top of his film star fame, Warren Beatty was as a lot recognized for relationship lots of Hollywood’s most fascinating ladies as he was acclaimed for his movie roles, with one biographer estimating that Beatty had slept with near 13,000 ladies in his life.
Now, a darkish aspect of Beatty’s womanizing could also be rising with a lawsuit filed in opposition to the 85-year-old “Bonnie and Clyde” star. A Louisiana lady has alleged that he coerced her into having intercourse with him in 1973, when she was 14 or 15 years previous.
Selection reported that Kristina Charlotte Hirsch filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court docket on Monday. The swimsuit doesn't cite Beatty by title, however identifies the defendant as an actor who was nominated for an Academy Award for his position as Clyde within the 1967 movie, “Bonnie and Clyde,” a transparent reference to Beatty.
Hirsch alleged in her lawsuit that Beatty, about 35 on the time, met her on a film set, the place he paid “undue consideration” to her, Selection reported. He commented on her seems to be, gave her his cellphone quantity and known as her quite a few occasions in 1973.
Hirsch stated he additionally invited her to the resort the place he was residing, introduced her on automobile rides, supplied to assist her along with her homework, and talked to her about shedding her virginity, Selection reported. Hirsch acknowledged that she “was initially thrilled” by the eye from Beatty and believed she was in a romantic relationship with him.
In her lawsuit, Hirsch accuses the defendant of utilizing “his place and standing as an grownup and a Hollywood film star to coerce sexual contact with plaintiff on a number of events, together with oral intercourse, simulated intercourse and eventually coerced sexual activity with the minor baby,” Selection reported.
The swimsuit is filed underneath a 2019 California regulation that opened a three-year interval throughout which alleged survivors of kid sexual abuse can search redress for crimes that will in any other case be barred by the statute of limitations, Selection reported. That “lookback window” expires on Jan. 1, 2023.
Hirsch seeks compensation for psychological, psychological and emotional misery, Selection reported. Since her alleged interactions with Beatty, she stated she has had problem with problems with “belief and management” and interacting with individuals in positions of authority.
Representatives for Beatty didn't reply to requests from Selection for remark.
In a 2016 interview with AARP journal, Beatty didn’t deny sleeping round however insisted that he was at all times sincere and courteous with the ladies he dated and bedded. His well-known companions embody Natalie Wooden, Joan Collins, Carly Simon, Cher and Madonna. He additionally had two critical relationships and profitable inventive partnerships with Julie Christie and Diane Keaton, the latter of whom he directed to an Academy Award nomination in his 1981 historic epic, “Reds.”
“Look, I by no means misled anybody,” Beatty advised AARP. “And … and I’m a pleasant man.”
Beatty additionally laughed off the concept that he had slept with anyplace close to 13,000 ladies, saying the quantity had been wildly exaggerated. “Give it some thought, sleeping with 12,775 individuals,” he advised AARP. “That may imply not simply that there have been a number of individuals a day, however that there was no repetition.”
Beatty didn’t provide up an precise variety of intercourse companions to AARP. He additionally stated he largely stayed unattached till his 50s, when he met and married actor Annette Bening in 1992. Collectively, they've 4 kids.
“I waited a very long time to be married,” he advised AARP. “While you don’t get married till you’re 54 … effectively, as Arthur Miller stated, ‘It comes with the territory.'”
In referring to a line within the playwright’s “Demise of a Salesman,” Beatty is speaking about how a male star wants to keep up an phantasm of magnificence, success and success with ladies, AARP reported.
“You’re taking part in a occupation that, for apparent causes, must heighten components of sexuality,” particularly “when you delay marriage a very long time,” Beatty stated.