‘Sex and the City’ Star Chris Noth Accused of Sexual Assault

Actor Chris Noth has been accused of sexual assault by several women.

On December 16, 2021, the Hollywood Reporter reported Zoe, now 40, and Lily, now 31, who are both using pseudonyms, came forward with accusations about Noth in October and August, respectively.

Zoe said the alleged incident occurred in Los Angeles in 2004 while she was freshly out of college at 22. She claimed Noth raped her while she was returning a book to his apartment.

“It was very painful and I yelled out, ‘Stop!’” she told THR. “And he didn’t. I said, ‘Can you at least get a condom?’ and he laughed at me.”

As for Lily, she recounted a story that allegedly happened in New York in 2015 and claimed Noth had sex with her “pretty forcibly.”

Noth responded to the claims in a statement to In Touch. “The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false,” the actor’s statement read. “These stories could’ve been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago — no always means no — that is a line I did not cross. OKThe encounters were consensual. It’s difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out. I don’t know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women.”

Noth, 67, has been a staple on television since he first appeared on Law & Order but is possibly best known as playing Sarah Jessica Parker‘s longtime love interest on Sex and the City, Mr. Big. Recently, the actor reprised his role when he appeared on the revival of the show, And Just Like That…

After making his debut in the early ’80s, Noth appeared in a number of films and television shows in small parts until he appeared in the pilot for Law & Order as Detective Mike Logan in 1988. Noth appeared on the iconic show as Detective Logan from 1990, when NBC began airing the series, until 1995 when he was fired. According to AP, the Good Wife actor would have been up for a “huge” raise if his contact was renegotiated and, according to producer Dick Wolf, it “would [have been] impossible to grant, given the age of the show.”

Noth has been married to Canadian actress and playwright Tara Wilson since 2012, after the couple, who have a 27-year age difference, dated for over a decade. Together, they share two sons, Orion, 13, and Keats, 22 months.

In 2013, Noth revealed that he had received hate mail due to his relationship with Wilson.

“When I was in a play on Broadway two years ago, I’d occasionally get letters of outrage, usually from somewhere in Alabama or something, saying you know, ‘Don’t come down here with your wife,’” he told the Wall Street Journal at the time. He hoped time would change and things would become better in the world, adding, “We’re all getting together. We’re all mixing it up.”

The notoriously private couple have worked together a number of times. The pair initially met while Wilson, 39, was working as a bartender in the New York lounge and music venue, The Cutting Room, of which Noth is a co-owner. Starting in 2008, they became co-owners of a tea house, Once Upon a Teacup, first in Windsor, Ontario and then opening a second location in London, Ontario. In 2009, they starred together in the indie film Frame of Mind.

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This is an ongoing article that was originally published on December 16, 2021, and last updated on December 21, 2021.

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Peloton Releases Statement

“Every single sexual assault accusation must be taken seriously. We were unaware of these allegations when we featured Chris Noth in our response to HBO’s reboot,” read a statement obtained by Us Weekly on December 16. “As we seek to learn more, we have stopped promoting this video and archived related social posts.”

A 3rd Woman Comes Forward

A third woman who went by the pseudonym Ava accused Noth of sexual assault in a report published by the Daily Beast on Friday, December 17. Ava, 30-year-old female tech executive, claimed the incident occurred in 2010, when she working as a hostess and lounge singer at the Midtown Manhattan restaurant Da Marino. At the time, she was 18 and Noth was 55.

“At first, it felt as though I was the only person in the universe who could hear me saying no,” Ava recalled. “He wasn’t hearing ‘no,’ but he heard me when I said ‘not here’ and convinced him that I would meet him somewhere else.”

Noth denied Ava’s account in a statement. “The story is a complete fabrication, and the alleged accounts detailed throughout read like a piece of bad fiction,” his rep told People. “As Chris stated yesterday, he has and would never cross that line.”

Noth’s Alleged Assault Against Ex Beverly Johnson Resurfaces

A clipping from a 1995 edition of The National Enquirer, which details the assault accusations made by Noth’s ex Beverly Johnson, has resurfaced online. According to the clipping, Noth assaulted the model and made death threats against her and her dog. Johnson and Noth dated for five years, from 1990 to 1995.

Noth Loses Deal to Sell Tequila Brand

The New York Post reported on December 17 that Entertainment Arts Research had backed away from purchasing Noth’s tequila brand, Ambhar, for $12 million.

“We thought it would be in our best interest to withdraw from the transaction,” Chief Executive Bernard Rubin told the outlet. “It would have been disastrous for us.”

‘Sex and the City’ and ‘Just Like That’ Cast Release Statement

Noth’s costars from Sex and the City and Just Like That issued a statement on December 20 regarding the sexual assault accusations.

Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon shared the joint statement on their Instagram Stories.

“We are deeply saddened to hear the accusations against Chris Noth,” the statement read. “We support the women who have come forward and shared their painful experiences. We know it must be a very difficult thing to do, and we commend them for it.”

Singer Lisa Gentile

In a press conference on Thursday, December 23, Gentile said that after meeting him in 1998, Noth offered her a ride home in 2002. After he came up to her residence after asking to see her apartment, Gentile said that he started kissing, touching her, grabbing her breasts and pushing her hands toward his penis, despite her protestation. Once she managed to push him away, he “became extremely angry and started screaming and calling me a tease and a bitch. He stormed out of my apartment,” she claimed.

She also claimed that the following day, he called her and “warned me that if I ever told a soul about what happened the night before that he would ruin my career, that I would never sing again and that he would blacklist me in the business. He hung up on me, and I immediately called my mother and father crying.”