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Jamie Foxx denies new sexual assault allegations

Published:Friday | November 24, 2023 | 12:10 AM
FILE - Jamie Foxx attends day two of Homecoming Weekend in February, 2022, at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California. A woman alleges, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, that Foxx sexually assaulted her at a rooftop bar in New York in 2015, an
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FILE - Jamie Foxx attends day two of Homecoming Weekend in February, 2022, at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California. A woman alleges, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, that Foxx sexually assaulted her at a rooftop bar in New York in 2015, an incident the actor says “never happened”.

Jamie Foxx has denied new sexual assault allegations over an alleged incident at a restaurant.

The 55-year-old Ray actor, who recently recovered from a shock illness that left him hospitalised for weeks, is accused in a lawsuit of placing both his hands on a woman’s waist in 2015, before he allegedly moved them “under her top”.

Documents obtained by the DailyMail.com showed the plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe, claimed the A-lister “started rubbing her” chest after he “pulled her” by the arm to the back area of the rooftop at Catch NYC and Roof.

She added the actor was drunk and said she looked like Gabrielle Union and touched her in her intimate areas.

But a spokesperson for Foxx has denied the allegations, saying in a statement: “The alleged incident never happened. In 2020, this individual filed a nearly identical lawsuit in Brooklyn.”

They added: “That case was dismissed shortly thereafter. The claims are no more viable today than they were then. We are confident they will be dismissed again. And once they are, Mr Foxx intends to pursue a claim for malicious prosecution against this person and her attorneys for re-filing this frivolous action.”

Jane Doe is suing Foxx and the Catch eatery as well as its employees for compensation and punitive damages under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which opened a one-year revival window to file sexual abuse claims that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations.

At the time of the alleged incident, Foxx was in a relationship with actress Katie Holmes, 44, from whom he split, in May 2019, after six years of dating.