Over a dozen cast and crewmembers have reported that Hollywood actor Tom Sizemore was caught raping an 11-year-old girl and had to be dragged off her before he was kicked off the movie set.Security guards had to physically remove the Saving Private Ryan star after a complaint that one of the young cast members was being raped by him.
Sizemore was then sent home from the Utah film set in 2003 by producers after the young actress told her mother that he had touched her genitals.Months later, after the film's producers convinced the parents not to press charges, he returned for reshoots in Malibu and the incident has never been revealed publicly.The parents said they agreed to cover up the incident as they didn't want "to risk ruining their daughter's acting career."
When contacted by the Hollywood Reporter, the now 26-year-old former actress, whom THR is not identifying at her request, declined to address the matter except to note that she's recently hired a lawyer to explore legal action against the actor as well as her parents.Sizemore declined to address the situation."Our position is 'no comment,'" says his agent Stephen Rice.THR spoke to a dozen people involved with the production of the film, a crime thriller called Born Killers (shot as Piggy Banks).
They confirmed Sizemore was sent home over the alleged incident.According to these cast and crewmembers, rumors swirled and emotions rose on set over what had allegedly transpired.Sizemore, notorious for his long rap sheet that includes charges of drug use and battery against women, has not previously been accused of molestation.An actor with a tough-guy image then at the height of his scandal-driven infamy, when the Utah incident occurred he'd recently been convicted of physically abusing and harassing his ex-girlfriend, the former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss.Sizemore is said to have denied the young actress' claim as soon as he was confronted with it.
His management firm Untitled and talent agency CAA quietly dropped him shortly afterward. He's currently repped by the boutique firm Pantheon.Cast and crewmembers, inspired by the nascent movement toward industry transparency in the post-Harvey Weinstein era, explain that the incident took place near the end of production on Born Killers (not to be confused with Oliver Stone's earlier Natural Born Killers, which Sizemore also appeared in).
It was during a second-unit still portrait session, to capture photos of Sizemore's character with his abandoned wife and daughter.The imagery would serve as a plot device in the $5 million film, which was released by Lionsgate in 2005.The film centers on two immoral brothers on a crime spree. (Sizemore played the dissolute father who raised them.)The roughly half-hour session required the young actress, who had a small role in the production, to be seated on Sizemore's lap in a holiday tableau.
This is when Sizemore allegedly either rubbed his finger against the girl's vagina or inserted it inside.Production manager Cassidy Lunnen recalls that "the girl was so young it was unclear to her and [later] her parents what had actually taken place and if it was intentional or not.
"During one setup, which required just the two of them, Robyn Adamson, who portrayed the wife, stood away, near the photographer.She recalls of the girl, who was wearing a flannel nightgown: "At one point her eyes got just huge like she could've vomited. I was watching her. She soon reintegrated and kept going, although she had trouble taking direction. Later, when I was told about what happened, I knew exactly what it was."
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Sizemore was then sent home from the Utah film set in 2003 by producers after the young actress told her mother that he had touched her genitals.Months later, after the film's producers convinced the parents not to press charges, he returned for reshoots in Malibu and the incident has never been revealed publicly.The parents said they agreed to cover up the incident as they didn't want "to risk ruining their daughter's acting career."
When contacted by the Hollywood Reporter, the now 26-year-old former actress, whom THR is not identifying at her request, declined to address the matter except to note that she's recently hired a lawyer to explore legal action against the actor as well as her parents.Sizemore declined to address the situation."Our position is 'no comment,'" says his agent Stephen Rice.THR spoke to a dozen people involved with the production of the film, a crime thriller called Born Killers (shot as Piggy Banks).
They confirmed Sizemore was sent home over the alleged incident.According to these cast and crewmembers, rumors swirled and emotions rose on set over what had allegedly transpired.Sizemore, notorious for his long rap sheet that includes charges of drug use and battery against women, has not previously been accused of molestation.An actor with a tough-guy image then at the height of his scandal-driven infamy, when the Utah incident occurred he'd recently been convicted of physically abusing and harassing his ex-girlfriend, the former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss.Sizemore is said to have denied the young actress' claim as soon as he was confronted with it.
His management firm Untitled and talent agency CAA quietly dropped him shortly afterward. He's currently repped by the boutique firm Pantheon.Cast and crewmembers, inspired by the nascent movement toward industry transparency in the post-Harvey Weinstein era, explain that the incident took place near the end of production on Born Killers (not to be confused with Oliver Stone's earlier Natural Born Killers, which Sizemore also appeared in).
It was during a second-unit still portrait session, to capture photos of Sizemore's character with his abandoned wife and daughter.The imagery would serve as a plot device in the $5 million film, which was released by Lionsgate in 2005.The film centers on two immoral brothers on a crime spree. (Sizemore played the dissolute father who raised them.)The roughly half-hour session required the young actress, who had a small role in the production, to be seated on Sizemore's lap in a holiday tableau.
This is when Sizemore allegedly either rubbed his finger against the girl's vagina or inserted it inside.Production manager Cassidy Lunnen recalls that "the girl was so young it was unclear to her and [later] her parents what had actually taken place and if it was intentional or not.
"During one setup, which required just the two of them, Robyn Adamson, who portrayed the wife, stood away, near the photographer.She recalls of the girl, who was wearing a flannel nightgown: "At one point her eyes got just huge like she could've vomited. I was watching her. She soon reintegrated and kept going, although she had trouble taking direction. Later, when I was told about what happened, I knew exactly what it was."
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