Two women came forward to The Hollywood Reporterabout their alleged encounters with the actor in an article published on Thursday, Dec. 16. According to THR, the revival series AJLT—in which the 67-year-old Noth returned to his iconic role as Mr. Big—was “triggering for the two women.” Since that report was published, a third, unnamed accuser came forward in a Daily Beast article published Friday, Dec. 17, claiming that Noth sexually assaulted her in the back office of a Midtown Manhattan restaurant she worked at in 2010, when she was 18 and he was 55. That accuser claims that, before the assault in the office, Noth “repeatedly pulled her onto his lap while groping her and ‘pressing me onto his erection,’” and says that later, he “digitally penetrated her” although she said no. The reporter on that story, Maria Prudente, noted that the accuser “is a friend I met at acting school who first told me of her assault the day after it took place in 2010.” One of the original two accusers who came forward to THR, who used the pseudonym Lily, claimed that she met the married actor in 2015 at a New York club, where she worked as a server. The pair had wine and later went back to Noth’s apartment. “He tried to make out with me. I cautiously entertained it. He’s older and looked older. He kept trying and trying and trying, and I should have said no more firmly and left. And then the next thing I knew, he pulled down his pants and he was standing in front of me,” she said, claiming that he thrust his penis into her mouth. When she brought up the fact that he is married, Noth told her that “marriage is a sham” and “monogamy is not real.” Lily also recalled, “He was having sex with me from the back in a chair. We were in front of a mirror. I was kind of crying as it happened.” Lily felt “awful” and “totally violated” afterwards, she recalls, adding, “All of my dreams with this star I loved for years were gone.” The other woman, who went by the name Zoe in THR’s report, met Noth in 2004 after moving to Los Angeles when she was 22. Zoe, now 40, worked at a “high-profile firm” where the SATC actor and other celebrities had business. According to Zoe, Noth would walk by her desk and flirt with her, and even got her number from the directory and would leave messages on her work phone. Zoe alleged that Noth, who lived in New York, invited her to come to the pool at a building in West Hollywood where he had an apartment (and so did one of her friends). That August, she and another friend, who was visiting from the East Coast, ended up meeting Noth at the pool. According to Zoe, The Sex and the City star left a book with her when he went back to his apartment to take a call and told her to bring it back to his place. When she went to his apartment, Zoe claimed that Noth kissed her. After kissing him, she thanked the actor and told him she was going back to her friend. However, he pulled her toward him and moved her toward the bed. Noth then allegedly pulled off Zoe’s shorts and bikini bottom and raped her from behind. “It was very painful and I yelled out, ‘Stop!’” she recalled. “And he didn’t.” When she asked if he could at least get a condom, she said that he laughed at her. Zoe told THR that she realized there was blood on her shirt after it was over. Zoe’s friend noticed “a very weird change” in her and decided to take her to the hospital. They went to Cedars-Sinai, where Zoe told staff that she had been assaulted. “I had stitches. Two police officers came. I wouldn’t say who it was,” Zoe said. She explained that she didn’t reveal it was Noth because feared she would not be believed and that she would be fired. Noth has since denied the claims. In a statement to THR he said, “The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false. 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. The 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.” On Dec. 20, the three female stars of And Just Like That…—Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis—all posted a statement online supporting Noth’s accusers. “We are deeply saddened to hear the allegations against Chris Noth,” they said. “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.” Following The Hollywood Reporter’s report, filmmaker and actress Zoe Lister-Jones penned a lengthy Instagram post calling Noth a “sexual predator.” “Last week, my friend asked me how I felt about Mr. Big’s death on And Just Like That, and I said, honestly, I felt relieved,” she began. “He asked why and I told him it was because I couldn’t separate the actor from the man, and the man is a sexual predator. My friend was alarmed at my word choice. And to be honest so was I. I hadn’t thought of this man for so many years, and yet there was a virility to my language that came from somewhere deep and buried.” Lister-Jones went one to write that in her 20s, she worked at a club in New York owned by Noth, and that on “the few occasions” he would show up, he “was consistently sexually inappropriate with a fellow female promoter.” That same year, Lister-Jones was a guest star on Law and Order, and on Noth’s first episode returning as a detective after SATC, she alleges he was “drunk on set.” “During my interrogation scene he had a 22-ounce beer under the table that he would drink in between takes,” Lister-Jones alleged. “In one take he got close to me, sniffed my neck and whispered, ‘You smell good.’ I didn’t say anything. My friend at the club never said anything. It’s so rare that we do.” In the wake of the allegations, Peloton has removed its viral Mr. Big ad from social media. “Every single sexual assault accusation must be taken seriously,” a spokesperson for the company told THR on Thursday. “We were unaware of these allegations when we featured Chris Noth in our response to HBO’s reboot. As we seek to learn more, we have stopped promoting this video and archived related social posts."
Is Chris Noth in And Just Like That…?
Noth reprised his role as Mr. Big on the AJLT series premiere—and his character, in a moment of instant TV notoriety, was killed off in the very same episode after experiencing a heart attack following his Peloton workout. Since then, he hasn’t appeared on the show, but plans to bring him back in the season finale have now been scrapped. “Footage of Chris Noth‘s dearly departed Sex and the City character reuniting with Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie in the HBO Max revival’s upcoming Season 1 finale will not make it to air,” TVLine reported on Jan. 5. Big was expected to appear in some kind of flashback or fantasy sequence.
Is Chris Noth still on The Equalizer?
The Los Angeles Times reported on Dec. 20 that “Chris Noth will no longer film additional episodes of TheEqualizer, effective immediately,” according to a statement jointly issued by CBS and Universal Television. The outlet also noted, “The show, which stars Queen Latifah and is currently on hiatus, has aired seven episodes so far in its second season. A new episode is due Jan. 2. The 67-year-old actor had apparently already filmed one additional episode.”
Who is Chris Noth’s wife?
Tara Wilson, a 39-year-old, Canadian-born actress, is “very upset” and “not doing well” in the wake of the allegations against her husband. The U.S. Sun has reported that she’s considering spending Christmas apart from Noth; as a source close to Wilson told hte outlet, “She is in L.A. and is very upset… she’s not doing well. They planned to spend Christmas together but that is now unknown.” Wilson and Noth reportedly met in 2001 when she worked as a bartender at his downtown Manhattan bar, The Cutting Room. Page Six reports that they share two sons, 13-year-old Orion and 18-month-old Keats, and that they tied the knot in 2012. As for the claims made by one of Noth’s accusers that he called marriage and monogamy a “sham,” the Sun source says, “He may be non-monogamous, we have established that his wife didn’t know. If anything, he is guilty of that.” Next, Mariska Hargitay Talks About Getting Thanked by Sexual Assault Victims and Why #MeToo Is a ‘Celebration’
