Скачать или смотреть Actor Michael Pitt charged with sex abuse, assault of ex-girlfriend in New York

(7 May 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 13 December 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Pitt, actor (seated with Nicolette Robinson, actor):
"Well, I just trained as a boxer, trained every day. I have some good friends in New York. Also here in California, Freddie Roach at Wild Card. Everyone there took me under their wing and I just. I just fired. I trained as a boxer, trained every day. I didn't I didn't train in stunts or anything like that. That's really all I did."

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New York - 10 July 2014
2. Medium of Brit Marling, Michael Pitt, and Astrid Berges-Frisbey
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Pitt/Actor, on playing a scientist:
"What you realize about these guys is that they're normal people. For some reason, scientists are depicted as these guys in white lab coats who are really dry, no sense of humor, can't talk to you about music, can't talk to you about culture and there couldn't be anything further from the truth for the people that I met. They're so passionate, they're so funny, and they're very creative people. And what I love about this film is that it depicts them, shows them in their true light, you know."
4. Medium of Michael Pitt and Steven Yeun

ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 9 July 2014
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Pitt, Actor, on his character: "He is researching eyes - that's his main field - and through his research he's sort of lead on this spiritual quest - maybe you could say that - and he's forced to confront how he feels about science versus spirituality - the things that you can explain through data and the things that you can't."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 13 Feb. 2012
6. Medium of actor Michael Pitt
STORYLINE:
Actor Michael Pitt, known for his TV roles on “Boardwalk Empire” and “Dawson's Creek,” is accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend, choking her, and attacking her with a cinder block and a piece of lumber at his New York City home, according to a grand jury indictment.

Pitt, 44, whose lawyers denied the allegations, was arrested Friday on nine counts, including first-degree sexual abuse, criminal sexual acts, assault, attempted assault and strangulation. The indictment cites four incidents between April 2020 and August 2021 at Pitt's home in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez's office declined to comment Wednesday beyond the allegations listed in the indictment.

Pitt's lawyer, Jason Goldman, said he already had exonerating evidence and expected the case to be dismissed.

Pitt pleaded not guilty to the charges on Friday and posted $100,000 bail, Goldman said. He is due back in court in Brooklyn on June 17.

The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, which the woman in Pitt's case has not done.

The indictment alleges Pitt forcibly touched his ex-girlfriend sexually in April 2020. In August 2020, the grand jury alleges Pitt forced oral sex on the woman and assaulted her with a 4-inch-by-4-inch (10-centimeter-by-10-centimeter) piece of lumber.

The indictment also says Pitt attacked her with a cinder block twice in June 2021 and choked her in August 2021.

Pitt, who grew up in New Jersey, played the character Jimmy Darmody for two seasons on HBO's “Boardwalk Empire.” His first major role came in the 2001 film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” In 2005, he starred in “Last Days,” director Gus Van Sant's film about a fictional rock star inspired by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. He also played Henry Parker in one season of The WB's “Dawson's Creek” in 1999-2000.



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