Now, 4 more add to Arnie’s tales

Tamee Smith, 46, said Schwarzenegger followed her into a bathroom on a studio lot and grabbed her breast during work on the movie Predator in 1986. Jan Prinzmetal, 50, said Schwarzenegger reached under her skirt and grabbed her bare buttocks outside a Venice gym in the mid-1980s. Elizabeth Rothner, 45, said Schwarzenegger lifted her sweatshirt at a popular Santa Monica bar in 1979, exposing her bare breasts before a crowd of people. The candidate’s spokesman, Sean Walsh, said Schwarzenegger said that the accounts of three of the women were untrue. Walsh said Schwarzenegger had no recollection of the alleged Venice gym incident. ‘‘Arnold has acknowledged that at times his behaviour, while good-natured, could be rowdy and bawdy,’’ Walsh said. ‘‘He has apologised to those who felt offended. Arnold has stated, when he began his campaign, that he did not live his life under the expectation that he would someday be governor.’’

After The Times reported on Thursday that Schwarzenegger had inappropriately touched women, he offered a general apology for ‘‘behaving badly’’ in the past, saying, ‘‘Where there is smoke, there is fire’’. He has denied that several of the specific incidents took place and said he had no recollection of others.

The woman, who said Schwarzenegger spanked her in 2000 at the post-production studio, said on Saturday that she decided to tell her story when the candidate this week seemed to dismiss the accounts of women who said he had groped them. Had he not run for governor, she said, she would never have come forward. —LAT-WP