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This is an archive article published on October 5, 2003

Their brush with Conan

Three more women said on Friday that Arnold Schwarzenegger grabbed or groped them against their will. The new allegations against the Republ...

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Three more women said on Friday that Arnold Schwarzenegger grabbed or groped them against their will. The new allegations against the Republican front-runner came as his campaign said he would have nothing further to say beyond his blanket apology for 8216;8216;behaving badly8217;8217; in the past.

The women who spoke on Friday are: An assistant director, Linnea Harwell, on the 1988 film Twins who said the actor regularly undressed in front of her in his trailer. Once, she said, he pushed her down on a bed while he was wearing underpants.

Carla Baron, a stand-in on the same set, who said the actor sandwiched her between himself and his stunt double, forcing his tongue down her throat. Collette Brooks, a CNN intern in the early 1980s, said Schwarzenegger grabbed her buttocks and said she had a 8216;8216;nice ass8217;8217;. She spoke at an event organised by opponents to Schwarzenegger8217;s candidacy.

In all, 11 women have said Schwarzenegger touched them without their consent. 8216;8216;Everyone knew what was going on,8217;8217; said Harwell, who is now a manager of an art museum. Harwell said Schwarzenegger8217;s friends were on the lookout in case his wife, Maria Shriver, showed up. 8216;8216;Everything changed when Maria came on the set.8217;8217;

Harwell was contacted by The Times after interviewing another woman on the set, Carla Baron, who said she had problems with Schwarzenegger. Baron, then 28, said she was a stand-in for lead actress Kelly Preston. 8212;LAT-WP

 

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