An Academy Awards-nominated screenwriter has denied allegations he sexually assaulted a teen who was hired as an extra on a Hollywood movie being shot in Campbell River in 1994.
Now 42 and living in England, the plaintiff alleges that when filming ended Stewart invited her to a wrap party and at the party she was given alcohol, although she was below the legal drinking age. Stewart, nominated for an Oscar for the 1982 hit movie An Officer and a Gentleman, says that the plaintiff’s makeup artist friend invited her to the wrap party and during the party she showed signs that she was interested in having a sexual relationship with him.
Stewart claims that the plaintiff asked her if she could stay in his hotel room as she had nowhere to go and he agreed but insisted on her sleeping in the second bed alone, which she did. She says that although there was concern she would not be able to start her final year of high school as planned, her parents — distracted and financially impaired by her father’s medical problems — agreed to let her go to Nova Scotia.He says he made no promises about helping her get more work and in any event did not have the authority to make such a promise.
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