UPDATED Sept. 28, 10:06 p.m. ET): Deadlinehas obtained a full statement by Rob Cohen who denies these sexual assault claims, calling them a “web of untruths and lies.” You can read it in full below.
This is very painful. I have to live with the fact that my daughter, previously my son, had decided to wage a war against me. She is using her mother, which I’ve had a very bitter divorce from, and a transgender friend whom I never would have met if it weren’t for my daughter’s suggestion and request. A friend whom I knew to be a transgender, before my son told me that he is, to try and write a TV show with a transgender as the hero.
See original story from 9/28/19 below.
Earlier this year, the daughter of The Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen accused him of sexual assault. Now a second woman has made allegations against the director, as HuffPost reports.
The woman, who is identified as Jane, has claimed that Cohen pressured her to drink during a 2015 business meeting in New York over a TV pilot pitch. Jane said she lost consciousness after she accepted some drinks, and when she woke up, she discovered she was naked in his hotel room as he assaulted her. She ran to the bathroom upon realizing what was happening and vomited. She returned and he allegedly attempted to assault her again before she made her way out.
While the director has admitted he met with Jane in 2015, he has denied the sexual assault allegation. Medical records show that Jane went for sexual assault treatment following her experience with the director.
"The proposed Story is an outrageous defamatory hit piece, making extraordinarily offensive assertions that my client engaged in heinous sexual misconduct, criminal wrongdoing, and other inappropriate behavior, which are vehemently disputed and denied by my client,” said Cohen's lawyer Martin Singer in a 13-page response to the allegation. He reportedly advised HuffPost against “publishing this Story in an effort to feed the ‘Me Too’ media frenzy with this salacious story."
Earlier this year, Cohen's 32-year-old daughter Valkyrie Weather accused him of molesting her when she was "between two and two-and-a-half years old." She made the allegations this year in February, prompting Jane to speak out about her experience, too. "My mother witnessed one of the assaults," Weather added in her statement.
While Cohen is most famous for his work in launching The Fast and the Furious franchise, he also directed xXx, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Hurricane Heist, and The Boy Next Door.
