Olivia Munn Says That Director Brett Ratner Masturbated In Front Of Her While Eating A Shrimp Cocktail And Ejaculated On Magazine Covers Of Her Face
LA TIMES – Olivia Munn said that while visiting the set of the 2004 Ratner-directed “After the Sunset” when she was still an aspiring actress, he masturbated in front of her in his trailer when she went to deliver a meal. Munn wrote about the incident in her 2010 collection of essays without naming Ratner. On a television show a year later, Ratner identified himself as the director, and claimed that he had “banged” her, something he later said was not true. The same year her book was published, Munn ran into Ratner at a party thrown by Creative Artists Agency and he boasted of ejaculating on magazine covers featuring her image, she told The Times.
She said that persistent false rumors that they had been intimate have infuriated her, prompting her to talk to The Times in support of other women who are “brave enough to speak up.”
“I’ve made specific, conscientious choices not to work with Brett Ratner,” Munn said.
“It feels as if I keep going up against the same bully at school who just won’t quit,” she said. “You just hope that enough people believe the truth and for enough time to pass so that you can’t be connected to him anymore.”
Ratner “vehemently disputes” Munn’s allegations, (his lawyer Marty) Singer said.
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New to Los Angeles and pursuing an acting career, Munn said she was thrilled when a friend invited her to the set of “After the Sunset.” “I was so excited, because I mean, that’s why you come out to California and Hollywood,” recalled the actress, 37, whose credits now include HBO’s “The Newsroom” and the movies “Magic Mike” and “X-Men: Apocalypse.”
Not long after Munn arrived on the Santa Monica set in 2004, she said, she was asked to drop some food off in Ratner’s trailer as a favor. She said she was assured that the director would not be there.
Munn entered Ratner’s trailer and quickly placed the food on a table. She said she was startled to find him inside. She tried to make a quick exit, but Ratner implored her not to leave.
“He walked out … with his belly sticking out, no pants on, shrimp cocktail in one hand and he was furiously masturbating in the other,” Munn said. “And before I literally could even figure out where to escape or where to look, he ejaculated.”
Munn said she let out a “startled scream” and raced out of the trailer. She said she immediately told the man who had asked her to deliver the food. His reaction? “It wasn’t a shock. It wasn’t surprise,” Munn recalled. “It was just, ‘Ugh, sorry about that.’”
Munn said she left the set and called her sister, Sara Potts, who urged her to speak with a lawyer. Potts confirmed Munn’s account.
Dustin Hoffman in the morning, Brett Ratner in the afternoon – the Hollywood Wheel of Alleged Scumminess keeps moving full speed ahead.
Six women, most notably Olivia Munn, have come out with stories of multiples cases of sexual harassment by Ratner, stories that paint him in an extremely problematic light. Munn saying that she stopped by his trailer on a movie set and he came out naked and masturbating while holding a shrimp cocktail.
This was his response to that specific story back in the day:
Another time she claims he told her that he ejaculated all over magazines with her face on the covers.
Actress Jaime Ray Newman came out with her own claims:
…Newman said she encountered Ratner in 2005 when they were both in first class on an Air Canada flight. The filmmaker swapped seats with his assistant before departure so he could be next to her, she said. Newman, who was on her way to shoot her first major acting role on the TV show “Supernatural,” was excited to talk with a “famous director” about to helm “X-Men: The Last Stand,” she said.
Within five minutes of the plane taking off, she said, Ratner began loudly describing sex acts he wanted to perform on her in explicit detail. He also showed her nude photos of his then-girlfriend, said Newman, 39, who stars on Netflix’s forthcoming “The Punisher.”
“He was graphically describing giving me oral sex and how he was addicted to it,” she said.
Among others, that are covered in detail by the LA Times.
For his side, Ratner’s lawyer Marty Singer vehemently denies and defends him on every accusation, and the way he’s done so has drawn its own bullseye:
LA man, it’s really La La Land out there. These stories get weirder and weirder and creepier.
And what the hell is up with everybody (allegedly) masturbating into and onto things? Potted plants, magazine covers, Shrimp Cocktails. It’s madness!
[via The LA Times]