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‘Taxi Driver’ Screenwriter Paul Schrader Accused Of Sexual Assault By Former Assistant
The filmmaker's former personal assistant also claims that he reneged on a financial settlement.
Schrader’s attorney Philip Kessler told The Independent that the filmmaker – whose screenwriting credits include Taxi Driver, American Gigolo and Raging Bull and an Oscar nomination for 2017’s First Reformed – denied all the allegations made against him, calling it “a desperate, frivolous and opportunistic claim.” We have reached out to Schrader’s legal representatives for comment. The former personal assistant, aged 26, made allegations in the lawsuit arising fro her time working for Schrader 2021 to September 2024, including: Schrader “force[d] her to work in a sexually hostile, intimidating, and humiliating environment on a daily, if not hourly, basis”;
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