Writer-director James Toback attends the premiere of his latest movie, "The Private Life of a Modern Woman," at the Venice Film Festival last month.
He prowled the streets of Manhattan looking for attractive young women, usually in their early 20s, sometimes college students, on occasion a high schooler.
The actor, Toback claimed, was a close friend; he had “invented him.”
— Adrienne LaValley, actress During these meetings, many of the women said, Toback boasted of sexual conquests with the famous and then asked humiliating personal questions.
The women’s accounts portray James Toback as a man who, for decades, sexually harassed women he hired, women looking for work and women he just saw on the street.
According to the 38 women who spoke to The Times, the scope of Toback’s behavior was far more serious.
In the wake of Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein being fired after reports revealed decades of sexual misconduct, many women have been coming forward with tales of harassment, abuse and assault. »
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