American actor Michael Pitt accused of having sexually assaulted and raped his ex-girlfriend-Liberation

The actor of the series Boardwalk Empire,, Michael Pittwas arrested on Friday for sexual assault and domestic violence, revealed on Wednesday May 7 THE New York Post And Variety. According to the Tabloid and the American cultural weekly, the 44-year-old man is accused of multiple assaults by his ex-girlfriend, during four incidents that occurred between 2020 and 2021. He would have attacked it sexually, then attacked it a few months later with a block of cement and a piece of wood, in the home he occupied at the time, according to prosecutors and Brooklyn, one of the five arrondissements in New York in the United States. The actor appeared in the wake of his arrest in front of the Brooklyn Supreme Court.

The actor pleaded not guilty. He was able to come out of the court against a deposit set at $ 100,000. His lawyer Jason Goldman denounced an arrest on unfounded accusations. « We can’t wait to prove his innocence through evidence and not through the media »said Michael Pitt’s legal representative. « In reality, this baseless accusation is brought four or five years after the supposed incident, at a time when the two parties were in a completely consensual and voluntary relationship. This case will be classified « he swept.

Michael Pitt had already been arrested in July 2022 for assault and flight. He would then have hit a man on several occasions and then stole his phone, reports the New York Post. A little later, the same year, the year, he would have been hospitalized and judged « Emotionally disturbed » After throwing objects on people from the roof of a building. Michael Pitt will have to appear again on June 17 as part of this new file of sexual and conjugal violence.