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\u201cBack to the Future\u201d and \u201cCharlie\u2019s Angels: Full Throttle\u201d actor Crispin Glover has pushed back against a lawsuit that accuses him of choking and filing a false police report against a former model who claims she was held captive as his \u201clive in girlfriend\u201d and \u201csex slave.\u201d<\/p>\n
The complaint, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges Glover, 61, \u201clured\u201d the ex-model \u2014 identified in court documents as Jane Doe \u2014 from her native United Kingdom to live in his Los Angeles home and work for him as an assistant. The lawsuit accuses Glover of controlling behavior and of attacking Doe in March 2024 after an attempt to evict her from his home. Glover is being sued for an unspecified amount of damages over allegations of battery, fraud and wrongful eviction, among other counts. <\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Glover denies these baseless allegations in the strongest possible terms,\u201d a legal representative for Glover said in a statement on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Court documents describe Doe as a 30-year-old woman with autism spectrum disorder who struck up a connection with Glover on social media in 2015. Over several years, Glover allegedly \u201cpersistently\u201d messaged Doe, urging her to come to Los Angeles, and often made \u201cstrange advances.\u201d Glover and Doe allegedly met for the first time in 2023 in Dresden, Germany, \u201cwhere Mr. Glover showed off several items of Nazi memorabilia from his collection,\u201d according to the complaint. <\/p>\n
Doe had brushed off the actor\u2019s behavior and wanted to remain in contact because he often spoke about the possibility of working together in entertainment. The suit claims that Glover, over a series of calls and other correspondences in 2023, \u201cgroomed\u201d Doe with the idea of working in Hollywood and, in early 2024, \u201clured\u201d her by promising her a home in his Los Angeles residence and work as an assistant. He allegedly \u201cmanipulated\u201d her to stop paying rent for her home in the United Kingdom and encouraged her to sell her belongings or put them in storage so she could move to L.A. <\/p>\n
Isolated from friends and family, Doe was \u201cessentially at Mr. Glover\u2019s whims\u201d upon moving to Los Angeles, according to the lawsuit. She relied \u201centirely\u201d on the actor, who allegedly tracked her whereabouts, controlled who she saw and discouraged her from leaving the home. <\/p>\n
The complaint alleges Glover locked Doe, who is Muslim, out of his home on March 2, 2024, after she left to go to the mosque despite his refusal. \u201cMr. Glover was essentially trying to evict Jane Doe from his home without notice or warning of any kind,\u201d according to the lawsuit. <\/p>\n
Doe, \u201cafraid of Mr. Glover\u2019s angry and agitated state,\u201d returned and attempted to reenter the home to retrieve her cats. That\u2019s when Glover allegedly grabbed her neck and choked her \u201cin a headlock.\u201d The alleged attack left Doe with a wound and scar on her neck. The complaint includes an image of the described injuries. <\/p>\n
The complaint said Glover also called police regarding the incident and had falsely identified Doe as \u201can unlawful intruder.\u201d Additionally, Glover filed a request for a restraining order against Doe, though a judge dismissed the request because of a \u201clack of prosecution.\u201d <\/p>\n
In their statement, Glover\u2019s lawyer offered a different take on the March 2024 incident, noting that the actor was \u201cthe victim of an unprovoked felony assault\u201d by Doe. The attorney cited LAPD response and investigation, which they said led to the woman\u2019s arrest. <\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Glover intends to vigorously defend himself and pursue all available relief,\u201d the attorney said. \u201cHe is confident the judicial process will expose this lawsuit as a meritless fabrication.\u201d<\/p>\n