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Arnold has been
accused of half as many groping episodes while in London publicizing his T6D. He allegedly
was a bit too "frisky" with Melanie Sykes, who hosts the British TV program
Celebrity! The British Sun reported that Sykes was talking with the actor when, while
cameras were rolling, he grasped her around the waist. "Get your hands off me — I'm
scared," Sykes allegedly said, as she pushed away his hand. But in a jiffy, his
famous paw was making its way up toward her breast, the newspaper said.
Arnie's rep, Jill Eisenstadt, said her client had not done anything out of line with
Sykes. Or for that matter with the two other women he allegedly fondled. Eisenstadt said,
"I wasn't there. I don't know this woman. But he's always had a great relationship
with journalists, and he's always acted appropriately ... I just don't believe it for a
second."
Arnold has also been accused of groping TV hostesses Denise Van Outen and Anna Richardson.
The "touchy-feely" interview sessions were conducted with Sykes, Richardson, and
Van Outen on the same day in the same suite at London's Dorchester hotel.
As Arnie allegedly grabbed Richardson, he is said to have exclaimed, "You
don't get the big money for nothing."
"The guy's a groper and is totally unprofessional," Richardson, 29, told The
Sun. "I wanted to say, 'You dirty bastard.' But you can't tell a powerful man like
him to f*** off ... He kept saying how fantastic I looked and staring at my
[breasts]."
When their interview ended, Richardson said that, "He pulled me onto his knee, saying
'I really want to know if your breasts are real.'" And, at that point, Arnold
allegedly took matters into his own hands and observed, "Yeah, they are real."
That's what Richardson says she recalls him saying about her triple-D chest.
However, Eisenstadt says that the tables were actually turned in the opposite direction.
Richardson made her complaint only after Columbia Tri-Star barred her from future
interviews because of alleged improper behavior during this interview. "They
requested that she not be invited back, and then it just kind of snowballed. It seems a
little fishy to me," the actor's spokesperson said.
Schwarzenegger's lawyer, Marty Singer, called all the accusations "outrageous
fabrication" by "people trying to get their 15 minutes of fame." He also
said that Richardson "is the one who basically came on in a very provocative manner
to Mr. Schwarzenegger ... asking him to basically check her out. She left in a very happy
mood. It's a case of three people getting their name in the paper ... Quite frankly, my
client didn't do anything inappropriate." |
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