“Back to the Future” and “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” 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 “live in girlfriend” and “sex slave.”
The complaint, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges Glover, 61, “lured” the ex-model — identified in court documents as Jane Doe — 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.
“Mr. Glover denies these baseless allegations in the strongest possible terms,” a legal representative…
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