Michael Pitt arrested for alleged sexual assault and attack on ex-girlfriend | US television

Boardwalk Empire actor Michael Pitt has been arrested on sexual assault and home violence expenses.

In line with the New York Post and Variety, the 44-year-old has been accused of a number of assaults by an ex-girlfriend stemming from 4 incidents going down between 2020 and 2021.

She alleges that Pitt sexually assaulted and attacked her with a cinderblock and a wood plank on the actor’s Bushwick house. He’s additionally accused of strangling her.

The actor, whose credit additionally embrace Dawson’s Creek and movies equivalent to The Dreamers, Seven Psychopaths and Humorous Video games, pleaded not responsible after his arrest Friday and is now out on bail. He’s subsequent due in courtroom in June.

“Sadly, we dwell in a world the place any individual like Mr Pitt — an achieved skilled who would by no means a lot as ponder these crimes — could be arrested on the uncorroborated phrase of an unhinged particular person,” his lawyer mentioned in a press release to Selection. “In actuality, this baseless declare is suspiciously raised some 4 or 5 years after the alleged incident, at a time when the 2 events have been in a totally consensual and voluntary relationship. This case shall be dismissed.”

Pitt was beforehand arrested in 2022 and was charged with assault and petty larceny after allegedly hitting a person and taking his telephone. Two months later he was hospitalised after being accused of throwing objects at individuals from a constructing. The actor was deemed to be “emotionally disturbed”.

He had most just lately been seen in Netflix thriller Reptile and fact-based boxing drama Day of the Combat. He’ll subsequent function in true crime drama You Can’t Win.

The Guardian has reached out to his reps for remark.