James Tobback gives profanity-filled denial of sexual harassment allegations

Over 38 women have come forward against the director

James Toback (Getty)

James Toback, who has been accused by dozens of women of sexual misconduct, has slammed accusers in a profane-ridden interview.

Speaking to Rolling Stone just days before the Los Angeles Times posted an exposé which featured 38 women making accusations against Toback, the director called anyone who made claims “a lying c***sucker or c**t or both”.

“Let me be really clear about this,” he told the publication. “I don't want to get a pat on the back, but I've struggled seriously to make movies with very little money, that I write, that I direct, that mean my life to me.

“The idea that I would offer a part to anyone for any other reason than that he or she was gonna be the best of anyone I could find is so disgusting to me. And anyone who says it is a lying cocksucker or cunt or both. Can I be any clearer than that?”

The Rolling Stone, at the time, knew of eight women making allegations against Toback, all of whom shared similar stories about the director offering women on the street roles while also making unwanted sexual advances.

Two names were mentioned to Toback — Sari Kamin and Ambika Leigh — to which he replied: “These are people I don’t know, and it’s things I never would have done. And it’s just not worth talking about. It’s idiotic. My question to you is, do you want to be a writer? Do you have any sense of yourself as a serious person? Because this stuff should be beneath anybody.”

Toback has continued to deny the claims made by multiple women, including Julian Moore, who recently made allegations against him.