A third woman has accused actor Jeremy Piven of sexual assault. Advertising executive Tiffany Bacon Scourby tells People magazine that Piven attacked her in 2003 at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York City.
“I remember I was wearing this white ribbed turtle neck and brown slacks — business attire — and I was sitting right next to him on the couch,” Scourby tells People. “We were talking for about five minutes and he said he was waiting for his [publicist] to come with us.”
Scourby continues that suddenly “he jumped on top of me. I tried to push him off and he forced me to the ground.” She says Piven exposed his genitals, held her hands down and began rubbing against her body until he ejaculated.
Scourby says she decided to tell her story after reality TV star and Playboy Playmate Ariane Bellamar accused Piven of having sexually assaulted her on the set of HBO’s Entourage. “I 100 percent believe she’s being honest,” Scourby says.
Piven denied the allegations in a statement to People: “Let me be absolutely clear, this simply did not happen. I would never force myself on a woman, ever. I cannot speak as to why a person would create a story like this.”
A representative for Piven tells the magazine that the actor would pass a polygraph test and that “He’s now looking at legal options.”
Longmire actress Cassidy Freeman has also accused Piven, writing on Instagram, “I know what you did and attempted to do to me when I was far too young. THAT I know. And you know it too. Unless there were so many of us, that you can’t remember.”
People says Scourby related her story to the magazine over “the course of multiple phone calls over several days.” She says she met Piven at a club and that he invited her to attend a taping of Late Night with Conan O’Brien the next day. Nothing happened the night of the taping, and the following morning at 11 a.m. she met him at his hotel. Piven told her a publicist would join them.
After the alleged incident, Scourby says, “I pushed him off of me and ran down the short hallway to get to the door. I rubbed my chest against the wall to get his [semen] off of my sweater. I ran outside and hailed a cab and I just burst into tears. I cried the entire way back to my hotel.”
Piven’s Wisdom of the Crowd series, from CBS TV Studios, is in production on its original 13-episode order. In a statement late last month after the initial allegations, a CBS spokesperson told news outlets, “We are aware of the media reports and are looking into the matter.”
