Actor Denies Misconduct Allegations in New Book 'Look at Me'
Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman denied all allegations of sexual misconduct and coercion in his memoir *Look at Me*, which was released on November 10, 2026. The 89-year-old actor addresses the 2017 claims that damaged his public standing, maintaining that while he may have made colleagues uncomfortable in decades past, subjective emotional reactions do not equal sexual coercion.
Actor compares post-2017 fallout to 1950s McCarthy blacklist
Writing in the excerpted text, Hoffman describes himself as a self-styled “Borscht Belt flirt” who enjoys crude humor, arguing that making someone feel uncomfortable is a subjective emotional state rather than an act of physical or sexual pressure. His attorney supported the account by classifying past assault claims as defamatory falsehoods. The original allegations against Hoffman emerged in late 2017, when writer Anna Graham Hunter stated he groped and propositioned her in 1985 when she was a 17-year-old intern on the TV film *Death of a Salesman*. Co-star Kathryn Rossetter subsequently reported backstage groping during the play’s 1984 Broadway run, while playwright Cori Thomas stated Hoffman exposed himself to her in a hotel room when she was 16. None of the accusations resulted in civil litigation or criminal charges.
Hoffman writes that he initially welcomed the broader #MeToo industry movement before finding his own career derailed without legal process, drawing a direct parallel to the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklists of the 1950s. The position marks a departure from his initial response in 2017, when he issued a
