Several Women Accuse Actor Chris Noth of Sexual Coercion: He Loses Role, Major Deal, Agent and Possibly His Wife

The actor rejects the accusations.

On December 9, the online streaming service HBO Max began showing “And Just Like That...” — the continuation of the famous “Sex and the City.” The series features almost all the main characters from the original show, including Chris Noth in the role of Carrie Bradshaw’s husband. 

However, on December 16, The Hollywood Reporter published an article featuring accounts from two women who accused the actor of sexual coercion. One of them said that in 2004 Chris Noth invited her to his apartment and raped her.

She said it hurt, she asked the actor to stop, but he paid no attention. In addition, the actor allegedly reacted with laughter to the woman’s request to use a condom. The next day she told her boss about it, and two years later she turned to a crisis center. 

The second woman featured in the article said that Noth had sex with her “quite forcefully” in 2015. The actor invited her to his home and began making advances. They had sex, but the woman cried during it, and then felt “defiled.” 

The woman decided that she should have said “no” more firmly and left. Chris Noth contacted her several more times and invited her to dinner, and she gave vague replies. Once she agreed to have dinner with the actor, but then canceled everything. They have not seen each other since. 

Both women told the publication that they decided to speak out because the release of “And Just Like That...” brought back painful memories. The publication noted that they do not know each other and contacted the editorial office several months apart. The article did not name their real names. The actor rejected all the accusations.

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These stories could have happened 30 years ago or 30 days ago — “no” always means “no,” and that is a line I never crossed. The meetings took place by mutual consent. It is hard not to wonder about the timing of these stories. I don’t know exactly why they surfaced now, but I am sure of one thing: I did not rape these women. 

Other Allegations

Soon other evidence against the actor began to appear in the press. On December 17, The Daily Beast published an anonymous account from a third woman, whom Noth allegedly tried to have sex with by force. 

The woman said that in 2010, at the Da Marino restaurant in New York, the actor allegedly waited for her after her shift ended and began undressing her. He did not listen to the word “no,” but he heard “not here.” The woman convinced the actor that she would meet him somewhere else, but she never saw him again. 

In addition, actress Zoe Lister-Jones, who played alongside Noth in “Law & Order,” reported his inappropriate behavior on set. According to her, the actor showed up on set drunk, and once approached her, sniffed her neck and said: “You smell good.” The woman accused the actor of “sexually inappropriate behavior” toward an acquaintance of hers. 

Chris Noth did not comment on the statements of the actress and the anonymous woman featured in The Daily Beast. 

Consequences

Police have not reported an investigation into the accusations against the actor. However, the consequences of the scandal were swift: Peloton removed advertising featuring him, the agency A3 Artists refused to represent his interests, and the company that planned to buy his tequila brand Ambhar announced a freeze on the deal (The New York Post estimated the deal at $12 million). 

The actor also lost his role in “The Equalizer,” where he played a former CIA chief and friend of the main character. Co-stars from “And Just Like That...” Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis spoke out in support of the women who accused Noth. In a joint statement the actresses said: “We know that speaking about this must be very difficult, and we value it.” Ay

In 2012 Noth and Wilson married, and the couple is raising two sons, one of whom is 13 and the other is one and a half. The woman who told THR about meeting Noth in 2015 mentioned that she asked him about his family. According to her, Noth called marriage a “fiction” and claimed that monogamy is unrealistic. 

Tara Wilson took the news of her husband’s infidelities painfully. An unnamed friend of Noth told The Sun that Wilson is “very upset” and it is unknown whether she will want to spend Christmas with her husband. Chris Noth himself is “stunned” by the accusations, but his friends support him. 

A source close to the publication said: “He’s a womanizer, but not a bastard. He’s not Weinstein. I believe him and I believe it wasn’t the way it is being portrayed now.”