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He denies the allegations.
By Sarah Gangraw — Written on Nov 12, 2017
Sexual assault allegations have been thrown at Jeremy Piven, 52, by a total of five women now.
“I unequivocally deny the appalling allegations being peddled about me. It did not happen,” Piven told PEOPLE on Tuesday. “It takes a great deal of courage for victims to come forward with their histories, and my hope is that the allegations about me that didn't happen, do not detract from stories that should be heard.”
But these women claim that he sexually assaulted them and are going public with their allegations.
Ariane Bellamar, an actress and Playboy Playmate, tweeted about how Piven forcefully groped her more than once — first on the set of Entourage and another time at the Playboy Mansion.
Her #MeToo tweet on Oct. 30 called out the actor himself as well as CNN but didn't contain when the incident happened.
Advertising executive Tiffany Bacon Scourby told PEOPLE she “100 percent” believes Bellamar was being truthful.
Scourby told PEOPLE that she met Piven and he seemed friendly. Piven asked her to accompany him to see "Late Night with Conan O’Brien" the following day and she agreed. Scourby said she showed up at his hotel wearing “business attire.”
“We were talking for about five minutes and he said he was waiting for his [publicist] to come with us,” Scourby told PEOPLE. “He [Piven] jumped on top of me. I tried to push him off and he forced me to the ground.”
She claims he pulled out his genitals and rubbed them against her fully clothed body. Piven held Scourby down by her hands and she said he ejaculated “all over my white turtleneck.”
“I rubbed my chest against the wall to get his [semen] off of my sweater,” Scourby told PEOPLE. “I ran outside and hailed a cab and I just burst into tears. I cried the entire way back to my hotel.”
Piven denies this story as well and posted a tweet about the accusations that said, “I would never force myself on a woman, ever.”
A third woman, Cassidy Freeman, who starred in "Longmire," called Piven out via Instagram in a post that said, “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.
"I hope from now on, you keep it in your pants and you never get to do it again.”
In a VLAD TV video that recently surfaced, former porn star Isis Taylor recalls how she says Piven showed her his penis at a 2011 NBA All-Star Game post-party.
Taylor said Piven asked her if she had “been living under a rock” after she didn't know who he was. They then went out for a smoke and he whipped out his genitals.
“All of a sudden [Piven] is like ‘Look all this can be yours,’ as he points to his d**k,” Taylor said. “I look down, and his d**k is full blown out.”
Taylor said he kept asking her to touch his penis, but she refused and left.
A Hollywood Life report said that documentary filmmaker Amy Meador said she is among Piven's victims as well. Meador told HollywoodLife.com that Piven forcefully 'grinded' on her while the two were at her apartment in the 90s.
Piven's posted a long statement on Twitter denying all of the women’s claims against him.
Part of it read, “We seem to be entering dark times — allegations are being printed as facts and lives are being put in jeopardy without a hearing, due process or evidence. I hope we can give people the benefit of a doubt before we rush to judgment.”