Bill Murray Is Positively Swimming In Assault Allegations
A explosive new report suggests he paid a young female crew member $100k for her silence.
Five months after we heard that Bill Murray allegedly engaged in inappropriate behaviour on the set of Aziz Ansari’s new film Being Mortal, disturbing details are coming to light around what actually went down — including word of a secret settlement.
— Content Warning: This article discusses sexual assault —
Production of Being Mortal, based on Atul Guwande’s book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End was suspended in May due to Bill Murray allegedly “doing something [he] thought was funny” to a young female crew member.
The sleuths at Puck have since released a report detailing what allegedly went down, stating that at one point on set, Murray and the young production staffer were near an on-set bed and Murray started “kissing her body and straddling her.” Puck reports that he allegedly couldn’t move because he outweighed her, and then kissed her on the mouth while the two were wearing face masks.
“Murray later said that he was just being jestful,” the report reads, “but the woman interpreted his actions as entirely sexual,” adding that she was “horrified.”
Puck reports that the two engaged in a meditation and that Murray paid the young staffer just over $100k, for which she agreed to sign an NDA.
Deadline also reports that a day after Puck’s report was released, Actor Geena Davis’ memoir was released which contained an account of working with Murray on the movie Quick Change in 1990, when he insisted on using a massage machine on her back even after she refused multiple times.
Davis also says in the memoir that he screamed at her in front of a set of more than 300 people, and made her uncomfortable in an interview where he jokingly pulled down her dress strap.
If that wasn’t enough, Seth Green alleged last week that Murray attacked him when the two were on Saturday Night Live together. At the time, Murray was in his early 30s, and Green was just nine.
The allegations come after Lucy Liu last year said that Murray used to “hurl insults” at her on the set of Charlie’s Angels; allegedly telling her that she “can’t act.” She added that the actor used “inexcusable and unacceptable” language when talking to her, to which Liu said she didn’t hesitate to push back on. “I stood up for myself, and I don’t regret it,” the actor said.
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