Jerry Lewis was a comedy icon, but shocking interviews with his female co-stars reveal a history of harassment—and at least one instance of alleged sexual assault. A new investigation reveals what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling:
; she claimed she was raped by an MGM salesman after boarding a bus, along with other aspiring starlets who were told they’d be filming on location, only to be deposited at a sales convention as party favors. After filing a lawsuit, her name was smeared by studio fixers, her address leaked to the press, and her case dismissed. Generations of women kept quiet about sexual assault and harassment in part because neither they nor the society they lived in had even a vocabulary for it.
Lewis complimented the Bronx-born performer and told her to look him up if she made it to Hollywood. She flew to L.A. that night and camped out at Paramount. When Lewis arrived at the studio, Taylor was waiting—and asked Lewis for a part in his new film, which happened to be 1961’sWhen Lewis said he didn’t have a part available, Taylor replied, “I’ve seen your movies. Tear out four pages and write new ones.
Sick to her stomach, Holiday told Lewis that her boyfriend was waiting outside. But that didn’t stop Lewis. “He starts to talk dirty to me and as he’s talking, the pants open, and the ugly thing came out and he starts to jerk off,” Holiday says. “I was frightened…. I just sat there and I wanted to leave so badly.”Hope Holiday says that, with her boyfriend outside the dressing room door, Lewis began talking graphically and masturbating in front of her.
Anna Maria Alberghetti, a soprano prodigy turned Tony-winning actor, recalls hearing that Lewis’s wife, Patti, had to be announced every time she arrived at Paramount. “Why would a wife have to be announced?” she wondered. She figured it out pretty quickly. Alberghetti says Lewis came on to her while taping the 1959 TV specialeven though she had to commute to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, where she was headlining multiple shows a week. This time around, Lewis was more aggressive.
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