Alleged Eliza Dushku Molester Has a History
by EG
Buffy The Vampire Slayer alum Eliza Dushku has accused stunt coordinator Joel Kramer of sexually molesting her during the production of True Lies when she was 12 years old. Kramer denies the allegations, but more women, at least one of whom was a minor at the time, have since come forward with claims that Kramer sexually abused them.
Via Page Six.
Two veteran stunt women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct by famed stunt coordinator Joel Kramer. One involves a 10th grade girl who came to the North Carolina set of “Virus” in the spring of 1997 to see how movies are made, while a second woman claims that more than 30 years ago Kramer forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The latest claims come after Eliza Dushku accused Kramer this weekend of sexually molesting her during the making of the 1994 movie “True Lies” when she was 12 years old.
Kramer, who for many years was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personal stunt double, has denied Dushku’s allegations. But he acknowledged that few years later, he had a sexual encounter with the 16-year-old friend of the 15-year-old sister of a stunt woman who worked for him on “Virus.” The police were called, but said they couldn’t do anything because the age of consent in the state is 16.
Laura Albert, who worked as a stunt woman for Kramer on both films, told Deadline that her sister and her sister’s friend visited the “Virus” set in Wilmington, North Carolina, in February or March of 1997. Albert would not identify the girl — now in her 30s – “because she does not want me to.”
“I invited my younger sister to the set as she resided there,” Albert said in a written statement. “I wanted her to come to the set in an effort to mentor her, to show her the motion picture industry from the inside, as she had desired to become a makeup artist. One day after we finished work, I had my sister and her friend, who were 15 and 16 and in the 10th grade, come out to hang with all the stunt personnel as we were going to go go-karting. I wanted her to have the experience of having some ‘good clean fun’ in the setting of a professional industry.
“That night, after going karting, the stunt department had to leave as we all had early calls the next day. Unbeknownst to me, my boss, Joel Kramer, had lured the girls to go swimming at the pool in his hotel. It wasn’t until a month later that I learned of the events that happened that night.”
Albert said Kramer brought the girls back to the hotel to swim, and that while the three of them were in the pool, “he pulled his d—k out and said, ‘You cannot handle this,’ and then began to swim towards them. That’s when my sister left. Even today, she feels guilty for having left her friend.”
She continued, “My sister ended up leaving and she left her friend there with Joel. Joel had sex with the 16-year-old girl. She was 16. He was 39. His room number was 424.” (Albert said that whenever the girls – now women with children of their own – refer to the incident, they use “424” as code.)
Kramer disputed several elements of Albert’s account.
“I did not invite the two girls up to my room,” he said. “One girl on her own came to my room as she was legal age.”
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