Timothy Hutton is speaking out in response to the allegation that he raped a 14-year-old girl back in 1983, when he was in his early 20s.
The Oscar-winning actor was accused of the assault by a woman named Sera Johnston and she told her story to Buzzfeed in an article that was published on Monday (March 2).
Timothy denies that he ever assaulted Johnston and he says he has been the target of multiple extortion attempts over the past two-and-a-half years.
“For the past two-and-a-half years, I have been the target of multiple extortion attempts by a woman named Sera Dale Johnston to extract millions of dollars from me. She threatened that if I did not meet her demands, she would go to the press with a false allegation that I sexually assaulted her 37 years ago in Canada. I never assaulted Ms. Johnston,” he said in a statement provided to JustJared.com.
“Today, BuzzFeed chose to publish Ms. Johnston’s false story. BuzzFeed knew the truth because they were provided with documented evidence,” he continued. “What’s really going on here is that Ms. Johnston’s extortion attempts failed. She then decided to follow through on her threat to go to the press with her false story. When I became aware of this, I went to the FBI, signed a sworn statement, and filed a criminal complaint against Ms. Johnston for extortion. I will not stop fighting to expose this story for what it is – a failed extortion attempt based on something that never happened.”
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