Prison Break star Robert Knepper accused of grabbing woman's genitals

  • 10/11/2017
Prison Break star Robert Knepper accused of grabbing woman's genitals in shocking sexual assault.
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Prison Break star Robert Knepper has been accused by veteran Hollywood costume designer Susan Bertram of sexually assaulting her.

The allegation sounds decidedly similar to the infamous audio recording of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault, which he later dismissed as "locker room talk".

Knepper grabbed Bertram by the genitals and obscenely threatened her, she says.

"I kind of buried it for a long time until Trump came out with his 'Grab 'em by the pussy' thing. When that happened, I started reeling," she tells the Hollywood Reporter.

"People think that's a joke, but that really happened to me."

Bertram was 31 at the time of the alleged assault, which she says happened when she went to Knepper's trailer to drop some clothes off for him.

She claims he reached under her dress and grabbed her crotch before shoving her against a wall and telling her: "I'm going to f**k your brains out."

"[I managed to push him off then] flew out of that trailer as fast as I could. I just kind of fell out the door, and landed in the dirt on my knees," Bertram says.

She says she was bleeding and had torn clothing after the attack, but didn't tell anyone about it aside from her then-assistant Dominique Dubois - who corroborated the story to the Hollywood Reporter.

Knepper, who has also starred in Hunger Games, Hitman and Transporter movies, denies the allegations.

"I am shocked and devastated to be falsely accused of violence against a woman. That's just not who I am," he says in an Instagram post.

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