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Actor Michael Pitt – best known for playing Jimmy Darmody on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire – has been arrested by police on sexual assault charges.
The 44-year-old actor was arrested on Friday at 9 PM in Brooklyn for first-degree sexual abuse and other related charges stemming from four domestic incident, according to New York Post.
The arrest stems from four separate domestic assault incidents that took place at his home in Bushwick between April 2020 and August 2021, involving his then-girlfriend.
The actor first ‘forcibly fondled’ the victim, and then months later, he allegedly sexually assaulted her and struck her with a wooden plank.
The next violent incident happened in July 2021, when Pitt was said to have assaulted the victim with a cinder block.
The final incident Pitt – who smashed a guitar as part of a fashion campaign in 2023 – is charged with alleged that he strangled his then-girlfriend, according to court documents.
Actor Michael Pitt – best known for playing Jimmy Darmody on HBO ‘s Boardwalk Empire – has been arrested by police on sexual assault charges
The 44-year-old actor was arrested on Friday at 9 PM in Brooklyn for first-degree sexual abuse and other related charges stemming from four domestic incident, according to New York Post .
Pitt’s formal charges were first-degree criminal sex act, third-degree criminal sex act, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of second-degree attempted assault, and second-degree strangulation.
He pled not guilty in front of Judge Joanne Quinones, who set bail at $100,000, which the actor promptly posted.
‘Unfortunately, we live in a world where somebody like Mr. Pitt — an accomplished professional who would never so much as contemplate these crimes — can be arrested on the uncorroborated word of an unhinged individual,’ Pitt’s attorney, Cary London, said in a statement.
‘We look forward to proving his innocence through the evidence and not through the media,’ the statement concluded.
Pitt’s next appearance in court is scheduled for June 17, and this is not the actor’s first brush with the law either.
He was arrested in July 2022 and charged with assault and petty larceny after striking a man several times and taking his phone.
Just months later, police responded to a 911 call that Pitt was throwing objects from a building at other people on the street.
He was apprehended and restrained to a gurney, though he was not charged with a crime since he was deemed an, ’emotionally disturbed person.’
Pitt’s formal charges were first-degree criminal sex act, third-degree criminal sex act, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of second-degree attempted assault, and second-degree strangulation
He pled not guilty in front of Judge Joanne Quinones, who set bail at $100,000, which the actor promptly posted
After he was restrained, he was taken to a local hospital for treatment, with this taking place at the same location of the July 2022 incident.
Pitt shined in early roles in Bully, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and as a deranged killer in 2002’s Murder by Numbers (above) alongside Sandra Bullock
He also starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Last Days, before playing a another deranged character in the 2007 remake of Funny Games (above), alongside Brady Corbet, who would go on to direct last year’s Best Picture nominee The Brutalist
After he was restrained, he was taken to a local hospital for treatment, with this taking place at the same location of the July 2022 incident.
Pitt shined in early roles in Bully, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and as a deranged killer in 2002’s Murder by Numbers alongside Sandra Bullock.
He also starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Last Days, before playing a another deranged character in the 2007 remake of Funny Games, alongside Brady Corbet, who would go on to direct last year’s Best Picture nominee The Brutalist.
Pitt most recently starred in Netflix’s Reptile with Benicio Del Toro and he played a troubled boxer in Day of the Fight with Steve Buscemi, Ron Perlman and Joe Pesci.
