Following allegations made last week by actresses Kristina Cohen and Aurélie Wynn that former Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick raped them, a third woman has come forward saying Westwick sexually assaulted her.
As BuzzFeed News reports, Eck, who was 23 at the time, says she was invited by her ex-boyfriend Australian film producer Kaine Harling to hang out with him and Westwick one night in 2014 at a fancy Los Angeles hotel. Hoping to get back with her ex, Eck arrived at the Sunset Marquis in Hollywood at around 2:30 a.m, where things took a turn for the worse. According to Eck, allegedly asked Eck to invite a friend to join them, but Eck wasn’t able to get ahold of any of her friends since it was late.Â
“When I didn’t bring a girl for him he turned his sights on me,” Eck told BuzzFeed.
Multiple times throughout that night, Eck says Westwick would “try to kiss me or kind of push me up against the wall,” even when she pushed him off and told him she was dating Harling. To make matters worse, Harling allegedly told Eck that the actor “didn’t mean it,” when she tried to tell her ex-boyfriend what was going on. When Eck told Harling she was leaving, Harling lead her to a bedroom, saying Westwick wanted to apologize.
Once they reached the bedroom, Eck says Westwick immediately repeated his previous behavior. “Ed then pulled me onto the bed and aggressively groped me,” she told BuzzFeed . “I shoved him off as quickly as I could and left.”
While Westwick has yet to respond to Eck’s allegations, he has denied both Cohen and Wynn’s previous accusations, calling them, “unverified and provably untrue social media claims.” The LAPD is currently investigating all allegations brought against Westwick as a result of a police report filed by Cohen last week. The three stories are eerily similar, and it’s worth noting that Kaine Harling has allegedly been present for two incidences of Westwick’s sexual misconduct, as Cohen revealed to the Hollywood Reporter that her anonymous ex-boyfriend, who was with her and Westwick on the night the allegedly actor raped her, was in fact Harling.
As a result of the first two allegations, the BBC previously announced Friday that it was putting Westwick’s new miniseries on hold “until these matters are resolved.”