Amazon Studios is investigating sexual harassment allegations against “Transparent” star Jeffrey Tambor.
The entertainment website Deadline first reported the investigation on Wednesday.
Tambor, 73, has won two Emmys portraying the transgender matriarch of a Jewish California family in “Transparent.” He is accused by his former assistant, Van Barnes, a 42-year-old transgender actress, of groping her, making sexual comments and propositioning her.
Barnes made the accusations in a private Facebook post which does not identify Tambor by name, Deadline reported.
Tambor denies the allegations. “I am aware that a former disgruntled assistant of mine has made a private post implying that I had acted in an improper manner toward her,” Tambor says in a statement first provided to Deadline. “I adamantly and vehemently reject and deny any and all implication and allegation that I have ever engaged in any improper behavior toward this person or any other person I have ever worked with. I am appalled and distressed by this baseless allegation.”
“Transparent” currently is on a regularly scheduled hiatus after a season largely set in Israel.
— JTA
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