A former model filed a lawsuit against “Back to the Future” actor Crispin Glover alleging that he held her “captive,” used her “for sex and free labor” and physically assaulted her.
The complaint, filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of California, alleges that the 61-year-old actor “groomed” the woman, “lured” her to his Los Angeles home and choked her following a March 2024 altercation.
Glover and the Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately return NBC News’ requests for comment on Thursday.
A representative for Glover told TMZ that “he denies these baseless allegations in the strongest possible terms.”
“The reality is that on March 2, 2024, Mr. Glover was the victim of an unprovoked felony assault by Jane Doe at his Los Angeles residence,” the representative said in a statement. “Mr. Glover called LAPD, which came to the scene, investigated, and arrested Jane Doe. These facts are documented by law enforcement records and by the restraining order filed by Mr. Glover against Jane Doe at that time.”
The complaint says that the woman, 30, who is identified as “Jane Doe,” met Glover through social media in 2015. It alleges that for several years, he would “persistently message her to come to Los Angeles” and would “often make strange advances.” The woman thought of Glover as a friend, the complaint says.
According to the lawsuit, the pair met in Germany in 2023 and Glover allegedly “showed off several items of Nazi memorabilia from his collection.” It says that in 2024, he “lured” the woman to his home after allegedly telling her she could stay there and work as an assistant.
“He promised her a home and a job if she came to Los Angeles. But when Ms. Doe took the bait and uprooted herself and moved to Los Angeles, she found herself in a disturbing situation where Mr. Glover wanted to control her actions and track her whereabouts and basically serve him as a live in girlfriend/sex slave,” the complaint says.
It alleges that she “was essentially held captive and used for sex and free labor.”
The lawsuit accuses Glover of controlling where the woman went and whom she interacted with. After she left the home without his permission in March 2024, he allegedly locked her out of the house, according to the complaint.
When she tried to go inside the home, the complaint alleges, Glover “attacked her, grabbing her neck and choking her in a headlock.” The filing includes a picture of a wound on the front of the woman’s neck.
According to the lawsuit, Glover called the police on the woman and filed a restraining order, which was later dismissed.
The suit says that the woman is “still homeless and emotionally scarred from the traumatic events with Mr. Glover.”
She is suing the actor on claims of battery, fraud and wrongful eviction. She’s seeking unspecified damages.
Glover’s representative said he “intends to vigorously defend himself and pursue all available relief.”
“He is confident the judicial process will expose this lawsuit as a meritless fabrication,” the representative said.
Glover played George McFly, the father of Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly, in the first “Back to the Future” film in 1985. He also had notable film roles in the 2000 version of “Charlie’s Angels” and the 2010 version of “Alice in Wonderland.”
