“Boardwalk Empire” star Michael Pitt was arrested Friday and charged with a series of sex crimes and assaults in 2020 and 2021.
Pitt is facing several charges in Brooklyn, New York, in connection with four different alleged incidents, including two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree; one count of a criminal sexual act in the first degree; one count of a criminal sexual act in the third degree; two counts of assault in the second degree; two counts of attempted assault in the second degree; and one count of strangulation in the second degree, court records state.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges and was released after posting $15,000 bail.
A Brooklyn District Attorney's Office indictment accuses Pitt of using a cinderblock to carry out one of the alleged assaults in June 2021. In August of that year, Pitt also allegedly strangled someone.
The indictment does not indicate how many people are accusing Pitt of the crimes or what their relationship to Pitt is.
TMZ was first to report Pitt’s arrest. The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office declined to comment on the indictment.
“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 to NBC News. “We look forward to proving his innocence through the evidence and not thru the media.”
Pitt, who has been divorced twice, is best known for starring in the HBO drama “Boardwalk Empire,” which aired for five seasons starting in 2010. Pitt also portrayed Henry Parker in the hit teen drama “Dawson’s Creek” on The WB in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Pitt will next appear in court in Brooklyn on June 17.
