VIOLENT ATTACKS

‘Boardwalk Empire’ Actor Arrested for Allegedly Sexually Abusing Ex

The star, who has appeared in “Boardwalk Empire” and “Dawson’s Creek,” has been charged in four separate domestic incidents.

Boardwalk Empire and Dawson’s Creek actor Michael Pitt is accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend and later attacking her with a cinderblock and a wooden plank, according to TMZ. Pitt, 44, has been charged in four separate domestic incidents that allegedly took place between April 2020 and August 2021 at his New York City home, an indictment states. Law enforcement sources told the outlet that Pitt was arrested on May 2 for “assault injury with a weapon sexually motivated, strangulation sexually motivated, sex abuse, and forcible compulsion.” He denies all charges and posted bail, set at $100,000. Speaking to TMZ, the actor’s attorney Jason Goldman described Pitt as “an accomplished professional who would never so much as contemplate these crimes.” “In reality, this baseless claim is suspiciously raised some four or five years after the alleged incident, at a time when the two parties were in a completely consensual and voluntary relationship,” Goldman said. Pitt played Jimmy Darmody in Boardwalk Empire and Henry Parker in Dawson’s Creek.