{"id":39411,"date":"2017-11-09T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=39411"},"modified":"2017-11-12T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T22:34:45","slug":"transparent-star-jeffrey-tambor-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-former-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/transparent-star-jeffrey-tambor-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-former-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Transparent&#8217; star Jeffrey Tambor accused of sexual harassment by former assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>(JTA) \u2014 Amazon Studios is investigating sexual harassment allegations against Jewish \u201cTransparent\u201d star Jeffrey Tambor.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The entertainment website Deadline first <a href=\"http:\/\/links.jta.org\/a\/1161\/click\/1619\/175514\/541e1e478a9c494f079197419e431ead486f50a4\/c3b557e6ff5ee5e2eaa37ae4ec32b8af0ce2ddfd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported <\/a>the investigation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tambor, 73, has won two Emmys portraying the transgender matriarch of a Jewish California family in \u201cTransparent.\u201d He is accused by his former assistant, Van Barnes, a 42-year-old transgender actress, of groping her, making sexual comments and propositioning her.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes made the accusations in a private Facebook post that does not identify Tambor by name, Deadline reported.<\/p>\n<p>Tambor denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d Tambor said in a statement first provided to Deadline. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransparent\u201d is on a regularly scheduled hiatus following a season largely set in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s creator, Jill Soloway, provided a statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything that would diminish the level of respect, safety and inclusion so fundamental to our workplace is completely antithetical to our principles,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe are cooperating with the investigation into this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tambor is the latest in a series of high-profile Hollywood figures who have been accused of sexual harassment and other related crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%27Transparent%27%20star%20Jeffrey%20Tambor%20accused%20of%20sexual%20harassment%20by%20former%20assistant\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[9044,9045,8790,3029,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39412,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39411\/revisions\/39412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}