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Posted: 4/6/06 at 10:05am
"A 19-year-old aspiring actress has accused a veteran Broadway actor of luring her into performing sex acts offstage when she was just a star-struck kid visiting the Great White Way.
The 40-year-old actor, James Barbour, who appeared in the Broadway musical "Assassins" three years ago, was arrested yesterday by Los Angeles police on a New York warrant charging sex abuse and sodomy, sources here said.
The unidentified woman came forward in February and told NYPD cops she first met Barbour through her high-school drama coach in 2001 when she was 15.
She met the handsome hoofer again that year on a trip with her parents.
Barbour, who was appearing in the Tony-Award winning "Jane Eyre" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, promised the star-struck out-of-towner a personal backstage tour.
Instead, she claims, Barbour took her to his dressing room where they had a sexual encounter.
A few weeks later, on July 21, the awe-struck teenager returned, this time without her parents, and met Barbour again.
Later, the woman said she went to his Upper West Side apartment where they had a sexual encounter. It was not clear why the woman, now an aspiring actress, waited so long to come forward."
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/64112.htm
The 40-year-old actor, James Barbour, who appeared in the Broadway musical "Assassins" three years ago, was arrested yesterday by Los Angeles police on a New York warrant charging sex abuse and sodomy, sources here said.
The unidentified woman came forward in February and told NYPD cops she first met Barbour through her high-school drama coach in 2001 when she was 15.
She met the handsome hoofer again that year on a trip with her parents.
Barbour, who was appearing in the Tony-Award winning "Jane Eyre" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, promised the star-struck out-of-towner a personal backstage tour.
Instead, she claims, Barbour took her to his dressing room where they had a sexual encounter.
A few weeks later, on July 21, the awe-struck teenager returned, this time without her parents, and met Barbour again.
Later, the woman said she went to his Upper West Side apartment where they had a sexual encounter. It was not clear why the woman, now an aspiring actress, waited so long to come forward."
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/64112.htm
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Updated On: 4/6/06 at 10:05 AM
