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Fourth woman accuses Neil deGrasse Tyson of sexual assault, claiming he groped her after drunkenly propositioning her at a museum party in New York

Neil deGrasse Tyson, 60, is accused of sexual assault by four different women

A fourth unidentified woman spoke out against the TV host on Wednesday

Last week two other women Katelyn Allers and Ashley Watson made allegations

Tyson denies he 'groped' Dr. Katelyn N. Allers, a physics professor he knew

He denies trying to his seduce personal assistant and driver Ashley Watson

Originally Tchiya Amet claimed he drugged and raped her back in 1984

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/07/27/neil-degrasse-tyson-cleared-nyc/

NEW YORK (AP) — Astrophysicist and popular television personality Neil deGrasse Tyson will keep his job as head of the Hayden Planetarium in New York after being cleared of sexual misconduct charges.

New York’s American Museum of Natural History said it had concluded its investigation into the accusations against the famed scientist, months after Tyson had been reinstated on his two television programs.

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A museum spokesman said in a statement Thursday that based on the results of the investigation, Tyson “remains an employee and director of the Hayden Planetarium.”

The statement said museum officials would not comment further “because this is a confidential personnel matter.”

Tyson was accused of behaving inappropriately with two women in an article published in November on the website Patheos.

In one episode from 2009, Katelyn Allers, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, claimed Tyson put his hand under the shoulder part of her dress while exploring her tattoo of the solar system to see if it included Pluto. Allers said the alleged behavior was “creepy.”

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The second case involved Ashley Watson, who quit her job as an assistant for Tyson on the show “Cosmos” last year after what she claimed was inappropriate behavior on his part.

Watson accused Tyson of inviting her into his apartment and told her he wanted to hug her but if he did he’d “just want more.”

Tyson responded to the allegations in a December Facebook post in which denied all of the allegations.

Fox Broadcasting and National Geographic cleared Tyson to return to the air on his television series “StarTalk” and “Cosmos” in March after investigating the same allegations.

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-allegations-four-women

Nobody Believed Neil DeGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.

No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the first time.

Ashley Watson was ecstatic, earlier this year, when she got the job to be Neil deGrasse Tyson's driver. She wanted to be a Hollywood producer, and thought this gig with his hit TV show, Cosmos — even if she was just shuttling him to and from the set — could help her make useful industry connections.

So when a friend sent her an article from a fringe website claiming that the famous astrophysicist had drugged and raped a woman in the 1980s, Watson, then 28, didn’t think much of it.

“I was about to work for this guy, and everyone else was telling me what an amazing person he was,” Watson told BuzzFeed News on Saturday from her home in Los Angeles. The comments on the website that published the woman’s story — calling her a “mentally disturbed individual” who “lies for a living” — only reinforced her doubts.

But Watson would come to deeply regret dismissing those claims.

Over the next three months, she worked closely with Tyson, then 59, on the Cosmos set in Santa Fe. He was beloved by the crew, often having lunch with them, high-fiving everyone, and even putting on impromptu science demos.

Tyson quickly promoted Watson to be his assistant. She met his mother, wife, and son when they came to visit, and he met her dad, sister, and fiancé. She thought he was a charismatic and friendly guy — until the night of May 16, when she was driving him home after a long day.

Tyson invited her up to his apartment to “unwind” over a bottle of wine, she recalled. She felt uncomfortable as he gazed into her eyes and held her wrist to feel her “spirit connection.” They spent two hours together, as he made sexual references to song lyrics and described his need for physical release. As she was leaving, he took her by the shoulders and said, “I want to hug you so bad right now, but I know that if I do, I’ll just want more.”

On the car drive home the next day, Watson said, he told her she was “too distracting” to ever make it as a producer. She couldn’t stand the idea of working with him any longer. The following day, she reported the incident and her resignation to a line producer, who suggested that Watson tell everyone she was leaving due to a “family emergency.” So she did.

As she processed what happened over the next few months, her mind often went to the woman who claimed to have been raped, Tchiya Amet. Watson found her on Instagram and sent her a DM. “Hi there. I just wanted to reach out [to] say that I BELIEVE YOU about Neil deGrasse Tyson,” Watson wrote on Aug. 23.

On Thursday, Watson’s allegations were made public on a blog called Patheos, which had previously published Amet’s claims, twice. The new story also described a third woman, Katelyn Allers, an astronomy and physics professor at Bucknell University, who said Tyson had grabbed her and reached down the front of her dress to look at her tattoo at a scientific meeting in 2009.

With three women now making allegations on the record, the Patheos article spread far and wide, prompting Fox Broadcasting Company, which produces the show, and National Geographic, which airs it, to announce an official investigation. A spokesperson for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where Tyson has led the Hayden Planetarium for over 20 years, said that it has never received a complaint about him, but was also looking into the allegations. On Saturday, Tyson released a 1,600-word statement on Facebook, confirming many of the details of Watson’s and Allers’ allegations, and apologizing for what he deemed clumsy displays of affection that had been misunderstood.