Kevin Costner "performed sex act"
(AP)
Updated: 2006-04-28 11:31
 Hollywood actor Kevin Costner was accused at a British employment tribunal of
performing an indecent act as he received a massage at a Scottish hotel.
A former spa worker on Tuesday claimed the actor exposed himself and carried
out a sex act as she gave him a massage at the Old Course Hotel in Fife,
Scotland, in October 2004, papers filed with the tribunal said.
The allegations made by the 34-year-old woman -- who brought a claim for
unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination against the hotel -- were not taken
seriously by hotel staff, papers said.
"This was never about Kevin Costner. It is a dispute between a hotel and an
ex-employee," Costner's spokesman Paul Bloch told reporters.
Tribunal chairman Nicol Hosie lifted a restriction imposed at an earlier
hearing to prevent Costner's identity being revealed, claiming there was no
reason for it to be withheld from reporting.
He said the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had agreed to
settle her claim against the hotel out of court.
The tribunal, sitting in Dundee, Scotland, did not consider whether or not
her claims were true.
An earlier hearing had been told Costner and his wife were staying at the
hotel in Scotland at the time of the alleged incident.
"It is the company's position not to comment on matters of litigation," said
an Old Course Hotel spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, in a written
statement. "The parties have settled this matter. The terms are confidential and
undisclosed."
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