Nicolas Peloquin, the son of Russell’s adoptive sister, filed a police report against the Fighter director, claiming Russell offered to help with ab exercises at a hotel gym in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and hovered around his genital area (Peloquin told police that he is “a transgender but has not gone through the male to female operation”) — after which Russell “felt both [of Peloqin’s] breasts.”
Russell’s side of the story: It happened, but at the request of Peloquin, who asked the filmmaker to feel his hormone-injected breasts. Russell said Peloquin then made him “pinky swear” about the incident.
Source: The Smoking Gun, The Wrap
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