Timothy Hutton denies rape accusation

peoplemagazine.co.za:

Ordinary People star Timothy Hutton has released a statement denying claims he raped a 14-year-old girl in 1983. The Oscar winner has been accused of sexually assaulting Canadian model Sera Johnston when she was a teenager, in a Vancouver hotel room, while he was shooting the movie Iceman.

She told Buzzfeed Hutton forced himself on her while his friend watched, but the actor insists this is the latest in a line of extortion attempts over the past two years. “I have been the target of multiple extortion attempts by a woman named Sera Dale Johnston to extract millions of dollars from me,” he writes. “She threatened that if I did not meet her demands, she would go to the press with a false allegation that I sexually assaulted her 37 years ago