'Sex and the City' star Chris Noth accused by 2 women of sexual assault

• Two women have accused Chris Noth of sexual assault after incidents in 2004 and 2015, per THR.

• Noth called the accusations "categorically false" in a statement to Insider.

• The accusations come a week after Noth made headlines when his character appeared on "AJLT."

Two women told The Hollywood Reporter that Chris Noth sexually assaulted them in 2004 and in 2015.

THR reported that the two women, who do not know each other and came forward with their accusations "months apart," were inspired to make their claims public because promotion for "And Just Like That" had "stirred painful memories of incidents" for each of them.

In a statement to Insider, the 67-year-old star from "And Just Like That" and "Sex and the City" denied the allegations.

"The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false. These stories could've been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago — no always means no — that is a line I did not cross," his statement read.

"The encounters were consensual. It's difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out," Noth continued in a statement. "I don't know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women."

The accusations against Noth come a week after Noth's character, Mr. Big, returned in the premiere episode of the "Sex and the City" revival, "And Just Like That."

One woman, now 40, who currently works in the entertainment industry and asked THR to refer to her by the pseudonym "Zoe" for fear of repercussions, told the publication that seeing Noth reprise his role in the "Sex and the City" franchise "set something off" in her.

Zoe added that she had "buried" the experience she had with Noth, which she alleges happened in 2004, when she'd moved to Los Angeles as a 22-year-old to work an entry-level job at a "high-profile firm" that did business at the time with Noth and other celebrities. Now, with the premiere of the revival, Zoe told THR she felt like it was time to "to try to go public with who he is."

"He would walk by my desk and flirt with me. He somehow got my number from the directory and was leaving messages on my work phone. My boss was like, 'Mr. Big's leaving messages on your voicemail,'" she told THR, talking about incidents that she said happened in 2004.

Zoe's former boss, who was not named in the report, confirmed to THR that she had seen Noth and Zoe intreracting and had heard his "kind of flirty" voicemails and thought it was odd given their age difference — Zoe was 22 then, while Noth was 49. But she stated that she didn't find the behavior alarming at the time because "he was like a god to us."

Zoe told THR that while many of her encounters with Noth happened in New York, he once invited her to his West Hollywood apartment building where a friend of hers also lived. Zoe recalled going to the apartment building to meet Noth, and later claimed he purposefully left a book at the pool where they were hanging out and asked her to bring it back to his apartment.

When she got there, Zoe alleged that he kissed her. She told THR the kiss "didn't alarm her" because she thought it would be "a fun story to tell her friends," but when she tried to return to her friend, she alleged Noth then pulled her toward him and proceeded to "rape her from behind."

"It was very painful and I yelled out, 'Stop!'" Zoe told THR. "And he didn't. I said, 'Can you at least get a condom?' and he laughed at me."

After the alleged incident, Zoe said there was blood on her shirt.

Zoe refused to give details of the encounter to her friend, who also spoke to THR and confirmed that she insisted on taking Zoe to the hospital after Zoe returned from Noth's room acting "aloof" and unlike herself.

At Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Zoe reported that she'd been sexually assaulted, though the hospital was not able to corroborate Zoe's visit as they told THR they don't keep records from that long ago.

"I had stitches. Two police officers came. I wouldn't say who it was," Zoe said.

A second woman, who asked to be referred to as "Lily," now 31, told THR that her alleged encounter with Noth happened in 2015, when she was a server in the VIP section of New York's now-closed nightclub No. 8. She said he asked her out on a date, and even though she knew he was married, she went. Noth has been married to Canadian actress Tara Wilson since 2012.

After going to a restaurant, where Lily said she "had too much to drink," she said Noth invited her back to his nearby apartment. They eventually started making out, Lily said, before she alleged the incident escalated.

"And then the next thing I knew, he pulled down his pants and he was standing in front of me," Lily told THR, claiming that Noth then forced his penis into her mouth.

Soon, Lily said, Noth was having sex with her "from the back in a chair." She continued: "We were in front of a mirror. I was kind of crying as it happened."

THR reviewed Noth and Lily's text exchanges in March and April 2015, after the encounter, in which Noth reportedly wrote that he "wasn't quite sure how" Lily felt about their encounter and Lily replied to him that she "did feel slightly used."

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