A man who accused CNN host Don Lemon of sexual assault detailed his allegations Monday.
Dustin Hice sued Lemon in 2019, saying the host assaulted him in a bar in the Hamptons, New York, a year earlier. Hice claimed Lemon put his hand down his own pants, touched himself, and then shoved his hand in Hice’s face.
“Anybody that acts like that in public without any fear of what it might do to somebody or the consequences it might have, that’s a pattern,” Hice told Megyn Kelly on Monday.
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Lemon has denied the accusation.
“I wouldn’t be surprised,” Hice said. “He’s protected by the fact that he’s African American, [a] gay man on television, and I’m just some nobody.”
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Hice’s lawsuit detailed an encounter in 2018 at a bar in Sag Harbor.
After trying to buy Lemon a drink to no avail, Hice said the alleged assault occurred.
“About five or 10 minutes later, Don gets up, walks around the bar, comes up, right up to me and puts his hands down his board shorts,” Hice said, according to the New York Post. “He rubs himself aggressively, his penis and whatever else down there.”
“Lemon then shoved his index and middle fingers in Plaintiff’s mustache and under Plaintiff’s nose,” according to Hice’s suit.
A CNN spokesperson at the time of the 2019 lawsuit called Hice’s actions “unsuccessful threats and demands for an exorbitant amount of money.”
“The plaintiff in this lawsuit has previously displayed a pattern of contempt for CNN on his social media accounts,” the spokesperson told USA Today in a statement.
