Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s The Rip director Joe Carnahan, has been accused of sexual battery and stalking by an ex-girlfriend.
In authorized paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Friday, January 30, Michelle Crosby45, claimed Carnahan, 56, bodily attacked her a number of instances over their four-year relationship. The Hollywood Reporter was the primary to report the information.
Carnahan, for his half, reportedly made his personal allegations towards Crosby in a earlier lawsuit, accusing her of damaging a Porsche he allowed her to borrow and refusing to return the car, in response to the Hollywood Reporter. Per the outlet, he additionally claimed Crosby harassed him, together with by way of bodily assault.
Crosby made her allegations towards Carnahan in a cross-complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket as she responded to the lawsuit.
The authorized submitting detailed an alleged incident in a lodge room in 2024 that “turned violent.”
“What started as consensual intimacy turned violent when Carnahan out of the blue yanked her hair as she screamed for him to cease. He refused, remarking, ‘If you happen to assume you are able to do this to me, I’ll break you of that misunderstand.’ Afterward he callously laughed and stated, ‘I suppose you received’t be attending any events with out hair.’” the authorized paperwork learn.
The paperwork continued to allege: “When he was completed, he rapidly packed and left the room. Ms. Crosby reported the assault to the Riverside Sheriff’s Division. She sustained everlasting scalp harm and bald patches, compounded by stress-related hair loss, forcing her to put on a wig. Shortly afterward, Carnahan emailed her as if nothing had occurred, asking for an inventory of her ‘wants’ and attaching a replica of the script RIP.”
Joe Carnahan.
(Photograph by Arturo Holmes/WireImage)Crosby additional accused Carnahan of subjecting her to a “sample of bodily violence” which she claimed within the authorized submitting included “shoving her right into a Christmas tree, pinning her below his physique, grabbing her throat and tackling her to the bottom.”
“This was monstrous habits by a Hollywood director that shouldn’t be left unchallenged,” Crosby stated, per The Hollywood Reporter. “These grave issues demand accountability.”
Carnahan has strongly denied the accusations of assault leveled towards him.
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“This was a very consensual relationship which led to Spring 2024 and since then the opposite social gathering has persistently threatened Joe with precisely what you’re studying now – the menace to assault Joe publicly when his movie was launched,” Carnahan’s lawyer Wendy Slavkin stated by way of an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter. “The allegations towards Joe had been dismissed in July of 2025 and he has not had any contact with the defendant outdoors of a courtroom final Could, whereas making an attempt to acquire a everlasting restraining order towards her.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Carnahan’s representatives for remark.
Carnahan not too long ago directed Damon and Affleck’s newest movie The Rip, which garnered 41.6 million views in its first three days after dropping on Netflix in January. Crosby filed her cross-complaint previous to the press tour.
The film, impressed by a 2016 Miami-Dade narcotics raid, follows a workforce of Miami narcotics officers who unexpectedly discover hundreds of thousands in money who then attempt to resolve whether or not to maintain the massive sum of money or not.