Former CNN host Larry King says that he did not ‘inappropriately touch” the late actor Eddie Fisher’s wife, Terry Richard, while the pair posed for a photo at an event in 2005, and again at a “baseball event” in 2006.
Richard accused the longtime broadcaster of groping her twice in an interview with DailyMail TV, and claimed that King “gets a thrill” from touching women while they’re on camera because the women are unable to do anything about it for fear of ruining the picture.
“Larry put his hand behind me on my back and as the photographer was taking our picture, Larry slid his hand down from the middle of my back to putting his hand inside of my dress and it ended up with about three or four of his fingers in the crack of my ass, resting in the crack of my ass,” Richard said.
“Larry groped me in front of everyone where I couldn’t say anything,” she continued. “He gets a thrill doing this in front of the camera, knowing I couldn’t do anything.”
King emphatically denied the allegations, issuing a statement to People magazine appearing to accuse Richard of fabricating the incident from whole cloth. King “flatly and unequivocally denies these claims” and “intends to file suit and prove that they’re utterly false,” the statement, sent to entertainment media, read.
The former host of “Larry King Live” also issued a cease and desist letter to the Daily Mail through his attorney. “That assertion is entirely and unequivocally false and defamatory,” the letter said referring to Richard’s claims. “Mr. King did no such thing then or ever.”