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11 More Women Accuse Opera Star Placido Domingo of Sexual Abuse

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   Eleven more women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault
   against opera star Placido Domingo, according to the Associated Press.

   The news organization last month reported that nine women had made
   similar charges against the famed singer.

   The women allege Domingo's actions included unwanted touching,
   persistent requests for private get-togethers, late-night phone calls
   and sudden attempts to kiss them on the lips.

   One of the women -- Angela Turner Wilson, a retired music teacher in
   Texas -- told the AP that when she was a 28-year-old aspiring opera
   singer, Domingo allegedly groped her breast backstage during the
   Washington Opera's 1999-2000 season.

   "It hurt," she told the AP. "It was not gentle. He groped me hard."

   At the time, Domingo was the artistic director of the Washington Opera.

   Domingo's spokeswoman disputed the AP article.

   "The ongoing campaign by the AP to denigrate Placido Domingo is not
   only inaccurate. but unethical. These new claims are riddled with
   inconsistencies and, as with the first story, in many ways, simply
   incorrect," Nancy Seltzer said.

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