Actor Emile Hirsch has been charged with felony assault after allegedly putting a woman in a chokehold at the Sundance Film Festival last month, according to NBC News.
The 29-year-old actor has been charged with aggravated assault — a third degree felony — and intoxication, a class C misdemeanor. NBC News has confirmed that the alleged assault was on a Hollywood studio executive, but her identity has not been officially disclosed. The incident reportedly took place at the Tao nightclub in Park City, Utah in the early hours of the morning on Jan. 25.
Msnbc reached out to Hirsch’s agent and attorney for comment on this story, but has not heard back at this time. However, his lawyer Robert Offer told E! that Hirsch “consumed an enormous amount of alcohol on the evening in question and he has no memory of what happened.”
“Emile takes these allegations very seriously, and is devastated that any of this has occurred,” Offer added. “A few days after the incident, Emile sought help and checked himself into an alcohol rehabilitation facility, where he remains today, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.”
The New York Post‘s gossip section, Page Six, first reported on the story in January and claimed to have unearthed accounts from witnesses on the scene. According to one alleged witness, whose account NBC has not confirmed, “Something happened between the movie exec and Emile, and she said she had been assaulted and asked security to call the police. Emile didn’t leave the scene, and calmly waited for the police to arrive, and spoke with them until around 5 a.m., after which he went home with his friends. No arrests were made.”









