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D.A. Drops Anderson Rape Case
Anthony Anderson is officially off the hook.
Prosecutors in Tennessee have declined to pursue a rape case against the Barbershop and Kangaroo Jack star four months after a state judge found there was insufficient evidence to try him and dismissed the charge.
Anderson, 34, and veteran assistant director Wayne Witherspoon, 43, were arrested July 27 on suspicion of aggravated rape after a naked woman ran out of a production trailer on the Memphis set of the hip-hop comedy Hustle & Flow.
But after reviewing the allegations against the comic actor and the crew member, Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons announced Wednesday that his office would not seek a grand jury criminal indictment against the duo for the same reasons the judge cited in his earlier decision.
"At this point we do not feel we have a provable case," Gibbons told the Associated Press, adding that Anderson's alleged victim was informed of their decision by letter earlier this month.
In a preliminary hearing last year, the 25-year-old unidentified woman told the court that Anderson and Witherspoon stripped her of her clothes in a dressing room trailer, photographed her and sexually assaulted her despite her pleas for them to stop. She also claimed they forced her to have sex with them twice against her will in a downtown hotel room the day before the attack.
However, the woman's credibility was called into question by a former boyfriend, who testified that she'd told him she had cried rape in a bid to extract money from the pair.
That was good enough for Judge C. Anthony Johnson, who tossed the charge in October and was quoted by Memphis' Commercial Appeal as saying "in my 20 years, this is the most suspicious case I've ever heard."
Anderson's attorney, Leslie Ballin, did not return a phone call seeking comment Thursday.
While the D.A.'s decision is good news for Anderson--who maintained his innocence from day one--his court docket hasn't been cleared yet.
In September, Anderson was sued by a woman identified only as "Jane Doe" who alleged he sexually assaulted her on the set of his short-lived WB sitcom, All About the Andersons. The complaint sought $900,000 for injury, emotional distress and other damages. Anderson has denied that allegation as well.
Meanwhile, the $2 million flick at the center of the allegations, Hustle & Flow, is making big waves at the Sundance Film Festival where it was purchased for $9 million by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films after an intense bidding war. The John Singleton-produced film tells the tale of a pimp (Terence Howard) who's persuaded by a Dirty South rapper (Ludacris) to switch careers and move into hip-hop.
Anderson's last big-screen turn was in the stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Other credits include Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London and Me, Myself & Irene.
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