Jeremy Renner has reportedly taken authorized steps after director Yi Zhou made bombshell accusations about their alleged romance and breakup.
Renner, 54, despatched Zhou, 34, a stop and desist letter by his legal professional Marty Singer, in keeping with a Saturday, November 8, TMZ report. The outlet reported that Renner alleged he agreed to take part in Zhou's Chronicles of Disney documentary earlier than she got here onto him romantically.
Renner claimed that he and Zhou had a “temporary consensual encounter,” however that he turned down her alleged advances for a sexual relationship. In his authorized letter obtained by TMZ, Renner implored Zhou to cease spreading what he described as “salacious lies” and exploiting his identify and likeness. The Avengers star threatened additional authorized motion if she doesn't comply along with his request.
Zhou, for her half, claimed to TMZ that she despatched Renner three stop and desist letters of her personal over the previous month, warning the actor that he was in peril of defaming or blackmailing her.
Neither Renner nor Zhou have additional addressed the stop and desist letters. Us Weekly has reached out to reps for each stars for remark.
Zhou lately claimed that Renner had despatched her a “string of undesirable/unsolicited pornographic photographs of himself” a number of months in the past through DMs and WhatsApp.
“He satisfied me of his sincerity, saying he had been single for a very long time and open to a long-term relationship,” Zhou wrote through Instagram on Monday, November 3, referring to the Marvel actor. “I believed in him, within the energy of affection, and in the potential for redemption.”
Zhou additionally alleged that Renner “refused” to advertise Chronicles of Disney or publicly deny rumors that the movie was AI-generated after they went their separate methods.
“After I referred to as him out privately about his previous misconduct and requested him to behave correctly, to respect me as a girl and as a filmmaker, he threatened to name immigration/ICE on me, an act that deeply shocked and frightened me,” she claimed on Monday. “Such habits is unacceptable and emblematic of the imbalance of energy that continues to hurt girls in our trade.”
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She continued, “It's with deep remorse, unhappiness, and disappointment that I'm compelled to share a fact I've been holding inside for too lengthy. Over the previous months, I've lived with concern for my security and deep misery over the remedy I've endured. No girl, filmmaker, or inventive ought to should work beneath such emotional and psychological stress whereas making an attempt to guard her identify and the integrity of her work.”
Based on Zhou, it took her “a very long time” to work up the braveness to share her facet of the story.
“I thank my crew, my brokers / managers and pals / different girls who supported me in voicing such a ache and humiliation I nonetheless have inside as I'm typing these posts,” she concluded.
Renner, for his half, has vehemently denied Zhou's claims.
“These allegations are completely inaccurate and unfaithful,” Renner's rep instructed Us in a Friday, November 7, assertion, particularly responding to the hypothesis he threatened to name immigration brokers or despatched undesirable NSFW photographs of himself.
Zhou responded to Renner's denial in a social media assertion a number of hours later.
“I'll now not remark as we have to concentrate on our work and awards marketing campaign,” she wrote through Instagram on Saturday, November 8. “l go on the mic to the opposite girls who've spoken up.”
