LAPD Investigates Against Agent Tyler Grasham For Sexual Assault

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Tyler Cornell, a 20-year-old actor, filed a complaint this weekend with the Los Angeles Police Department making sexual assault allegations against former Hollywood agent Tyler Grasham, it was reported Tuesday.

The complaint adds to recent allegations made by young men who say Grasham sexually assaulted or harassed them in the last decade, the Los Angeles Times reported. The veteran agent's employer, Beverly Hills-based Agency for the Performing Arts, fired Grasham on Oct. 20 as the first accusers went public.

Cornell's representative, Frederick Levy, confirmed the actor filed a police complaint against Grasham but said in an email to The Times that he could not provide further information and that his client is not yet ready to go public.

LAPD spokeswoman Rosario Herrera confirmed that the department's Robbery- Homicide Division is investigating a complaint filed this weekend against Grasham. She says the complaint alleges a criminal act.

The LAPD has not released further information.

A person familiar with the complaint told The Times it concerns an incident that allegedly occurred this month.

Deadline Hollywood first reported the existence of the complaint.

APA said in a statement Monday evening that it "will fully cooperate with any and all investigations conducted by the authorities as they proceed."

Grasham's unraveling began when filmmaker Blaise Godbe Lipman accused the agent of sexually assaulting him when he was a teenage actor in 2007, The Times reported. More allegations have followed, most of them from young men in the industry who say Grasham plied them with alcohol and made unwanted sexual advances.

Shortly before Grasham was fired, his most prominent client, actor Finn Wolfhard of "Stranger Things" and "It" fame left APA following the allegations.

City News Service