Dustin Hoffman admits he is 'obsessed with sex' and 'may have made some women uncomfortable' as he breaks silence on #MeToo allegations

The revelations just keep coming from Dustin Hoffman's dishy new memoir, with the acting legend issuing a withering denial of sexual misconduct accusations raised by six young women in his Tootsie heyday. 'I'm sure it's true that in my life, especially forty years ago, I made some women uncomfortable. But 'uncomfortable' is a subjective emotional state,' Hoffman, 89, writes in Look At Me, which hit shelves Tuesday morning. 'What is crass and offensive to one person, another individual might find hilarious, or enlivening, or even sort of cozy,' the seven-time Oscar nominee, and two-time winner, continued.The father of six writes about his signature 'bawdy sense of humor' in his new tell-all, declaring: 'I don't even know why we apply 'dirty' to anything sexual. As Lenny Bruce put it, 'If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.' I'm out there. I love a so-called dirty joke.'The Midnight Cowboy legend added, 'That's not the same thing as pressuring someone to do something they didn't want to do.' The long-buried accusations – ranging from sexual harassment to exposing himself to a minor – from six different women predated what Hoffman describes in his book as the 'bewildering' #MeToo movement.The sordid claims went viral nearly a decade ago after surfacing amid the hashtag activism that called out a host of Hollywood heavyweights. 'It took me an embarrassingly long time to grasp that if I was flirting or my jokes were too dirty, people who were not my wife might think I was being inappropriate,' Dustin Hoffman writes in his just released memoir, 'I know I'm harmless, she knows I'm harmless, but if you'd never met me before, would you know?' Seven-time Oscar nominee Hoffman with his wife of more than 46 years, Lisa Hoffman (née Gottsegen), with whom he shares four children; seen here on Monday, November 9.Hoffman first apologized in October 2017, when Anna Graham-Hunter, a former production assistant, described in explicit detail how he sexually harassed her on the set of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in 1985.Graham-Hunter was 17 at the time and Hoffman was in his mid-forties.She detailed in journal entries how the actor, newly-married at the time to Lisa Gottsegen Hoffman, told her he wanted 'soft boiled clitoris' for breakfast and accused him of telling others on the set that he wanted to feast on their breasts.In his statement in response to Graham-Hunter's claims, Hoffman said: 'I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation.'I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.'Hoffman also faced the accusations of a second woman who claimed he harassed her in the 1990s.Screenwriter and playwright Wendy Riss Gatsiounis, now 57, told Variety at the time how she met Hoffman in 1991 when she was in her early 20s and he was 53. Hoffman addresses the #MeToo movement in his memoir, writing, 'When a reckoning started making its way around the internet, and tearing through Hollywood, I thought it was a very good thing... Not for a second did I worry that anything negative would be said about me' Hoffman as Willy Loman in the 1985 CBS TV adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which the actor also starred in for 155 Tony-winning performances on Broadway in 1984 Hoffman as the villainous Captain in Steven Spielberg's Hook in 1991, the year playwright Wendy Riss Gatsiounis alleges he sexually harassed her during a business meetingRiss Gatsiounis claimed he sexually propositioned her during the second of two meetings which had been scheduled to discuss adapting her play, A Darker Purpose, into a movie.The meetings took place at the offices of Hoffman's company Punch Productions in the Rockefeller Center and screenwriter Murray Schisgal, of Tootsie fame, was present, she said.'I go in, and this time it's, like, Dustin Hoffman's really different,' she said, explaining how he had behaved appropriately at their first work session.'He says, 'Before you start, let me ask you one question, Wendy — have you ever been intimate with a man over 40?' I'll never forget — he moves back, he opens his arms, and he says, 'It would be a whole new body to explore.''I'm trying to go back to my pitch, and I'm trying to talk about my play. Then Dustin Hoffman gets up and he says he has to do some clothing shopping at a nearby hotel, and did I want to come along? He's like, 'Come on, come to this nearby hotel,'' she said.Riss Gatsiounis, who later found success as a writer-producer of Yellowstone and Mayor of Kingstown, said that Hoffman later backed out of a project as a result of her refusal to go with him. The late Schisgal, who died at 93 in 2020, responded to her claims in 2017 by saying he could not remember any such meetings.Meanwhile, Graham-Hunter dug deeper into the lurid details of Hoffman's alleged behavior in The Hollywood Reporter: 'He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me.' Hoffman said his wife Lisa understands him because 'she fell in love with a guy with a bawdy sense of humor who is obsessed with sex and is always looking for attention. Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me''One morning I went to his dressing room to take his breakfast order; he looked at me and grinned, taking his time,' Graham-Hunter added.'Then he said, ''I'll have a hard-boiled egg … and a soft-boiled clitoris.'' His entourage burst out laughing. I left, speechless. Then I went to the bathroom and cried.'The Daily Mail has requested comment from representatives for Riss Gatsiounis and Hoffman. Hoffman addresses the #MeToo movement in his memoir, writing: 'So, when a reckoning started making its way around the internet, and tearing through Hollywood, I thought it was a very good thing. I knew by then that plenty of women had put up with way too much for way too long in my industry.'He continued: 'Not for a second did I worry that anything negative would be said about me, because the idea of taking something from someone sexually that they didn't want to give... it's just not something I've ever done.'As for his wife of more than 46 years, Hoffman said she understands his questionable taste jokes because she 'fell in love with a guy ... who is obsessed with sex and is always looking for attention. Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me.'The Rain Man star added: 'It took me an embarrassingly long time to grasp that if I was flirting or my jokes were too dirty, people who were not my wife might think I was being inappropriate. I know I'm harmless, she knows I'm harmless, but if you'd never met me before, would you know?'