“The second I walked
into the room,” Anna Richardson says, several weeks after the incident,
“he was like a dog in heat.” Other stories about Schwarzenegger
tend to fit her simile. During the production of the 1991 mega-blockbuster
Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a producer on that film recalls
Arnold’s emerging from his trailer one day and noticing a fortyish
female crew member, who was wearing a silk blouse. Arnold went up
to the woman, put his hands inside her blouse, and proceeded to
pull her breasts out of her bra. Another observer says, “I couldn’t
believe what I was seeing. This woman’s nipples were exposed, and
here’s Arnold and a few of his clones laughing. I went after the
woman, who had run to the shelter of a nearby trailer. She was hysterical
but refused to press charges for fear of losing her job. It was
disgusting.”
A former Schwarzenegger employee recalls another
incident from the T2 days. At the time, director James Cameron
was married but having an affair with one of the film’s stars, Linda
Hamilton. One evening, while riding in a limo with Cameron, Hamilton,
and others, Schwarzenegger suddenly lifted Hamilton onto his lap
and began fondling her breasts through the very thin top she was
wearing. The witness says, “I couldn’t believe Cameron didn’t have
the balls to tell Arnold to get off his girl. The whole thing made
me sick.”
A female producer on one of Schwarzenegger’s films
tells of a time when her ex-husband came to visit the set. When
she introduced the man to Schwarzenegger, the star quipped, “Is
this guy the reason why you didn’t come up to my hotel room last
night and suck my cock?”
A
woman who went to the set of 1996’s Eraser recalls the friend
she was visiting there being asked to retrieve Schwarzenegger from
his trailer for a shot that was ready to roll earlier than expected.
“He asked me if I wanted to meet Arnold, and I said sure. When we
opened the door to his trailer, Arnold was giving oral sex to a
woman. He looked up and, with that accent, said very slowly, ‘Eating
is not cheating.’ I met him again about a year later and asked him,
in German, whether or not eating was cheating, and he just laughed.”
It’s clearly convenient for a guy who preaches
family values in interviews—particularly when he’s promoting the
Inner-City Games Foundation, his youth charity, and citing single
parenting as a major social woe—to have some loose parameters as
to what constitutes cheating on one’s wife. (It depends on what
your definition of define is.) By some accounts, Maria Shriver
has not had it all that easy. Two people witnessed an incident at
a 7 a.m. tennis game that Mr. and Mrs. Schwarzenegger were playing
at their hotel, during the shooting of Total Recall. One
of the witnesses says, “Maria started throwing up. She couldn’t
play, and Arnold started berating her and then stomped off the court. At
noon that day, the smiling couple announced that Maria was pregnant.”
Schwarzenegger was also seen carrying on with his Total Recall
costar Rachel Ticotin. A journalist who once accompanied the (then)
married Ticotin and Schwarzenegger on an evening out says, “The
three of us had gone to dinner, where the two of them were all lovey-dovey.
We then went to a nightclub, but I left to go back to the Hotel
Nikko México soon thereafter. When I left them, they were making
out and were all over each other on a banquette. The next day, I
saw Arnold and Maria strolling out of the elevator. Maria gave me
the look a married woman does when she knows that you know her husband
is cheating on her. I felt terrible for her.”
A lot of people must feel the same. A lawyer who
frequents Café Roma, a Beverly Hills bistro that is a hangout for
real and wannabe wiseguys, says, “When ever I see Schwarzenegger
and his crew [walk into the place], I leave quickly and go to another
restaurant. This guy is a real pig. He will say the most disgusting
sexual things to women he doesn’t know. Everybody knows he is Arnold
Schwarzenegger. . . . But in any other city, somebody would have
cracked him by now.” In Hollywood, though, nobody cracks a billion-dollar
box office gorilla.
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