Oscar-nominated Hollywood director David O. Russell is being investigated by police over claims he inappropriately touched the breasts of his 19-year-old transsexual nephew.
Russell, the director behind The Fighter, is accused of grabbing the breasts of preoperative Nicholas Peloquin at a south Florida gym on December 30.
Peloquin, Russell's transsexual nephew and the son of the director's adoptive sister, told police the 53-year-old groped him during a workout session at the Embassy Suites hotel in Deerfield Beach last Friday.
It was reported that, according to Peloquin's testimony, the pair had been doing abdominal exercises and began talking about the 19-year-old's breasts when Russell's hand hovered above Peloquin's 'private parts'.
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