Crispin Glover Slams Claims He Held a Woman ‘Captive,’ Says She 'Assaulted' Him Before 'Shakedown'

'Back to the Future' actor Crispin Glover was first accused of battery and assault by a woman identified as Jane Doe in a February complaint filed in California

NEED TO KNOW

• Crispin Glover denies allegations of battery, fraud, and wrongful eviction made by a former girlfriend in a legal complaint
• Glover claims the woman acted erratically, assaulted him, and attempted to extort money through her attorneys
• The actor provided texts, photos, and a restraining order to support his claims and dispute her accusations

Crispin Glover is denying the claims of battery and assault made by a former girlfriend in a complaint filed against the Back to the Future actor over the winter.

A woman identified as Jane Doe accused the 62-year-old actor of battery, fraud, wrongful eviction, malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress in a complaint obtained by PEOPLE on Feb. 25, along with violations of California's civil rights law, the Bane Act. Her filing described the allegations as a "disturbing series of incidents in which Jane Doe was essentially held captive and used for sex and free labor by Mr. Glover under false pretenses," which Glover's representation denied as “baseless allegations” in a statement shared with TMZ at the time.

In court documents Glover filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday, June 3, the actor said the woman's "allegations that I held her captive are patently and provably false."

According to the complaint, Jane Doe, identified as a model from the United Kingdom, alleged she first interacted with Glover on social media in 2015 and did not meet him in person until eight years later. She said Glover promised her a home and a job if she moved to Los Angeles to work as his assistant in 2024, that she was evicted from his home "without any notice or warning of any kind," and that he assaulted her when she tried to re-enter the home to retrieve her belongings.

Glover claimed in his declaration that Jane Doe stayed at his home in L.A. for roughly 16 nights and "asked me to deceive others by saying that we were married in an Islamic ceremony." Glover said that he refused, and that afterward, she "began acting erratically and left my home to stay with friends."

"First, she could come and go as she pleased, and all interior doors were left unlocked, except those leading to the self-contained, locked apartments rented to tenants," Glover said in the court documents. "All exterior doors were only locked from the outside, but could be exited from the inside. Second, many days, Plaintiff said she did not want to leave the house due to not feeling well for various reasons, including what she described in one of her texts as fibromyalgia, which was the first time I was informed of her having this."

Glover's filing also stated that Jane Doe was often alone at home during this period and would have had multiple ways to leave the property and to contact Glover's tenants, her social media followers, or her cell phone contacts to report if she were being held captive.

The actor claimed that on March 2, 2024, the plaintiff forced entry into his home after he told her he "did not want any contact with her, and that I would put her things outside." Glover said in the filing that an unknown man arrived on the property during the incident who threatened "to beat the f—" out of Glover and that the woman "gouged her fingernails into my face, drawing blood" as she attempted to access other parts of his home while he was on the phone with 9-1-1. "I told the 9-1-1 operator that I had just been assaulted," he wrote.

In his declaration, Glover included several screenshots of texts between himself and Jane Doe, a photo of himself showing a bleeding wound on his face and a copy of the temporary restraining order he filed against the woman two days after the incident.

As Glover's representation previously said in February, Jane Doe was arrested by Los Angeles police after this incident. Now, the actor claims in legal documents that her attorneys "asked my legal representative for an unspecified amount of money to prevent legal action against me" in a September 26, 2025 email, more than one year after the incident. "Given the false allegations against me and their request for mediation rather than filing a lawsuit at that time, it became apparent to me that the email was an attempt at what is publicly known as a 'shakedown' to extract money from me," he wrote.

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Glover is best known for portraying Michael J. Fox's onscreen father George McFly in the 1985 classic Back to the Future and for starring in 2000's Charlie's Angels. In recent years, he has appeared in movies like Mr. K, A Blind Bargain, and No! You're Wrong. or: Spooky Action at a Distance.

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