Ben Affleck i Matt Damon’s The Rip director Joe Carnahan, has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by an ex-girlfriend.
In legal documents obtained by Us Weekly on Friday January 30, Michelle Crosby45, claimed Carnahan, 56, physically assaulted her several times during their four-year relationship. The Hollywood Reporter was the first to report the news.
Carnahan, meanwhile, made his own allegations against Crosby in an earlier lawsuit, accusing her of damaging a Porsche he was allowed to borrow and refusing to return the vehicle. Hollywood Reporter. According to the outlet, he also claimed that Crosby harassed him, including through physical assault.
Crosby made his allegations against Carnahan in a cross-complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court while responding to the lawsuit.
The legal filing detailed an alleged incident in a hotel room in 2024 that “turned violent.”
“What started as consensual intimacy turned violent when Carnahan suddenly pulled her hair while yelling for her to stop. He refused and commented, ‘If you think you can do this to me, I’m going to break this misunderstanding.'” She then laughed cruelly and said, ‘I guess you’re not going to any parties without hair,'” the legal documents state.
The documents continued to allege, “When she finished, she packed her bags and left the room. Ms. Crosby reported the assault to the Riverside Sheriff’s Department. She suffered permanent scalp damage and baldness, compounded by stress-related hair loss, which forced her to wear a wig. Shortly thereafter, Carnahan emailed her as if nothing was attached. a copy of the script RIP.”
Joe Carnahan.
(Photo by Arturo Holmes/WireImage)Crosby also accused Carnahan of subjecting her to a “pattern of physical violence” that she claimed in the legal filing included “pushing her into a Christmas tree, pinning her under his body, grabbing her by the throat and tackling her to the ground.”
“This was monstrous behavior by a Hollywood director that should not go unchallenged,” Crosby said. The Hollywood Reporter. “These serious matters demand accountability.”
Carnahan has strongly denied the allegations of assault against him.
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“This was a completely consensual relationship that ended in the spring of 2024, and since then the other party has consistently threatened Joe with exactly what you’re reading now: the threat to attack Joe publicly when his movie was released,” Carnahan’s attorney said. Wendy Slavkin said through a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “The charges against Joe were dismissed in July 2025 and he has had no contact with the defendant outside of a courtroom since last May while he was trying to get a permanent restraining order against her.”
Us Weekly Carnahan’s representatives have been contacted for comment.
Carnahan recently directed Damon and Affleck’s last film The Rip, which got 41.6 million views in its first three days after it came out on Netflix in January. Crosby filed his cross-complaint before the press tour.
The film, inspired by a 2016 Miami-Dade narcotics raid, follows a team of Miami narcotics officers who unexpectedly find millions in cash who then try to decide whether or not to keep the large sum of money.