Mr Slater was filmed being arrested
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Actor Christian Slater was arrested in New York in the early hours of Tuesday and charged with sexually harassing a woman in the street.
Mr Slater, who is appearing on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie, was filmed in handcuffs being led away to a police car protesting his innocence.
A woman claimed the star had touched her bottom.
Mr Slater, 35, is expected to appear in court later on Tuesday on a charge of third degree sexual abuse.
Detective John Sweeney said Mr Slater was arrested after someone flagged down a police car to make a complaint.
News footage which was later aired showed Mr Slater saying "I didn't do anything" as he was being put into a police car.
Mr Slater, who recently split from his wife, served a three-month prison sentence in 1997 after pleading no contest to assaulting a girlfriend and a police officer.
The actor recently finished a successful West End run in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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