Goldie Hawn had to flee the home of famed 'Li'l Abner' cartoonist
Al Capp after being attacked by the sex maniac — but she went on to have the last laugh!
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The beloved actress spoke out about her horrendous encounter with Capp when she was only 19 years old — recalling her 1966 invitation to "audition" for the famous cartoonist at his Manhattan home. "I go to this big Park Avenue apartment," she recalled. [Capp] thunders through the door...and he said, 'Well, I'm going to slip into something more comfortable.' And something went off in my brain, like, 'More comfortable?'" Goldie then revealed the cartoonist came back in nothing but a dressing gown!
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Capp asked the budding actress to show off her legs, recalled Goldie, before he decided to show off that he was naked! "He opened up his dressing gown," recalled Goldie, "and I looked at it..It was scary. I said, 'Mr. Capp, I will never get a job like this.' And he said to me, 'Oh, I've had them all.' And I said, 'Well, it doesn't matter, but I'll never do this' — and he said, 'Well, you're never going to get anywhere in this business. You should go home and marry a Jewish dentist!'"
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Goldie added that her mother had warned her about visiting Capp — who was later forced into seclusion after harassing numerous college gals! Investigative reporter Jack Anderson ruined Capp's career by reporting on how the cartoonist was asked to leave the University of Alabama campus in 1968 after four college girls accused him of making "indecent advances" to them.
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Veteran newsman Brit Hume was working for Anderson at the time, and recalled that the syndicated column was seen by a woman at the University of Wisconsin who had also been attacked by Capp. Hume recalled: "She — like a number of women across the country, we later came to learn — was agonizing with the local prosecutor about what to do." Capps would later settle that case by pleading to "attempted adultery," and give up public appearances before dying in 1979 at the age of 70.
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Goldie, meanwhile, enjoyed a last laugh on the disgraced cartoonist after finding fame on "Laugh-In." As she recalled: "Finally, the show came out, years later, and I was able to send Mr. Capp a telegram. I was
doing 'Laugh-In' at the time, so I was pretty established...and I said, 'Well, congratulations! I guess I didn't have to marry a Jewish dentist after all!'"
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