Dustin Hoffman Memoir: What He Says About the Allegations – Hollywood Life

Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman has spent nearly six decades letting his characters do the talking, but his new book finally puts his own voice at center stage. Look at Me, written with Ariel Levy of The New Yorker, hit shelves on November 10, 2026, and it does not skip the 2017 accusations that rocked his career. Between stories from The Graduate and Kramer vs. Kramer, the actor opens up about the moment the #MeToo reckoning reached his own door.

Find out what he wrote below.

What Are the Dustin Hoffman Allegations?

The accusations surfaced in late 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement. Writer Anna Graham Hunter said Hoffman groped her and made inappropriate comments when she was a 17-year-old intern on the set of the 1985 TV movie Death of a Salesman, NBC News reported.

More women followed. Eight in all accused Hoffman of misconduct that allegedly ranged from lewd comments and groping to indecent exposure and sexual assault, and two said they were minors at the time, according to USA Today. No lawsuits or criminal charges were ever brought, and his attorney dismissed the claims as false and defamatory in a 2017 letter to Variety.

How Did Dustin Hoffman React to the Allegations?

In passages USA Today excerpted, Hoffman says he cheered the movement on before it ever touched him.

“When a reckoning started making its way around the internet, and tearing through Hollywood, I thought it was a very good thing,” he writes.

“I knew by then that plenty of women had put up with way too much for way too long in my industry.”

Everything changed once his own name was in the headlines, and he likens the fallout to the McCarthy-era blacklist.

“There was no innocent until proven guilty. There was no ‘proving’ anything at all.”

His wife, Lisa Hoffman, saw the toll firsthand.

“Lisa says I went into a state of shock. ‘I’ve got to get out of here,’ I told her. ‘I’ve got to get away from every other human being.’ We hid in our house in Connecticut.”

What Does Dustin Hoffman Say About the Allegations in ‘Look at Me’?

The book does not address each accusation one by one, People reported, but Hoffman pushes back on them firmly.

“The only problem was that things were being said about me that just weren’t true. I’m sure it’s true that in my life, especially forty years ago, I made some women uncomfortable.”

“It took me years (decades?) to understand that flirting with every woman I met was not okay.”

In one of the memoir’s more searching moments, he turns the question back on himself.

“Is it possible that I’ve been guilty of insufficient empathy?”

Is Dustin Hoffman’s Memoir ‘Look at Me’ Out Now?

Yes. The memoir is available in hardcover, ebook, and audio from Simon & Schuster, with Hoffman narrating the audiobook himself. Beyond the allegations, it revisits his complicated bond with director Mike Nichols and the near-death of his first son, USA Today noted.

Hoffman, who has kept working with roles in Megalopolis and Tuner, is set to discuss the book alongside Levy at Temple Emanu-El in New York City on November 11, 2026.

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