Baron, now a psychic investigator who has a radio program and appears on Court TV's "Psychic Detectives" said she complained to a female assistant director at the time. She also told a co-worker about the encounter years ago.

Paul Stern, her longtime program director at the radio station where she works, said she told him about the incident five years ago and has brought it up again whenever "Twins" airs on TV.

"She was talking about her experiences as an extra and it just kind of came up — the outrageousness of it happening and the nerve of it," said Stern, vice president of operations at the Cable Radio Network in Sunland.

Like many other women who have spoken recently about alleged problems with Schwarzenegger, Baron said that at the time she felt her career would be jeopardized if she spoke out. "You're blacklisted very easily," she said. "They want to know who's difficult and who's not."

She said she did, however, share the incident with the production's only female assistant director. Movie databases show that the only woman with that title was Harwell. Harwell said that while she remembered Baron from the set, she could not recall her complaint. But she did say that Baron's story, as recounted to her by The Times, was consistent with what she had experienced, witnessed and heard from other women.

Reitman, the "Twins" director, said in an interview Friday that he had not witnessed any abusive behavior by Schwarzenegger.

"I was on the set all the time and it was one of the friendliest shoots I've ever been on," said Reitman, who has known Schwarzenegger for 15 years and recently held a campaign fund-raiser for him. "No raunchy stuff. People's families were there.

"Nothing even approximating what you're saying happened. I would have heard something," he said.

The Schwarzenegger campaign made several "Twins" crew members available late Friday via conference call.

Peter Tothpal, a hair stylist who said he had worked with Schwarzenegger for about 12 years, sought to cast doubt on Harwell's account, saying he never saw the actor invite an assistant director into his trailer.

Billy Lucas, Schwarzenegger's stunt double for a decade, said he was with Schwarzenegger whenever the actor changed clothes for stunts and never saw Harwell in his trailer. He conceded he was not with Schwarzenegger each time he changed throughout the filming.

Also coming forward with new allegations against Schwarzenegger on Friday was the former CNN intern, Brooks, now a 45-year-old Culver City businesswoman.

Brooks said she was escorting the actor onto a set at CNN when Schwarzenegger, then in his mid-30s, groped her.