The woman said Schwarzenegger continued to harass her for the next two weeks, pulling her onto his lap, grabbing her hand and kissing it, or putting his hands on her shoulders. But at other times, she said, he was well-mannered and charming.

Smith said Schwarzenegger cornered and grabbed her while she was working as an assistant to a producer on the 1987 movie "Predator." The Times contacted her after learning that she had related the incident in April 2002 at a panel discussion on women in Hollywood held on the USC campus.

Smith said the encounter occurred after location shooting, while actors were doing special-effects work in the Los Angeles area. She said Schwarzenegger had appeared at a producer's office on the Fox studio lot, looking for her boss, who was not there. Schwarzenegger said he would wait, according to Smith.

Smith said that when she got up to use the bathroom, Schwarzenegger followed her. She said the two were alone in the office, which she described as a converted bungalow. "I wasn't even all the way in. I don't think the door was closed, and he was right behind me." Smith said.

"He grabbed me from behind with his right hand. He clamped it over my boob and was wrestling with me. He was just basically saying he wanted me and I was saying, 'No, no, no.' "

She said he then asked about her breasts: " 'Are they real? I want to know, are they real?' He wouldn't let go. I fought him. The size of his biceps coming across my chest, they were enormous. I couldn't get away from him at all. It wasn't until I said something about Maria" Shriver, his wife, she said, "that he dropped me, dropped me fast and walked out of the bathroom and out" of the bungalow.

Afterward, she said, she remained in the bungalow and cried. "I was upset," she said. "I was scared. I was all those things. Eventually, my girlfriend came in, and I told her what happened."

That girlfriend, Elaine Thompson, also a crew member on the film, told The Times that Smith was "very shaken."

Thompson said Smith told her that Schwarzenegger "wasn't violent but he definitely had sort of overpowered her in a way that she felt powerless.... I tried to say, this is just sometimes what Arnold does. I said, 'You know what he's like. You know how he kids around and makes off-color comments.' "

Thompson said that she, too, had been groped by Schwarzenegger during location filming in Mexico in 1986. She said she was posing for a picture with crew members of "Predator."