According to a story on Thursday, American actor, Chris Noth has been accused of sexually assaulting two women in different encounters in 2004 and 2015.

According to the trade journal, the Hollywood Reporter withheld the women's identities to preserve their privacy, which instead employed pseudonyms.

Noth, 67, who starred in Sex and the City and made a brief appearance in the film's recently released sequel And Just Like That..., told the Reporter that the encounters were consensual.

"The claims leveled against me by people I met years, if not decades ago are totally wrong. These stories may have been published 30 years ago or 30 days ago - no always means no — that is a line I did not cross," Noth told the Reporter.

"It's difficult not to cast doubt on the timing of the release of these tales. I'm not sure why they've surfaced now, but I am convinced of one thing: I did not abuse these women," he stated.

The spokeswoman for Noth did not respond to a request for comment. A call to the attorney identified as his representative was not returned promptly.

The two women contacted the Hollywood Reporter independently, and months apart, the outlet reported. One, who goes by the alias Zoe, told the Reporter that the reappearance of Noth's Sex and the City character, a man-about-town nicknamed Mr. Big, "set something off in me" and compelled her to reveal "who he is."

She requested anonymity because she works in the entertainment sector and feared repercussions if her identity was revealed.

In the premiere episode of And Just Like That..., Noth's character dies of a heart attack following an intensive workout on a Peloton bike. The bikemaker mocked the episode's attention with an ad depicting Noth, but the spot was withdrawn on Thursday following the Reporter's story.

The Los Angeles Police Department investigated if there was an open investigation concerning Noth and determined that there was none, police sergeant Hector Guzman said. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's special victims department similarly has no open investigations, sheriff's Captain Richard Ruiz said.

Zoe, now 40, claims she was molested in 2004 in Noth's Los Angeles apartment when she was 22 years old. According to the newspaper, she met Noth because he did business with the firm where she worked.

According to a friend, she took Zoe to Cedars-Sinai hospital, where she informed personnel she had been assaulted and received treatment for an injury. The companion, not named in the report, stated that police were contacted, but Zoe refused to identify her assailant.

According to the story, her then-boss, who was not identified, stated that Zoe informed her of the attack later that day but requested confidentiality. Zoe sought counseling at a rape crisis center in January 2006, and the center verified to the Reporter while maintaining confidentiality.

The other woman, Lily, now 31, a journalist, stated that she met Noth in 2015 when she was 25 and working as a server in a now-closed New York nightclub's VIP section. She described crying and feeling "violated" when Noth started sex unexpectedly.

According to a friend identified as Alex by the Reporter, a devastated Lily called her and informed her that Noth had sex with her "pretty forcibly" in his flat. Alex stated that she ignored her mother's urging to call the cops.

Lily started to the publication that she had no recollection of the call.

Noth allegedly referred to "our night last week" in messages exchanged with Lily and seen by the Reporter, describing it as "a lot of fun" and adding, "I wasn't quite sure how you felt."

According to the newspaper, Lily said she "certainly enjoyed" his company but "felt slightly used." She stated that she postponed his further attempts to meet.

The allegations provoked an outspoken online statement from actor Zoe Lister-Jones, who worked with Noth on a Law & Order series in which she appeared as a guest star.

"Last week, a friend asked how I felt about Mr. Big's death on And Just Like That, and I replied honestly: relieved," she wrote. "When he inquired as to why, I explained that I was unable to disentangle the actor from the man, and the man is a sexual predator."

Lister-Jones recalls how he went in to sniff her neck during one take and murmured, "'You smell good.'"