Lawyer for Jeremy Renner rejected accusations Director Yi Zhou spoke out against the actor, with whom Renner allegedly had a “short meeting by mutual consent.” Both Renner and Zhou also said Saturday that they had sent each other cease-and-desist letters regarding the trial.
Over the past week, in a series of posts on Instagram and Daily mail interview, Zhou accused Hawkeye star sent her unwanted “intimate” photos and videos and then threatened to “call ICE” after she “challenged him privately” about alleged misconduct.
Zhou, documentary director Disney Chronicles involving Renner alleged that she had a personal and professional relationship with Renner that caused her to fear for her safety.
“Mr. Renner first contacted me directly in June with personal and intimate photographs of himself, behavior that he has publicly reported to have exhibited in the past,” Zhou wrote. on Instagram. She claims Renner groomed her through calls and text discussions, saying he wanted a relationship. Zhou claims that they began dating and working on two projects together, including Disney Chroniclesand that Renner “appears in 80% of the film.”
However, when the documentary was released last month, Renner “refused to do any public promotion” despite allegedly having written agreements with her production company. Zhou says she asked Renner to help her fight fan accounts falsely claiming the documentary was created by an artificial intelligence without his consent, but he refused.
“When I called him privately about his past misdeeds and asked him to behave decently and to respect me as a woman and as a director, he threatened to call Immigration/ICE on me, an act that deeply shocked and frightened me.” she wrote. “This behavior is unacceptable and symbolic of the power imbalance that continues to harm women in our industry.” The actor's representative previously announced this. Rolling Stone that the allegations were “completely inaccurate and untrue.”
In a statement for People On Saturday, Renner's lawyer, Marty Singer, said Zhou's allegations were “false, outrageous and grossly defamatory,” adding that Zhou retaliated against Renner after he “rejected her romantic advances” and did not promote their shared projects on social media.
Singer admitted that Renner and Zhou had a “brief, consensual encounter” that occurred in July 2025. However, Singer claims that Renner cut off communication with Zhou after she repeatedly sent him “sexually explicit messages expressing her love,” the last of which she allegedly sent on October 24.
As for Chou's claim that Renner threatened to call ICE, Singer said the director “relentlessly harassed and threatened my client with hundreds of unsolicited and unsolicited messages.”
“The true facts are that Ms. Zhou relentlessly and aggressively stalked and harassed my client for several months with no reciprocation from my client except for one brief meeting on July 12, 2025,” Singer said. People. (Zhou did not return immediately Rolling StonePlease comment.)
TMZ reported On Saturday, Renner sent Zhou a cease and desist letter regarding the situation; Hours later, Zhou responded on social media, saying she had sent her own cease-and-desist letter to Renner on November 5th.
“I am sharing my official cease and desist letter sent to Jeremy Renner and his representatives,” Zhou wrote on Saturday. “These letters were sent after I received unwanted sexual content initially and over several months, misinformation about my professional activities and threats involving ICE. These letters show that the fight is over ongoing sexual images, a fan smear campaign and threats involving ICE. It is not because he did not reciprocate in [relationship] We’ve been here since June.”
