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Jeremy Renner is firing back after Chinese filmmaker Yi Zhou accused him of sending explicit images and making deportation threats — allegations the actor is calling “completely false.”
Zhou, who said she collaborated with the “Avengers” star on the documentary “Chronicles of Disney” and an animated project, took to Instagram this week alleging that Renner, 54, sent her “a string of unwanted / unsolicited pornographic images of himself” in June.
She further claimed that when she confronted him, he “threatened to call immigration/ICE” on her.
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“Avengers” star Jeremy Renner faces accusations from filmmaker Yi Zhou of unwanted explicit images and ICE threats. (Rich Polk/NBC via Getty Images; Julien Hekimian/Getty Images)
On Nov. 7, she was presented with a cease and desist letter from Renner’s attorney, Marty Singer, obtained by Fox News Digital.
“Your unhealthy obsession with and harassment of my client has escalated to serious tortious conduct which will not be tolerated by my client,” the letter read in part. “If it does not stop immediately, my client will pursue legal action against you to hold you liable to the fullest extent of the law for, among other things, defamation, harassment, and to seek a restraining order precluding you from any further contact with my client.”
Singer also condemned Zhou’s accusations as “false, outrageous and highly defamatory” in a statement shared with People on Friday.
Singer claimed Zhou’s posts were retaliation after the actor “rejected her romantic advances” and declined to promote her projects on social media.
Zhou made a series of allegations against Renner this week on social media. (Stewart Cook/Amazon MGM Studios via Getty Images)
According to Singer, Renner met Zhou in July at a hotel in Reno, Nevada, where he sat for an interview for her documentary. The attorney said the pair shared a “brief consensual encounter” during that meeting.
He said the two met again in August, but that Renner hasn’t spoken to Zhou in over a month. He alleged that she has continued sending him “sexually explicit messages expressing her love,” with the most recent sent on Oct. 24.
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Renner’s attorney claimed Zhou has been “relentlessly harassing and threatening my client with hundreds of unsolicited and unwanted messages.” (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Disney)
Singer claimed Zhou has been “relentlessly harassing and threatening my client with hundreds of unsolicited and unwanted messages.”
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“The true facts are that Ms. Zhou has relentlessly and aggressively harassed and pursued my client for months with no reciprocation on my client’s part, other than a single brief encounter on July 12, 2025,” Singer said in his statement.
Renner’s attorney, Marty Singer, condemned Zhou’s accusations as “false, outrageous and highly defamatory” in a statement released Friday, Nov. 7. (Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)
After receiving the cease and desist letter from Renner, Zhou made an additional statement on her Instagram in which she wrote that she isn’t speaking out against Renner for “retaliation,” but to “protect my professional reputation” and “set boundaries.”
She also claimed that other women came to her with their own allegations against Renner, and that she sent a cease and desist letter of her own to the actor on Nov. 5, accusing him of “harassment and intimidation.”
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