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He cultivated a reputation as a 'ladies man', f.e. in a 1989 Spy magazine article, but his manipulative methods in trying to have sex with young actresses were far more sinister: Since 2017 Toback has been accused of sexual assault or sexual harassment by 395 women, according to 'The Guardian' [April 10, 2017].

Was an uncredited script doctor on Bad Boys : Flics de choc (1995).

Was roommates with Jim Brown for about a year and a half before casting him in Mélodie pour un tueur (1978).

Wrote uncredited revisions to the script for Warren Beatty's political comedy Bulworth (1998).

Is still a compulsive gambler. In an interview from Interview magazine, Toback claims he took the most hits of LSD ever recorded.

Graduated from Harvard University in 1966. In interviews, he always refers to the school as "Harvard College", as Harvard alumni who were undergraduates often do to distinguish themselves from alumni who received only their graduate degrees from Harvard.

Wrote uncredited revisions to the script for Las Vegas Boy (2004) at a fee of $150,000 per week, when Barry Levinson was attached to direct it.

Was an uncredited script doctor on USS Alabama (1995).

Toback wrote three movies with a subplot of point-shaving in collegiate basketball: Le flambeur (1974), Black and White (1999) and Harvard Story (2001).

Was a regular dancer on Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll show at the age of 14.

Was ordered on Wednesday, April 9th 2025, to pay $1.68 billion after a sexual assault trial in New York. 40 women testified against him.

Toback's first successful screenplay, Le flambeur (1974) is substantially autobiographical. For a long time, he was a compulsive gambler, albeit from a well-heeled New York garment-district family

Taught writing at the City College of New York (CCNY) in the early 1970s. The James Caan character in Le flambeur (1974) was also a college teacher, a professor of English literature at New York University, though scenes from the movie were filmed at CCNY (now known as City University of New York).

Retrospective at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2008.

Was an uncredited script doctor on Harcèlement (1994).

Born on exactly the same day as Joe Eszterhas.