Larry King: Veteran TV host accused of groping woman

TV legend Larry King has been accused of groping singer Eddie Fisher's ex-wife Terry Richard.

Speaking to Daily Mail TV, the 63-year-old says she was assaulted on two separate occasions in a two-year span.

In 2005, Richard claims King, the widely-recognised journalist who hosted Larry King Live from 1985 to 2010, put his hand down her backless dress at a Los Angeles baseball award ceremony.

"It ended up with about three or four of his fingers in the crack of my a**, resting in the crack of my a**," she said of the incident.

While Richard initially wanted to make a knee-jerk reaction, she didn't make any sudden moves.

"My reaction was to slap him in his face but he was the guest speaker," she added. "What really got me was – I’m a wife, my child was at the event, I’m at work and I was over 50."

But that supposedly wasn't the last time it happened. One year later, Richard alleges she posed for a photo with King and he grabbed her bottom so hard it bruised.

However, it happened publicly and she claims she "couldn't say anything."

As to why she's speaking out now, Richard says she was inspired by Taylor Swift.

​"When Taylor Swift testified and took the DJ who groped her to court and won, it started a movement," she explained.

Richard said that 84-year-old King got a "thrill" out of touching her inappropriately in public because it would urge her to stay silent.

When the Mail reached out for comment, King's lawyer denied any wrongdoing on his behalf: "Mr King did no such thing then or ever."