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Uma Thurman: Actress Slams Italian Businessman for Forcefully Kissing Her at amfAR Auction [PHOTO]

Lapo Elkann and Uma Thurman

(Photo : Instagram/giordyp1) Lapo Elkann kisses Uma Thurman during the amfAR's 23rd Cinema Against AIDS Gala at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 19, 2016 in Cap d'Antibes, France.

Actress Uma Thurman is not happy after an Italian businessman planted a non-consensual kiss on her lips at a French charity auction on Thursday.

Thurman was hosting the Cannes Film Festival's annual amFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research) auction on Thursday, where Italian businessman and former FIAT CEO, Lapo Elkann, was declared as the winning bidder for a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show experience, which comes with a pair of tickets to the brand's annual event as well as the show's after-party.

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In a state of high excitement, Elkann celebrated the win by surprising the Kill Bill star with an unexpected kiss on her lips and the controversial lip-lock was caught on camera.

The pictures have since been taken down but we managed to get our hands on some photos, which show the actress smiling before the make-out session and cupping the Elkann's face and neck while kissing the 38-year-old businessman.


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However, the 46-year-old actress' rep has now issued a statement saying that Thurman felt "violated" by the kiss and that it was "not consensual.

"It is opportunism at its worst. She wasn't complicit in it," said the actress' rep Leslie Sloane. "Somewhere in his head he must have thought it an appropriate way of behaving. It clearly wasn't."

"It looks like she was happy to have it happen, but it was not consensual," she told the Daily Mail.

Thurman is currently rumored to be dating hotelier Andre Balazs. The couple, who split up after dating for three years in 2007, seem to have rekindled their romance. The pair were spotted vacationing in St. Bart's in March 2015 and also attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York City earlier this month.

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