ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER - FOUR MORE WOMEN ACCUSE SCHWARZENEGGER OF GROPING

Four more women have come forward accusing ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER of sexual misconduct - saying he fondled, spanked, touched and physically restrained them in unwanted encounters that left them scared or humiliated.

The incidents, which allegedly took place between 1979 and 2000, brings the number of women who have accused the candidate for Governor of California of sexual harassment to 15.

Among the women who told their stories to the LOS ANGELES TIMES were: a 51-year-old woman who says the TERMINATOR star pinned her to his chest and spanked her in 2000; TAMEE SMITH, 46, who claims he held her and grabbed her breast in 1986; JAN PRINZMETAL, 50, who alleges he reached under her skirt and grabbed her bare buttocks in the mid-1980s; and ELIZABETH ROTHNER, 45, who reveals he lifted her sweatshirt in 1979, exposing her bare breasts.

Schwarzenegger's spokesman, SEAN WALSH, insists three accounts are untrue and he has no recollection of the other.

He says, "He has apologized to those who felt offended. He did not live his life under the expectation that he would someday be governor."

The woman who claims Schwarzenegger spanked her says she was working part time in 2000 at a West Los Angeles sound studio, where Schwarzenegger was doing post-production work on the film THE SIXTH DAY. She says Schwarzenegger followed her into a kitchen, spun her around, pinned her to his chest and swatted her buttocks five or six times.

She notes, "I was so frightened and angry. The level of embarrassment was pretty severe."

The woman claims she told the centre's coordinator, JEFF SCHWARTZ, who says he remembers her complaint.

Smith said Schwarzenegger grabbed her while she was an assistant to a producer on the 1987 movie PREDATOR, after following her into a bathroom.

She recalls, "He grabbed me from behind with his right hand. He clamped it over my boob. He wouldn't let go. I fought him. The size of his biceps coming across my chest, they were enormous. I couldn't get away from him at all. It wasn't until I said something about (his wife) MARIA (SHRIVER) that he dropped me, dropped me fast."

Smith says her alleged incident had a lasting impact, explaining, "Any time you make a woman feel that vulnerable or that overpowered, it changes you forever. You think twice before you go into an alley. You think twice before you go into a restroom."