Topshop mogul Philip Green faces assault charges in the United States

Philip Green, the British tycoon behind retailers like Topshop, faces charges of attack crime in the United States, after a fitness instructor reportedly accused him of unwanted trial and error in Arizona.

Green, 67, has been charged with four counts of criminal badault, according to the Pima County Arizona online court record. The full complaint against Green was not immediately available online. An appearance has been scheduled for June 19, according to the documents filed.

Green has denied the charges against him, Reuters reported, quoting the British press badociation.

The charges are another success for Arcadia Group, the troubled UK retailer with brands such as Topshop, Topman, Burton and Dorothy Perkins. Green is the president of Arcadia, owned by his wife, Tina Green.

In May, unrelated to the charges against Green, Arcadia announced that it would close the eleven Topshop stores in the United States, as well as 23 of the 566 Arcadia stores in the UK and Ireland, because the general retailer is was debating "ever-increasing online competition."

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Arcadia follows traditional retailers like Dressbarn, CVS and Pier 1 Imports, which have been forced to close stores in the United States as more and more people shop online.

Arcadia Group sales are reported to have fallen by 10.5% to £ 1.7 billion in the year ending August 2018.

According to the Reuters report, the charges filed in Arizona against Green were related to allegations from a pilates instructor that Green had inappropriately touched her at a Tucson complex in 2016 and 2018.

Arcadia did not immediately respond to Business Insider's email regarding Saturday's charges.

Green "strongly denies" the allegations, Arcadia said in a statement issued on behalf of Green by Reuters. The statement also notes that charges of badual badault or misconduct have not been filed against Green.

Last year, Green was at the center of a #MeToo scandal in the UK after The Telegraph published an investigation into allegations of badual harbadment and racist behavior on the part of one. " prominent businessman ", who was later revealed that he was Green. Green has denied any "illegal badual or racist behavior".