The Wrong Girl actress, a former Top Model host and a theatre star: The three women at the centre of Craig McLachlan sexual assault allegations

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Erika Heynatz, Angela Scundi and Christie Whelan Browne have accused Craig McLachlan of sexual assault and bullying, allegations the Australian actor says are 'entirely false'.    

The three woman have alleged the Gold Logie winner performed a range of indecent acts when they worked together on The Rocky Horror Show musical.

Heynatz, 42, rose to prominence hosting Australia's Next Top Model and had a recurring role on popular soap Home And Away, playing biology teacher Charlotte King.

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Christie Whelan Browne (pictured left) and Angela Scundi are among the three women to accuse Australian actor Craig McLachlan of sexually inappropriate behaviour and bullying

Erika Heynatz rose to prominence hosting Australia's Next Top Model. She has made serious allegations against McLachlan 

McLachlan (pictured) has vehemently denied the allegations put forward by the three women

She also hosted the only season of Channel Ten's short-lived The Hot House program. 

The singer, model and actress has been married to her financier husband Andrew Kingston for nine years. 

Her Rocky Horror co-star Angela Scundi has also made serious allegations.

She starred in 2010 film I Love You Too and a string of Sydney Theatre Company productions.   

Angela Scundi (pictured left) starred in 2010 film I Love You Too and a string of Sydney Theatre Company productions

Rocky Horror Show stars, from left to right: Nicholas Christo, Tim Maddren, Ashlea Pyke, Craig McLachlan, Erika Heynatz and Brendan Irving

Cast: The 2014 cast of the Rocky Horror Show musical, with Craig McLachlan pictured centre front and Erika Heynatz seen at centre back

Scundi said McLachlan kissed her passionately onstage even after she had asked that it not be done.

She said when she confronted him about the unwanted kiss, he abused and threatened her.

'I said: ''Don't you kiss me. Don't you do that ever again'' and he turned. I haven't felt that terrified ever in my life, or ever again,' she told the ABC.

'He was just a different person. He said: ''You are nothing. Don't you dare talk to me like that. I will end you.'' And in that moment, I believed him.' 

Christie Whelan Browne, the third woman to make the allegations, also appeared in Channel Ten program The Wrong Girl alongside McLachlan in 2016 and 2017. 

She starred in Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door in 2015 and 2011's Winners and Losers.

Whelan Browne told the ABC she was dismayed when she learned McLachlan had been cast for The Wrong Girl but felt she had to continue to have a civil relationship with him for the sake of her career.

She said his behaviour towards her on that program was appropriate.

But she said during Rocky Horror McLachlan, who played the transvestite Frank N Furter to her Janet, said he indecently assaulted her on stage during a sex scene. 

Denial: Australian actor Craig McLachlan has vehemently denied allegations of indecent assault and sexual harassment put forward by multiple women in a joint investigation by The Sydney Morning Herald and the ABC on Monday

Allegations: Erika Heynatz, who once hosted Australia's Next Top Model and had a recurring role on Home And Away, is one of the women who has made allegations against McLachlan

The three women said they had asked the production company, GFO, for an independent investigation into their claims, but that fell through.

In a statement, GFO said managing director John Frost was not available for an interview and the company declined to make any comment on the record.  

McLachlan has vehemently denied the allegations put forward by the three women.

In response to the claims, the 52-year-old told The Sydney Morning Herald via e-mail: 'I have NEVER done anything like this.'

Speaking out: Christie Whelan Browne alleges McLachlan 'indecently assaulted her during the show'

Musical: The cast of the 2014 production of the Rocky Horror Show, where McLachlan played the lead role of transvestite scientist, Dr Frank N. Furter

He further told the ABC: 'Frankly, they seem to be simple inventions, perhaps made for financial reasons, perhaps to gain notoriety. In either event, they are to the best of my knowledge utterly and entirely false.' 

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Craig McLachlan for comment. 

One of Australia's most iconic actors, McLachlan first appeared in a guest capacity on The Young Doctors, before playing Kylie Minogue's on-screen brother in Neighbours. 

He won the Gold Logie Award for his role on the popular soap.  

For two years in the early 1990s, he starred as Grant Mitchell in Home And Away, and has had recurring roles in beloved Australian dramas McLeod's Daughters and Packed To The Rafters.  

Starring role: McLachlan as he appeared on Neighbours in the late 1980s

Famous face: McLachlan pictured in 2014