Brett Ratner is preparing to go to battle with at least one of the women accusing him of sexual assault, with lawyers for the director filing a defamation lawsuit against Melanie Kohler on Wednesday.

The complaint for damages, which was submitted to the US District Court in Hawaii, states that Kohler made 'deliberately false and malicious accusations' in an October 20 Facebook post.

Kohler wrote in the post, which has since been taken down, that 'Brett Ratner raped [her]' and 'was a rapist on at least one night in Hollywood about 12 years ago' when he 'preyed on [her] as a drunk girl [and] forced himself upon [her].'

Ratner says that Kohler's statement is 'entirely false, fabricated, and fictional' in his compliant, which asks for damages in an amount to be determined at trial.

The director's counsel on the island, Eric Seitz, is asking for the damages to cover the 'injuries to his personal and professional reputations' that his client 'suffered' as well as his 'emotional distress, worry, anger, and anxiety.'

Soon after that lawsuit was filed, a seventh victim came forward, with stylist and Bravo reality star Leah Forester telling The New York Times that Ratner masturbated in front of her over a decade ago in Los Angeles.

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Buddies: Brett Ratner (above with Robert Evans and Harvey Weinstein in 2003) filed a complaint in the US District Court for Hawaii on Wednesday accusing Melanie Kohler of defamation and asking for damages

Claims: Kohler wrote 'Brett Ratner raped [her]' and 'was a rapist on at least one night in Hollywood about 12 years ago' when he 'preyed on [her] as a drunk girl' online

New victim: At the same time, stylist and star of the short-lived Bravo series 'There Goes the Motherhood' Leah Forester (above) claimed Ratner masturbated in front of her

Forester, who starred on the short-lived series 'There Goes the Motherhood,' said that the alleged incident occurred at the home of legendary producer Robert Evans.

She was cornered by Ratner one night she claims and watched in shock as the Rush Hour director proceeded to pleasure himself in front of her.

'He basically pushes me into the room, comes in and closes the door behind him and shoves me against the wall,' said Forester, who claimed that Ratner told her he was going to show her some old reels.

He then tried to tug off her clothing before ultimately ejaculating on her, claims Forester.

'I just remember shaking and being in the bathroom and trying mentally to figure out what to do with this experience that just happened,' said Forester, who noted that 'it all happened so fast'.

Back then: The director denied Forester's allegations (above in 2005 around the time of the incident)

She struggled to process what had occurred for years, and even attended a party the following day for Ratner - something that is not at all uncommon with victims who know the individual who has sexually harassed and/or assaulted them.

Ratner dismissed the story through his lawyer Marty Singer, who said in a letter that Forester's decision to attend that subsequent party 'is completely inconsistent with the notion that something objectionable had occurred with my client the day before.'

The accusations have already caused Ratner to lose work, with Warner Bros. announcing late Wednesday it was severing ties with Ratner amid multiple sexual harassment claims made against the producer and director.

A person familiar with the decision said Wednesday that Ratner's expired first-look production deal with the studio will not be renewed and that he will no longer occupy the office space he rented on the company's lot in Burbank, California.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Ratner has also been taken off of the adaptation of the Donna Tartt novel The Goldfinch, which he had previously been set to produce.

Ratner's production company, RatPac Entertainment does have a financing deal with the studio that will continue until March 2018.

The person said it is unclear whether that will be renewed. The $450million co-financing deal was signed in 2013 and began early the next year.

A Warner Bros. representative said the studio had no comment

Ratner said he was stepping away following the claims of sexual harassment made against him by six women in a Los Angeles Times article published Wednesday, saying he does not want to have any possible negative impact to the studio until what he called 'personal issues' are resolved.

He did not reference the allegations specifically.

In 2013, Warner Brothers announced that they would be entering into a four-year contract with RatPac Entertainment worth an estimated $450 million, which is now being reevaluated in the wake of sexual harassment and assault claims being made against the director.

RatPac was launched in 2012 by Ratner and Australian business partner James Packer, who was a neophyte in the film industry at the time and newly single following his split and later divorce from second wife Erica Packer.

Warner Bros is reevaluating their $450 million first look deal with RatPac, the media company Ratner launched with Australian billionaire James Packer (pair above in 2014)

Moneyman: The deal between RatPac and Warner Bros was a join venture, with Steve Mnuchin's Dune also coming aboard (Mnuchin and President Trump on Tuesday)

We belong not together: Packer ended his engagement to Ratner's best friend Mariah Carey (left in 2009, right in 2016), who the director set him up with in 2015

The men agreed to finance a slate of approximately 75 films for the studio, but to get things rolling had to find a deep-pocketed investor willing to put up a sizable investment in what was essentially a start-up company.

Enter Steve Mnuchin, whose Dune Capital Partners agreed to come aboard in a joint venture that is now falling apart in spectacular fashion.

Things started off strong for RatPac-Dune Entertainment at Warner Brothers thanks to the massive success of their very first film, Gravity.

Dune was coming off a lucrative run at 20th Century Fox at the time, bolstered towards the end by the release of Avatar, which raked in over $3 billion worldwide.

The company's success rate started dropping off at Warner Brothers however, with very costly flops such as Jupiter Ascending, Pan, Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Things then began to take a turn in the personnel department earlier this year when Packer pulled out of the company in April, selling his stake to Russian-born American and British businessman Len Blavatnik's Access Entertainment.

That move turned RatPac into a subsidiary of Access, who has control of more stock with the purchase of Packer's shares.

Mnuchin followed suit in late June, six months into his new role as US Secretary of Treasury under President Trump.

It was right on schedule, with Mnuchin saying he would be out with 120 days of President Trump's inauguration.

That move also came three weeks after the company was bailed out thanks to one very impressive lady, with the release of 'Wonder Woman' giving the company its biggest success of the year.

Gal Godot helped RatPac with her film Wonder Woman, which was a smashing success thanks to the $600million it grossed at the box office

Mnuchin named his fiancee Louise Linton interim CEO of Dune after he was sworn into office in mid-February, but she too had to step down in late June before their wedding.

In those few weeks however, Wonder Woman' had a global box office haul that was just shy of $600 million.

That worked out far better than his last Hollywood venture, with Mnuchin taking a stake in Relativity Media and then pulling out just before the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

His decision to abandon Relativity and its flashy CEO Ryan Kavanaugh was viewed by some as the final blow to the company, which had been on life support for some time.

Things were not that dire at Warner Brother, however, and as of February the three-year relationship was viewed as a positive one by both sides in at least one measure.

'Purely on the performance of our slate, they have been successful,' said Warner Brothers spokesperson Dee Dee Meyers.

'The slate has been profitable over the life of this relationship.'

That statement came when it was revealed that Packer was looking to exit, a claim that was scoffed at by a RatPac spokesperson, who said: 'Both Brett Ratner and James packer are absolutely, unequivocally staying in their investment deal with Warner Brothers.'

Two months later, Packer was out.

Ratner's split from his fortuitous friends was the end of what appeared to be, by all accounts, a mutually beneficial relationship.

Packer and Mnuchin had massive fortunes that could fund Ratner's vision, and the Hollywood heavyweight could provide the businessman with entree into the most exclusive and star-studded of Hollywood events.

He even set Packer up with his best friend and rumored ex, singer Mariah Carey.

Packer eventually made it official by proposing to Carey with a 35-carat diamond and platinum ring valued at $10 million, but the two then split last October.

It is unclear if that had a negative impact on his partnership with Ratner.

Mnuchin, unlike Ratner and Packer, had little interest in the night life and parties, running in much different social circles than the two men.

He did very much enjoy the prestige events however, and having access to a room at the Hotel du Cap during the Cannes Film Festival where he could hold court.

'I've never seen Steven at any parties, any events,' Ratner told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year.

'He's not like a lot of people who get into Hollywood so they can be seen.'

Packer was a different story, and Ratner was quick to take credit for the Australian billionaire's romance with Carey.

'Mariah is one of my best friends. We are Aries brother and sister because our birthdays are a day apart. It's hard for me to have best friends and not want to introduce them,' said Ratner in a 2015 interview.

'They're going to be together for a while.'

Sadly, just like Ratner's relationship with Packer, the pair eventually went their separate ways.

Ratner said earlier he was personally stepping away from Warner Brothers related activity after six women, among them actors Natasha Henstridge (left) and Olivia Munn, accused him of sexual harassment and assault

Speaking out: Jamie Ray Newman (left in 2003) claims that in 2005 Ratner 'graphically described' how he wanted to perform oral sex on her; Katherine Towne (right in 2008) says he followed her into a bathroom

Six women claimed that they were victims of sexual harassment and/or assault at the hands of 'Rush Hour' director in a Los Angeles Times exposè.

Among the women are model-turned-actress Natasha Henstridge, 43, who said that Ratner forced her into performing oral sex on him back in the early nineties after the two spent an evening hanging out at a friend's apartment in Manhattan.

'He strong-armed me in a real way. He physically forced himself on me,' said Henstridge, who was 19 at the time.

'At some point, I gave in and he did his thing.'

Also coming forward was actress Olivia Munn, who claimed that the director masturbated in front of her back in 2004 when she was asked to deliver food to his trailer on the set of 'After the Sunset.'

'He walked out... with his belly sticking out, no pants on, shrimp cocktail in one hand and he was furiously masturbating in the other,' said Munn.

'And before I literally could even figure out where to escape or where to look, he ejaculated.'

Ratner, through his attorney Marty Singer, denied the allegations of all six women.

Ratner is the latest Hollywood figure to be accused of sexual harassment in a scandal that began after The New York Times published an expose last month about decades of harassment allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Jamie Ray Newman, who has appeared on shows including 'Drop Dead Diva,' 'Wicked City' and 'Bates Motel' over the past decade, said she had just gotten her first big break when she ran into Ratner on a 2005 flight.

She was excited to talk to the director about the industry, but that was not the direction their conversation headed according to the actress.

'He was graphically describing giving me oral sex and how he was addicted to it,' said Newman.

She later told her parents about the conversation, which she said began roughly five minutes after take-off.

Ratner also showed Newman, 39, nude photos of his girlfriend at the time claims Newman.

In 2005, the director was dating Serena Williams.

Newman's story was dismissed as a 'ridiculous claim' by Singer.

Katherine Towne, 39, also claimed she had a run-in with Ratner around this time while attending a party at his Los Angeles home.

The actress and daughter of Oscar-winning 'Chinatown' scribe Robert Towne said that Ratner made repeated advances on her despite her lack of interest, and later followed her into the bathroom.

She said that she tried to diffuse the situation by joking about her weight, to which Ratner replied: 'I like them chubby sometimes.'

Towne said she gave the director her number and made a hasty exit, but then had to deal with six months of non-stop phone calls from his assistant.

'Even if hypothetically this incident occurred exactly as claimed, how is flirting at a party, complimenting a woman on her appearance, and calling her to ask her for a date wrongful conduct?' asked Singer.

The other two women who came forward were both extras on the set of the 2001 film 'Rush Hour 2.'

Eri Sasaki was 21 and had been modelling prior to filming, and claims that one day Ratner walked over to her and ran a finger down her bare midriff before asking her to join him in the bathroom.

When she declined he said: 'Don't you want to be famous?'

He tried a few days later as well, this time offering her a line of dialogue in exchange for their tete-a-tete claims Sasaki.

Jorina King was picked by Ratner himself out of a crowd and told she would be given some dialogue in the film.

King claims she was later called to his trailer and asked to bare her breasts, a demand she was not willing to accept and so she hid in the bathroom and then later on set.

'I figured if I could stay out of his eyesight, if I could stay away from him, he will forget about me and he will choose someone else, and that is exactly what happened,' said King.

Singer said Ratner did not recall the Sasaki incident.

Replacement: Patty Jenkins stepped in to honor Ratner in the wake of Gadot dropping out (pair above on Sunday)

Exes: Ratner with Rebecca Gayheart in 1995 (left) and Serena Williams in 2004 (right)

Not surprised: Soon after the Times story was released, Jessica Chastain tweeted: 'YEP'

Victim: Asia Argento, who said that she was raped by Harvey Weinstein in a New Yorker expose that was published in October, spoke out about the Ratner claims and showed her support for the alleged victims

Support system: Amber Tamblyn, who has been one of the most vocal allies for victims willing to share their stories, also weighed in

Hints: Henstridge spoke about more predators in Hollywood back in October after the Weinstein exposes (above)

Praise and thanks: Munn showed her love and support for the close to 100 people who have spoken out about Weinstein just days before telling her story in the Times

'Wonder Woman' star Gadot pullerd out of a planned appearance in which she was set to honor the director over the weekend at the Jewish National Fund Los Angeles Tree Of Life Dinner.

Soon after the Times story was released, Jessica Chastain tweeted: 'YEP'

Asia Argento, who said that she was raped by Harvey Weinstein in a New Yorker expose that was published in October, wrote: 'Bad boy, bad boy whatcha gonna do when they come for you? @BrettRatner'

And Amber Tamblyn, who has been one of the most vocal allies for victims willing to share their stories, wrote: 'I know a woman who was too scared to go on record for this story. I stand with them all. This is not easy to do.'

Ratner meanwhile has long been referenced for his womanizing ways, with usual suspects Tina Fey and Seth MacFarlane both calling him out over the years.

'Brett Ratner is here. In his defense, he thought this was a thing where you could eat breakfast off of 100 women,' Fey joked last December at a Women in Hollywood breakfast.

Meanwhile, a 2012 episode of the cartoon comedy 'Family Guy' depicted Ratner bidding on sex slaves.