Maybe Dustin Hoffman should fire the P.R. person who helped him craft his response to a first woman’s claim that he sexually harassed her when she was a 17-year-old intern on a 1985 TV film he starred in.

“I have the utmost respect for women,” the two-time Academy Award winner said regarding the allegations lodged against him by writer Anna Graham Hunter in the Hollywood Reporter early Wednesday.

“It is not reflective of who I am,” Hoffman, now 80, stated.

Before Hoffman uttered those words, he should have been pretty certain that there couldn’t be other women who would come forward to challenge him on his assertion of always showing the “utmost respect for women.”

That’s because it’s looking like those words are coming back to bite Hofmann, after a second woman came forward later Wednesday to also accuse him of sexual harassment.

In an interview published by Variety, once struggling playwright Wendy Riss Gatsiounis said that Hoffman made sexually suggestive comments and propositioned her while she was pitching a film project to him in 1991.

Riss Gatsiounis, then in her 20s, had two meetings with Hoffman, then 53, about adapting her play into a film starring Hoffman, who was then coming off a second Academy Award win for “Rain Man.”

“It was a huge thing” to be able to pitch a movie to Hoffman, who had long been one of her movie heroes, she told Variety.

But Riss Gatsiounis said that right after she rejected Hoffman’s advances during a second meeting, his “Tootsie” screenwriter and producing partner at the time Murray Schisgal told her that they weren’t interested in adapting her play into a film.

Riss Gatsiounis said that she left the meeting and, “close to tears,” called her agent from a payphone and recounted the meeting to her.

“She said that she didn’t want me to think that it was something I had done,” Riss Gatsiounis said.

The agent, Mary Meagher, who died in 2006, then said something that could also come back to haunt Hoffman if it turns out to have any basis in fact.

Meagher told Riss Gatsiounis that she “had heard rumors about (Hoffman) for years.” Meagher was saying that Hoffman allegedly had a reputation for being a womanizer or for even sexually harassing women.

A spokesperson for Hoffman declined to comment on Riss Gatsiounis’ allegations.

Schisgal told Variety in a statement: “Dustin Hoffman and I took many meetings with writers and playwrights over many years. I have no recollection of this meeting or of any of the behavior or actions described.”

Hoffman is currently promoting his latest film, “The Meyerwitz Stories.” Directed by Noah Baumbauch, the family comedy-drama was released on Netflix Oct. 13. It co-stars Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, has received positive reviews and is generating Oscar buzz.

But Hoffman also has become the most recent industry heavyweight to be accused of sexual misconduct after the New York Times and the New Yorker published investigative reports last month that detailed decades of abusive behavior by Harvey Weinstein. The independent film mogul was subsequently fired from the production company he co-founded, the Weinstein Company, and has been ejected from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Others accused of sexual harassment or assault amid Hollywood’s growing workplace harassment crisis include director James Toback, director-writer Brett Ratner and two-time Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey.

In her guest column for the Hollywood Reporter, Hunter said Hoffman, then in his late 40s, subjected her to sustained and unwanted sexual advances on the set of “A Death of a Salesman” in 1985. At the time Hunter was a high school senior from New York City.

Hunter, now 49, said she has since come to understand that Hoffman engaged in predatory behavior with her.

“I understand what Dustin Hoffman did as it fits into the larger pattern of what women experience in Hollywood and everywhere,” she said. “He was a predator, I was a child, and this was sexual harassment.”

Riss Gatsiounis, who has since found success as a TV writer and producer for such shows as “The Killing” and National Geographic’s “Genius,” said she decided to speak now about her experience with Hoffman in light of the recent allegations to surface against Weinstein and other once powerful men in the entertainment industry.

And given what her former agent Meagher said about the “rumors” about Hoffman, it’s fair to wonder if other women could now come forward with claims against him.

It wouldn’t be the first time in recent weeks that the proverbial flood gates of claims have opened on a particular man, once one alleged victim decides to go public.

So, in his statement, Hoffman said that the lewd and aggressive conduct described by Hunter is not “reflective” of who he is. Such a statement could easily invite other women to come forward to challenge him if they believe he’s wrong.

And now a second woman, Riss Gatsiounis, has come forward to do just that. Will more women come forward to fill in this picture?