Demands have grown for a University of California regent to resign after he asked an actress at his podcast company if he could hold her breasts.

Radio mogul Norman Pattiz, 74, a member of the University of California regents and founder of the Los Angeles-based podcast network PodcastOne, has said he is undecided as to whether he will step down from his regent position.

The UC Regents, more formally known as the Regents of the University of California, is a governing board charged with overseeing the University of California system.

In October 2016, Pattiz was hosting a podcast called Juicy Scoop under the PodcastOne network, which featured actress Heather McDonald.

In audio released by McDonald, Pattiz can be heard interrupting her while she was recording an advertisement about memory foam brassieres.

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Norman Pattiz, 74 (pictured, February 2013), a member of the University of California regents and founder of the Los Angeles-based podcast network PodcastOne, has been asked to resign after he asked an actress at his podcast company if he could hold her breasts

In audio released by actress Heather McDonald (pictured, December 2017), Pattiz can be heard interrupting her while she was recording an advertisement about memory foam brassieres asking if he could hold her breasts and referred to his hands as 'memory foam'

'You're making me nervous now. Let me do one more,' McDonald is heard telling Pattiz.

'Wait a minute. Can I hold your breasts?' Pattiz asks.

'No,' McDonald says.

'Would that help?' Pattiz says, adding that his hands 'are memory foam.'

McDonald left PodcastOne shortly after the incident and released the audio one month later.

The Los Angeles Times reported that several other former PodcastOne employees had received similar comments about their bodies from Pattiz.

Ji Min Park told the newspaper that she left PodcastOne in 2016, after working there for one year, in large part due to sexually inappropriate comments from Pattiz.

According to Park, Pattiz told her she was the 'hottest Asian' and 'If I wasn't married, I'd be chasing you down a hallway right now'.

Pattiz also allegedly told Park she looked like a schoolgirl and that he had watched 'too many videos' with schoolgirls in them. She and others assumed he was talking about pornographic videos.

The Los Angeles Times reported that several other former PodcastOne employees had received similar comments about their bodies from Pattiz (pictured, November 2016)

Pattiz apologized for the remarks he made towards McDonald (pictured, December 2017) but says he is undecided as to whether or not he will leave his position

'Had this [recording] not come up, I might have considered retirement more than I'm considering it now,' Pattiz told The San Francisco Chronicle. 'I certainly don't like the idea of retiring under a cloud.'

Pattiz apologized for the remarks he made towards McDonald, explaining that he was joking, but says he is undecided as to whether or not he will leave his position.

He said: 'I haven't made that determination. If I become a distraction, I don't want that. I care too much about the university. Time will tell if I'm going to be a continuing distraction.'

California Lt Governor Gavin Newsom and two other regents have questioned whether the UC Board of Regents dealt too lightly with Pattiz, especially in light of the several emerging sexual harassment cases coming out of Hollywood, the media, and government, reported The Chronicle.

Currently, California’s Constitution gives the governor the power to appoint regents to 12-year terms, but the governor does not have the authority to remove regents.

A UC labor union has recently proposed a state amendment to give authority to the state legislature to remove a regent, The Chronicle reported.