Eighties punk queen Hazel O’Connor claims she was sexually assaulted by Benny Hill.

The star of cult movie Breaking Glass says she is still haunted by the incident in his London flat.

Hazel, then an unknown, says the slapstick comedy star told her he would only allow her to work as one of his famous Benny Hill girls in return for “sexual favours”.

She claims she had to push him off after he leapt on her as she tried to leave.

The singer and actress, 62, says she has been haunted ever since by the incident in 1976.

It came just five years after she was raped at 16 while travelling in Morocco.

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In an exclusive interview, she said: “I’d been working as a dancer in Beirut and Japan. When I finished that I was sent to be possibly one of the Benny Hill girls.”

The women who made up the team who later became Hill’s Angels played the scantily-clad objects of the comic’s lechery in his TV sketches.

Hazel, who was then 21, arranged to meet at the then 47-year-old Hill’s flat. She said: “When I walked in he was saying, ‘Well, these are my girls’.

“He kept showing me pictures of these sexy women who worked with him and saying how they ‘looked after him’.

“Eventually he said to me ‘Well, I need to know… will you look after me too?’.

“I was disgusted and was getting ready to leave when he tried to snog me. I pushed him away and got out of there.”

There is no suggestion any of the Benny Hill girls ever did what Hill was hinting at, but Hazel added: “I knew I hadn’t got the job, but I wouldn’t have wanted it. I know what he meant by ‘look after me’ – he meant sex. It still blows my mind and makes me very cross.”

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At that point in her life she was trying to get over the terrifying incident in Marrakesh where she claims she was raped by a local man at knifepoint.

Hazel says she was scared to report the incident to local police and returned to England where she believes she suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

“I never told anyone about it,” she said in a 2009 interview. “I remember the fear I felt – that I was going to be killed – and the fear of getting pregnant . Everything changed. My life turned 360 degrees.”

Southampton-born Hill, real name Alfred Hawthorne Hill, died a legend in 1992.

He had changed his first name in homage to his favourite comedian Jack Benny before becoming a household name on The Benny Hill Show. It was a mix of slapstick, burlesque and double entendres, with him at the centre of almost every scene usually involving women.

It was one of the most watched programmes on British TV, with audience figures peaking at more than 21 million in 1971.

The show elevated Hill to national treasure status and won him a string of famous fans, including Michael Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Frank Sinatra and Charlie Chaplin, who reportedly had a shelf of Benny Hill films in his office.From the start of the 1980s, the show – which has been shown in more than 100 countries and is still screened worldwide – featured a troupe of young women known as Hill’s Angels.

They would appear either on their own in a dance sequence, as well as in character as foils against Hill, who was often seen chasing them around.

In October 1985, former Page Three girl Stefanie Martin accused him of forcing her to “perform” while he pleasured himself after promising her a speaking part in his show.

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Responding to the allegation at the time, he said: “It wasn’t the way she made it sound at all.”

Hill’s Angel Nikki Critcher also later claimed she had to slap his face when he squeezed her breasts hard in rehearsal.

Hill, who never married despite twice proposing, died in 1992.

Earlier this year, fans, including pal Garry Bushell, stepped up a campaign to honour the comedian with a bronze statue in Southampton. Showbiz stars Barbara Windsor, Vicki Michelle, Rick Wakeman and Joe Pasquale, have backed a bid to raise £60,000.

Hazel became famous in the early 1980s with hit singles Eighth Day, D-Days and Will You.

She also starred in the film Breaking Glass, depicting the rise and fall of a pop singer, before signing a deal with Paramount Studios and heading to Hollywood to embark on a screen career.

She said she didn’t feel she could tell anyone about the incident with Hill at the time. “That’s how the psyche of rape and abuse works, you always think it’s your fault,” she said.

She says she has been shocked by the Harvey Weinstein allegations and added: “I hope things will change now.”