Exclusive: The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating actress Kristina Cohen’s claim that she was raped by Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick in 2014 — a charge the actor denied on Twitter earlier today. Cohen filed a police report this morning at the LAPD’s Hollywood Division. A copy of the report, obtained by Deadline, states that “Suspect forced victim to have sexual intercourse inside his residence…three years ago.”

Two contemporary witnesses have also come forward to support her allegation. Former child actor Blaise Godbe Lipman, a friend of Cohen’s, told Deadline that she told him about the incident the day after the alleged rape. It was mid-February 2014, a few days after Valentine’s Day.

Longtime friends, Lipman said Cohen had left her car at his house before going to Westwick’s home in the Hollywood Hills. “She came over to my home the following morning and told me everything,...