Have you ever been falsely accused of sexual harassment/abuse and what ended up happening?

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I've been watching John Oliver's new video about workplace sexual harassment. Towards the end of it, he interviews Anita Hill who, 27 years ago, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about her horrible experience with one of her bosses. In that interview, she briefly talks about false claims but believes they're so rare they're not even worth making rules about it.

Sexual abuse and harassment are a very big problem to me, but as a woman I'm not familiar with the male perspective of it, particularly on the issue of false claims. So I have to ask: have you been accused of something you didn't do, what ended up happening, and how common do you find situations like this to be?

EDIT: I'm at work right now so I can't answer or read all of the responses posted here (I'm writing this during a small break), but I'm fucking horrified at the stories I did get a chance to review.

It's really naive to think it's as simple as "you have nothing to worry about if you're not a harasser". Truth is, there's a lot of unstable, attention-seeking individuals who are going to HR or the police with false claims in order to hurt someone. I'm sorry that so many of you have had to deal with this and need to take extreme measures to prevent it from happening again. I really hope this topic is talked about more because the consequences can be truly horrible for those unjustly accused.