Herman Cain to Appear on Kimmel

Los Angeles - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is scheduled to appear on the ABC late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" today, only hours after a fourth woman is expected to accuse him of committing acts of sexual harassment when he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

The woman will make her allegations at a New York City news conference at the Friars Club, where she will be joined by her lawyer, Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred.

Unlike the three women involved in the previous allegations, the woman scheduled to appear at today's news conference in Manhattan will give her name and speak out publicly about details of what she says occurred between her and Cain when she sought his help with an employment issue, Allred said.

There was no immediate response to an email and telephone message left with the Cain campaign seeking a response to the latest allegation.

Cain has repeatedly denied the allegations, first reported Oct. 30 by the political news website Politico. His campaign has called them "thinly sourced" and "unsubstantiated personal attacks."

Cain campaign's chief of staff, Mark Block, told Fox News Channel on Friday that the campaign will no longer answer questions related to the accusations that Cain sexually harassed female employees when he was chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

The appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" stems in part from a pizza-related sketch Kimmel did on Cain about a month ago, said J.D. Gordon, the Cain campaign's vice president of communications and foreign policy adviser. "We all laughed," Gordon said.

A producer from Kimmel's show contacted the Cain campaign the following day and invited the former Godfather's Pizza president and chief executive officer to appear on the program, Gordon told City News Service.

"I think it's a tremendous opportunity for us," Gordon said. "Mr. Cain has said for months now that America needs a sense of humor and to the extent that he appears on shows like with Mr. Kimmel, I think he can help achieve that."

Cain appeared on the NBC late-night talk show "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Sept. 30.

"Jimmy Kimmel Live" airs at midnight. Cain's appearance will be taped earlier in the day at the show's set at the El Capitan Entertainment Center in Hollywood.

Cain also has "a couple of private events" planned for his trip to Southern California, Gordon said

Several recent polls have put Cain in a statistical tie with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Most of the polls were conducted before the initial report of the sexual harassment allegations.