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On Oct. 5, 2017, The New York Times launched an in depth account of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged acts of sexual assault and harassment. That story, amongst different key occasions, led to Weinstein’s responsible verdict in a 2020 sexual-assault trial in New York, during which he was sentenced to 23 years in jail for intercourse crimes (he later appealed). Now, the Occasions journalists (Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey) who reported on Weinstein’s misconduct and helped the #MeToo motion take off in Hollywood are the topic of a dramatized movie titled “She Stated,” based mostly on their e-book of the identical identify.
After Kantor and Twohey’s preliminary story broke, extra ladies, together with Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd, got here ahead and instructed their tales about The Weinstein Firm’s cofounder, who was fired on Oct. 8, 2017, on account of his accusations and the Occasions’ printed piece.
On Oct. 10, 2017, The New Yorker printed one other exposé on Weinstein’s allegations, with reporting by Ronan Farrow. This piece detailed much more horrifying accounts from ladies who alleged they had been compelled to carry out intercourse acts, compelled to observe Weinstein masturbate, or harassed by the highly effective Hollywood producer at one time or one other. Whereas a number of ladies went on the report, the paper additionally uncovered quite a lot of settlements that had been reached with ladies who’ve remained nameless over time. In Farrow’s piece, he mentioned he spoke to 13 ladies who mentioned that they had suffered sexual abuse by Weinstein.
The New York Times launched a follow-up to its preliminary piece on Oct. 10, 2017, detailing extra firsthand accounts from ladies who alleged abused or harassment by Weinstein, together with tales from Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie.
Weinstein is at the moment dealing with extra sexual-assault expenses in a second trial in Los Angeles, the place he could obtain a most sentence of greater than 100 years in jail if convicted, per Deadline.
As of January 2020, greater than 100 ladies have gone public concerning the disgraced Hollywood mogul, in keeping with The Cut‘s full record of Weinstein’s accusations. A lot of them have hauntingly related tales to 1 one other, and a few have waited years to really feel secure sufficient to come back ahead. Under are 23 of these ladies who bravely instructed their tales of alleged sexual harassment, assault, and rape suffered by the hands of the Weinstein.
1. Ashley Judd
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Judd was one of many first well-known ladies to come back out and share her story about Weinstein. Again in 2015, she initially instructed her story to Variety however disregarded the identify of the person who tried to stress her into intercourse acts, however within the New York Occasions exposé that got here out on Oct. 5, 2017, her story included the mogul’s identify and what he allegedly did over twenty years in the past.
Judd recalled that the Hollywood producer invited her to the Peninsula Beverly Hills Resort for a gathering, and when she arrived she was despatched as much as his room, the place he stood in a bathrobe, requested her for a therapeutic massage, and later requested if she’d watch him shower, The New York Occasions reported.
“I mentioned no, numerous methods, numerous instances, and he at all times got here again at me with some new ask,” Judd recalled of the preliminary therapeutic massage invitation, adopted by a bathe proposition, all of which she turned down. “It was all this bargaining, this coercive bargaining.”
To flee the room, Judd mentioned, she instructed Weinstein that if he needed to the touch her, she must win an Oscar for certainly one of his movies, after which she left. She mentioned that on the time, she did inform her late mom, Naomi Judd, concerning the expertise, which led her to inform Selection concerning the encounter.
2. Rose McGowan
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The “Charmed” alum is one other star who was featured in The New York Occasions’ preliminary 2017 story. Even after the report was printed, McGowan continued to talk out about Weinstein’s alleged remedy of her and different ladies.
In accordance with The New York Occasions, McGowan reached a settlement with Weinstein of $100,000 in 1997 when she was 23 years outdated, after an incident in a lodge room on the Sundance Movie Competition. Though McGowan did not remark inside the story, she did share her help of it on Twitter as soon as it was printed to point out solidarity with all the ladies affected. “That is a few energy construction that must be introduced down. I can not thank the ladies who got here ahead & the boss writers at #NYT sufficient,” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “Ladies battle on. And to the lads on the market, arise. We want you as allies. #bebrave,” she wrote in one other, asking folks to come back ahead and help the ladies who’ve been courageous.
On Oct. 12, 2017, after her account was briefly suspended, McGowan doubled down. In a sequence of since-deleted tweets (all of which embrace Amazon govt Jeff Bezos’s Twitter deal with), she made extra alarming claims towards Weinstein.
1) @jeffbezos I instructed the top of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I mentioned it. He mentioned it hadn’t been confirmed. I mentioned I used to be the proof.
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan
2) @jeffbezos I had already offered a script I wrote to your studio, it was in improvement. After I heard a Weinstein bailout was within the works
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan)
3) @Jeffbezos I forcefully begged studio head to do the correct factor. I used to be ignored. Deal was executed. Amazon received a grimy Oscar.
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017
4) @jeffbezos I referred to as my legal professional & mentioned I need to get my script again, however earlier than I may, #2 @amazonstudios referred to as to say my present was useless
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017
4) @jeffbezos I’m calling on you to cease funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers. I really like @amazon however there’s rot in Hollywood
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017
5) @jeffbezos Be the change you need to see on the planet. Stand with fact. #ROSEARMY #Amazon
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017
3. Louise Godbold
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Louise Godbold, who’s the co-executive director of the nonprofit Echo Parenting & Training, beforehand claimed that within the ’90s, she was assaulted whereas taking an workplace tour of the Weinstein Firm. On Oct. 9, 2017, Godbold printed a blog post concerning the horrifying occasion, writing, “[it was an] workplace tour that grew to become an event to lure me in an empty assembly room, the begging for a therapeutic massage, his arms on my shoulders as I tried to beat a retreat . . . all whereas not eager to alienate probably the most highly effective man in Hollywood.”
Her weblog submit additionally thanked those that got here ahead with their tales and explored why those that are abused or assaulted appear responsible themselves.
4. Louisette Geiss
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Former actor Louisette Geiss got here ahead with sexual-harassment allegations towards the Hollywood producer on Oct. 10, 2017. She held a press convention along with her legal professional Gloria Allred and claimed that in 2008, Weinstein tried to drive her into watching him masturbate at Sundance Movie Competition — a narrative that’s all too acquainted amongst these alleged victims.
“We went to his workplace and had an incredible dialog about his present movie and concerning the movie I used to be pitching,” Geiss mentioned in a press release through Variety. “He appeared genuinely within the script I had co-written. After half-hour he excused himself to go to the toilet.”
She continued: “He returned in a gown with the entrance open. He instructed me to maintain speaking about my movie and that he was going to get into his scorching tub which was within the room adjoining to his workplace, steps away. I saved speaking as he bought into the recent tub. After I completed my pitch, he requested me to observe him masturbate.”
“I instructed him I used to be leaving. He rapidly bought out of the recent tub,” she recalled. “As I went to get my purse to go away, he grabbed my forearm and pulled me to his toilet and pleaded with me to observe him masturbate. My coronary heart was racing and I used to be very scared.”
5. Emily Nestor
Emily Nestor (who was 25 years outdated on the time) was a brief front-desk assistant for the Weinstein Firm in 2014 and mentioned that on her first day on the job, she was a sufferer of Weinstein’s undesirable advances. Nestor instructed The New Yorker concerning the occasions that allegedly happened on her first day, starting with two staff telling her she was Weinstein’s “kind” bodily and that the disgraced producer referred to her as “the beautiful lady.”
After asking for her telephone quantity — and making her write it down — Nestor mentioned Weinstein tried to get her to satisfy him for drinks that night time. She mentioned that as a result of he would not take no for a solution, Nestor proposed an early-morning espresso assembly the subsequent day, which Weinstein agreed to and instructed her to satisfy him on the Peninsula in Beverly Hills, the place he was staying. All through the hour-long assembly, Nestor mentioned, Weinstein bragged about his well-known conquests and the way he may assist her along with her profession if she had been to maneuver to London.
“He mentioned, ‘You recognize, we may have numerous enjoyable,'” Nestor recalled. “‘I may put you in my London workplace, and you possibly can work there and you possibly can be my girlfriend.'” She mentioned she declined all of his propositions and, trying again on the espresso assembly, she is aware of it was “textbook sexual harassment.”
“It is a fairly clear case of sexual harassment when your superior, the C.E.O., asks certainly one of their inferiors, a temp, to have intercourse with them, primarily in trade for mentorship,” she mentioned. “‘No’ didn’t imply ‘no’ to him. I used to be very conscious of how inappropriate it was. However I felt trapped.”
6. Laura Madden
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One other former Weinstein worker, Laura Madden, beforehand mentioned that she was requested to provide her boss massages starting in 1991 in motels in each Dublin and London, in keeping with the New York Occasions exposé. “It was so manipulative,” she mentioned in an interview. “You always query your self — am I the one who’s the issue?”
Madden mentioned she ultimately instructed her buddy and colleague Karen Katz (who labored within the acquisitions division) what had occurred. “We had been so younger on the time,” Katz instructed the Occasions. “We didn’t perceive how mistaken it was or how Laura ought to take care of it.”
7. Lauren Sivan
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Oct. 9, 2017 TV reporter Lauren Sivan sat down with Today‘s Megyn Kelly and described a decade-old incident she mentioned happened when she met Weinstein at a celebration at a New York restaurant. Sivan mentioned that Weinstein tried to kiss her after luring her into the restaurant’s kitchen, and when she would not comply, he compelled her to observe him masturbate as a substitute.
“I simply stood there dumbfounded. I couldn’t imagine what I used to be witnessing,” Sivan mentioned concerning the alleged occasion. She continued to clarify the horror that occurred after she first rejected him, saying he instructed her, “Effectively then simply stand there and be quiet,” after which masturbated in entrance of her.
“Probably the most demeaning a part of all of it was that 20 minutes earlier he was having this nice dialog with me,” she mentioned. “I felt so nice and flattered by it. After which to be instructed ‘stand there and be quiet’ negated any heat emotions.”
8. Gwyneth Paltrow
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On Oct. 10, 2017, The New York Times printed a second piece about Weinstein with Hollywood stars sharing their very own Weinstein tales. One from Gwyneth Paltrow, who mentioned that across the time she performed Jane Austen in “Emma” at age 22, she too was sexually harassed by Weinstein on the Peninsula Beverly Hills Resort.
The assembly was uneventful to begin, she mentioned, however by the tip, Weinstein put his arms on her and tried to get her to come back to his bed room for a therapeutic massage. “I used to be a child, I used to be signed up, I used to be petrified,” she mentioned after disclosing that she was sexually harassed by the person who helped give her a giant break in Hollywood. Paltrow additionally mentioned that she instructed Brad Pitt concerning the encounter, as a result of he was her boyfriend on the time, and he then confronted Weinstein.
“He screamed at me for a very long time,” she recalled of Weinstein’s response to her telling Pitt concerning the harassment. “It was brutal.”
9. Tomi-Ann Roberts
Again in 1984, when Tomi-Ann Roberts was solely 20 years outdated and dealing as a waitress in New York, she claims Weinstein satisfied her to audition for a film he was directing along with his brother. After sending her the script, he requested to satisfy her at his lodge to debate the movie, Roberts recounted in her interview with The New York Times.
When she arrived on the lodge, she mentioned, Weinstein was bare in his bathtub and instructed her that “getting bare in entrance of him” would assist her be higher throughout the audition, as a result of her character may need a topless scene. Roberts mentioned she remembers utilizing an excuse about being a prude so as to get out of the state of affairs.
10. Katherine Kendall
When Katherine Kendall was 23 years outdated, she was given a heat welcome to the Miramax household by Weinstein, who met along with her in 1993. After their preliminary assembly, she mentioned, he invited her to a screening, which she instructed The New York Times was really a solo journey to the flicks with him.
She mentioned that on the best way again, he requested if he may cease by his home to choose one thing up, and though Kendall was nervous about it, she agreed. He made her a drink, they talked about motion pictures, after which, Kendall defined it bought very unprofessional. After going to the toilet, she mentioned, Weinstein returned sporting a gown and requested her to provide him a therapeutic massage, saying, “Everyone does it.” As soon as she refused, he left and got here again bare and trapped her within the room, she mentioned. “He actually chased me,” she mentioned. “He would not let me move him to get to the door.”
11. Judith Godrèche
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In 1996, the French actor was invited to breakfast on the Cannes Movie Competition by Weinstein to debate her movie “Ridicule,” which was taking part in on the pageant and his firm had simply acquired, Judith Godrèche recalled when talking with The New York Times.
Though the assembly started with a feminine Miramax govt within the lodge, it ended with Weinstein asking Godrèche as much as his room to see the view and focus on the movie’s Oscar marketing campaign, she mentioned.
“I used to be so naïve and unprepared,” she mentioned concerning the occasion. As soon as in his room, Weinstein allegedly requested the actor if he may give her a therapeutic massage, and he or she turned him down. “The following factor I do know, he is urgent towards me and pulling off my sweater.” Godrèche mentioned she was capable of run out of the room earlier than the rest occurred, however when she instructed the feminine govt about it, she instructed her, “That is Miramax. You possibly can’t say something.”
12. Daybreak Dunning
Daybreak Dunning was working as a waitress in a nightclub when she met the Oscar-winning producer. At first, Dunning thought Weinstein was pleasant {and professional}, particularly since he as soon as gave her and her boyfriend tickets to see “The Producers” on Broadway, she instructed The New York Times. That dynamic modified, she claimed, when she was invited to dine with him at a Manhattan lodge.
When she arrived on the lodge, she mentioned, she was requested to go as much as his suite as a result of his assembly was working late. Dunning mentioned she did what she was requested, and when she bought to the suite, she noticed Weinstein sporting his bathrobe. He allegedly instructed her she had a three-film take care of Miramax however provided that she’d have a three-way with him, to which she laughed, assuming he was joking.
“You will by no means make it on this enterprise,” she mentioned he instructed her. “That is how the enterprise works.” Dunning mentioned she left the room instantly and switched her profession path to turn out to be a dressing up designer quickly after.
13. Angelina Jolie
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In 2017, the “By the Sea” actor instructed The New York Times that within the late ’90s, whereas she was selling “Taking part in by Coronary heart,” she was the recipient of undesirable advances from Weinstein.
“I had a foul expertise with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and consequently, selected by no means to work with him once more and warn others once they did,” Jolie instructed the publication in an e mail. “This conduct in the direction of ladies in any area, any nation is unacceptable.”
14. Asia Argento
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Italian actor and director Asia Argento mentioned she was sexually assaulted by Weinstein 20 years in the past however did not converse out till 2017 out of worry that he would possibly break her profession. That very same 12 months, the actor opened as much as The New Yorker and shared her horrifying story, during which the much-older producer allegedly forcibly carried out oral intercourse on her after she mentioned no.
In 1997, Argento mentioned she was invited to a celebration being thrown by Miramax on the French Riviera, or so she thought. When she bought there, she found that she was the one one there, within the lodge room, aside from Weinstein, she mentioned. Weinstein allegedly started by praising her work earlier than he became a gown and introduced out lotion. “He asks me to provide a therapeutic massage. I used to be, like, ‘Look, man, I’m no f*cking idiot,'” Argento instructed the publication. “However, trying again, I’m a f*cking idiot. And I’m nonetheless attempting to come back to grips with what occurred.”
After she initially mentioned no, Argento mentioned, she reluctantly agreed to giving him a therapeutic massage, which then led to Weinstein forcing her legs open and performing oral intercourse on her towards her needs. “[He] terrified me, and he was so massive,” she mentioned. “It would not cease. It was a nightmare.”
15. Lucia Evans
Lucia Evans (who was often known as Lucia Stoller when this occasion allegedly happened) met Weinstein again in 2004 when she was in her senior 12 months at Middlebury School. Regardless of listening to rumors about Weinstein, Evans mentioned she gave him her quantity as a result of she needed to be an actor. She mentioned Weinstein rapidly started calling her and asking her to satisfy till at some point, Evans agreed to a daytime assembly on the Miramax workplace.
Initially, a feminine casting govt was within the assembly, Evans recalled in her interview with The New Yorker, however when she left, issues escalated rapidly.
“He instantly was concurrently flattering me and demeaning me and making me really feel dangerous about myself,” she recalled of the assembly. After telling her about a couple of roles she could be good for, Weinstein assaulted her, she alleged. “He compelled me to carry out oral intercourse on him,” she mentioned, alleging that she mentioned no whilst he pulled down his pants and pulled her towards him. “I mentioned, again and again, ‘I do not need to do that, cease, do not,'” she mentioned. “He is a giant man. He overpowered me.”
She mentioned that in the long run, “I simply type of gave up. That is probably the most horrible a part of it, and that is why he is been in a position to do that for therefore lengthy to so many ladies: folks quit, after which they really feel prefer it’s their fault.”
16. Mira Sorvino
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In 1995, Mira Sorvino mentioned she discovered herself ready that sadly too many ladies (in Hollywood and world wide) have discovered themselves in, and mentioned she waited to say one thing about Weinstein as a result of she knew her story was “delicate” in comparison with the others.
Whereas on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition that 12 months, she ended up in a lodge room alone with Weinstein, she mentioned. “He began massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, after which tried to get extra bodily, type of chasing me round,” she instructed The New Yorker. Sorvino mentioned she was capable of get out of the state of affairs earlier than issues bought worse, telling him she did not date married males — he was married to Eve Chilton on the time — as a result of it was towards her faith.
Sorvino mentioned that regardless of getting away in Toronto, a couple of weeks later, Weinstein referred to as the “Romy and Michele’s Excessive College Reunion” star after midnight, saying he needed to satisfy to speak about advertising and marketing for her present movie. She tried to set the assembly for a diner, however Weinstein instructed her he was coming to her place, and he or she immediately “freaked out,” she mentioned. When he bought there, Sorvino mentioned, she instructed him her new boyfriend was on his means, and he left. She mentioned he by no means pursued her once more, and when Sorvino’s profession later took a success, she felt prefer it was partially as a result of that night time.
17. Ambra Battilana Gutierrez
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Ambra Battilana Gutierrez would possibly’ve been solely 22 years outdated when she was allegedly assaulted by Weinstein, however she wasn’t afraid to report him to the police. In 2015, Gutierrez met Weinstein at a reception for “New York Spring Spectacular” on the Radio Metropolis Music Corridor. She later obtained an e mail saying he needed to arrange a gathering, to which Gutierrez agreed.
When she was within the assembly at The Weinstein Firm’s Tribeca location, the producer could not cease looking at her breasts, The New Yorker reported. She mentioned he requested in the event that they had been actual and lunged after her, groping her breasts and trying to place his hand up her skirt as she protested. When he did cease, he tried to bribe her with tickets to a Broadway present, she mentioned, and as a substitute of assembly him on the present, she went to the New York Police Division and reported him for assault.
Whereas on the NYPD precinct, Weinstein referred to as her, and he or she answered with a police officer listening in. She agreed to satisfy him the subsequent night time and wore a wire to attempt to get a confession on the report. In accordance with studies, Gutierrez met with him, bought him to speak about actors whom he helped, and as soon as he bought her upstairs in his lodge, she requested him why he attacked her the day prior to this. “Oh, please, I am sorry, simply come on in,” Weinstein mentioned on the tape. “I am used to that. Come on. Please.”
Regardless of having “the proof” they wanted, in keeping with a police officer on the case on the time, to cost Weinstein with sexual abuse within the third diploma, the Manhattan district legal professional determined to not file expenses as a result of Gutierrez’s previous, which triggered points based mostly on her involvement in a bribery case again in 2010 and different incidents.
18. Emma de Caunes
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Throughout one other Cannes Movie Competition celebration, this time in 2010, Weinstein allegedly preyed on one more actor. After assembly French actor Emma de Caunes on the pageant, she mentioned, Weinstein requested her to a lunch assembly in Paris a couple of weeks later, she instructed The New Yorker. de Caunes alleged that he instructed her that he wanted a feminine lead for a movie he was producing in France that was an adaptation of a e-book. When she requested what it was referred to as, he claimed he could not keep in mind the title of the e-book,
Weinstein instructed her “I’ve it in my room,” and though she mentioned she tried to get out of coming upstairs with him, de Caunes ultimately gave in. Whereas upstairs, she took a name, and he or she heard the bathe go on, after which Weinstein got here out bare and instructed her to lie on the mattress, she mentioned.
“I used to be very petrified. However I did not need to present him that I used to be petrified, as a result of I may really feel that the extra I used to be freaking out, the extra he was excited,” de Caunes mentioned. “It was like a hunter with a wild animal. The worry turns him on.”
As she started to go away, de Caunes remembered, Weinstein yelled, “We’ve not executed something! It is like being in a Walt Disney film!” It took all her braveness, de Caunes mentioned, however she then mentioned, “‘I’ve at all times hated Walt Disney motion pictures.’ After which I left. I slammed the door.”
19. Jessica Barth
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Jessica Barth mentioned she met Weinstein at a Golden Globes celebration in 2011 and was then invited to a enterprise assembly on the Peninsula. When she arrived, she too was requested as much as his room as a result of it was “no massive deal,” she mentioned. The actor recalled the assembly in an interview with The New Yorker, saying that when she bought upstairs, Weinstein had ordered Champagne and sushi.
Their dialogue started with a film position provide, she mentioned, and rapidly grew to become about sexual favors, to which Barth mentioned, “That is not going to occur.” She remembers Weinstein saying, “So, what would occur if, say, we’re having some champagne and I take my garments off and also you give me a therapeutic massage?”
She bought as much as depart and Weinstein began to insult her, saying she wanted to shed weight, earlier than promising a gathering with a feminine govt, she mentioned. Barth mentioned she grabbed the variety of the manager after which left, crying.
20. Rosanna Arquette
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Rosanna Arquette spoke to some publications about her encounter with Weinstein, which resulted along with her profession taking a serious hit. In accordance with Arquette, again within the early ’90s, she was supposed to choose up a brand new script from Weinstein on the Beverly Hills Resort, and when she arrived, she was instructed to satisfy him in his room as a substitute of the restaurant.
He was sporting a white bathrobe, she recalled throughout an interview with The New Yorker. After she was requested to provide him a therapeutic massage and he or she turned him down, saying she may advocate masseuse, Weinstein took it into his personal arms, grabbing her hand and attempting to place it on his neck after which transfer it towards his penis, she mentioned.
“My coronary heart was actually racing. I used to be in a fight-or-flight second,” she mentioned. Arquette then mentioned she instructed Weinstein, “I’ll by no means try this” and that “I will by no means be that lady.” As soon as she rejected him, she mentioned, she believes her profession suffered as a result of “he made issues very tough for me for years.”
21. Cara Delevingne
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On Oct. 11, 2017, mannequin and actor Cara Delevingne shared her alleged expertise with Weinstein with reporter Yashar Ali, who posted her assertion on Twitter:
I simply obtained this assertion from @Caradelevingne detailing her expertise with Harvey Weinstein. Thanks, Cara. pic.twitter.com/SA1D05lYH4
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 11, 2017
22. Léa Seydoux
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On Oct. 11, 2017, The Guardian printed a chunk written by Seydoux, the place she described her expertise of turning Weinstein down one night time. She claimed, “He flirted and stared at me as if I used to be a chunk of meat. He acted as if he had been contemplating me for a job. However I knew that was bullsh*t. I knew it, as a result of I may see it in his eyes. He had a lecherous look. He was utilizing his energy to get intercourse.”
Seydoux additionally recounted how Weinstein invited her as much as his lodge room for drinks, the place she mentioned she was compelled to bodily fend him off. “We had been speaking on the couch when he all of the sudden jumped on me and tried to kiss me,” she mentioned. “I needed to defend myself. He is massive and fats, so I needed to be forceful to withstand him. I left his room, totally disgusted.”
Within the piece, Seydoux additionally talked about how she’d watched Weinstein behave this fashion on varied events over time — she watched him brag overtly about his sexual escapades at business dinners, and he or she witnessed as he hit on ladies on the BAFTAs and the Met Life ball — and the way nobody ever mentioned something. She additionally briefly talked about equally harrowing experiences with different administrators, however did not point out any names.
23. Kate Beckinsale
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Beckinsale added her voice to the combination on Oct. 12, 2017, in a prolonged caption on Instagram the place she alleged that Weinstein first got here on to her when she was solely 17 years outdated. She then recalled later conferences with him the place he made her really feel extra discomfort.
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