He never, ever stopped working, and that was a bit sad to see. We used to say that he was either working or whoring: he barely slept. Part of the reason there is a culture of silence, which is not unique to Harvey Weinstein, is that in this industry you can be made to feel a bit prudish if you are uncomfortable. I saw him become obsessed with the odd A-list actress, promising to win them an Oscar.
But these were not private meetings. There were always plenty of people in the room. And my perspective is useful. He was a horrible, manipulative bully; he would mimic people when he was shouting at them.
We were all adults, but you were made to feel You had to think about it really carefully: how much is this job worth? I used to have this horrible feeling of, what if my partner or family saw me when he was yelling at me? It would be very humiliating. And this was all the time — not in the heat of production. Fairly often his screaming involved a boast about himself: I can call the president, and I can call this person.
He was telling us how important he was, and it was tiring but we would laugh about it afterwards. This was — bluntly — bullshit. I think behaving as outrageously as he did, and no one doing more than shaking their head or laughing nervously, made him believe he had all the power. He felt untouchable. There was the odd male assistant. They were always quite tall and good-looking, and they were resented and envied by Harvey. His insecurities were close to the surface, and his awareness that he was not an attractive man was quite evident.
He also felt less able to bully them — or maybe the bullying took a different form. He was good at currying favour. I would look at some of the people and think: this is not right — they were not likely to be actually professionally good. In those instances I think they had twigged what was coming. We were all across his email. Women would come up to him, give him their numbers — very, very beautiful women, models and actresses.
They felt like transactional relationships, although he never really carried cash. I feel bad about his fixation with certain things, and with two or three famous actresses. He had crushes and would try to insist on having meetings without their partners or agents present. Thankfully, those meetings never really transpired. I thought the actresses were the powerful ones. Now, I wonder. But I left because life was too short. We were coming up to a round of festivals and I thought, I am not getting much out of this.
I was very adrenalised and nervous all the time. I had to leave before I got fired. Harvey Weinstein is not the only monster on the hill that we need to kill. Perhaps people are more nervous of sexual harassment lawsuits now. But I think the bullying and the culture of silence around it still flourishes.
I worked for the Weinsteins three separate times, between and When I came on board, it was in a two-bedroom apartment on Broadway, with Harvey in one bedroom and [his brother] Bob in the other, and half a dozen of us in the living room. That was Miramax. They did with me what they went on to do with many, many people: they offered me a position that no other employer would have done.
I came in as the head of sales and marketing. They were very good at handing out titles that were unavailable elsewhere, and at that point they owned you. Where were you going to go?
You would see some terrible stuff. I remember one time Harvey was holding a meeting in a conference room. It was standing room only. It was completely psychotic. There was a moment at Miramax when we had this awful movie, this unwatchable movie, that had to be released in order to satisfy a video deal. She also alleges that he then asked her to engage in a threesome with him and another woman when back in Los Angeles following the Baftas.
British actress Lysette Anthony says he carried out a "pathetic, revolting" attack at her London home in the late s, which left her "disgusted and embarrassed".
In an Instagram post , Delevingne writes how uncomfortable she felt during an encounter with Weinstein in a hotel room and describes what allegedly happened when she told him she wanted to leave.
I stopped him and managed to get out of the room," she says. The French actress has written about how he invited her to come to his hotel room for a drink. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him. Jolie says she was propositioned by Weinstein in a hotel room in The Pulp Fiction actress says Weinstein pushed her down and "tried to expose himself" at the producer's hotel room in London during the s.
He did all kinds of unpleasant things," Thurman said. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. The Boogie Nights actress told Variety she was once propositioned by Weinstein in the early s when she met him to discuss being cast in one of his movies.
She alleges he implied she had to sleep with him to get a film role, telling her that his wife would have been fine with it. The model and actress says he asked for a massage in the south of France in She said: "I didn't know what to do and I felt that letting him maybe touch me a little bit might placate him enough to get me out of there somehow.
Before long, she "bolted" into the bathroom. He banged on the door with his fists before eventually retreating, putting on a dressing gown and starting to cry. The actress and producer says she was attacked by Weinstein when he invited her to his office in a hotel for a meeting about a script she had written at the Sundance Film Festival in He insisted on listening to her pitch in his hot tub, then asked her to watch him masturbate, she says - and told her he could green-light her script if she did so.
She left. The Splash actress says she repeatedly turned down Weinstein's advances during promotion for Kill Bill and its sequel. He tried, she says, to get into her hotel room on multiple occasions, once getting a key and "burst[ing] in like a raging bull.
He asked to grope her breasts and then asked her to expose herself to him, she alleges. She suffered physical repercussions as her flights were cancelled and she was left stranded after she turned him down on one occasion, she adds. The actress says she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.
She told the New York Times in the early s she was directed to his hotel room, where he was in a bathrobe and asked her for a massage. When she refused she says he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his crotch. Model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has said she was groped by Weinstein and later went to New York police in , saying the producer assaulted her. She then met Weinstein wearing a hidden microphone. But prosecutors took no action.
Other women who have come forward since then with their stories include French actresses Florence Darel , Judith Godreche and Emma de Caunes. TV anchor Lauren Sivan alleges Weinstein cornered her in an empty basement area of a New York restaurant in and masturbated in front of her. And other workers at the Weinstein film company told the New Yorker about their experiences, including Emily Nestor , who was a temporary front desk assistant who said she had had to refuse his advances "at least a dozen times".
Actress Claire Forlani has said "nothing happened" between her and Weinstein - but only because she "escaped five times". In an interview with Canadian TV, actress Lauren Holly said the producer approached her naked and requested a massage, at which point she "pushed him and ran". Zelda Perkins , a British former assistant of Harvey Weinstein, says she resigned after a colleague accused him of trying to rape her.
Weinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement on 10 October in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path. As she was falling asleep, Weinstein slipped naked into her bed. I kept pushing him away.
Weinstein allegedly continued to ask her out, offering her to take her on luxurious shopping sprees. After declining many times, she was fired from her position. A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. But then, he left the room and returned in the robe, asking her for a massage. When she refused, he left again and returned naked.
She tried to leave but he blocked her way, asking her to at least show him her breasts. Katya Mtsitouridze, the head of an international film promotion company and host of a popular Russian television show, says that Weinstein pursued her for many years. After the premiere of Finding Neverland , Mtsitouridze told The Hollywood Reporter that Weinstein invited her to his hotel room to talk about potential projects.
In The New York Times investigation , former Weinstein employee Laura Madden recalls being asked by her boss for massages in —at one point, she locked herself in the bathroom of his hotel room and broke down into tears.
The meeting started off professionally, but then Weinstein excused himself, went into another room and returned wearing only a bathrobe. Holly says that Weinstein continued to discuss business and upcoming projects, but while he was talking, he dropped his robe and went into the bathroom and began to use the toilet.
He then got into the shower, all the while continuing to talk to Holly. He said that Holly looked stressed and suggested she needed a massage, or maybe she could give him a massage. When Holly tried to get out of the situation, she says Weinstein got mad and started to tell her how leaving would be a bad move for her career.
When she told people later that night what had happened, Holly says that they told her to keep the incident quiet. Others did. Keep that in mind. Lauren Sivan had an encounter with Weinstein in that she made public after the recent scandal broke. The TV reporter was working in New York when Weinstein cornered her in a restaurant hallway, away from the areas of the restaurant that were open to the public, and attempted to kiss her. When she rejected him, she told HuffPost that he masturbated to completion in front of her.
After initially meeting her in the lobby of his hotel with his female assistant, Weinstein invited Seydoux to his room for a drink.
After his assistant left, Seydoux says that Weinstein jumped on her and tried to kiss her. She reportedly had to physically push him away. Seydoux says that in the years after, she saw Weinstein at many events and witnessed him making unwelcome advances towards other women. The actress revealed on Twitter that she was working on The Brothers Grimm , which was released in , when Weinstein pulled her aside and made suggestive comments to her.
Headey shut him down, but the next time she was in L. Weinstein invited her to his hotel room with the promise that they would sort this out. When she arrived, his assistant was there, but after the assistant left and they chatted about business for a bit, Weinstein got up and went to the bathroom and started running a bath. He asked her to join him in the bath. She alleges that in , she pitched a movie at the Sundance Film Festival to Weinstein. He told me to keep talking about my film and that he was going to get into his hot tub which was in the room adjacent to his office, steps away.
I kept talking as he got into the hot tub. When I finished my pitch, he asked me to watch him masturbate. I told him I was leaving. He quickly got out of the hot tub. As I went to get my purse to leave, he grabbed my forearm and pulled me to his bathroom and pleaded with me to watch him masturbate.
My heart was racing and I was very scared. Evans, who used to go by Lucia Stoller, alleges that she met up with Weinstein to discuss her career and potential prospects and he forced her to perform oral sex on him. The Oscar-winning actress first met Weinstein while she was a student at the Yale School of Drama in and had several disturbing encounters with him, which she shared in a recent New York Times op-ed.
She refused. He proceeded to take her to the bedroom and said he wanted to give her a massage. She instead offered to give him one, so she could be physically in control of the situation.
But then he tried to remove his pants. She told him not to and left the room. If I wanted to be an actress, then I had to be willing to do this sort of thing.
She later vowed never to work with Weinstein in the future. I blamed myself. In , actress Marisa Coughlan met with Weinstein in The Peninsula Hotel to talk about starring in one of his upcoming projects. She rejected his advances and left. However, Weinstein followed up with a script for his new movie and told that she was being considered for the lead.
Coughlan says that Weinstein then flew her out to New York City, where they went on a series of date-like outings and he repeatedly asked her to come back to his hotel room.
She says that she still declined and it was later announced that the role went to someone else. Weinstein made uninvited sexual advances towards actress Melissa Sagemiller three separate times during the filming of Get Over It in This is Harvey. Do you want to say anything?
The producer had invited Kelly to his room for a business meeting. She alleges that said no and they relocated the meeting to a restaurant, however, once his assistant left the table, Weinstein asked Kelly to be his girlfriend. I met Harvey at an industry party. The following day, my agent said he wanted to see me for a general meeting. The location was set for his hotel room.
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