From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories

[Frank Cannon]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories

Three women––among them Argento and a former aspiring actress named Lucia Evans—told me that Weinstein raped them, allegations that include Weinstein forcibly performing or receiving oral sex and forcing vaginal sex. Four women said that they experienced unwanted touching that could be classified as an assault. In an audio recording captured during a New York Police Department sting operation in 2015 and made public here for the first time, Weinstein admits to groping a Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, describing it as behavior he is “used to.” Four of the women I interviewed cited encounters in which Weinstein exposed himself or masturbated in front of them.

[Frank Cannon]

In related news:

NYPD Was Ready to Arrest Harvey Weinstein in 2015 After Model Said She Was Groped

How detectives laid a trap to catch the movie mogul after an Italian model accused him of groping her—and why charges were never brought.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-nypds-sting-on-harvey-weinstein

Harvey Weinstein had no sooner apologized to the 22-year-old woman who had accused him of groping her than he seemed ready to do it again.

“After he apologized, he said, ‘Listen, come up to my room,’” an NYPD commander with direct knowledge of the case says.

Ambra Battilana excused herself to use the restroom and she was met by a detective from the special victims unit, which had been using two cellphones to record this March 28, 2015, meeting in the bar/restaurant at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in downtown Manhattan. Battilana seemed close to panic. The detective promised her that she would be safely under protective surveillance if she went along with Weinstein’s request.

[mystery-ak]

From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.

By Ronan Farrow

10:47 A.M.
In the course of a ten-month investigation, thirteen women interviewed said that, between the nineteen-nineties and 2015, Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them.

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Since the establishment of the first studios a century ago, there have been few movie executives as dominant, or as domineering, as Harvey Weinstein. As the co-founder of the production-and-distribution companies Miramax and the Weinstein Company, he helped to reinvent the model for independent films, with movies such as “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “The English Patient,” “Pulp Fiction,” “The Crying Game,” “Shakespeare in Love,” and “The King’s Speech.” Beyond Hollywood, he has exercised his influence as a prolific fund-raiser for Democratic Party candidates, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Weinstein combined a keen eye for promising scripts, directors, and actors with a bullying, even threatening, style of doing business, inspiring both fear and gratitude. His movies have earned more than three hundred Oscar nominations, and, at the annual awards ceremonies, he has been thanked more than almost anyone else in movie history, just after Steven Spielberg and right before God.

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What a disgusting piece of work he is.  And shame on Hollywood! Just heard that both Angelina Jolie and Gwenyth Paltrow were his victims when they were younger. Why the heck didn’t they speak up?!

[Frank Cannon]

Gosh. I posted this earlier and no one cared. The boss posts it now and people start chiming in. The indignantly....

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,285326.msg1477986.html#msg1477986

[debrawiest]

Gosh. I posted this earlier and no one cared. The boss posts it now and people start chiming in. The indignantly....

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,285326.msg1477986.html#msg1477986

Sorry, Frank. I missed your post.

[mystery-ak]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4966816/Harvey-Weinstein-accused-raping-Asia-Argento.html
Harvey Weinstein accused of raping Italian star Asia Argento and forcing himself on Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosanna Arquette and Mira Sorvino in private meetings

[Frank Cannon]

Sorry, Frank. I missed your post.

Yeah, I know you all hate me here.


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