Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has just been hit with yet another sexual misconduct allegation, this time by an industry acquaintance who claims that he raped her during the 2000 presidential debate.
Page Six [1] reported that the now-55 year-old Pennsylvania woman filed a lawsuit anonymously under the name Jane Doe V, claiming that she first met Weinstein when she was 19, while attending the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. There, she was introduced to the movie mogul by her boyfriend at the time.
In the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit, the woman said that Weinstein kept his distance from her the first few years she knew him, apparently out of respect for her boyfriend. However, when Weinstein saw her again in 1992 and learned that he was single, he began to take an interest in her career. This would “quickly turn into unwanted sexual advances,” the lawsuit alleges.
The woman claimed in her lawsuit that she met with Weinstein three times, with him being sexually inappropriate on each occasion. Weinstein allegedly raped her in the third and final encounter.
Their first meeting took place in 1993, just after Weinstein sold Miramax to Disney, and he invited the woman to his room at the The Peninsula Beverly Hills for a cocktail before a dinner to celebrate “his newly found fame and wealth.” Once she was there, Weinstein excused himself and came back “in nothing but a bathrobe and exposed his genitals to plaintiff before she could utter a word,” according to the lawsuit.
The woman was able to defuse the situation by pointing out that she attended his 1987 wedding to then-wife Eve Chilton, noting “how that made the already uncomfortable situation simply untenable.” This caused Weinstein to get dressed again before they joined friends at a restaurant nearby.
The suit explained that given the fact that this was the first time that Weinstein had been inappropriate to her and “had continuously promised to get her roles in his movies, she gave him the benefit of the doubt and the two remained in touch.”
In 1994, the woman met with Weinstein again at The Mayflower Hotel in New York City “under the guise of discussing business.” However, this time Weinstein allegedly exposed his genitals to her and rubbed them against her “before she broke free and quickly exited the room,” according to court documents.
Finally, “after having reestablished their relationship through years of ‘good’ behavior,” Weinstein “lured” her to his home in Manhattan under the guise of watching the 2000 presidential debate together while eating sushi and drinking. The lawsuit states that when the woman got up to use the restroom, Weinstein “blocked plaintiff’s path, forced her down onto the bed, removed her underwear and forcibly raped her.”
“The sheer size and mass of Weinstein prevented plaintiff from being able to escape his clutches, but once he backed up, she broke free, sprinted for the door, and never saw Weinstein again,” the court documents added.
The woman said in her lawsuit that since Weinstein raped her, she has suffered “severe emotional distress” and “her career was derailed and she all but stopped acting.” She also alleged that she “was acting under extreme duress due to the credible threat of being blacklisted, harmed and/or personally attacked by Harvey Weinstein and other major players in the industry.”
Weinstein’s civil lawyer Imran Ansari fired back by saying that his client “intends to defend against the claims filed anonymously against him.
“Some of these claims, including those alleged to have occurred decades ago, may be barred by the applicable statute of limitations, and not subject to any exceptions under the law, as this plaintiff does not appear to be a complainant in Mr. Weinstein’s criminal case,” the attorney added.
Weinstein, 68, was sentenced to 23 years in prison earlier this year for the sexual assaults of two women in New York. He is currently serving out his sentence at a facility near Buffalo.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com [2] and is used by permission.
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