More than fifty women have now come forward with allegations against Harvey Weinstein, since The New York Times and The New Yorker each published their industry-shattering investigations into his alleged history of sexual misconduct. The allegations against Weinstein include sexual assault, harassment and unwanted advances, and date back over the past three decades.
In response to the initial Times article, Weinstein issued a statement partially acknowledging the accusations, saying “I appreciate the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologize for it." His attorney, Charles Harder, said in a statement that the Times’ story “is saturated with false and defamatory statements about Harvey Weinstein," and threatened to sue the paper. Lisa Bloom, another lawyer advising Weinstein, said in a statement that “he denies many of the accusations as patently false.” Bloom and Harder have both subsequently resigned from representing Weinstein.
In response to the New Yorker article, Weinstein spokesperson Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement in response which reads, in full: “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances. Mr. Weinstein obviously can’t speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr. Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr. Weinstein has begun counseling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path. Mr. Weinstein is hoping that, if he makes enough progress, he will be given a second chance.”
Here is a full list of Weinstein’s accusers so far, their allegations, and their statements. It will be updated if and when necessary. This list contains only accusers that have personally come forward with statements in the press or via social media.
Ashley Judd
Actress Judd told The New York Times that while she was working on the 1997 movie Kiss the Girls, Weinstein invited her to a hotel for what she took to be a breakfast meeting. When she arrived, she was summoned to Weinstein’s room, where she says he emerged in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage, or if she would watch him shower.
“How do I get out of the room as fast as possible without alienating Harvey Weinstein?” Judd recalled thinking. “I said no, a lot of ways, a lot of times, and he always came back at me with some new ask. It was all this bargaining, this coercive bargaining.” Feeling "panicky, trapped," Judd said that in order to get out of the room, she joked that she would have to win an Oscar for a Weinstein movie before she let him touch her.
Zoë Brock
Brock shared her allegations via a Medium post, stating that Weinstein harassed her during the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. “As a model I was used to predatory men and had become adept at brushing off unwanted advances and putting creepy perverts in their place,” she wrote, admitting that “feeling sorry for him, I went out of my way to be entertaining and nice.” Later in the night, Brock said she unwittingly ended up alone with Weinstein in his hotel room for what she thought was a group gathering, where “the energy shifted and I became very uncomfortable.”
Weinstein emerged from the bathroom naked and kept asking Brock if she wanted a massage, she said, and she ultimately locked herself in the bathroom. After Brock reprimanded him, she wrote, he became apologetic. “I could see the guy felt truly remorseful. He was near tears. But I could also tell that he had no idea how messed up this ‘apology’ was. How many girls were there? Did this shit happen every day?”
Rose McGowan
According to the Times, McGowan reached a settlement with Weinstein in 1997 following an incident in a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival. The $100,000 settlement was “not to be construed as an admission” by Weinstein, but intended to “avoid litigation and buy peace,” per a legal document reviewed by the Times. While McGowan declined to comment for the paper’s article, she subsequently accused Weinstein of rape in a series of tweets, stating overtly what she had long suggested: "HW raped me."
Laura Madden
Laura Madden, a former Weinstein employee, said that Weinstein asked her for massages at hotels in Dublin and London, starting in 1991. “It was so manipulative,” she told The Times. “You constantly question yourself—am I the one who is the problem?”
Liza Campbell
Artist and writer Campbell wrote an article in The Times of London stating that she met with Weinstein in 1995 in his hotel room for what she took to be a business meeting, where he invited her to “jump in the bath” with him. "Come on, it’ll be fun. We can drink champagne. You can soap me—whaddaya say?” she recalled Weinstein saying. Campbell said she felt fury and fear, and told Weinstein “If you come back into this room with no clothes on I’m going to fucking lose my temper.” After discovering that several exits were locked, she found an unlocked door and left.
Louise Godbold
In a blog post, Godbold alleged that in the early 1990s Weinstein trapped her in an empty meeting room and “begged her for a massage,” putting his hands on her shoulders. "No one needs ‘that kind of publicity,’ least of all the hundreds of women Harvey must have propositioned over the decades," she wrote. “He will remain rich and powerful, the women will remain unknown, silent, hurting, because to speak up would be even more painful in this climate of victim-blaming."
Lauren Sivan
Journalist Sivan told Megyn Kelly that Weinstein cornered her at Manhattan’s Cipriani restaurant, which was closed to the public at the time. According to Sivan, Weinstein masturbated in front of her and ejaculated into a potted plant. “I could not believe what I was witnessing,” Sivan said. “It was disgusting and kind of pathetic.... More than the disgusting act itself, which of course was gross, the demeaning part of it all is that just 20 minutes earlier he was having this great conversation with me and I felt so great and flattered by it. And then [he said], ‘Stand there and be quiet,’ just a few minutes later, just negated any warm feelings I had, and I realized, ‘Oh, that is what this is all about.’”
Asia Argento
Speaking to The New Yorker, Argento alleged that Weinstein invited her to what she took to be a party at a hotel on the French Riviera, but when she arrived only Weinstein was present. Argento said that Weinstein changed into a bathrobe, and forcibly performed oral sex on her as she told him to stop. “He terrified me, and he was so big,” she said. “It wouldn’t stop. It was a nightmare.” Argento also said that she had consensual sex with Weinstein several times over the next five years, and that she felt “obliged” to submit to his sexual advances. “After the rape, he won,” she said.
Jessica Barth
The actress told The New Yorker that during the 2011 Golden Globe Awards, Weinstein invited her to a meeting to discuss her career. When she arrived, she said, he asked her over the phone to come up to his room, where she found he had ordered champagne and sushi. Barth said that Weinstein offered to cast her in a film and demanded a naked massage, which she refused. When she tried to leave, Barth said, Weinstein lashed out and told her that she needed to lose weight “to compete with Mila Kunis” before promising her a meeting with one of his female executives. “He gave me her number, and I walked out and I started bawling,” Barth said.
Emma de Caunes
De Caunnes told The New Yorker that Weinstein invited her to a lunch meeting in Paris, where he claimed that he had a movie role in mind for her, and asked her to come to his hotel room to retrieve a copy of the book upon which the movie was based. When they arrived, she said, Weinstein disappeared into the bathroom and emerged naked with an erection, at which point she fled. “I was very petrified,” de Caunes said. “But I didn’t want to show him that I was petrified, because I could feel that the more I was freaking out, the more he was excited.”
Dawn Dunning
Dunning, a costume designer, told The Times that she met Weinstein in 2003 at a nightclub where she waited tables. She was an aspiring actress at the time, and said that Weinstein promised her a screen test for his then-company Miramax, and when she arrived at his hotel suite for a meeting, Weinstein was waiting in a bathrobe with contracts laid out for his next three film projects. She says he told her that she could sign them, but only if she had a threesome with him, and when she laughed‚assuming he was joking—Weinstein reportedly said, “You’ll never make it in this business. This is how the business works.”
Dunning fled the room at this point, she said, and hung up when Weinstein's assistant called her the next day. Shortly afterwards, she left acting and became a costume designer.
Ambra Battilana Gutierrez
The Italian model claimed that Weinstein groped her in 2015, and reported the incident to the New York Police Department. The next day, wearing a wire, she met with Weinstein at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in Manhattan. The audio from his meeting has been released by The New Yorker. In it, Weinstein seemingly admits to groping Gutierrez, and describes this as behavior he is “used to.” Also in the taped conversation, Weinstein repeatedly urges Gutierrez to join him for “five minutes” and warns her, “Don’t ruin your friendship with me for five minutes.”
Mira Sorvino
Sorvino told The New Yorker that Weinstein tried to give her a massage and “sort of chas[ed] her around” a hotel room at the Toronto Film Festival in 1995. A few weeks later, Sorvino says, Weinstein called her after midnight and showed up unexpectedly at her New York apartment. “Harvey had managed to bypass my doorman,” she said. “I opened the door terrified.” She said she told Weinstein her new boyfriend was on the way, at which point Weinstein left. Sorvino also told the magazine that she felt her rejection of Weinstein had harmed her career. “There may have been other factors, but I definitely felt iced out and that my rejection of Harvey had something to do with it.”
Lucia Stoller
Stoller told The New Yorker that she was approached by Weinstein in 2004, while she was an aspiring actress. He began calling her, she said, and his assistant invited her to a casting which turned out to be a solo meeting with Weinstein, who “was simultaneously flattering me and demeaning me and making me feel bad about myself." She stated he forced her to perform oral sex on him, despite her saying no repeatedly. “I tried to get away, but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. I didn’t want to kick him or fight him.” Eventually, Stoller said, “I just sort of gave up. That’s the most horrible part of it, and that’s why he’s been able to do this for so long to so many women: people give up, and then they feel like it’s their fault.”
Gwyneth Paltrow
Paltrow told The Times that at 22, Weinstein summoned her to his hotel room and suggested they head to the bedroom for massages, which she refused. She said that she confided in her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt, who confronted Weinstein about the incident (a representative for Pitt confirmed this account of events). Soon after this, Paltrow said, Weinstein called her and “screamed at her for a long time,” berating her for disclosing what had happened in the hotel room. At the time, Paltrow had just been cast in the Weinstein-produced movie Emma, and “thought he was going to fire me.”
Angelina Jolie
Jolie told The Times that Weinstein made unwanted advances on her in a hotel room in the late 1990s, which she rejected. "I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,” she said in an email.
Rosanna Arquette
Arquette told The New Yorker that Weinstein invited her to his hotel room in 1995, where he asked for a massage, then grabbed her hand and pulled it first towards his neck, and then towards his erect penis. “My heart was really racing. I was in a fight-or-flight moment,” she said, adding that she told Weinstein before leaving “I will never do that…I’ll never be that girl.” She said that she felt her career had suffered as a result of turning down Weinstein’s advances.
Judith Godrèche
French actress Godrèche told The Times that she took a breakfast meeting with Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996. At his hotel room, she said he asked her for a massage. “The next thing I know, he’s pressing against me and pulling off my sweater,” she told the paper. “I tried to negotiate the situation over the years, and negotiate with myself and pretend it kind of never happened.”
Katherine Kendall
Swingers actress Kendall told The Times that in 1993, Weinstein invited her to a screening which turned out to be a solo trip with him to a movie theater. After the movie, she said he invited her to his hotel room and emerged from the bathroom in a robe, asking for a massage. “Everybody does it,” Kendall recalls Weinstein saying. “He literally chased me. He wouldn’t let me pass him to get to the door.” After she refused him, Kendall said, Weinstein asked if she would “at least” show him her breasts. She said no to everything, she said: “I just thought to myself: I can’t believe you’re doing this to me. I’m so offended—we just had a meeting."
Tomi-Ann Roberts
Roberts told The Times that she met Weinstein as a college junior, waiting tables, and that Weinstein urged her to audition for a movie he planned to direct. She said that he asked her to meet him at his hotel, and that when she arrived Weinstein was nude in the bathtub and told her that she would give a much better audition if she were comfortable “getting naked in front of him,” since her would-be role involved a topless scene.
Roberts said she apologized to Weinstein as she left, for being "too prudish" to acquiesce to his request, but later felt she had been manipulated, and doubted that she was ever under consideration for a role: “I was nobody! How had I ever thought otherwise?”
Louisette Geiss
In a news conference, Geiss said that when she was shopping a screenplay at 2008’s Sundance Film Festival, she met with Weinstein at a restaurant to discuss her pitch. She alleges that he invited her to his office, adjacent to his hotel room, and emerged from the bathroom wearing only a bathrobe. Geiss said that he instructed her to keep talking as he got into the hot tub, and later asked her to watch him masturbate. “I do not think that Harvey Weinstein understands or comprehends how much pain and suffering this brings to me and scores of other women,” Geiss said.
Romola Garai
British actress Garai told The Guardian that she met with Weinstein at a London hotel for an “audition, where I’d actually already had the audition but you had to be personally approved by him.” Garai said that when she arrived at Weinstein’s room, “he answered the door in his bathrobe. I was only 18. I felt violated by it, it has stayed very clearly in my memory.”
“The transaction was just that I was there,” Garai added, explaining that once she was in the hotel room, Weinstein sat on a chair and had a brief conversation with her about film. “The point was that he could get a young woman to do that, that I didn’t have a choice, that it was humiliating for me and that he had the power. It was an abuse of power.”
Heather Graham
Graham told Variety that Weinstein summoned her to his office in the early 2000s, claiming that he wanted to put her in one of his films. “Later in the conversation, he mentioned that he had an agreement with his wife. He could sleep with whomever he wanted when he was out of town. I walked out of the meeting feeling uneasy. There was no explicit mention that to star in one of those films I had to sleep with him, but the subtext was there,” she said. Graham added that she declined a subsequent meeting with Weinstein at his hotel, because she did not want to be alone with him.
Cara Delevingne
Delevingne shared an Instagram post detailing her allegations against Weinstein. Early in her acting career, she said, Weinstein asked her whether she had slept with any women, and gave her unsolicited advice on the impact her sexuality might have on her career. A year or two later, she said, Delevingne attended a meeting with Weinstein and a director about an upcoming film, which ended up with her, Weinstein and another woman in a hotel room. Delevingne alleged that Weinstein asked the two women to kiss. “I swiftly got up and asked him if he knew that I could sing. And I began to sing,” she wrote, explaining that she thought by singing she could make the situation “more professional, like an audition.” After singing, she stated that she excused herself, and on her way out Weinstein tried to kiss her on the lips.
“I still got the part for the film and always thought that he gave it to me because of what happened,” Delevingne wrote. “Since then, I felt awful that I did the movie. I felt like I didn’t deserve the part. I was so hesitant about speaking out.... I didn’t want to hurt his family. I felt guilty as if I did something wrong.”
Léa Seydoux
The French actress told The Guardian that Weinstein tried to sexually assault her. “We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me,” she said. “I had to defend myself. He’s big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him…I pushed him physically. I think he respected me because I resisted him.”
Sarah Ann Masse
Masse told Variety that while she was interviewing for a job as Weinstein’s nanny in 2008, he opened the door in his underwear and conducted the interview without getting dressed. Though she was uncomfortable, she said that she tried to rationalize this as “a quirk.” When the interview ended, Masse alleged that Weinstein grabbed her in a hug and told her that he loved her, at which point she left. “I thought, ‘Gosh, maybe this is just how they treat everyone…Maybe it’s just that Hollywood schmooze thing.’ But I just didn’t feel right about it,” she said. She didn’t get the job, and in retrospect “felt like I dodged a bullet.”
Claire Forlani
The British actress posted a statement on Twitter saying that she had evaded advances from Weinstein on several occasions. “Nothing happened to me with Harvey, by that I mean I escaped five times,” she wrote, claiming that Weinstein had suggested massages to her. “I was 25. I remember him telling me all the actresses who had slept with him and what he had done for them.”
Florence Darel
French actress Darel told People that Weinstein pursued her relentlessly after they met in 1994, then propositioned her at a Paris hotel while his wife was in an adjoining room. “I was in shock,” Darel said. “When you have someone so physically disgusting in front of you, continuing and continuing as though this was all perfectly normal.... What happened to me may not be illegal but it was inappropriate. Very inappropriate.”
Darel expanded on this incident to Le Parisien, recalling that Weinstein was undeterred when Darel told him she was in love with someone else. "He replied that didn’t bother him at all and offered to have me be his mistress a few days a year. That way we could continue to work together. Basically, it was, ‘If you want to continue in America, you have to go through me.’” Darel said that she promptly excused herself and left.
Sophie Dix
English actress Dix told The Guardian that Weinstein tried to force himself on her at a hotel room in the mid-nineties. She stated that she locked herself in a bathroom to escape him, and that when she emerged, she found Weinstein masturbating. “I quickly closed the door again and locked it,” she said. “Then when I heard room service come to the door I just ran.”
Kate Beckinsale
In an Instagram post on Thursday, Beckinsale stated that Weinstein called her to a meeting at the Savoy when she was 17, and was surprised to be called up to his room. She said that Weinstein answered the door in his bathrobe, and offered her alcohol. “I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him,” she wrote, adding that she declined his offer of alcohol and left, announcing that she had school in the morning. A few years later, she added, Weinstein asked her “if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not.”
Tara Subkoff
The fashion designer and actress told Variety about an alleged encounter with Weinstein during the 1990s. At a party, Subkoff said, Weinstein asked her to sit in his lap, and when she did so she “could feel that he had an erection. I got quiet, and got off his lap quickly." She added that Weinstein asked her to come outside with him and do “other things I don't want to share," and claimed that she was blacklisted as a result of rejecting Weinstein.
Melissa Sagemiller
The actress told The Huffington Post that Weinstein made uninvited advances towards her in 2000, while she was filming the movie Get Over It. On one occasion, Sagemiller said that Weinstein tried to coax her into his hotel room, asked for a massage and “would not let [her] leave” until she kissed him. “I said fine and kissed him on the lips. He sort of held my head and made me kiss him, and then he’s like, “Okay, you can go now. That’s all I wanted. Just do what I say and you can get your way.'”
After filming wrapped, Sagemiller said Weinstein insisted that she should travel back from Toronto to New York on his private plane, rather than her separate flight. She refused, but said that when she got to the airport, she found that Weinstein had ordered airport personnel to deliver her to his private plane, and had had her bags removed from her scheduled flight. “So I get on the plane, I walk up and I go, 'Harvey, you motherfucker.' He’s just sitting there. He pats his hand on the seat next to him, and he’s like, 'See, Melissa, you can’t say no to me. I always get what I want.'”
There were other actors on the plane, Sagemiller said, including Sisqó and Shane West, and she stayed with West throughout the flight. “If I had walked in there and it was just [Weinstein], I don’t know. I would have had to run away because that’s horrendous… It was a short flight. Shane and I were talking; we were friendly, and I stuck by him. I’m sure I had told him Harvey’s stories.”
Though Sagemiller says she wasn’t entirely silent about the encounters at the time, she was encouraged not to formally speak out. “I was never told, ‘Are you OK? Do you want to say anything? Do you want to report this?’ Nothing like that. It was just, ‘That’s Harvey.’”
Minka Kelly
Kelly shared her story in an Instagram post, stating that after meeting Weinstein at an industry party, he requested a general meeting in his hotel room. Uncomfortable with this, Kelly said that she asked to meet at the hotel restaurant instead, with an assistant present. After five minutes, Kelly said, Weinstein asked the assistant to leave.
At this point, Kelly wrote, Weinstein said to her, “I know you were feeling what i was feeling when we met the other night,” and offered her “a lavish life filled with trips around the world on private planes,” if she would agree to be his girlfriend. “Or, ‘We could just keep this professional.’ All I knew was not to offend this very powerful man and to get out of the situation as quickly as possible.” Kelly said that she told Weinstein she was flattered, but preferred to keep their relationship professional, at which point he allegedly said, “Fine. I trust you won’t tell anyone about this.’ I said, ‘Of course not. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me,’—the only way I could think to shut it down gracefully and excuse myself.”
Trish Goff
The model told The New York Times about a lunch meeting with Weinstein in 2003, during which they were seated in a private restaurant room. Goff said that Weinstein repeatedly asked about her love life and put his hands on her legs. “When we finally stood up to go, he really started groping me, grabbing my breasts, grabbing my face and trying to kiss me," she said, adding that she repeatedly told him to stop, but he didn’t until she was able to get back into public. “The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn’t that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.”
Angie Everhart
Actress Everhart stated on a KLOS morning radio show that Weinstein masturbated in front of her during the Venice Film Festival, while they were staying on the same boat. She said that she woke up in bed to find Weinstein standing by her bed, and “all at once he takes his pants down and starts doing his stuff.” She also alleged that Weinstein told her “You’re a really nice girl – you shouldn’t tell anybody about this.”
Mia Kirshner
The Canadian actress wrote in an op-ed for The Globe and Mail that Weinstein harassed her in a hotel room. She did not detail the “ordeal,” beyond saying that Weinstein “attempted to treat me like chattel that could be purchased with the promise of work in exchange for being his disposable orifice.”
Eva Green
The actress told Variety that she met Weinstein for a business meeting in Paris, where “he behaved inappropriately and I had to push him off. I got away without it going further, but the experience left me shocked and disgusted.... We should recognise that this sort of behaviour exists everywhere and is not unique to the entertainment industry. The exploitation of power is ubiquitous. This behaviour is unacceptable and needs to be eliminated.”
Lysette Anthony
British soap actress Anthony told London’s Sunday Times that she became friendly with Wenstein after meeting him in New York in 1982. A few years later, she told the paper that she met Weinstein for a drink at his home in London, and “The next thing I knew he was half undressed and he grabbed me.... It was the last thing I expected and I fled. That was when the predatory stalking began.”
At a later date, Anthony said that Weinstein raped her. She alleges that Weinstein showed up at her flat around 10 A.M., where he “pushed me inside and rammed me up against the coat rack.... He was trying to kiss me and shove inside me.” She said that she pushed Weinstein away, but he was too heavy, and “finally I just gave up.”
Anthony also described the incident to London’s Metropolitan police, who are investigating her claim alongside three other sexual assault allegations.
Alice Evans
In an essay for The Telegraph, the actress alleges that when she first met Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival, he asked her to go into a hotel bathroom with him, saying “I want to touch your tits. Kiss you a little.” When she refused, she claimed that Weinstein said, “Let’s hope it all works out for your boyfriend,” referring to a screen test Evans’ boyfriend Ioan Gruffudd had just completed for a Weinstein project. Gruffudd did not get the role, and Evans stated in her essay that she suspected her rejection of Weinstein had hurt his chances.
Sarah Smith
A former Miramax employee in London, going by the alias Sarah Smith for legal reasons, told The Daily Mail that Weinstein raped her 26 years ago in the basement of Miramax’s London offices. “He grabbed me and he was so big and powerful. He just ripped my clothes away and pushed me, threw me down. Then… I kept shouting, “No! Stop!” and tried to push him off. But he forced himself on me.” Smith stated that she kept saying “no” throughout, and once it was over Weinstein told her to “get out.” She didn’t tell anyone about the attack at the time, she said; “We live in more enlightened times now, but back then I just thought no one would believe me.”
Paula Wachowiak
Wachowiak told the Buffalo News that Weinstein harassed her while she was working as an intern on 1981’s The Burning. Wachowiak said Weinstein exposed himself to her in a hotel room, and asked her for a massage before making a lewd remark.
Later, Wachowiak had to take checks to Weinstein in his hotel room to sign. When she arrived, she said that he was wearing only a towel, which he dropped when he took the checks from her. Wachowiak said Weinstein engaged in a conversation with her about the movie’s finances, while naked, before asking her for a massage. “That’s not in my job description,” she replied, “I told him that I was happy to be part of the project but I would not touch him. He finally gave up and signed all the checks." At this point, Wachowiak said, she left the room and burst into tears.
Lauren Holly
The actress shared her account of harassment by Weinstein on the Canadian talk show The Social. Holly said that the incident took place in the late 1990s, when she was in her thirties and already acquainted with Weinstein: “I was not a young ingenue, and I was certainly not new to Hollywood; I was a seasoned, Hollywood person.”
Holly said that she went to a hotel for what she took to be a routine meeting, where Weinstein excused himself after some small talk. He returned wearing a bathrobe, she said, and spoke briefly about some scripts he felt could be a fit for her, before asking her to follow him into the bathroom. Holly recounted that once in the bathroom, Weinstein took off his robe, used the toilet in front of her, and then got in the shower.
“At this point my head was exploding,” Holly said. “He keeps the conversation going, he finishes, he turns on the shower, he gets in the shower. He’s continually talking to me, he’s in the shower washing himself. Leaning out, asking me for responses.” After he dried off, Holly said that Weinstein approached her while naked, asked for a massage, then began to threaten her when she refused, saying that she needed to “keep him as [her] ally” and that leaving the room would be a “bad decision.” At this point, Holly said that she pushed him away and ran.
Amber Anderson
The actress claimed via Instagram that Weinstein coerced her into a private meeting when she was 20, and propositioned her with a “personal” relationship. “He told me not to tell anyone I was alone with him, told me if I did it might affect my opportunities," Anderson wrote. "He tried to take my hand and put it in his lap, which is when I managed to leave the room."
Lena Headey
The Game of Thrones actress said on Twitter that she first met Weinstein during the Venice Film Festival, during which he asked her to take a walk with him and “made some suggestive comment, a gesture,” which she said she laughed off.
Weinstein later asked her to meet him for breakfast in L.A., she said. “He asked me a few questions about the state of my love life,” Headey recalled, and later asked her to come up to his room to retrieve a script. “We walked to the lift and the energy shifted, my whole body went into high alert,” she wrote. “I said to Harvey, I’m not interested in anything other than work, please don’t think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen.” In response, she wrote, Weinstein was furious, and after failing to open his hotel room door, Headey said that he walked her back to the elevator, ordering her not to tell anyone about the encounter as she left.
Heather Kerr
The actress shared her story in a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred, alleging that Weinstein exposed himself to her and forced himself on her during a private meeting in 1989. Per Variety, Kerr stated that Weinstein “asked if she was good,” at which point she told him about her experience as an actor. “He said, ‘No, I need to know if you’re good.’ He said if he was going to introduce me around town, he needed to know if I was ‘good.’ He kept repeating that word,” Kerr said. Kerr went on to state that Weinstein unzipped his pants, took out his penis and forced her to hold it, holding her hand in place. “He said this is how things work in Hollywood and all actresses who’d made it, did it this way,” she said, adding that she felt “powerless” and “terrified,” and quit acting shortly after the encounter.
Marisa Coughlan
Actress and writer Coughlan told The Hollywood Reporter that Weinstein invited her to a hotel in 1999 to discuss a film role. Though there were assistants present when she arrived, they soon left, at which point Weinstein told her he wanted her for the lead role in a film he was developing. She then alleges that he propositioned her, saying “he wanted me to be one of his 'special friends' and go into the bedroom. I told him that I had a serious boyfriend and reminded him that he was married and that we should keep this professional. I was so blindsided. Not one ounce of me anticipated it. It was the weirdest meeting I've ever had in my life." She stated that the offer was openly transactional, with Weinstein “wanting to barter sex for movie roles.” Coughlan left the suite without incident, she said, but stated that Weinstein continued to proposition her after that meeting.
Lupita Nyong’o
Nyong’o wrote an account of her harassment by Weinstein in an op-ed in The Times. She wrote that she first met him in 2011 while a student at the Yale School of Drama, and that shortly afterwards he invited her to a film screening. On the day of the screening, she wrote, Weinstein’s driver picked up Nyong’o and took her to meet Weinstein at a restaurant, where she said he tried to insist that she drink alcohol and called her “stubborn” for refusing. Though it was strange, Nyong’o said, he struck her as “pushy and idiosyncratic more than anything.”
Nyong’o said that she and Weinstein arrived at his home to watch the film in his screening room, along with his domestic staff and young children. 15 minutes into the film, she wrote, Weinstein asked her to leave with him “saying he wanted to show [her] something.” She reluctantly agreed, and went with Weinstein into his bedroom where he asked to give her a massage. “For the first time since I met him, I felt unsafe. I panicked a little and thought quickly to offer to give him one instead: It would allow me to be in control physically, to know exactly where his hands were at all times,” she wrote. Because part of her curriculum included body work, she felt she could rationalize the massage “and keep a semblance of professionalism in spite of the bizarre circumstance.”
Shortly after she began massaging him, Nyong’o wrote, Weinstein said that he wanted to take off his pants, and got up to do so did so even after she told him not to. At this point she said she left, telling Weinstein she was not comfortable. “He put his shirt on and again mentioned how stubborn I was,” she wrote. “I agreed with an easy laugh, trying to get myself out of the situation safely."
While disturbed by the incident, Nyong’o said that she was able to rationalize it as “inappropriate and uncalled-for, but not overtly sexual.” She invited him to a school production she was in, hoping that in this way he would see her as a professional (Weinstein was unable to attend). A few months later, she wrote, Weinstein invited her to dinner in New York, during which he asked her to come up to his hotel room. She refused, and in response she said Weinstein “told me not to be so naïve,” she wrote. “If I wanted to be an actress, then I had to be willing to do this sort of thing."
According to Nyong’o, she declined his offer, telling him “I would not be able to sleep at night if I did what you are asking”. Weinstein’s demeanour changed, she said, and he told her she could leave. As she left in a cab she asked Weinstein if they were “good.” “‘I don’t know about your career, but you’ll be fine,’ he said. It felt like both a threat and a reassurance at the same time; of what, I couldn’t be sure.”
Katya Mtsitouridze
The Russian TV host and film executive told The Hollywood Reporter that she first met Weinstein at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003, where he asked her to call him. She tried to avoid him on future occasions, she said, because “he would always with such passion ask, 'When will you call me?' Or 'Let me fly you to New York.’”
At the Venice Film Festival, Mtsitouridze alleged, Weinstein arranged for a private meeting where he appeared in a bathrobe and claimed that his masseuse was late, but that they could “have fun without her.” She said that Weinstein tried to show her his stomach after a recent abdominal surgery, apparently trying to get her sympathy. “Like a scene from a bad movie,” Mtsitouridze said she was saved by a waiter who entered the room without knocking, at which point she turned and ran.
Zelda Perkins
Weinstein’s former assistant claimed in an interview with the Financial Times that Weinstein sexually harassed her, and assaulted her female colleague, ultimately leading to a settlement and NDA. By discussing the claims and breaking the NDA, she could be liable to repay the settlement. But she told the FT: “I want to publicly break my non-disclosure agreement. Unless somebody does this there won't be a debate about how egregious these agreements are and the amount of duress that victims are put under.”
Perkins worked at Miramax’s London office during the 1990s, beginning in script development before becoming Weinstein’s assistant. She told the FT that Weinstein exposed himself to her, asked her for massages and requested she watch him bathe. "This was his behavior on every occasion I was alone with him. I often had to wake him up in the hotel in the mornings and he would try to pull me into bed," she said.
During the Venice Film Festival in 1998, Perkins said, a female colleague told Perkins that she had been assaulted. "She was white as a sheet and shaking and in a very bad emotional state. She told me something terrible had happened. She was in shock and crying and finding it very hard to talk,” Perkins said, recalling that she had told her colleague they needed to go to the police, but in a foreign country, neither knew what to do. Shortly thereafter, Perkins said, they sought legal counsel in London and negotiated a damages agreement with Weinstein’s lawyers, resulting in a £250,000 settlement and an NDA which they both signed in October 1998. She wanted to expose Weinstein, but was concerned that he “would try to destroy my credibility if I went to court.”
The FT stated that Weinstein denied these allegations through a spokesperson: "The FT did not provide the identity of any individuals making these assertions. Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein. Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances."
Brit Marling
In an essay for The Atlantic Marling recalled her experience of sexual harassment by Weinstein. Like many of his accusers, she wrote, she was asked to meet him at a hotel bar, then told to go upstairs to his suite “because he was a very busy man.” She wrote that she felt comforted by the presence of another woman her own age, but felt panic when the woman left the room, leaving Marling alone with Weinstein, who she said offered her “a massage, champagne, strawberries” and then “suggested [they] shower together.” “What could I do?” Marling wrote. “How not to offend this man, this gatekeeper, who could anoint or destroy me?”
Marling said it was clear that Weinstein expected “sex or some version of an erotic exchange.” She left the room, she said, explaining that she felt able to do so because she already had an established career—having co-written and starred in several films—before meeting Weinstein, and thus was not afraid of being potentially blacklisted.
Mimi Haleyi
Former production assistant Haleyi, who worked on an unidentified Weinstein production during the 2000s, has accused Weinstein of rape. During a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Haleyi stated that she had several encounters with Weinstein over the years, and that one meeting in 2006 ended with Weinstein forcibly performing oral sex on her.
Haleyi stated that she met Weinstein in 2004, and two years later asked if she could assist on any of his productions, in response to which he suggested she come to his hotel room to discuss it. Once she arrived at his room, Haleyi said that Weinstein asked her for a massage several times, and so she left. Weinstein allegedly later invited Haleyi to Paris multiple times, which she declined because the trip seemed “romantic” in nature. "I finally said, 'I'm not coming to Paris with you and I hear you have a terrible reputation with women. That's when he backed off."
Weinstein got back in touch with her when he returned from Paris, she said, inviting her to his home in SoHo. She agreed in order to "maintain a relationship." When she arrived, he was “all over me, making sexual advances,” to which she repeatedly objected, informing him that she was on her period and there was “no way” anything sexual was going to happen. In response, Haleyi said, Weinstein backed her into a room and held her down on the bed. “I tried to get him off of me but it was impossible. He was extremely persistent and physically overpowering. He then orally forced himself on me while I was on my period."
Afterwards, Haleyi said that Weinstein asked, “Don't you think we are so much closer to each other now?’” to which she replied, “No.” Haleyi no longer works in the film industry.
Dominique Huett
According to The New York Times, Huet filed a lawsuit in October claiming that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2010.
Natassia Malthe
The actress accused Weinstein of rape during a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred. Per The Guardian, Malthe stated that in the middle of the night after they met at the BAFTA Awards in London, Weinstein knocked on her hotel room door and barged in. “He took off his pants and sat on my bed,” Malthe said, adding that Weinstein asked her to perform oral sex on him, and then began masturbating. When she declined, she said that he overpowered her and forced her to have sex with him.
“It was not consensual. He did not use a condom,” Malthe said. “However, he did not ejaculate inside me. After having sexual intercourse, he masturbated.” When asked whether the complaint amounted to a rape allegation, Allred described it as “a sexual assault that involved non-consensual penetration.”
Malthe said she later met Weinstein at a hotel in Los Angeles to discuss a film role, having been told by him that there would be no “hanky-panky.” When she arrived, Malthe alleged that Weinstein pressured her to have a threesome, which she refused to do and left.
Annabella Sciorra
Sciorra told The New Yorker that Weinstein violently raped her in the 1990s, and repeatedly harassed her afterwards. Sciorra said that after starring in the Weinstein-produced movie The Night We Never Met, she became part of “this circle of Miramax,” regularly interacting with Weinstein at dinners and events. Shortly after Weinstein dropped her off one evening, Sciorra said was getting ready for bed when she heard a knock on the door, and when she opened it a crack Weinstein “pushed the door open” and walked in “like he owned the place.” Sciorra said he began unbuttoning his shirt and circling the apartment, which she felt was him checking whether anyone else was home, before cornering her and backing her into the bedroom.
Sciorra said she told Weinstein to leave, but he grabbed her and shoved her onto the bed, where he raped her. “When he was done, he ejaculated on my leg, and on my nightgown,” she recalled, adding that Weinstein then tried to perform oral sex on her, until she began to shake violently. “I think, in a way, that’s what made him leave, because it looked like I was having a seizure or something.”
While shooting a film in London in 1995, Sciorra alleges that Weinstein left messages at her hotel and sent cars to pick her up, all of which she ignored. She said that he showed up to her hotel room and began pounding on the door, prompting her to ask the film’s producer to move her to a different hotel. In May of 1997, Sciorra said, she checked into a hotel at the Cannes and was told that Weinstein’s room was next to hers. Early one morning, she said that she opened the door to find Weinstein “in his underwear, holding a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a tape, a movie, in the other.” She said that she ran from him and “pressed all the call buttons for valet service and room service. I kept pressing all of them until someone showed up,” at which point Weinstein left.
Daryl Hannah
The actress told The New Yorker that Weinstein harassed her in her hotel room on two occasions, prompting her to barricade herself in, and on another occasion asked to touch her breasts. After meeting Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival in the early 2000s, Hannah said that he complimented her work and asked for her hotel room number in order to schedule a meeting. Weinstein later began calling her incessantly, “too late to have a meeting.” When she ignored the phone, Hannah said, Weinstein began “pounding” on her door, which eventually became so frightening that she left her room via an exterior door, and spent the night in her makeup artist’s room. The evening after, Hannah said, she was in her room when Weinstein began knocking again, and she “actually pushed a dresser in front of the door and just kind of huddled in the room.”
Years later, Hannah said Weinstein entered her hotel suite while she was inside with her makeup artist, Steve Daviault (who corroborated Hannah’s account). “He just burst in like a raging bull, and I know with every fibre of my being that if my male makeup artist was not in that room, things would not have gone well. It was scary.” Hannah said that Weinstein demanded she attend a party downstairs, but when she got there she found it “completely empty.” At this point, Hannah alleges, Weinstein asked, “Are your tits real?” and asked if he could feel them, to which she said no. She said that Weinstein then asked her to flash him, and she replied “Fuck off, Harvey,” and returned to her room. Hannah said she experienced "backlash" following her rejection of Weinstein.
Hope Exiner d’Amore
D’Amore told The New York Times that while she was working for Weinstein in Buffalo in the 1970s, he invited her to New York City with him to meet with people in the film industry. When they arrived at their hotel, she said, Weinstein told her that there had been a mistake with the reservation, and they would have to share a room. She agreed, but alleged that later that night Weinstein got into bed beside her, naked, and forcibly performed oral sex and sexual intercourse on her. “I told him no. I kept pushing him away. He just wouldn’t listen. He just forced himself on me.”
Ashley Matthau
The actress told The New York Times that Weinstein began making advances when they met in 2004, and repeatedly invited her to his hotel room for a private meeting, which she declined, explaining that she was engaged. She said Weinstein “instructed her” to get into a car with him, saying he wanted to discuss future projects.
When they got to his hotel room, Matthau said, Weinstein told her about other successful actresses who had slept with him in order to launch their careers, suggesting that she do the same. When she refused, Weinstein allegedly pushed her onto the bed and fondled her breasts, then stripped and masturbated on top of her. Matthau recalled a “chilling” meeting later on with Weinstein and his lawyer, who allegedly told her she would be “dragged through the mud” if she went public with her accusations. She accepted a settlement in exchange for her silence.
Dominique Huett
According to The New York Times, Huet filed a lawsuit in October claiming that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2010.
Cynthia Burr
Burr told The New York Times that when she was an actress in the 1970s, Weinstein tried to kiss her in a New York elevator, and later unzipped his fly and forced her to perform oral sex on him in a hallway. “It was just him and me alone,” she said. “I was fearful I didn’t have the wherewithal to get away.”
Lacey Dorn
Dorn told The New York Times that as she left a Halloween party in 2011, she said goodbye to Weinstein, at which point he grabbed between her legs, touching her buttocks and crotch through her clothes. “I was so naïve, I didn’t say anything. And he didn’t say anything either,” she said. “I just got out of the party as fast as possible.”
Paz de la Huerta
The actress told Vanity Fair that Weinstein raped her in 2010, after accepted a ride home from him. When they arrived at her apartment, de la Huerta said “things got very uncomfortable very fast”, as Weinstein demanded that she let him in for a drink. As soon as they got inside, de la Huerta alleged, Weinstein started kissing her as she tried to “brush him away.” “Then he pushed me onto the bed and his pants were down and he lifted up my skirt. I felt afraid… It wasn’t consensual… It happened very quickly… He stuck himself inside me.” Afterwards, “he said he’d be calling me. I kind of just laid on the bed in shock.”
De la Huerta described a second alleged assault a month later, where Weinstein showed up in her lobby. She said Weinstein had been calling her repeatedly since the first incident, and allowed him into her apartment though she was “terrified.” “I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ He kept humping me and it was disgusting. He’s like a pig…He raped me.”
De la Huerta has been interviewed by the New York Police Department, which is developing a criminal case against Weinstein.
Julianna Margulies
During an interview on Sirius XM, the actress said that she was invited to a meeting with Weinstein at his hotel room to discuss a role. She insisted that Weinstein’s female assistant join them, and stated that Weinstein opened the door to his room in a robe before "staring daggers" at the assistant. "He looked at me, furious...and said, ‘Just wanted to say, good audition.’ And he slammed the door.” Margulies did not get the part.
Salma Hayek
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Hayek alleged that Weinstein sexually harassed her repeatedly, and that she refused requests including “taking a shower with him,” letting him watch me take a shower, letting him give me a massage” and “letting him give me oral sex.” Hayek stated that her refusals drove Weinstein to “Machiavellian rage,” and that he once told her “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”
Hayek also alleges that Weinstein threatened to shut down her 2002 biopic Frida, for which she was Oscar-nominated, telling her that her only value as an actress was her sex appeal, “and that there was none of that in this movie.”
Weinstein allegedly told Hayek he would allow the movie to finish filming if she agreed to film a sex scene with Ashley Judd. “I had to say yes,” Hayek wrote. “By now so many years of my life had gone into this film.... I felt an immense pressure to deliver and a deep sense of gratitude for all those who did believe in me and followed me into this madness.” Hayek said that on the day of filming the scene, she cried uncontrollably and ultimately had to take a tranquilizer. “Since those around me had no knowledge of my history of Harvey, they were very surprised by my struggle that morning,” she wrote. “It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her for Harvey Weinstein.”
Anne Heche
The actress alleged that she was fired from a film after refusing to perform oral sex on Weinstein. “I personally did not suck Harvey’s dick, although he showed it to me and I got out of the room before there was any physical contact,” Heche said on the Allegedly with Theo Vonn & Matthew Cole Weiss podcast.
“I was fired from a job that I had been hired for in Miramax,” Heche continued. “The repercussions of standing up for yourself were as deep and targeted as some of the scars of the women who actually got more physically, unfortunately, involved.” She went on to explain that she had kept the incident a secret because she was afraid of the consequences of speaking up. “You were threatened the second you walk out the door… that’s why every one of us was 19, 20, 21 or 22. He didn’t go after the 40-year-old woman. He hits on me when I’m 19, 20, 21, 22, vulnerable, scared, frightened.”
