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All the women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault, so far

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On October 5, the New York Times published an exposé alleging that Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s most revered moguls and influential kingpins, has been sexually harassing and abusing women for nearly 30 years. On October 10, the New Yorker followed with another extensive report, including several graphic, on-the-record accounts from more of Weinstein’s alleged victims. Just a couple of hours later, the Times followed up its own report with yet more public accounts, including from industry stalwarts Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie.

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Together, the allegations indicate that Weinstein may have abused his power on a variety of fronts over decades, and identify a pattern of behavior in which Weinstein often invited women to hotels for “business meetings,” only to make sexual advances against their will. Most of the women Weinstein allegedly targeted were young and had little institutional power, and they say they were afraid to speak out afterward for fear that he would ruin their careers.

Comprising both specific incidents of assault and ongoing harassment and suggestive behavior, the list of women accusing Weinstein is long — and as more women speak up, it’s likely to get longer. Here are all the women who have so far gone on record alleging that Weinstein sexually harassed and abused them, presented alphabetically. Please be advised that the details below include explicit and disturbing accounts of sexual assault.

This list will be updated as necessary. The most recent addition to the list is Salma Hayek.

Amber Anderson (actress)

At a private meeting in 2013:

He behaved inappropriately and propositioned a “personal” relationship to further my career whilst bragging about other actresses he had “helped” in a similar way. He told me not to tell anyone I was alone with him, told me if I did it might affect my “opportunities.” He tried to take my hand and put it on his lap which is when I managed to leave the room. [Amber Anderson / Instagram]

Lysette Anthony (actress)

In the late 1980s, in Anthony’s London home:

“I was in my dressing gown and I answered the door to find Harvey standing there,” she said.

“He pushed me inside and rammed me up against the coat rack in my tiny hall and started fumbling at my gown. He was trying to kiss me and shove inside me. It was disgusting.”

She said she tried to push him away but was unable to as he was too heavy.

“Finally I just gave up. At least I was able to stop him kissing me. As he ground himself against me, I kept my eyes shut tight, held my breath, just let him get on with it. He came over my leg like a dog and then left. It was pathetic, revolting. I remember lying in the bath later and crying.” [CNN]

Asia Argento (actress/filmmaker)

First at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in France in 1997, and then multiple times through 1999:

At first, Weinstein was solicitous, praising her work. Then he left the room. When he returned, he was wearing a bathrobe and holding a bottle of lotion. “He asks me to give a massage. I was, like, ‘Look man, I am no fucking fool,’” Argento said. “But, looking back, I am a fucking fool. And I am still trying to come to grips with what happened.”

Argento said that, after she reluctantly agreed to give Weinstein a massage, he pulled her skirt up, forced her legs apart, and performed oral sex on her as she repeatedly told him to stop. Weinstein “terrified me, and he was so big,” she said. “It wouldn’t stop. It was a nightmare.” [New Yorker]

Rosanna Arquette (actress)

At the Beverly Hills Hotel in the early 1990s:

Arquette recalled that, when she arrived at the room, Weinstein opened the door wearing a white bathrobe. Weinstein said that his neck was sore and that he needed a massage. She told him that she could recommend a good masseuse. “Then he grabbed my hand,” she said. He put it on his neck. When she yanked her hand away, she told me, Weinstein grabbed it again and pulled it toward his penis, which was visible and erect. “My heart was really racing. I was in a fight-or-flight moment,” she said. She told Weinstein, “I will never do that.” [New Yorker]

Vana Barba (actress)

In the early 1990s:

The actress said that she declined the advances of Weinstein during the promotion of the Oscar-winning film Mediterraneo, in the early 90s.

Barba made a name for herself internationally when she played in the 1991 Italian film.

“I was asked by an intermediary to go out for dinner with a producer I had never heard of, at the time. It was more of a demand rather than a polite invitation”, Barba said.

She said she declined the invitation. “I’m glad I had the courage to say no. Certainly it cost me.”

According to Barba, Weinstein asked that she should immediately leave the country and that she should not be able to work in the US again. [Greek Reporter]

Jessica Barth (actress)

At the Beverly Hills Peninsula, in 2011:

Weinstein invited her to a business meeting at the Peninsula. When she arrived, he asked her over the phone to come up to his room. ... Barth said that, in the conversation that followed, he alternated between offering to cast her in a film and demanding a naked massage in bed. “So, what would happen if, say, we’re having some champagne and I take my clothes off and you give me a massage?” she recalled him asking. “And I’m, like, ‘That’s not going to happen.’ ”

When she moved toward the door to leave, Weinstein lashed out, saying that she needed to lose weight “to compete with Mila Kunis,” and then, apparently in an effort to mollify her, promising a meeting with one of his female executives. “He gave me her number, and I walked out and I started bawling.” [New Yorker]

Kate Beckinsale (actress)

At the Savoy Hotel in 1990:

I was called to meet Harvey Weinstein at the Savoy Hotel when I was 17. I assumed it would be in a conference room which was very common. When I arrived, reception told me to go to his room . He opened the door in his bathrobe. 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. After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed. A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. I realized he couldn’t remember if he had assaulted me or not. [Kate Beckinsale / Instagram]

Juls Bindi (massage therapist)

At Weinstein’s suite at Los Angeles’s Montage Hotel in 2010:

“He cut the massage short. He gets up, and he just says, ‘How big is my penis?’ I was like, ‘Excuse me?’

“He follows me into the bathroom. He shuts the door behind him.”

Then, Bindi says, he proceeds to pleasure himself.

“I’m like, ‘This is not appropriate, I don’t feel comfortable with this, no, this is not okay, do not do this in front of me.’ He grabbed me and starting groping my chest, and I pushed him away. I was stunned! What do you do in a situation like that? You have this guy who’s overpowering you. What can you do? He said, ‘Do you want a book deal or not?’” [ABC News]

Zoë Brock (actress)

At the Cannes Film Festival in 1997:

Harvey left the room, but not for long. He re-emerged naked a couple of minutes later and asked if I would give him a massage. Panicking, in shock, I remember weighing up the options and wondering how much I needed to placate him to keep myself safe. He asked if I would like a massage instead, and for a second I thought this might be a way to give him an inch without him taking a mile.

I told him I was uncomfortable and that I was angry that I had been tricked into this position. He pleaded with me to let him massage me and I let him put his hands on my shoulders while my mind raced. [Medium]

Cynthia Burr (actress)

In the late 1970s in New York City:

For 40 years, Cynthia Burr has almost never talked about the time she met Mr. Weinstein.

But she didn’t forget how he greeted her in the lobby of a beautiful old building in New York City. How he tried to kiss her in the elevator. And how, she said, he 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.” [NYT]

Liza Campbell (writer and artist)

At a London hotel room in 1995:

“He sat down, chatted for a few minutes and then excused himself and left the room through a far door, where I could see a short passage that connected to the bedroom and the bathroom. I assumed he had gone for a pee,” she said. “I could hear him moving around and suddenly the sound of bath taps running. ‘What do you say we both jump in the bath?’ he hollered. I could hear the thump of shoes being taken off and felt shocked that the meeting had turned sleazy.” [People]

Marisa Coughlan (actress)

At the Peninsula in 1999:

He told me that he has a lot of ‘special friends’ and they give each other massages. It was a full court press. 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. [Hollywood Reporter]

Florence Darel (actress)

In 1995 at The Ritz:

He started to tell me that he found me very attractive and wanted to have relations with me. I told him I was very in love with my companion. 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.’ [Le Parisien]

Emma de Caunes (actress)

At the Hotel Ritz in Paris in 2010:

As they got to his room, she received a telephone call from one of her colleagues, and Weinstein disappeared into a bathroom, leaving the door open. She assumed that he was washing his hands.

“When I hung up the phone, I heard the shower go on in the bathroom,” she said. “I was, like, What the fuck, is he taking a shower?” Weinstein came out, naked and with an erection. “What are you doing?” she asked. Weinstein demanded that she lie on the bed and told her that many other women had done so before her. [New Yorker]

Cara Delevingne (actress)

Undisclosed time and place:

When I first started to work as an actress, i was working on a film and I received a call from‎ Harvey Weinstein asking if I had slept with any of the women I was seen out with in the media. It was a very odd and uncomfortable call ...

... A year or two later, I went to a meeting with him in the lobby of a hotel with a director about an upcoming film. The director left the meeting and Harvey asked me to stay and chat with him ... He then invited me to his room. I quickly declined and asked his assistant if my car was outside. She said it wasn’t and wouldn’t be for a bit and I should go to his room. At that moment I felt very powerless and scared but didn’t want to act that way hoping that I was wrong about the situation. When I arrived I was relieved to find another woman in his room and thought immediately I was safe. He asked us to kiss and she began some sort of advances upon his direction. I swiftly got up and asked him if he knew that I could sing. And I began to sing. I thought it would make the situation better, more professional, like an audition. [Cara Delevingne / Instagram]

Sophie Dix (actress)

At the Savoy Hotel in London in 1990:

As soon as I was in there, I realised it was a terrible mistake. I got to the hotel room, I remember talk of a massage and I thought that was pretty gross. I think he showed me his big back and I found that pretty horrid.

Then before I knew it, he started trying to pull my clothes off and pin me down and I just kept saying, “No, no, no.” But he was really forceful. I remember him pulling at my trousers and stuff and looming over me and I just sort of – I am a big, strong girl and I bolted … ran for the bathroom and locked the door.

I was in there for a while, I think. He went very quiet. After a while I remember opening the door and seeing him just there facing the door, masturbating, so I quickly closed the door again and locked it. Then when I heard room service come to the door, I just ran. [The Guardian]

Lacey Dorn (actress/filmmaker)

At a Halloween party at Gramercy Park Hotel in 2011:

On her way out of the party, Ms. Dorn said goodbye to Mr. Weinstein. As she turned her back to him, 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.” [NYT]

Dawn Dunning (former actress, now a costume designer)

In a Manhattan hotel room in 2003:

Mr. Weinstein was in a bathrobe, behind a coffee table covered with papers.

He told her they were contracts for his next three films, according to Ms. Dunning. But she could only sign them on a condition: She would have to have three-way sex with him.

Ms. Dunning said that she laughed, assuming he was joking, and that Mr. Weinstein grew angry.

“You’ll never make it in this business,” she said he told her. “This is how the business works.”

Ms. Dunning fled, she said, and when the assistant called her the next day, she hung up. [NYT]

Lina Esco (actress)

At the Peninsula Beverly Hills in 2010:

They were introduced through a mutual friend, in a casual and platonic setting, and she accepted his invitation to dine with him at the Peninsula. Esco viewed it as a chance to talk with a mentor about film craft. But toward the end of dinner, she said, Weinstein told her: “I think we should see a movie in the theater, like back in the day, and we should kiss.”

She brushed him off by saying she didn’t date older guys, but she said he pressed on — “It’s just a kiss” — and kept pressing.

“He tried to insinuate that everything would be easier for me if I went along,” Esco remembered. [Washington Post]

Alice Evans (actress)

In 2002 at the Cannes Film Festival:

“Oddly, despite having heard endless stories about massages and hand-jobs in hotel rooms, it doesn’t even cross my mind — not for a second — that he might try the same on me,” she says. Weinstein complimented Gruffudd’s recent audition for one of his projects, then asked Evans to accompany him to the hotel bathroom. “Just go. I’m right behind you. I want to touch your tits. Kiss you a little,” he allegedly said. When Evans begged off, Weinstein told her, “Let’s hope it all works out for your boyfriend.” [Vulture]

Lucia Evans (former aspiring actress)

At Miramax’s New York City office in 2004:

In the meeting, Evans recalled, “he immediately was simultaneously flattering me and demeaning me and making me feel bad about myself.” Weinstein told her that she’d “be great in ‘Project Runway’ ” — the show, which Weinstein helped produce, premièred later that year — but only if she lost weight. He also told her about two scripts, a horror movie and a teen love story, and said one of his associates would discuss them with her.

“At that point, after that, is when he assaulted me,” Evans said. “He forced me to perform oral sex on him.” As she objected, Weinstein took his penis out of his pants and pulled her head down onto it. “I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t,’ ” she said. “I tried to get away, but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. I didn’t want to kick him or fight him.” In the end, she said, “He’s a big guy. He overpowered me.” [New Yorker]

Angie Everhart (actress)

On a boat at the Venice Film Festival, year undisclosed:

“I had just arrived and I was sleeping, I was in my bed,” she began. “I wake up and Harvey is standing above my bed. That alone is frightening.”

She continued, “All of the sudden he takes his pants down and starts doing his stuff. He’s blocking the door. I can’t get out and he — I don’t know how to say this on the radio, but he finishes on the carpet of the floor.” [THR]

Hope Exiner d’Amore (former employee of Weinstein’s concert production company, Harvey and Corky Productions)

In Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel in the late ‘70s:

When they got to the Park Lane Hotel, Mr. Weinstein went to the check-in desk while she waited elsewhere in the lobby, Ms. Exiner d’Amore recalled. He returned and said there had been a mistake with the reservations; there was only one room. They would have to share.

“I gave him a look like that was ridiculous,” she recalled. But she ultimately agreed, assuming it was harmless. When she got into bed that night, she said, he slipped in next to her, naked.

“I told him no. I kept pushing him away. He just wouldn’t listen,” Ms. Exiner d’Amore said. “He just forced himself on me.” She said he forcibly performed oral sex and intercourse on her. [NYT]

Claire Forlani (actress)

Various instances, undisclosed timeframe:

You see, nothing happened to me with Harvey, [and] by that I mean, I escaped 5 times. I had two Peninsula hotel meetings in the evening with Harvey and all I remember was that I ducked, dived, and ultimately got out of there without getting slobbered over — well, just a bit. Yes, massage was suggested ... I remember him telling me all the actresses who had slept with him and what he had done for them. I wasn’t drinking the [Kool] Aid. I knew Harvey was a master manipulator. [Twitter]

Romola Garai (actress)

At London’s Savoy Hotel in 2000:

“Like every other woman in the industry, I’ve had an ‘audition’ with Harvey Weinstein, where I’d actually already had the audition but you had to be personally approved by him,” said Garai. “So I had to go to his hotel room in the Savoy, and 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 Guardian]

Louisette Geiss (actress/screenwriter)

At the Sundance Film Festival in 2008:

We went to his office and had a great conversation about his current film and about the film I was pitching. He seemed genuinely interested in the script I had co-written. After 30 minutes he excused himself to go to the bathroom.

He returned in a robe with the front open, buck-naked. 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. [Variety]

Louise Godbold (co-executive director of the nonprofit Echo Parenting & Education)

In the early ’90s in a meeting room:

The details of what I have learned was not unique to me are out there now — the office tour that became an occasion to trap me in an empty meeting room, the begging for a massage, his hands on my shoulders as I attempted to beat a retreat … all while not wanting to alienate the most powerful man in Hollywood. [ACEs Connection]

Judith Godrèche (actress)

At a breakfast meeting at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, during the Cannes Film Festival in 1996:

Upstairs, he asked to give her a massage, Ms. Godrèche said. She said no. He argued that casual massages were an American custom — he gave them to his secretary all the time, Ms. Godrèche recalled him saying.

“The next thing I know, he’s pressing against me and pulling off my sweater,” she said. She pulled away and left the suite. [NYT]

Trish Goff (model)

At the Tribeca Grill in 2003:

Then he started asking me if I had a boyfriend, and if we had an open relationship. I said I wasn’t interested in an open relationship, but he was relentless, and I kept trying to shut that down and move on. Then he started putting his hands on my legs, and I said, “Can you stop doing that?” When we finally stood up to go, he really started groping me, grabbing my breasts, grabbing my face and trying to kiss me. I kept saying, “Please stop, please stop,” but he didn’t until I managed to get back into the public space. [NYT]

Larissa Gomes (actress)

At Weinstein’s hotel room in Toronto in the 2000s:

Weinstein was on his bed, saying he had a headache, she said. He asked her to lie down with him and asked her to take her shirt off so he could see her breasts, Gomes said. She left the room, and he followed in a bathrobe and started massaging her shoulders and neck despite her saying she didn’t want it, Gomes said.

“He would not stop. He just kept pushing his hands close to my chest forcefully until I finally was able to get up and away from him,” she wrote.

Weinstein told her, “You know, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd were exactly where you are at one point. Look at them now,” Gomes recounted.

Gomes said she made an excuse to leave at that point, and Weinstein, at the door, grabbed her and tried to kiss her on the lips. She said she turned her head, and he sneered. She never saw or spoke to him again. [LAT]

Heather Graham (actress)

In the early 2000s, location undisclosed:

There was a pile of scripts sitting on his desk. “I want to put you in one of my movies,” he said and offered to let me choose which one I liked best. 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.

A few weeks later, I was asked to do a follow-up meeting at his hotel. I called one of my actress friends to explain my discomfort with the situation, and she offered to come with me. En route, she called me to say she couldn’t make it. Not wanting to be at the hotel alone with him, I made up an excuse — I had an early morning and would have to postpone. Harvey told me that my actress friend was already at his hotel and that both of them would be very disappointed if I didn’t show. I knew he was lying, so I politely and apologetically reiterated that I could no longer come by. [Variety]

Eva Green (actress)

In Paris, year undisclosed:

I met him for a business meeting in Paris at which 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. [Eva Green/Twitter]

Ambra Battilana Gutierrez (model)

At Miramax’s New York City office:

In the office, she sat with Weinstein on a couch to review the portfolio, and he began staring at her breasts, asking if they were real. Gutierrez later told officers of the New York Police Department Special Victims Division that Weinstein then lunged at her, groping her breasts and attempting to put a hand up her skirt while she protested. He finally backed off and told her that his assistant would give her tickets to “Finding Neverland,” a Broadway musical that he was producing. He said that he would meet her at the show that evening.

Instead of going to the show that night, Gutierrez went to the nearest N.Y.P.D. precinct station and reported the assault. Weinstein telephoned her later that evening, annoyed that she had failed to appear at the show. [New Yorker]

Daryl Hannah (actress)

In the “early aughts” at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, and again “several years later”:

He called her over, and told her that he loved her work. Then he asked for her room number so that he could call her to schedule a meeting.

“That seemed pretty normal to me, you know, how people talk in business, and I didn’t know his reputation or anything,” Hannah said. She was in her room, already in her pajamas and getting ready for bed, when the phone calls started ... Though she didn’t pick up, she guessed that it was Weinstein. “And then, shortly thereafter, the knocking on the door began,” she told me. “It was sort of incessant, and then it started turning into pounding on my door,” she said. She was certain that it was Weinstein—as she recalls, she saw him through the peephole in the door. The pounding became so frightening that Hannah, who was staying on the ground floor, left her room via an exterior door. She spent the night in her makeup artist’s room.

The following evening, Hannah was in her room with the makeup artist, packing her things ahead of their departure the next morning, when the pounding on the door began again. “The knocking started again and again. And I was like, ‘oh shit,’ ” Hannah recalled. “We actually pushed a dresser in front of the door and just kind of huddled in the room.” [New Yorker, 10/27]

Mimi Haleyi (former production assistant):

At Weinstein’s New York City apartment in 2006:

She was escorted up to his apartment and it was not long before she says he was “all over me making sexual advances.” She continued, “I told him ‘no, no no,’ but he insisted.”

Haleyi says she then told him she was on her period and that there was “no way” anything was going to happen. “Please stop,” she recalls saying.

“He wouldn’t take no for an answer and backed me into a room which was not lit, but looked like a kid’s bedroom with drawings on the walls,” she said. “He held me down on the bed, I tried to get him off of me but it was impossible. He was extremely persistent and physically overpowering.”

She continued, “He then orally forced himself on me while I was on my period. He even pulled my tampon out. I was in disbelief. I would not have wanted anyone to do that with me even if the person had been a romantic partner.” [THR]

Salma Hayek (actress)

Time and places undisclosed:

He had taken a chance on me — a nobody. He had said yes.

Little did I know it would become my turn to say no.

No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with. [NYT]

Lena Headey (actress)

Time and hotel undisclosed:

He asked me to meet for breakfast. We ate breakfast, we talked about films, film making. He asked me a few questions about the state of my love life. I shifted the conversation back to something less personal. Then he went to the loo. He came back and said, let’s go up to the room, I want to give you a script. We walked to the lift and the energy shifted ... 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 ...

He was silent after I spoke, furious. We got out of the lift and walked to his room. His hand was on my back, he was marching me forward ... he tried his key card and it didn’t work, then he got really angry. He walked me back ... he paid for my car and whispered in my ear, Don’t tell anyone about this, not your manager, not your agent. I got into my car and cried. [Lena Headey / Twitter]

Lauren Holly (actress)

At a hotel room in the late ‘90s:

According to Holly, Weinstein left the shower, dried off, and began approaching her while still naked.

“The adrenaline rush I felt, I wanted to flee, I was scared. He told me that I looked stressed and he thought maybe I could use a massage, maybe I could give him a massage. I began just sort of babbling like I was a child, I think it was just the fear.” She told him she didn’t have a massage license and that maybe they could call the front desk to have a masseuse come up.

Holly said Weinstein began to threaten her, stating that she needed to “keep him as [her] ally” and that it would be a “bad decision” if she left the room. At that point, Holly said, she “pushed him and ran.” [Variety]

Paz de la Huerta (actress)

In 2010, at de la Huerta’s apartment:

Actress Paz de la Huerta says that in October of 2010, Weinstein offered to give her a ride home to her New York City apartment, after a party, because the two lived in the same neighborhood.

She says Weinstein insisted they have drinks. The pair eventually ended up inside her apartment.

That’s when she alleges Weinstein took off her dress and forced himself on her. [CBS]

Dominique Huett (actress/model)

At Weinstein’s suite at the Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills in November 2010:

She says she was there to discuss her career, but that Weinstein quickly insisted that she give him a massage. She initially refused, but he was relentless and she ultimately agreed. Weinstein then suggested that he perform oral sex on her, the lawsuit states.

“Again, Weinstein displayed persistence and would not take ‘no’ for an answer,” according to the suit. “Weinstein initiated and Plaintiff froze as Weinstein removed her clothing and performed oral sex on her. Weinstein performed oral sex on Plaintiff for several minutes. After performing oral sex on Plaintiff, Weinstein masturbated in front of Plaintiff until he reached orgasm.” [Variety]

Jessica Hynes (actress)

In the early ‘90s, undisclosed location:

I was offered a film role at 19, Harvey Weinstein came on board and wanted me to screen-test in a bikini. I refused & lost the job. [NYP]

Angelina Jolie (actress/filmmaker)

Undisclosed time and place:

“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,” Ms. Jolie said in an email. “This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.” [NYT]

Ashley Judd (actress)

At a breakfast meeting in Weinstein’s Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel suite in the late 1990s:

Mr. Weinstein soon issued invitation after invitation, she said. Could he give her a massage? When she refused, he suggested a shoulder rub. She rejected that too, she recalled. He steered her toward a closet, asking her to help pick out his clothing for the day, and then toward the bathroom. Would she watch him take a shower? she remembered him saying.

“I said no, a lot of ways, a lot of times, and he always came back at me with some new ask,” Ms. Judd said. “It was all this bargaining, this coercive bargaining.” [NYT]

Minka Kelly (actress)

Time and location undisclosed:

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. I wasn’t comfortable with going to his room & said so. The following day, we sat down with an assistant in the hotel restaurant. He bullshit me for 5 minutes re: movies he could put me in, then asked the assistant to excuse us. As she walked away, he said, “I know you were feeling what I was feeling when we met the other night” and then regaled me with offers of a lavish life filled with trips around the world on private planes etc. IF I would 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. [Minka Kelly / Instagram]

Katherine Kendall (actress)

At Weinstein’s New York City apartment in 1993:

He went to the bathroom, came back in a robe and asked her to give him a massage, she said. “Everybody does it,” he said, according to Ms. Kendall, and mentioned a famous model’s name. She refused; he left the room, and returned nude, she said.

“He literally chased me,” she said. “He wouldn’t let me pass him to get to the door.”

Ms. Kendall said his advances had a bargaining quality: He asked if she would at least show her breasts, if nothing else.

She said no to all of it, she recounted. [NYT]

Heather Kerr (former actress)

At a private meeting, year and place undisclosed:

“He asked me if I was good,” said Kerr. “I started to tell him about my training and acting experience and 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. I offered to provide him with a reel. He had this sleazy smile on his face. Because he was sitting so close on this couch I started to get a sick feeling in my stomach. The next thing I knew he unzipped his pants and pulled out his penis.” [THR]

Mia Kirshner (actress)

At a hotel in an undisclosed year:

I could waste this precious space on Harvey Weinstein by describing my own ordeal with him. An ordeal in a hotel room where he attempted to treat me like chattel that could be purchased with the promise of work in exchange for being his disposable orifice. But I’m not giving that man, a newly crowned figurehead of sexual abuse, the privilege of more ink. [Globe and Mail]

Laura Madden (former Weinstein Company production assistant)

At hotels in Dublin and Ireland, starting in 1991:

Laura Madden, a former employee who said Mr. Weinstein prodded her for massages … said he had a way of making anyone who objected feel like an outlier. “It was so manipulative,” she said in an interview. “You constantly question yourself — am I the one who is the problem?” [NYT]

Natassia Malthe (actress)

At the Sanderson hotel in London in February 2008:

Malthe said Weinstein barged into the room, took off his pants and sat on her bed. “He said that he could give me a part in an upcoming film, with the implication being that I had to sleep with him in order to get it,” she said.

Malthe said that after she told him she was not interested, Weinstein pushed her back and forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. “I laid still and closed my eyes and just wanted it to end,” she said. “I was like a dead person. Afterwards I lay there in complete disgust. After he was done he put his pants back on and hurriedly left the room.” [LA Times]

Brit Marling (actress)

In Weinstein’s hotel room in 2014:

I, too, went to the meeting thinking that perhaps my entire life was about to change for the better. I, too, was asked to meet him in a hotel bar. I, too, met a young, female assistant there who said the meeting had been moved upstairs to his suite because he was a very busy man. I, too, felt my guard go up but was calmed by the presence of another woman my age beside me. I, too, felt terror in the pit of my stomach when that young woman left the room and I was suddenly alone with him. I, too, was asked if I wanted a massage, champagne, strawberries. I, too, sat in that chair paralyzed by mounting fear when he suggested we shower together. What could I do? How not to offend this man, this gatekeeper, who could anoint or destroy me?

It was clear that there was only one direction he wanted this encounter to go in, and that was sex or some version of an erotic exchange. I was able to gather myself together—a bundle of firing nerves, hands trembling, voice lost in my throat—and leave the room. [Atlantic]

Sarah Ann Masse (actress, comedian, and writer)

At Weinstein’s Connecticut home in 2008:

When she got up to go, expecting a handshake, Masse said Weinstein instead grabbed her and “gave me this really tight, close hug that lasted for quite a long period of time. He was still in his underwear. Then he told me he loved me. I left right after that.” Masse said she left feeling uncomfortable, but since it was her first time meeting someone so powerful in the industry, she didn’t know how executives in the entertainment business typically conducted themselves. “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.” [Variety]

Ashley Matthau (dancer)

At Weinstein’s hotel room in Puerto Rico in 2004:

She said they went to his hotel room, where talk quickly became sexual: Mr. Weinstein told her that he had helped launch the careers of high-profile actresses who had slept with him, and that she should consider doing the same. When she declined, Mr. Weinstein pushed her onto the bed and fondled her breasts, she said. He then stripped, straddled her and masturbated on top of her.

“I kept telling him, ‘Stop, I’m engaged,’ but he kept saying: ‘It’s just a little cuddling. It’s not a problem. It’s not like we’re having sex.’” [NYT]

Rose McGowan (actress)

At a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival in 1997:

In 1997, Mr. Weinstein reached a previously undisclosed settlement with Rose McGowan, then a 23-year-old-actress. … The $100,000 settlement was “not to be construed as an admission” by Mr. Weinstein, but intended to “avoid litigation and buy peace,” according to the legal document, which was reviewed by The Times. [NYT]

Natalie Mendoza (actress)

In 2002, while shooting The Great Raid:

“I might have told Mr W mid-script ‘meeting’ after he sent his assistant out that I’d punch him if he didn’t take his hands off me,” she wrote.

“Shook all the way home but high-fived myself for knowing my self worth in my early 20s.

“I knew my first film would be my last after that and I was more than OK about it.” [Variety]

Katya Mtsitouridze (Russian TV hostess)

At a hotel room in Venice in 2004:

Knowing that many movie companies and press people stayed at the hotel, she chose a public placed for the meeting. When she turned up the next day she was greeted by an assistant who said Weinstein was feeling unwell and suggested she join him for lunch in his room upstairs.

“The assistant said that he would be joining us, so I went up,” Katya says. But when she walked into the room she noticed the “table was set for two” and that the “assistant instantly disappeared.”

The shock of what happened next is still with Mtsitouridze 13 years later: “I was frozen into immobility like a statue, because a well-known producer with whom I’ve come to discuss modern Russian writers, was in a bathrobe.”

What is now a familiar approach unfolded, echoed in the testimonies of dozens of women recently. Weinstein looked at Mtsitouridze and told her: “I waited for the masseuse, but she’s late, we can have fun without her… let’s relax.” [THR]

Emily Nestor (former front-desk assistant at the Weinstein Company)

At the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel:

“He said, ‘You know, we could have a lot of fun,’ ” Nestor recalled. “I could put you in my London office, and you could work there and you could be my girlfriend.” She declined. He asked to hold her hand; she said no. In Nestor’s account of the exchange, Weinstein said, “Oh, the girls always say no. You know, ‘No, no.’ And then they have a beer or two and then they’re throwing themselves at me.” In a tone that Nestor described as “very weirdly proud,” Weinstein added “that he’d never had to do anything like Bill Cosby.” She assumed that he meant he’d never drugged a woman. “It’s just a bizarre thing to be so proud of,” she said. “That you’ve never had to resort to doing that. It was just so far removed from reality and normal rules of consent.” [New Yorker]

Connie Nielsen (actress)

In 2005, location undisclosed:

As I add my name to the rapidly expanding list of women whom Harvey Weinstein has harassed, I feel a strong wish to clarify just how well-known Harvey’s actions were in our community throughout his reign as one of the most powerful players in the industry. I worked on the Harvey Weinstein-produced “The Great Raid,” where I warned a young co-star not to take Harvey up on his invitations to drinks unless the whole group was there. I had no issues on the film, nor when I met Harvey at social events around the world.

It was therefore a real shock when Harvey proceeded to put his hand on my thigh at dinner during the opening night of “Great Raid,” at which both my boyfriend and my brother were present. I grabbed his hand and squeezed it violently to hurt him and proceeded to hold it in place on his own thigh. I steered clear of him as soon as I could for the rest of the evening but soon forgot about it, until the New York Times and New Yorker pieces set off a landslide. [Variety]

Kadian Noble (actress)

In 2014 in Weinstein’s hotel room at Cannes:

Kadian Noble alleges that Weinstein invited her to his room at the Le Majestic Hotel in Cannes in February 2014, on the pretense of casting her in a movie. Once there, she alleges that Weinstein started massaging her and then groped her breasts and buttocks. According to the suit, Weinstein then trapped her in the bathroom and forced her to masturbate him until he ejaculated on the floor.

During the act, Weinstein allegedly told her, “everything will be taken care of for you if you relax.” [Variety]

Lupita N’yongo (actress)

In 2011:

Harvey led me into a bedroom — his bedroom — and announced that he wanted to give me a massage. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. 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. [NY Times]

Gwyneth Paltrow (actress)

At Weinstein’s Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel suite in the mid-’90s:

On a trip to Los Angeles, she received a schedule from her agents for the hotel meeting with Mr. Weinstein.

There was no reason to suspect anything untoward, because “it’s on the fax, it’s from C.A.A.,” she said, referring to Creative Artists Agency, which represented her.

When Mr. Weinstein tried to massage her and invited her into the bedroom, she immediately left, she said, and remembers feeling stunned as she drove away. “I thought you were my Uncle Harvey,” she recalled thinking, explaining that she had seen him as a mentor. [NYT]

Samantha Panagrosso (model)

At the Cannes Film Festival in 2003:

She says she later refused a dinner invitation but Weinstein came into her cabin. “He pushed me on the bed, tried groping me and I tried to play it off because I thought he’s not going to do anything because my friends are on the boat. But it got very frustrating to get him out. It was like bargaining. When I said ‘no’ he said ‘maybe if I can’t massage you, will you massage me?’ When I said no to that he said ‘come on why are you being so difficult, all the [other] women are ok with it. I don’t see what you are making such a fuss about. Let me see your breasts at least.’” [Variety]

Juliana De Paula (model)

At Weinstein’s SoHo loft in 2007:

Once Weinstein, De Paula and three models were inside the elevator, he began fondling the women’s breasts and making them kiss each other, De Paula said. “Forcing. Like putting both heads together,” she said.

She said the women tried to resist, but were “embarrassed” and unsure of how to fend him off. The elevator opened inside Weinstein’s residence, and he began disrobing. “My [alarm] bells rang,” she said. “It was, oh my gosh, this is not going to be fun at all.”

De Paula said that Weinstein ushered the three models into his bedroom, but she ran into the adjoining bathroom. She heard at least one woman yell “stop” multiple times, but didn’t have a clear view of the bedroom. [LAT]

Zelda Perkins (former London assistant at the Weinstein Company)

At various hotel rooms in 1998:

According to former colleagues, she and several co-workers had been regularly subjected to inappropriate requests or comments in hotel rooms, and she was particularly concerned about the treatment of another woman in the office. She told Mr. Weinstein that he had to stop, according to the former colleagues, and that she would go public or initiate legal action unless he changed his behavior. [NYT]

Vu Thu Phuong (actress and model)

In Vietnam in 2010:

“Everything suddenly turned dark when I saw Mr. Harvey Weinstein standing before me with only a towel around his waist, smiling.”

He asked her if she was ready to star in a few sex scenes because there would be some in the new movie.

“I can teach you, don’t worry. Many stars have also been through this,” Weinstein reassured Phuong, according to her post. “Just treat this as necessary experiences so that you’ll have a stronger foundation in the future.” [Saigoneer]

Sarah Polley (actress and filmmaker)

At Weinstein’s Miramax office in the late ‘90s:

When I got there, Mr. Weinstein wasted no time. He told me, in front of the publicist and a co-worker beside him, that a famous star, a few years my senior, had once sat across from him in the chair I was in now. Because of his “very close relationship” with this actress, she had gone on to play leading roles and win awards. If he and I had that kind of “close relationship,” I could have a similar career. “That’s how it works,” I remember him telling me. The implication wasn’t subtle. [NYT]

Giovanna Rei (actress)

In a hotel in Rome, year undisclosed:

He came back naked in front of me (a horrible view) with a body cream in his hand, kindly asking for a massage. I softly refused, at the beginning it was calm, he kept telling me please please I do not want to have sex, I just want to relax with a massage ... I’m terrified I kept saying no, I can’t do it until I felt an arm pulling me toward the bedroom !!! [Libero Quotidiano]

Tomi-Ann Roberts (former actress, now a psychology professor)

In a New York City hotel room in 1984:

When she arrived, he was nude in the bathtub, she recalled. He told her that she would give a much better audition if she were comfortable “getting naked in front of him,” too, because the character she might play would have a topless scene.

If she could not bare her breasts in private, she would not be able to do it on film, Ms. Roberts recalled Mr. Weinstein saying. … Ms. Roberts remembers apologizing on the way out, telling Mr. Weinstein that she was too prudish to go along. [NYT]

Lisa Rose (former Miramax employee)

At the London Savoy hotel in the late 1980s:

I was sent to the hotel in a taxi. They just said, “you’ll work out of the Savoy today”. Everyone was so busy, so I just went and did it - I was answering the phone and ordering things, it all felt very normal.

I was alone in the room with him.

He asked me for a back rub, to give him a massage. But I had been forewarned - and I said no. Because of the warning I could really focus on getting out of the situation.

He huffed and puffed and said, “well other people do it”.

I moved into a suite room immediately - I could see where the door was from there.

I was really frightened, my heart was beating, and I was thinking, “this is what it’s like having so much power - he’s a man who’s got a lot of power”.

He didn’t touch me. He said nasty things but he didn’t touch me. [BBC]

Erika Rosenbaum (actress)

In a Los Angeles hotel room in the 2000s:

He wasn’t being outright violent with me, he wasn’t holding me down, he was just making a move and I didn’t want it. So he settled for - how about you just give me a massage ... And that seemed the least offensive way for me to get out of the room. So I literally massaged his shoulders in order to get out.

And I left feeling very disgusted and confused, but I felt so implicit in this happening. [CBC]

Annabella Sciorra (actress)

“Come here, come on, cut it out, what are you doing, come here,” she remembered him saying. She tried to be assertive. “This is not happening,” she told him. “You’ve got to go. You have to leave. Get out of my apartment.”

Then Weinstein grabbed her, she said. “He shoved me onto the bed, and he got on top of me.” Sciorra struggled. “I kicked and I yelled,” she said, but Weinstein locked her arms over her head with one hand and forced sexual intercourse on her. “When he was done, he ejaculated on my leg, and on my nightgown.” It was a family heirloom, handed down from relatives in Italy and embroidered in white cotton. “He said, ‘I have impeccable timing,’ and then he said, ‘This is for you.’” Sciorra paused. “And then he attempted to perform oral sex on me. And I struggled, but I had very little strength left in me.” Sciorra said that her body started 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.” [New Yorker, 10/27]

Melissa Sagemiller (actress)

I was called by another assistant of his asking me to go to his hotel room. It’s like the Ashley Judd situation. He wanted to discuss the script. I was like, “I really don’t feel comfortable with this. Can we meet on the set tomorrow? In my trailer?” ... I was told, “It’s not going to be a long meeting.”

...I went to his room. Immediately he had drinks. The script was on the kitchen counter. He was in his robe. He’s like, “Would you give me a massage?” The whole thing. I said, “Harvey, I’m here to discuss the script. I’m not going to give you a massage or any of that.”

... He said, “Well, you’re not going to leave until you kiss me.” I remember that’s when it turned from “Oh, ha ha, I can handle this guy” to “Well, OK, he’s blocking the door” ... He literally would not let me leave. 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, “OK, you can go now. That’s all I wanted. Just do what I say and you can get your way.” [Huffington Post]

Léa Seydoux (actress)

Undisclosed time and location:

He invited me to come to his hotel room for a drink. We went up together. It was hard to say no because he’s so powerful. All the girls are scared of him. Soon, his assistant left and it was just the two of us. That’s the moment where he started losing control.

We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me. I had to defend myself. He’s big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him. I left his room, thoroughly disgusted. I wasn’t afraid of him, though. Because I knew what kind of man he was all along. [Guardian]

Lauren Sivan (reporter)

At New York City’s Cipriani club in 2007:

Once they left, Sivan says Weinstein leaned in and tried to kiss her. Sivan rejected that attempt and told him she had a long-term boyfriend. Weinstein then said to Sivan, “Well, can you just stand there and shut up.”

At this point, Weinstein and Sivan were in a vestibule between the kitchen and bathrooms. The only way for Sivan to get away from Weinstein required her to get past him and go through the kitchen. Sivan says she was trapped by Weinstein’s body and was intimidated.

Weinstein then proceeded to expose himself to Sivan and began to masturbate ... Sivan says Weinstein ejaculated quickly into a potted plant that was in the vestibule and then proceeded to zip up his pants and they walked back into the kitchen. [Huffington Post]

Chelsea Skidmore (actress)

At Weinstein’s hotel suite at the Peninsula Beverly Bills in 2013:

In his suite, she said, he asked her for a massage. She tried to laugh it off, saying, “I’m not very good at massages.” She said he then began masturbating in front of her. (Skidmore’s mother confirmed that her daughter told her about the incident at the time; Geiss made an almost identical claim). And after he finished, while Skidmore sat in shock, Weinstein told her nonchalantly that he’d like her to write a pilot for him. [Washington Post]

Mira Sorvino (actress)

At the Toronto International Film Festival, in 1995:

... she found herself in a hotel room with Weinstein, who produced the movie she was there to promote, “Mighty Aphrodite,” for which she later won an Academy Award. “He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,” she recalled. She scrambled for ways to ward him off, telling him it was against her religion to date married men. (At the time, Weinstein was married to Eve Chilton, a former assistant.) Then she left the room. [New Yorker]

Tara Subkoff (actress)

In the 1990s, location undisclosed:

That night I was offered the role, and I went out to a premiere after party that Harvey Weinstein was also at. He motioned for me to come over to him, and then grabbed me to sit me on his lap. I was so surprised and shocked I couldn’t stop laughing because it was so awkward. But then I could feel that he had an erection. I got quiet, but got off his lap quickly. He then asked me to come outside with him and other things I don’t want to share, but it was implied that if I did not comply with doing what he asked me to do that I would not get the role that I had already been informally offered. [Variety]

Paula Wachowiak (former production assistant)

At a Buffalo hotel in 1980:

One day, the auditor asked her to take a bunch of checks in a manila folder to Weinstein’s hotel room to get them signed.

“When I got to Weinstein’s room he let me in but he was behind the door when it opened,” Wachowiak wrote. “When I got into the room I realized that he was holding a hand towel around his waist.”

She could tell Weinstein was naked underneath the small towel that was barely covering him, Wachowiak said in both the email and the interview.

Nervous about appearing unsophisticated, Wachowiak tried to keep her cool. She told herself: “Relax, these are movie people, they think nothing of walking around naked. Just keep your eyes on his face and don’t look down. And for God sake don’t let on that you want to run out of the room screaming.”

Wachowiak said Weinstein took the folder and dropped the towel. He was naked. She said she kept her eyes on his face. [Buffalo News]

Wende Walsh (former waitress)

In Buffalo, New York in 1979 or 1980:

The night Weinstein came into the bar, Walsh said, she waited on him. He stayed until closing time – 4 a.m. – and then started begging her for a ride to his car, Walsh said.

Walsh usually parked on Forest Avenue, around the corner from the bar, and she said Weinstein followed her and continued to plead with her to give him a ride.

“He got in the car,” Walsh said. “He exposed himself. He was trying to push my head into his lap.... I was mortified. It was 4 a.m. and people were going to their cars.”

Walsh said she told him “no” repeatedly, but she said he persisted.

“He was a guy who wouldn’t take no for answer,” she said.

Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex, Walsh said. She can’t remember if he got out of the car or she drove him somewhere. She just remembered wanting him to go away. [Buffalo News]

Paula Williams (former model)

At Weinstein’s Hollywood home in 1989:

I walk in and it’s just Harvey. He immediately starts massaging my neck. I heard him open a bottle of champagne. I don’t think I even had a sip, and he exposed himself. [ABC News]

Sean Young (actress)

In 1992 on the set of Love Crimes:

I personally experienced him pulling his you-know-what out of his pants in order to shock me. My basic response was, ‘You know, Harvey, I don’t really think you should be pulling that thing out, it’s not very pretty,” and then leaving, and then never having another meeting with that guy again, because it was like, ‘What on earth?’ [Dudley and Bob with Matt Show]

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