Hararw, Zimbabwe(News of the South)-The first allegations made against Weinstein in the New York Time article were mainly from young women hoping to break into the film industry as well as the actresses Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan.
Model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has also claimed to have been groped by Weinstein and to have later gone to New York police, in 2015, claiming that the producer assaulted her. She then met Weinstein wearing a wire, and an excerpt of that recording was published in the New Yorker.
Other actresses that have come forward since then with their stories about Weinstein include French actresses Florence Darel, Judith Godreche and Emma de Cauness.
US actresses Jessica Barth, Katherine Kendall and aspuribg actresses Dawn Dennings, who is now a costume designer, Tomi-Ann Roberts who is now a psychology professor, have also gone on the record with their accounts.
TV anchor Lauren Sivan alleged Weinstein cornered her in an empty basement area of a New York restaurant in 2007 and pleasured himself in front of her.
And other workers at the Weinstein film company told the New Yorker about their experiences, including Emily Nestor who was a temporary front desk assistant who said she had to refuse his advances “at least a dozen times”.
Actress Clare Forlainis has said that “nothing happened” between her and Weinstein – but only because she “escaped five times”.
“All I remember was I ducked, dived and ultimately got out of there without getting slobbered over,” she wrote on Twitter. “Well, just a bit.”
She said that massage had been “suggested” and that Weinstein had told her “all the actresses who had slept with him and what he had done for them”.
Lisa Rose a former office assistant with Weinstein’s Miramax story, told the BBC, she had been warned about her employer before she started working for him.
Rose remembered being in a room alone with him and feeling “really frightened”. “He didn’t touch me,” she said. “He said nasty things but he didn’t touch me.”
Weinstein’s spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement on Tuesday in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
“Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,” she said. “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 counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.”-BBC
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