Starting with a bombshell report in the New York Times on Oct. 5 and a follow-up exposé in the New Yorker, dozens of women have come forward to accuse movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of decades of sexual harassment, assault or rape. Weinstein, through spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister, has vehemently denied “any allegations of non-consensual sex” and also said he never retaliated as a result of any women refusing his advances.
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Canadian actress Natasha Henstridge has accused Weinstein of masturbating in front of her. “One thing led to another and he became very flirtatious,” she said on “Megyn Kelly Today,” fighting back tears. “He did some terrible things there as well. He pleasured himself in front of me.”
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Actress Paz de la Huerta alleges Weinstein raped her twice in 2010 — and the NYPD is working to arrest the movie mogul. She told CBS News both alleged attacks happened in her apartment, when Weinstein insisted she let him upstairs. “She put forth a credible and detailed narrative to us … We have an actual case here,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told reporters on Nov. 4.
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Actress Julianna Margulies says she was lured into a hotel room by Weinstein years ago. “He opened the door, in a bathrobe. I could see that there were candles lit in the room, and there was a dinner for two,” she said in a SiriusXM interview. Margulies says she insisted a female assistant accompany her to the private meeting, which angered Weinstein. “And, of course, I didn’t get the part,” she said.
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After meeting Ashley Matthau on the set of “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights,” Weinstein lured the dancer to his hotel room, promising to talk about future projects, she claims. Instead, he allegedly fondled her breasts, stripped down and straddled her before masturbating on 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,'” she told the New York Times. Matthau claims his legal team threatened her before reaching a $100,000 settlement.
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Filmmaker Lacey Dorn met Weinstein at a New York Film Festival party in 2011, where, she told the New York Times, the disgraced producer allegedly groped her. When she told her friends, many seemed to shrug it off as a rite of passage in the industry.
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Actress Annabella Sciorra told the New Yorker that in the 1990s Weinstein violently raped her, when he dropped her off at her hotel after an industry party. “He shoved me onto the bed, and he got on top of me.” Sciorra said. “I kicked and I yelled.”
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Daryl Hannah described two instances in which Weinstein allegedly came knocking on her door late at night. “It was sort of incessant, and then it started turning into pounding on my door,” she told the New Yorker, adding that the first time she snuck out a back door and the second time she barricaded the door with a dresser. Years later, she said he asked if he could touch her breasts, and she immediately told him to “f–k off.”
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Natassia Malthe accused Weinstein of raping her in a London hotel room in 2010. She said he forced her to have sex without a condom and then a few days later lured her to his hotel room where he called her an “ungrateful c-t” for refusing a threesome.
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Former production assistant Mimi Haleyi says she tried to use her period as an excuse to rebuff Weinstein’s advances in 2006, but claims he pulled out her tampon and forcibly performed oral sex on her.
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Actress Dominique Huett has accused Weinstein of forced oral sex, and is suing the Weinstein Company to hold the board liable for Harvey’s alleged known harassment for many years.
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After a number of other actresses accused Weinstein of harassment Brit Marling told the Atlantic, “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?” She says she was able to “gather myself together … and leave the room.”
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Former Weinstein assistant Zelda Perkins told the Financial Times that the producer sexually harassed her while she worked in Miramax’s London office in the late ’90s. She and another colleague reportedly split a $330,000 settlement and signed documents barring them from going public with the allegations.
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Heather Kerr says she quit acting after Weinstein lured her onto his office couch in 1989 — then pulled out his penis and forced her hand onto it.
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“Blade Runner” star Sean Young claims in an interview with KLBJ-FM that the disgraced producer sexually harassed her while working on the 1992 film “Love Crimes,” including pulling out his “you-know-what” to shock her.
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Lupita Nyong’o accused Weinstein of making a move on her in 2011 while she was a student at Yale — an advance she dodged by giving him a massage. “Harvey led me into a bedroom — his bedroom — and announced that he wanted to give me a massage,” the Oscar winner wrote in the New York Times. “… 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.”
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Russian TV host Katya Mtsitouridze says Weinstein warned her to “be a smart girl” after he lured her to his hotel room and answered the door in a bathrobe.
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During multiple meetings in his Los Angeles hotel room and restaurants in 1999, actress Marisa Coughlan told the Hollywood Reporter that Weinstein offered her roles in return for sex. She resisted his advances and was eventually turned down for the part.
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Amber Anderson says that in 2013 she was forced into a private meeting with Weinstein where he asked her to have a “personal” relationship with him, suggesting if she agreed, he would help her with her career. “He tried to take my hand and put it in his lap, which is when I managed to leave the room,” the “Riot Club” actress wrote on Instagram last month.
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“Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey had a creepy experience with Weinstein in an elevator — and when she turned down his advances, he warned her to keep quiet, she wrote on Twitter.
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Appearing on Canadian talk show “The Social,” actress Lauren Holly said that meeting with Weinstein at his hotel in the late ’90s quickly soured after he allegedly disrobed, used the bathroom in front of her, showered and then asked for a massage.
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During an early 2000s hotel meeting with Larissa Gomes, Weinstein allegedly asked the Canadian actress to show him her breasts, massaged her despite her protests and tried to kiss her. “I was silent … I wasn’t even sure if this was considered assault, in my mind I thought that since I got away then it isn’t,” she wrote in an email to the Los Angeles Times. “I was very young and vulnerable, and that was what he was banking on.”
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Paula Wachowiak was a 24-year-old intern on Weinstein’s first feature film in 1980 when she says he exposed himself to her inside a hotel room. She says she was sent to his room to get some checks signed when he answered in a towel before dropping it to the ground. She claims he also asked her for a massage, to which she replied that it “wasn’t in her job description.” She says he eventually gave up.
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British actress Lysette Anthony claims Weinstein raped her in the hallway of her home in the 1980s. “I remember lying in the bath later and crying,” she told Britain’s Sunday Times.
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Alice Evans claims Weinstein asked her to go into a hotel bathroom with him during Cannes in 2002. She said he told her, “I want to touch your t–s. Kiss you a little.” When she shut down his advances, she said he hinted that it was going to affect her husband Ioan Gruffudd’s career.
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Juls Bindi accused Weinstein of assaulting her in 2010 when she was working as a massage therapist. She claims the disgraced producer disrobed in front of her before she began massaging him. She says during the massage, he got up and started masturbating in front of her. Pleading with him to stop, she told “20/20” he continued to do it and grabbed her, groping her chest as she tried to get away.
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Australian actress Natalie Mendoza says that she threatened to punch Weinstein in the middle of a script meeting if he didn’t take his hands off her. “I knew my first film would be my last after that and I was more than OK about it,” she wrote on Facebook of the alleged incident.
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French actress Eva Green says she was left “shocked and disgusted” by a business meeting in which she was forced to push Weinstein off her after he made an inappropriate advance.
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Canadian actress Erika Rosenbaum says she met Weinstein when she was 20 years old and determined to make it in Hollywood. She claims that during an encounter he held her “by the back of the neck” and forced her to face the mirror while he masturbated behind her. “I remember seeing my own face in the mirror and I just could not believe I was standing there,” she told the New York Times. “I could not believe that I had let this happen. I felt incredibly guilty.”
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Canadian actress, writer and social activist Mia Kirshner — saying she experienced an “ordeal in a hotel room where [Weinstein] attempted to treat me like chattel that could be purchased with the promise of work in exchange for being his disposable orifice” — wrote a first-person piece in the Globe and Mail calling on the need for institutional change.
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Melissa Sagemiller says Weinstein cornered her in his hotel room in 2000 and demanded she give him a massage. She said he blocked the door and wouldn’t let her leave until she gave him a kiss. She continued to refuse, but felt like her only way out was to do it.
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Former Sports Illustrated model Angie Everhart told TMZ that the producer masturbated in front of her on a boat during the Cannes Film Festival over 10 years ago. “I told people on the boat. I told people at the dinner I was at. Everybody was like, ‘Oh, that’s just Harvey,’ ” she said of the incident.
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Tara Subkoff claims her acting career was derailed after she declined advances from Weinstein at a premiere afterparty in the ’90s.
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“Friday Night Lights” star Minka Kelly felt compelled to apologize for not speaking out after an uncomfortable lunch meeting with Weinstein. “I’m sorry for obliging his orders to be complicit in protecting his behavior, which he obviously knew was wrong or he wouldn’t have asked me not to tell anyone in the first place,” she wrote on Instagram.
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Ex-“NCIS” actress Claire Forlani says she “escaped” Weinstein’s advances on five separate occasions as a young woman, “ducking and diving” to avoid him.
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French actress Florence Darel says Weinstein asked her to have “relations” with him at his hotel room in 1995 when his wife was in the room next door. “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,” she said, according to People. She added that he told her if she wanted to be famous in America, she would have to go through him. She excused herself and left the room.
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Kate Beckinsale says Weinstein propositioned her in a hotel room when she was 17. “After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed,” she wrote on Instagram. A few years later, she says Weinstein “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.”
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Ivana Lowell tried to call out Weinstein’s behavior in her memoir seven years ago. The British aristocrat, who once worked for Weinstein at Miramax, described how he once chased her around a desk and showed up to her home in the middle of the night asking for a massage.
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French actress Lea Seydoux wrote about having to be “forceful” to fight off Weinstein, after he allegedly lunged at her on a sofa and tried to kiss her inside his hotel room. “I had to defend myself,” she wrote in the Guardian. “He’s big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him. I left his room, thoroughly disgusted.”
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Model Cara Delevingne says Weinstein asked her to kiss another woman in front of him before trying to kiss her on her lips in a hotel room.
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In the early 2000s, Weinstein allegedly pressured actress Heather Graham to trade sex for a role in one of his movies, saying that he had an “agreement” with his wife about sleeping with other women.
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Sarah Ann Masse — now an actress, writer and comedian — told Variety Weinstein interviewed her for a babysitting job in his underwear back in 2008.
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Actress-screenwriter Louisette Geiss says Weinstein told her in 2008 that “he could green light my script but I had to watch him masturbate.”
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Lauren Sivan told The Huffington Post that Weinstein cornered her in the hallway of a NYC restaurant about a decade ago and masturbated in front her, while she was employed by a Long Island news station.
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In an interview with the New York Times, Gwyneth Paltrow says that when she was 22 years old, Weinstein asked her to his hotel suite and suggested they head into the bedroom for massages.
“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she told the Times. After telling her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt what happened, Pitt confronted Weinstein and Weinstein responded by screaming at Paltrow and warning her not to tell anyone else, she said. “I thought he was going to fire me,” said Paltrow, who was starring in the Miramax film “Emma” at the time.
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Angelina Jolie is one of the most high-profile names to speak out against Weinstein. She told the New York Times that in the late 1990s, during the release of her film “Playing by Heart,” she rejected the mogul’s unwanted advances in a hotel room. “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 told the Times in an email.
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French actress Judith Godrèche says Weinstein invited her to his hotel suite to discuss the marketing campaign for her 1996 film “Ridicule” with Miramax. “The next thing I know, he’s pressing against me and pulling off my sweater,” she told the New York Times. She says a female Miramax exec told her to keep quiet to avoid damaging the film’s release.
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Tomi-Ann Roberts was an aspiring actress in 1984 when she says Weinstein invited her over and tried to convince her to get naked while he bathed. “It was the kind of moment that is sort of petrifying in the sense that you stand still and you’re not sure what to do,” she told ABC’s “Nightline.”
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“Swingers” actress Katherine Kendall told the New York Times that Weinstein chased her around his apartment naked after luring her there in 1993.
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Dawn Dunning says a female assistant brought her to Weinstein’s hotel room when she was 24 years old to discuss her acting career. “He just cut right to the chase and said, ‘These are contracts for my next three films. I’ll sign them but I want you to have a threesome with me and my assistant,” she told “NBC Nightly News”. Dunning left the room.
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Oscar winner Mira Sorvino accused the producer of sexually harassing her, including chasing her around a hotel room, in the ’90s. The actress told the New Yorker that she felt that refusing his advances damaged her career.
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Italian actress and director Asia Argento told the New Yorker the disgraced producer forced oral sex on her when she was 21, and that she engaged in sexual acts with him over the next five years out of fear that he would end her career if she did not comply.
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Actress Rosanna Arquette told the New Yorker that Weinstein once attempted to get her to massage him after she met him to pick up a film script at his hotel room. After she refused, she said he then tried to force her to touch his penis. The actress believes that the producer went out of his way to harm her career after she refused his advances.
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French actress Emma de Caunes told the New Yorker she was “petrified” when Weinstein stripped naked after luring her to his hotel room in 2010. “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 … It was like a hunter with a wild animal.” She left the room.
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Louise Godbold says she met a young Weinstein when she was 28 years old, and then went on an internship interview at his offices. “That resulted in … him cornering me in an empty meeting room and putting my hand on his crotch. I got out of there as fast as I could,” she said to “Democracy Now!” At a later time, she was invited to his hotel suite, where she thought he would apologize for the previous encounter, but instead, “I ended up in his bedroom, with him, in bed, asking me to do a massage … and then he tried to give me a massage,” she said.
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On the set of 2008’s “Brideshead Revisited,” Weinstein allegedly called actress Hayley Atwell a “fat pig” and told her to go on a diet. After hearing about the incident, Atwell’s co-star Emma Thompson confronted Weinstein and threatened to quit the film if he forced any woman on set to go on a diet.
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Actress Jessica Barth told CNN that during what she thought was a discussion about her career, Weinstein asked for a naked massage. “I stood my ground. I told him I was never going to trade sexual favors to advance my career.”
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British actress Jessica Hynes said she lost an acting job after she refused to do a screen test in a bikini for the producer when she was 19.
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Rose McGowan, who starred in the Weinstein brothers-produced “Scream,” accused Harvey of raping her in 1997 — and has become one of the most outspoken voices amid the sexual harassment scandal that has rocked Hollywood. The New York Times reported that she and Weinstein reached a $100,000 settlement.
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Ashley Judd was the first big star to go on the record with accusations against Weinstein, telling the New York Times he sexually harassed her in his hotel room 20 years ago while she was filming “Kiss the Girls.” In a subsequent interview with ABC News, Judd says she promised to have sex with Weinstein if she won an Oscar — in a desperate attempt to escape.
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Weinstein was caught on a police wire admitting to groping model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez in 2015. “Oh, please. I’m sorry. Just come on in. I’m used to that,” the producer can be heard saying.
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