Lawyers for Harvey Weinstein accuser Alexandra Canosa want to depose a host of big names in her $10 million sex-assault case — including author Ronan Farrow, the disgraced producer’s brother and a former private eye for Bill Clinton, court records show.
Canosa, a former employee of Weinstein’s entertainment company, claims Weinstein — who was slapped with 23 years in prison Wednesday — repeatedly attacked her for years, once forcing her to perform oral sex on him, court papers allege.
The movie mogul “threatened [her] and made it clear that if she did not succumb to his demands or if she exposed his unwanted conduct there would be retaliation, including humiliation, the loss of her job and any ability to work in the entertainment industry,” the May 2018 lawsuit states.
In a letter filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Canosa’s attorneys told Judge Paul Engelmayer they were considering deposing New Yorker journalist Farrow — as well as several others who appear in his 2019 book “Catch and Kill” detailing how corners of the media enabled producer’s decades of abuse.
Included on the list of deponents were brother Bob Weinstein, admitted spy Seth Freedman — who once helped the producer secretly investigate accusers — and famed Bill Clinton private eye Jack Palladino.
Lawyers said they may also speak to Sandeep Rehal, the former assistant whose suit against Weinstein for allegedly forcing her to clean up his semen was dropped last year.
Attorneys also asked the judge to push the deadline to depose potential witnesses, citing the fact that Canosa is pregnant and can’t fly from her home in Los Angeles.
The former employee was revealed to have sent hundreds of affectionate messages to Weinstein, including one that read “I’m thinking about you” dated just a day after he allegedly raped her in 2010, unsealed emails show.
Canosa was not among the accusers in Weinstein’s criminal case in Manhattan Supreme Court — for which he was convicted on two felony counts — though her case falls within the statute of limitations.
Engelmayer has not responded to the letter, court records show.