Harvey Weinstein Scandal Leads to Me Too Movement

[otherwise]

I don't understand why anyone cares what that man's political leanings are. What he did is wrong. Anyone who is using his political leanings in other areas to say he is somehow worse than another sexual predator with different political leanings is missing the point. They are all wrong and disgusting. It's not even a particular industry where this behaviour occurs. It happens all the time to women and men just don't seem to get it. I'm glad these women have come forward. I hope that every man who has sexually assaulted or harassed anyone loses everything. 

[Warhippy]

On 10/13/2017 at 0:26 PM, Harvey Spector said:

He literally admits to his accuser on tape that he sexually assaulted her and has done it before. Stop with the Trump comparisons unless you can find a similar tape of Trump...

 

 

You know full well what evidence exists out there.

 

Don't be that guy

[Harvey Spector]

Harvey Weinstein raped me, actress tells LAPD. Investigation launched

 

An Italian model-actress met with Los Angeles police detectives for more than two hours Thursday morning, providing a detailed account of new allegations that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her at a hotel in 2013.

 

She is the sixth woman to accuse Weinstein of rape or forcible sex acts. Los Angeles police Capt. Billy Hayes confirmed that the department has launched an investigation into the matter.

 

It is the first case related to Weinstein to be reported in Southern California. New York police already have two active sex crime probes and London’s Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations made by three women.

 

The new allegation could be legally troubling for Weinstein because it falls within the 10-year statute of limitations for the crime that existed at the time of the alleged incident, legal experts say.

 

It could “open the door to a prosecution if the evidence exists,” said defense attorney Dmitry Gorin, a former L.A. County sex crimes prosecutor. Until now, most of the allegations against Weinstein that could lead to criminal charges concerned incidents that are more than a decade old.

 

Weinstein has “unequivocally denied” allegations of non-consensual sex, according to his representative, Sallie Hofmeister. On the latest allegation, she said: "I can't respond to some anonymous complaint."

 

The 38-year-old woman, who has asked not to be named because she is fearful of retaliation and concerned about protecting her children’s privacy, first contacted police on Tuesday, through her attorney, David Ring of the law firm Taylor Ring. Two detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division’s rape special section took her statement on Thursday.

 

She told the Los Angeles Times that the incident occurred at Mr. C Beverly Hills hotel after she attended the 8th annual Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest in February 2013. She had previously met Weinstein once, briefly, in Rome after being introduced by an acquaintance. At that time, he invited her up to his hotel room, but she said she declined. She said they spoke briefly at the film festival, but he didn’t appear to recall meeting her before.

Later, he showed up “without warning” after midnight in the lobby of her hotel, which she said surprised her because she didn’t tell him where she was staying. He asked to come up to her room. She said she told him no and offered to meet him downstairs, but soon, he was knocking on her door.

 

“He ... bullied his way into my hotel room, saying, ‘I’m not going to [have sex with] you, I just want to talk,’” the woman told The Times. “Once inside, he asked me questions about myself, but soon became very aggressive and demanding and kept asking to see me naked.”

 

She said Weinstein repeatedly bragged about his power and influence and told her not to fight him. She tried to show him pictures of her children and her mother, who was undergoing chemotherapy at the time, as she cried and begged him to go away, she said.

“He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do,” she said. “He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.”

 

When he left, she said he told her she was very beautiful, and that she could work in Hollywood.

 

“He acted like nothing happened,” the woman said. “I barely knew this man. It was the most demeaning thing ever done to me by far. It sickens me still. … He made me feel like an object, like nothing, with all his power.”

 

After the incident, he invited her to parties at his house. She did not attend.

 

Throughout the interview with The Times on Thursday, she was calm and collected — though her voice quivered when she spoke of her three children. It is because of them, she said, that she decided to report Weinstein to the police.

 

At the time, she said she was too afraid, but did tell a priest, a friend and a nanny what had happened.

 

“I feel responsible that I didn't talk for years, I feel responsible that I didn't react that night and I didn't call the police, I feel responsible that I wasn't brave enough," she said. “All these years I’ve been thinking why I didn’t call the police immediately. I regret that I opened the [hotel] door.”

 

About a week before the Weinstein story broke, her high-school-aged daughter told her about how she had been experiencing mistreatment from a boy for seven months. To comfort her, she told her about the incident with Weinstein and urged her to report what was going on.

 

"If I need to do that, why don't you stand up for yourself?" her daughter said, she recounted. And she said her son told her: “You just need to be strong, Mom.”

 

Her attorney, Ring, one of L.A.’s top sex-abuse attorneys, said the woman is fully cooperating with the LAPD.

 

The model-actress, who was 34 at the time, is well-known in Italy, where she appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue and as an actress in Italian films.

 

The woman was living in Italy with her three children at the time of the alleged attack, but has since moved to Southern California.

 

The allegations could also bolster a New York police investigation into a report that Weinstein forced an aspiring actress in 2004 to perform oral sex on him, as the L.A. case involves similar acts. Lucia Evans told the New Yorker that Weinstein assaulted her during a meeting at his Miramax office.

 

Since a New York Times article first revealed allegations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein earlier this month, more than 40 women — actresses, studio workers and models — have accused Weinstein of inappropriate behavior, ranging from harassment to rape. Actresses Asia Argento, Rose McGowan, Lysette Anthony and Evans have all publicly stated that they were raped or forced to perform a sex act by Weinstein. An unnamed woman also told the New Yorker that he allegedly raped her. Eight women have received civil settlements over the years from Weinstein or his companies related to his conduct, the New York Times reported.

 

In other developments Thursday, a group of Weinstein Co. staffers responded to sexual harassment and assault allegations against their company’s disgraced co-founder, saying they did not know he was a “serial sexual predator.”

 

“We all knew that we were working for a man with an infamous temper. We did not know we were working for a serial sexual predator,” about 30 staffers said in a letter sent to the New Yorker. “We knew that our boss could be manipulative. We did not know that he used his power to systematically assault and silence women.”

 

The memo also blasted nondisclosure agreements in their contracts that some have blamed for helping to keep allegations under wraps for years.

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UPDATES:

4:05 p.m.: This article was updated with details about a letter signed by Weinstein Co. staffers saying that they did not know they were working for a “serial sexual predator.”

3:30 p.m.: This article was updated with additional details from the actress about the alleged assault in Los Angeles.

2:10 p.m.: This article was updated to add a comment from Harvey Weinstein representative Sallie Hofmeister.

This article was originally published at 1:40 p.m.

 

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-fi-ct-weinstein-lapd-victim-20171019-story.html

[smokes]

OK after James Vanderbeek and Terry Crews coming out with their own allegations about other Hollywood types and people treating that as an afterthought because they need to focus on the women made me rethink about this whole Hollywood crusade against Weinstein. This will change Hollywood for women but when you consider how much coverage Terry Crews and James Vanderbeek got when they revealed their stories. It doesn't seem like it's going to change for the men who are put in the same situations. I stopped paying attention to all the people bringing up stories from generations ago because how fair is it to judge someone during different decades? Weinstien to me is basically a live real flesh search happening live at any moment and at anytime your life can be destroyed in a blink of an eye. Consider that 2 or 3 months ago this guy was on top of the world and one newspaper article put him in the position he is in right now...Scary to imagine it can happen to anyone.

[Tre Mac]

They should bring back medieval castration on this sicko.

[D-Money]

5 hours ago, smokes said:

Consider that 2 or 3 months ago this guy was on top of the world and one newspaper article put him in the position he is in right now...Scary to imagine it can happen to anyone.

Anyone who is going around harassing and even raping women, anyways.

[Psylocke]

Lupita Nyong'o's account of her encounters with Weinstein: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/lupita-nyongo-harvey-weinstein.html

 

I think this shows how he blatantly abuses his power and authority in the industry to coerce these young women. 

[Shift-4]

22 minutes ago, Psylocke said:

Lupita Nyong'o's account of her encounters with Weinstein: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/lupita-nyongo-harvey-weinstein.html

 

I think this shows how he blatantly abuses his power and authority in the industry to coerce these young women. 

Total dirtbag. 
There is no punishment appropriate enough.
Makes me so angry as I read all the stories coming out about him.

[Psylocke]

9 minutes ago, Shift-4 said:

Total dirtbag. 
There is no punishment appropriate enough.
Makes me so angry as I read all the stories coming out about him.

I think one of the things that really stood out to me in Lupita's story was how he made moves on her while his children were home. Not that it would've made it acceptable if they weren't, but it just struck me as so much more inappropriate and messed up.  

[Shift-4]

2 minutes ago, Psylocke said:

I think one of the things that really stood out to me in Lupita's story was how he made moves on her while his children were home. Not that it would've made it acceptable if they weren't, but it just struck me as so much more inappropriate and messed up.  

I didn't read that far   

[Psylocke]

3 minutes ago, Shift-4 said:

I didn't read that far   

You should read the entire piece. I think it was eloquently written. 

[Shift-4]

1 minute ago, Psylocke said:

You should read the entire piece. I think it was eloquently written. 

What I read was eloquently written.   

But it didn't take me long to start getting really mad so I stopped.

[CBH1926]

What makes this even more disguisting, is the fact that so many people in Hollywood knew about this for years.

[Psylocke]

Didn't see this posted: https://globalnews.ca/news/3796504/seth-macfarlane-harvey-weinstein-joke/

 

[Harvey Spector]

1 hour ago, CBH1926 said:

What makes this even more disguisting, is the fact that so many people in Hollywood knew about this for years.

What makes it even worse is that there are MANY more Harvey Weinstein’s in Hollywood that haven’t been ratted out yet.  And some of those dirt bags like their women and men really young if you get my drift. 

[HerrDrFunk]

42 minutes ago, Harvey Spector said:

What makes it even worse is that there are MANY more Harvey Weinstein’s in Hollywood that haven’t been ratted out yet.  And some of those dirt bags like their women and men really young if you get my drift. 

It's not exclusive to Hollywood. It's F'd up no matter where it happens and I hope this leads to some change.

[smokes]

7 hours ago, CBH1926 said:

What makes this even more disguisting, is the fact that so many people in Hollywood knew about this for years.

No, the disgusting thing is that this is going to cause this stuff to go more underground. I can see movie producers asking actresses to sign waivers before taking a meeting with them. This is never going away. Men with high positions will use every advantage they have to get what they want just like some women will use thier attributes to get whatever they want. I am not convinced that this issue is fairly represented.

[GLASSJAW]

On 10/20/2017 at 1:28 AM, smokes said:

OK after James Vanderbeek and Terry Crews coming out with their own allegations about other Hollywood types and people treating that as an afterthought because they need to focus on the women made me rethink about this whole Hollywood crusade against Weinstein. This will change Hollywood for women but when you consider how much coverage Terry Crews and James Vanderbeek got when they revealed their stories. It doesn't seem like it's going to change for the men who are put in the same situations.

"i was groped"

vs

"i was groped by joe smith"

 

see the difference?

 

[smokes]

3 hours ago, GLASSJAW said:

"i was groped"

vs

"i was groped by joe smith"

 

see the difference?

 

Big difference but what is the message? Tom Hanks had an interview where he say, "Anywhere that there are men in power there are going to be those types of guys who are sexual predators for the women who work underneath them. And it goes on in the homosexual community as well." http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41678196

Well? What about the men? Harassment happens in all levels but yet the only people that are left out are the average joe guys, why? Because Weinstein is a guy? For every Weinstein there is there are millions of men who are not in positions of power, who are just as vulnerable as women or homosexuals. Yet no one is speaking out on that? The message should be "Sexual Harassment Needs to End." all inclusive regardless or race or gender.

[CBH1926]

12 hours ago, smokes said:

No, the disgusting thing is that this is going to cause this stuff to go more underground. I can see movie producers asking actresses to sign waivers before taking a meeting with them. This is never going away. Men with high positions will use every advantage they have to get what they want just like some women will use thier attributes to get whatever they want. I am not convinced that this issue is fairly represented.

So, they should have stayed silent is that what you are implying ?