Harvey Weinstein – absolute trash.

When the New York Times first broke the story that is currently tearing Hollywood apart, he stood accused of sexual assault (HERE).

Now Pandora’s Box has been opened, news outlets aren’t squashing stories for fear of retribution from Harvey, and more and more women are coming forward with truly horrific stories about a first-class sexual predator.

Three women spoke to The New Yorker about being raped by Weinstein, in an article that details 13 women’s accounts of sexual assault.

First up was Lucia Stoller, now Lucia Evan:

[She] was approached by Weinstein at Cipriani Upstairs, a club in New York, in 2004…

When Evans arrived for the meeting, the building was full of people. She was led to an office with exercise equipment and takeout boxes on the floor, where she met with Weinstein alone. Evans said that she found him frightening. “The type of control he exerted, it was very real,” she told me. “Even just his presence was intimidating.”

…“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.” At a certain point, she said, “I just sort of gave up. That’s the most horrible part of it, and that’s why he’s been able to do this for so long to so many women: people give up, and then they feel like it’s their fault.”

Weinstein appeared to find the encounter unremarkable. “It was like it was just another day for him”.

When you’re a serial sexual predator, I imagine it was just another day.

Next is Asia Argento, an actress born in Rome, who starred in B. Monkey, released in 1999 by Miramax:

At the time, Argento was twenty-one and a rising actress who had twice won the Italian equivalent of the Oscar. Argento said that, in 1997, one of Weinstein’s producers invited her to what she understood to be a party thrown by Miramax…When the producer led her upstairs that evening, she said, there was no party—only a hotel room, empty but for Weinstein…

“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 [above] 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.”

“I said, ‘No, no, no.’ . . . It’s twisted. A big fat man wanting to eat you. It’s a scary fairy tale.” Argento, who insisted that she wanted to tell her story in all its complexity, said that she didn’t physically fight him off, something that has prompted years of guilt.

Paging Donna Karan – hey, does this sound like women “asking for it”, you absolute imbecile?

Get this:

In 2000, Argento released “Scarlet Diva,” a movie that she wrote and directed. In the film, a heavyset producer corners the character of Anna, who is played by Argento, in a hotel room, asks her for a massage, and tries to assault her. After the movie came out, women began approaching Argento, saying that they recognized Weinstein’s behavior in the portrayal. “People would ask me about him because of the scene in the movie,” she said.

Here’s a clip of that scene:

I wrote and directed this scene in 1999. #Weinstein pic.twitter.com/VFRJQM0O4M

— Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) October 10, 2017

The third woman is Mira Sorvino, who starred in several of Weinstein’s films. She has a number of stories about the creep:

…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…

A few weeks later, in New York City, her phone rang after midnight. It was Weinstein, saying that he had new marketing ideas for the film and asking to meet. Sorvino offered to meet him at an all-night diner, but he told her he was coming over to her apartment and hung up…

“Harvey had managed to bypass my doorman,” she said. “I opened the door terrified, brandishing my twenty-pound Chihuahua mix in front of me, as though that would do any good.” When she told Weinstein that her new boyfriend was on his way, Weinstein became dejected and left.

You want to know how much power Harvey wields? In March 2015, Ambra Battilana Gutierrez was targeted by Harvey:

Gutierrez arrived at Weinstein’s office in Tribeca early the next evening with her modelling portfolio. 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.

Ambra went to the NYPD and reported the assault, and they agreed to wire her up in a sting operation. She met Harvey the next day:

Gutierrez met Weinstein at the bar of the Tribeca Grand Hotel. A team of undercover officers helped guide her through the interaction. On the recording, which I have heard in full, Weinstein lists actresses whose careers he has helped and offers Gutierrez the services of a dialect coach. Then he presses her to join him in his hotel room while he showers.

Here’s some of that tape:

That case went nowhere:

“We had the evidence,” the police source involved in the operation told me. “It’s a case that made me angrier than I thought possible, and I have been on the force a long time.”

…According to a source close to the matter, after the D.A.’s office decided not to press charges, Gutierrez, facing Weinstein’s legal team, and in return for a payment, signed a highly restrictive nondisclosure agreement with Weinstein, including an affidavit stating that the acts Weinstein admits to in the recording never happened.

Weinstein’s use of such settlements was reported by the Times and confirmed to me by numerous sources. A former employee with firsthand knowledge of two settlement negotiations that took place in London in the nineteen-nineties recalled, “It felt like David versus Goliath . . . the guy with all the money and the power flexing his muscle and quashing the allegations and getting rid of them.”

There’s so much more to this one – like how Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow detailed their encounters with Harvey (HERE), but we will finish with a tiny shred of good news via the Guardian:

Harvey Weinstein’s wife is leaving him, she announced in a statement on Tuesday night, saying: “My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions.”

As for Harvey, it is reported that he is headed to a sex addiction rehab centre in Europe via private jet.

To paraphrase another sexual predator, LOCK HIM UP!

[sources:newyorker&guardian]