This Time, Harvey Weinstein Could Go to Jail
Harvey Weinstein might finally face criminal charges after an Italian model and actress accused him of raping her in February 2013 in interviews with the Los Angeles Times and LAPD detectives. The woman even showed him photos of her children to try to deter him, she said.
Weinstein has been publicly accused of sexual assault and harassment by numerous women this month following exposés in The New York Times and the The New Yorker alleging decades of abuse by the producer. But the Los Angeles Times accusations are the first reported rape falling within the statute of limitations.
The unnamed woman said she saw Weinstein at the eighth annual Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest in Los Angeles four years ago. Weinstein showed up at her hotel and invited himself up to her room, the woman said. She rebuffed his advances but he allegedly showed up at her door anyway.
Weinstein got in and promised he wouldn’t “have sex” with her.
“Once inside, he asked me questions about myself, but soon became very aggressive and demanding and kept asking to see me naked,” the woman told the Los Angeles Times. “He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do. He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.”
The LAPD confirmed that it is investigating the allegations.
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