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All the women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault

Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevigne are just a few of the many women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault.

Recently, a wave of sexual harassment and assault allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein have emerged through a series of investigations published by The New York Times and The New Yorker.

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Most of these alleged encounters follow a similar pattern, of "business meetings" turning into a proposed massage, and hotel room sexual harassment or assault. These accusations start as early as the 1980s and include actresses, assistants, and other employees of Weinstein's companies.

With the catalog of alleged abuse growing, women like Gwyneth Paltrow, who accused Weinstein of touching her inappropriately in 1995, want to support women in similar situations by coming forward.

“We’re at a point in time when women need to send a clear message that this is over,” Paltrow told The New York Times. “This way of treating women ends now.”

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These are all the women who have come forward with accusations of Harvey Weinstein committing sexual harassment or assault, spanning decades.

Note: A handful of women told their stories anonymously—including one who described an alleged rape to The New Yorker—but we did not include those stories in this list.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When Paltrow was 22 years old, Weinstein hired her to star in the 1995 movie "Emma." Before filming began, the actress told The New York Times that Weinstein invited her up to his room at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what she thought would be a professional meeting.

Paltrow told the Times that the meeting ended with Weinstein touching her and suggesting they massage each other. "I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified," she said.

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Paltrow said she refused Weinstein's advances. She told her boyfriend at the time, Brad Pitt, about what happened. After Pitt confronted Weinstein, Weinstein told Paltrow not to tell anyone else about the incident, she recounted to the Times. "I thought he was going to fire me," Paltrow said. Pitt confirmed this story to the Times in an email.

Paltrow, however, continued to appear in Weinstein movies. In 1998, Paltrow won the Oscar for best actress for her work in "Shakespeare in Love," which Weinstein produced, and she thanked Weinstein in her speech.

Paltrow told the Times that she felt like she had to keep up appearances to save her career.

Angelina Jolie

The actress, director, and humanitarian didn't go into detail of her encounter with Weinstein, but she told The New York Times that she had a "bad experience" while shooting the 1998 movie "Playing by Heart."

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“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 said. "This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.”

Ashley Judd

Judd went on the record in The New York Times that 20 years ago, Weinstein invited her to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what Judd thought would be a professional breakfast meeting.

Judd said she was shocked when Weinstein sent her up to his room instead. Judd said appeared in a bathrobe, offered her a massage, and asked her if she wanted to watch him take a shower.

She said she felt "panicky, trapped," and said if Weinstein wanted to touch her, she would have to win an Oscar for one of his movies first.

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“There’s a lot on the line, the cachet that came with Miramax," Judd told the Times. Years later, Judd appeared in two more Weinstein films, but said Weinstein didn't harass her again.

Rose McGowan

McGowan reached a $100,000 settlement with Weinstein in 1997, according to a legal document reviewed by the Times.

McGowan was 23 years old when she reached the settlement with Weinstein, following what the Times described as "an episode in a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival."

Although McGowan declined to comment for the article, since it came out, she's been very outspoken on Twitter. She's calling for people to sign a petition to bring down The Weinstein's Company board, and it has over 6,400 signatures so far, with a goal of 10,000.

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Mira Sorvino

Mira Sorvino told The New Yorker that Weinstein tried to give her massage in a hotel room

Weeks later, Weinstein showed up late at night to her New York City apartment, she said, so she called a guy friend to come to her place and pretend to be her boyfriend to scare Weinstein off. She told The New Yorker that Weinstein showed up before her friend, and when she told him her "boyfriend" was coming over, he got angry and left.

Sorvino told The New Yorker that she struggled for years whether to come forward with her story, in fear that her career in film could be ruined, especially because Weinstein helped her career so much.

Asia Argento

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The Italian film actress and director told The New Yorker that Weinstein forced oral sex on her in 1997. Argento said she did not speak out until now because she was scared Weinstein would "crush" her. "I know he has crushed a lot of people before," Argento told The New Yorker. "That's why this story — in my case, it's 20 years old, some of them are older — has never come out."

Weinstein "terrified me, and he was so big," she said. "It wouldn't stop. It was a nightmare." Argento told The New Yorker she eventually started to pretend she enjoyed the assault with the hope that doing so would make it end sooner.

In 2000, a movie Argento wrote and directed, "Scarlet Diva," was released. It includes a scene that's similar to what she allegedly went through with Weinstein three years earlier.

Rosanna Arquette

Arquette told The New Yorker and The New York Times that one evening in the early 90s, she was supposed to meet Weinstein at the Beverly Hills Hotel to pick up a script. Once she got to the hotel, she was asked to meet Weinstein in his room.

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Arquette said that Weinstein opened the door wearing a white bathrobe, and told her his neck was sore and he needed a massage. She told him that she could recommend a good masseuse. “Then he grabbed my hand,” she said, and put it on his neck. She said that when she yanked her hand away, Weinstein grabbed it again and pulled it toward his visible and erect penis. “My heart was really racing. I was in a fight-or-flight moment,” Arquette said. She recalls telling Weinstein, “I will never do that.”

Arquette said that Weinstein told her that rejecting him was huge mistake, and believes her career suffered in the aftermath. “He made things very difficult for me for years,” Arquette told The New Yorker. She appeared in one Weinstein film after the incident, “Pulp Fiction,” and told The New Yorker she got the role due to Weinstein’s deference to the film's director, Quentin Tarantino.

Jessica Barth

The actress told The New Yorker that she met Weinstein at a 2011 Golden Globes party.

She said Weinstein invited her to have a business meeting to discuss "career stuff" at the Peninsula hotel. When he arrived, Barth says he asked her to come up to his room, and told her it wasn't a big deal, he just wanted privacy.

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Barth said she was shocked when she arrived in the room to see that Weinstein had ordered champagne and sushi.

Barth told The New Yorker that he then offered to cast her in a film and demanded a naked massage in bed. “So, what would happen if, say, we’re having some champagne and I take my clothes off and you give me a massage?” he asked, according to Barth. “And I’m, like, ‘That’s not going to happen.'"

When she tried to leave, she said Weinstein got angry and told her that she needed to lose weight “to compete with Mila Kunis,” before promising her a meeting with one of his female executives. “He gave me her number, and I walked out and I started bawling,” Barth said.

Barth told the publication that the meeting with the female executive was just a formality.

Emma de Caunes

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“When I hung up the phone, I heard the shower go on in the bathroom,” de Caunes told The New Yorker. “I was, like, What the f---, is he taking a shower?” Weinstein came out, de Caunes said, naked and with an erection.

Weinstein then told her to lie on the bed and mentioned that many other women had done so before her, she said. According to De Caunes, she told Weinstein that she was leaving, and he panicked. De Caunes said that Weinstein called her non-stop over the next few hours, offering gifts and saying thatnothing happened.

“I know that everybody—I meaneverybody—in Hollywood knows that it’s happening,” de Caunes told The New Yorker. “He’s not even really hiding. I mean, the way he does it, so many people are involved and see what’s happening. But everyone’s too scared to say anything.”

Judith Godrèche

The French actress told The New York Times that Weinstein sexually harassed her in 1996 in Cannes.

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Upstairs in his hotel room, Weinstein asked to give her a massage, Godrèche told the Times. She said no, and

“The next thing I know, he’s pressing against me and pulling off my sweater,” she told the Times. She says she pulled away and left the hotel room.

Godrèche told the Times that she called the female executive who was present at an earlier meeting with Weinstein, and the woman told her not to talk about it, since it could potentially hurt the success of her film.

Cara Delevigne

In a statement sent to journalist Yashar Ali, actress and model Cara Delevigne shared her experience with Weinstein. Delevigne also shared her story on Instagram:

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"When I first started to work as an actress, I was working on a film and I received a call from‎ Harvey Weinstein asking if I had slept with any of the women I was seen out with in the media. It was a very odd and uncomfortable call....I answered none of his questions and hurried off the phone but before I hung up, he said to me that if I was gay or decided to be with a woman especially in public that I'd never get the role of a straight woman or make it as an actress in Hollywood. A year or two later, I went to a meeting with him in the lobby of a hotel with a director about an upcoming film. The director left the meeting and Harvey asked me to stay and chat with him. As soon as we were alone he began to brag about all the actresses he had slept with and how he had made their careers and spoke about other inappropriate things of a sexual nature. He then invited me to his room. I quickly declined and asked his assistant if my car was outside. She said it wasn't and wouldn't be for a bit and I should go to his room. At that moment I felt very powerless and scared but didn't want to act that way hoping that I was wrong about the situation. When I arrived I was relieved to find another woman in his room and thought immediately I was safe. He asked us to kiss and she began some sort of advances upon his direction. I swiftly got up and asked him if he knew that I could sing. And I began to sing....I thought it would make the situation better....more professional....like an audition....I was so nervous. After singing I said again that I had to leave. He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room. I still got the part for the film and always thought that he gave it to me because of what happened. Since then I felt awful that I did the movie. I felt like I didn't deserve the part. I was so hesitant about speaking out....I didn't want to hurt his family. I felt guilty as if I did something wrong. I was also terrified that this sort of thing had happened to so many women I know but no one had said anything because of fear."

I just received this statem... @ Yashar Ali #emo#

Léa Seydoux

The actress who's starred in "Spectre" and "Midnight in Paris" published a revealing essay in The Guardian on Wednesday, depicting her experiences with Weinstein.

"When I first met Harvey Weinstein, it didn’t take me long to figure him out," Seydoux wrote. "We were at a fashion show. He was charming, funny, smart – but very domineering. He wanted to meet me for drinks and insisted we had to make an appointment that very night. This was never going to be about work. He had other intentions – I could see that very clearly."

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Seydoux said that she went up to his hotel room for a drink.

"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me. I had to defend myself. He’s big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him. I left his room, thoroughly disgusted. I wasn’t afraid of him, though. Because I knew what kind of man he was all along."

Seydoux also wrote that she's heard him say misogynistic things to her, including bragging about his sexual experiences with famous actresses, and that one time he told her, "

Lauren O’Connor

According toThe New York Times,O'Connor, now an executive at Amazon Studios and a former employee at The Weinstein Company, filed an internal memo about Weinstein's behavior in 2015. O'Connor wrote in the letter that she thought Weinstein used

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“There is a toxic environment for women at this company,” O’Connor said in the letter, addressed to several executives at the company. "I am a 28-year-old woman trying to make a living and a career. Harvey Weinstein is a 64-year-old, world famous man and this is his company.The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10. I am a professional and have tried to be professional. I am not treated that way however.I am sexualized and diminished. "

In the letter, O'Connor also

Romola Garai

The British actress who appeared on BBC's "The Hour" and 2007's "Atonement" told The Guardian that when she was 18 years old, she auditioned for Weinstein in a hotel room at the Savoy Hotel in London, wearing nothing but a dressing gown.

“Like every other woman in the industry, I’ve had an ‘audition’ with Harvey Weinstein, where I’d actually already had the audition but you had to be personally approved by him,” Garai told The Guardian. “So I had to go to his hotel room in the Savoy, and he answered the door in his bathrobe. I was only 18. I felt violated by it, it has stayed very clearly in my memory.”

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Lauren Sivan

The TV reporter told The Huffington Post that in 2007, Weinstein cornered her at a New York City restaurant and tried to kiss her. When she refused his advances, he told her to "stand there and be quiet," and, according to Sivan, began to masturbate in front of her. He then ejaculated into a plant, according to Sivan.

Sivan spoke about the harassment with Megyn Kelly, calling it “disgusting and kind of pathetic.”

“Twenty minutes earlier he was having this great conversation with me,” Sivan told Kelly. “I felt so great and flattered by it. And then to stand there and be quiet just a few minutes later just negated any warm feelings.”

Louisette Geiss

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Geiss held the press conference with her attorney Gloria Allred, a women's rights advocate currently involved with litigation against Bill Cosby and President Donald Trump over alleged sexual misconduct against women.

Heather Graham

In a guest column for Variety, the "Boogie Nights" star came forward with her personal experience with Weinstein in the early 2000s. Graham wrote that Weinstein implied she had to sleep with him in order to get a role in one of his movies:

"There was a pile of scripts sitting on his desk. 'I want to put you in one of my movies,' he said and offered to let me choose which one I liked best. Later in the conversation, he mentioned that he had an agreement with his wife. He could sleep with whomever he wanted when he was out of town. I walked out of the meeting feeling uneasy. There was no explicit mention that to star in one of those films I had to sleep with him, but the subtext was there."

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Graham had the opportunity to meet with Weinstein again, but didn't because she was uncomfortable, she wrote. He never cast her in any of his films.

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Kate Beckinsale

In an Instagram post, the "Underworld" actress shared her alleged encounter with Weinstein.

Beckinsale wrote that when she was just 17 years old, she met Weinstein at a hotel. She assumed they would be meeting in a conference room, but Weinstein had her meet him in his hotel room, according to Beckinsale. He opened the door in a bathrobe, she wrote.

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“I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him. After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed.”

Beckinsale wrote that Weinstein did not touch her that day. But years later, she says she saw him again and he asked her about it:

"A few years later he 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. I had what I thought were boundaries — I said no to him professionally many times over the years, some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a c--- and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people, ‘Kate lives to say no to me.'"

I was called to meet Harvey... @ katebeckinsale

Claire Forlani

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The "Meet Joe Black" actress shared her story about Weinstein in a tweet. "I had two Peninsula Hotel meetings in the evening with Harvey and all I remember was I ducked, dived and ultimately got out of there," Forlani wrote.

Forlani also said that she was contacted by Ronan Farrow to participate in his New Yorker article about Weinstein, but was convinced not talk to him to by some of her male friends.

"You see, nothing happened to me with Harvey — by that I mean, I escaped 5 times," Forlani wrote. "The three dinners with Harvey I don’t really remember the time period, I was 25. I remember him telling me all the actresses who had slept with him and what he had done for them. I wasn’t drinking the cool aid, I knew Harvey was a master manipulator. He also announced to me at the last dinner I had with him at Dominic’s that his pilot knew to be on standby because he could never get me to sleep with him, to which I did what I always did, make light of the situation, a joke here or there and moved on. You see, I always thought I was a pro at handling these guys, I’d had a fair amount of experience. Sometimes I got angry, really angry. I wondered why I had Prey stamped on my forehead but this I kept to myself."

But Weinstein isn't the only one who's guilty of this, according to Forlani.

"This sort of thing was something my generation dealt with, all the time," she wrote. "For me it started at age 14, my parents had two male friends who I trusted and adored and they were deeply inappropriate. It happened all the time when I modeled and it happened all through my twenties in the film business. For us it was something you weren’t supposed to make a big deal out of; it was sadly our normal."

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You can see Forlani's tweet below:

#HarveyWeinstein #ClaireFor... @ Claire Forlani

Minka Kelly

The "Parenthood" and "Friday Night Lights" actress opened up about her alleged encounter with Weinstein on Instagram. Kelly said that Weinstein expressed interest in casting her in his films.

"[Weinstein] regaled me with offers of a lavish life filled with trips around the world on private planes etc. IF I would be his girlfriend. Or, ‘We could just keep this professional.’ All I knew was not to offend this very powerful man and to get out of the situation as quickly as possible. I told him while flattered, I’d like to keep things professional. He said ‘Fine. I trust you won’t tell anyone about this.’ I said ‘Of course not. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me,’ – the only way I could think to shut it down gracefully and excuse myself."

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Kelly also wrote,

Eva Green

The "Casino Royale" and "Penny Dreadful" star accused Weinstein of groping her in a post on Twitter:

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Lena Headey

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In a Twitter post, the "Game of Thrones" actress accused Weinstein of making a suggestive comment to her while promoting the film, "The Brothers Grimm" at the Venice Film Festival. She also said that the film's director, Terry Gilliam, bullied her on set. Headey stated that she never worked on a movie with Weinstein again.

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Ambra Battilana Gutierrez

The New Yorker wrote that Weinstein allegedly groped the Italian model's breasts and reached under her skirt i

In the recording, which you can listen to here, Weinstein lists actresses whose careers he has helped. He pressures to join him in his hotel room. Gutierrez says no repeatedly but Weinstein insists. In the recording, asks him why he groped her the day before.

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“Oh, please, I’m sorry, just come on in,” Weinstein says. “I’m used to that. Come on. Please.”

“You’re used to that?” Gutierrez says.

“Yes,” Weinstein says. “I won’t do it again.”

After nearly two minutes of back-and-forth, Weinstein finally agrees to let her leave.

When away for questioning. After a two-week investigation, the Manhattan district attorney decided not to file charges.

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After her story was published in The New Yorker, the model shared this photo on Instagram:

Life is not easy for any of... @ ambrabgutierrez

Lucia Evans

Evans told The New Yorker that she gave Weinstein her number in 2004 when she was an aspiring actress and college student. She told the magazine that Weinstein started calling her late at night asking to meet, all offers she declined.

She eventually met Weinstein at the Miramax office in New York City during the day, knowing there would be a woman present. After both demeaning her and complimenting her (he told her she should lose weight) Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him, according to Evans.

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"I said, over and over, 'I don't want to do this, stop, don't,'" Stoller told The New Yorker. "I tried to get away, but maybe I didn't try hard enough. I didn't want to kick him or fight him. He's a big guy. He overpowered me. 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."

Laura Madden

The former Miramax employee told The New York Times that Weinstein tried to get her to give him massages in Dublin and London beginning in 1991. Madden said that he had a way of making anyone who objected feel bad about it. “It was so manipulative,” she told the Times. “You constantly question yourself — am I the one who is the problem?”

Katherine Kendall

The "Swingers" star told The New York Times that, in 1993, Weinstein exposed himself and chased her around a living room. She also told the Times that this encounter diminished her interest in working in the entertainment industry.

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“This is Harvey Weinstein,” Kendall recalls telling herself at the time. She felt that if she told anyone about it, she would “never work again and no one is going to care or believe me."

Emily Nestor

Liza Campbell

Campbell told the Sun Times that Weinstein kept provoking her, “Come on, it’ll be fun," he said. "We can drink champagne. You can soap me."

“What I said very loudly was, ‘If you come back into this room with no clothes on I’m going to fing lose my temper,'” Campbell told the Sun Times.

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Campbell tried to leave the hotel room, but the door she entered in was locked, she said, and a second door she thought could be her escape was also locked. She found a third door, which opened and she escaped the room, she told the Sun Times.

Tomi-Ann Roberts

In 1984, Tomi-Ann Roberts, now a psychology professor at Colorado College, was a 20-year-old college student interested in pursuing an acting career. Roberts told The New York Times that Weinstein was a regular customer at the restaurant where she worked as a waitress.

Roberts said that Weinstein wanted her to audition for a movie he was directing with his brother, Bob. Weinstein had her meet him where he was staying, according to Roberts. When she got there, Roberts said he was nude in a bathtub.

Weinstein reportedly told her that if she was comfortable getting naked in front of him, she would have a better chance at landing the role. Roberts told the Times that Weinstein said that if she couldn't get naked in private, she would never have a career in film.

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Dawn Dunning

Dunning met Weinstein in 2003. She was going to design school, working as a waitress, and taking small acting gigs. She met Weinstein at the nightclub where she worked, according to her interview with The New York Times.

Dunning reportedly had a lunch scheduled with Weinstein at a Manhattan restaurant. But when she got there, she was told to meet him in his hotel room because he was running late, according to Dunning.

When she got to the room, Weinstein was in a bathrobe, behind a coffee table covered with papers, she said.

Dunning told The Times that Weinstein told her the papers were contracts for his next three films, but she could only sign them if she had a threesome with him.

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Dunning recalled laughing, assuming it was a joke, which made Weinstein angry.

“You’ll never make it in this business,” Dunning said he told her. “This is how the business works.” Dunning left the room, and when Weinstein's assistant called her the next day, she says she hung up.

Dunning didn't pursue acting much longer, and instead became a costume designer.

Zoe Brock

Brock, a model and writer from New Zealand, wrote in a blog post and told The Guardian that Weinstein sexually harassed her in 1997, when she was 23 years old.

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Brock, now 43, said that she met Weinstein at the Cannes film festival, and sat with him at a dinner. They had a nice conversation, she recalled, and she joined Weinstein and a large group of people for a night out.

After midnight, Weinstein reportedly offered to drive her back to his hotel to continue the partying. At the hotel, with several other people in the room, she says they opened champagne, but then the other people left.

“My body went into high alert. I was drunk, young, miles from home, without cash to get a cab, and no cell phone," she said. "Harvey left the room, but not for long. He re-emerged naked a couple of minutes later and asked if I would give him a massage. Panicking, in shock, I remember weighing up the options and wondering how much I needed to placate him to keep myself safe.”

Brock said that Weinstein begged her to give him a massage. "I shrugged Harvey’s hands off me, ran into the bathroom and locked the door. Harvey chased me, d---, balls and all, and banged on the door with his fists, pleading with me to come out."

When she exited the bathroom, Brock said Weinstein was crying and said that Brock had rejected him because he was fat.

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"No one believed my story," said. "They all thought I had slept with Weinstein."

Louise Godbold

Godbold wrote about an encounter with Weinstein in an essay. Godbold said that she was one of the women he "preyed upon" in the early 90s.

Goldbod didn't go into much detail, but noted that her story is very similar to the others:

"The office tour that became an occasion to trap me in an empty meeting room, the begging for a massage, his hands on my shoulders as I attempted to beat a retreat … all while not wanting to alienate the most powerful man in Hollywood."

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