On Thursday 5th October,The New York Timespublished an explosive report alleging 65-year-old film executive, Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed many women in Hollywood over a period of 30 years.

The report alleged Weinstein had previously reached at least eight settlements – worth anywhere between US$80,000 to US$150,000. Eight women shared their experience with Harvey Weinstein in the report, including actress Ashley Judd.

Harvey has since been sacked from The Weinstein Company and his wife has announced she is leaving him.

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Since then, actresses Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow have come forward alleging similar scenarios of sexual harassment. Thirteen other women shared their stories of alleged sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein with the New Yorker, including three who said they were raped.

All up, so far 23 women have come forward with their experiences.

But why now? And who is alleging what?

This is every key piece of information you need to know, so far.

What are the women saying?

Angelina Jolie

“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,” Jolie said in an email to theTimes. “This behaviour towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.”

Gwyneth Paltrow

At 22, Paltrow said Weinstein tried to lure her into giving him a massage in a hotel room.

“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” Paltrow told the Times about about her experience on the set of 1996’s Emma. It was one of her first big roles.

Asia Argento

In 1997, actress Asia Argento claims she was invited to what she thought was a party thrown by Weinstein’s company, Miramax on the French Riviera at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. She told the New Yorker she felt “professionally obliged” to go to the party.

However, when she got there it was “only a hotel room, empty but for Weinstein.”

As per the piece:

Argento 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.”

At some point, Argento said she stopped saying no and feigned enjoyment, because she thought it was the only way the assault would end. “I was not willing,” she told me. “I said, ‘No, no, no.’ . . . It’s twisted. A big fat man wanting to eat you.”

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Mira Sorvino

The actress told the New Yorker Weinstein first propositioned her in a hotel room during the Toronto International Film Festival in 1995.

“He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,” Sorvino said.

Rosanna Arquette

In the early 1990s, Arquette said she was meant to meet the producer at the Beverly Hills Hotel to pick up a film script when her own encounter with Weinstein occurred. Once there, Arquette was directed to Weinstein’s room, where he allegedly greeted her in a bathrobe and said he needed a neck massage.

“Then he grabbed my hand,” she told The New Yorker. Though she yanked it back when he placed it on his neck, Weinstein grabbed her hand again, pulling it toward his visible and erect penis.

Arquette refused, telling him: “I will never do that", to which he told her she was making a big mistake.

“He made things very difficult for me for years,” she said.

Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd told the New York Times last week she once met Weinstein for what she thought was a business meeting.

"Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting. Instead, he had her sent up to his room, where he appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or she could watch him shower, she recalled in an interview," theTimes'Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey report.

“Women have been talking about Harvey amongst ourselves for a long time, and it’s simply beyond time to have the conversation publicly," Judd told the news outlet.

Rose McGowan

TheNew York Timesreports McGowan came to a $100,000 settlement with Weinstein in 1997.

"[It] was “not to be construed as an admission” by Mr. Weinstein, but intended to “avoid litigation and buy peace,” according to the legal document, which was reviewed by The Times."

McGowan has been quiet about her own specific experiences with Weinstein, but has pushed for more women to speak up against Weinstein. On Wednesday she tweeted, "Am I allowed to say rapist" after new reports from The New Yorker came to light and Weinstein was subsequently accused of rape by three different women.

Lauren O'Connor

“There is a toxic environment for women at this company,” Lauren O’Connor wrote in a 2015 letter addressed to several executives at the company run by Weinstein.

From the Times:

"Though Ms. O’Connor had been writing only about a two-year period, her memo echoed other women’s complaints. Mr. Weinstein required her to have casting discussions with aspiring actresses after they had private appointments in his hotel room, she said, her description matching those of other former employees. She suspected that she and other female Weinstein employees, she wrote, were being used to facilitate liaisons with 'vulnerable women who hope he will get them work.'"

Emily Nestor

In 2014, Emily Nestor - who was a temporary, part-time employee at TWC - was invited to the Peninsula Beverly Hills, according to theTimes. At that meeting, Weinstein allegedly told her if she accepted his sexual advances, he would help her career, according to accounts she provided to colleagues who sent them to Weinstein Company executives.

She has, so far, declined to comment on the record about the alleged incident.

Laura Madden

Talking to theTimes, Madden - a former employee - said Mr Weinstein prodded her for massages at hotels in Dublin and London beginning in 1991.

“It was so manipulative,” she said in an interview. “You constantly question yourself — am I the one who is the problem?”

Zelda Perkins

In 1998, Zelda Perkins was a 25-year-old London assistant who confronted Weinstein about his behaviour.

As reported by theTimes:

According to former colleagues, she and several co-workers had been regularly subjected to inappropriate requests or comments in hotel rooms, and she was particularly concerned about the treatment of another woman in the office. She told Mr. Weinstein that he had to stop, according to the former colleagues, and that she would go public or initiate legal action unless he changed his behaviour.

She came to a settlement with Weinstein's lawyer at the time.

Lucia Stoller

Lucia Stoller, now Evans, toldThe New Yorkershe was an aspiring actress who met with Weinstein about a potential role in a couple of his films. After discussing scripts with him, where Weinstein promised "his associates would discuss them with her", he assaulted her.

FromThe New Yorker:

“At that point, after that, is when he assaulted me,” Evans said. “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.”

Ambra Battilana Gutierrez

In March 2015, Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez filed a complaint with the New York Police Department, accusing the film executive of groping her breasts and putting his hand up her skirt in a meeting.

In a police recording captured during a NYPD ‘sting’ operation, a manTheNew Yorkerallege is Weinstein can be heard asking Gutierrez to come into his bathroom for “a minute”. She protests – repeatedly – and tells Weinstein she “doesn’t want to”, that she doesn’t feel “comfortable” and litters the conversation with variations of “no”.

When Gutierrez presses, and says the reason she doesn’t feel safe is because he “groped” her breast the previous day, Weinstein appears to admit to the assault.

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

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

“Yes. Come in… I won’t do it again, come on, sit here. Sit here for a minute, please?”

Image: Getty.

Emma de Caunes

“I was very petrified,” actress de Caunes toldThe New Yorker, referencing a time Weinstein allegedly emerged from a shower naked and erect and instructed her to lie on the bed.

“But I didn’t want to show him that I was petrified, because I could feel that the more I was freaking out, the more he was excited.”

Jessica Barth

Actress Jessica Barth toldThe New YorkerWeinstein made advances on her in a hotel room.

“So, what would happen if, say, we’re having some champagne and I take my clothes off and you give me a massage?” she recalled him asking. “And I’m, like, ‘That’s not going to happen.’”

When she refused and went to leave, she claims he told her she needed to lose weight.

Lauren Sivan

TV journalist Sivan told The Huffington Post Weinstein cornered her in a restaurant more than 10 years ago and masturbated in front of her.

Romola Garai

British actress Romola Garai was 18 when she was auditioned by Weinstein as he wore only a dressing gown. She described the exchange to The Guardian as humiliating and “an abuse of power”.

"I was only 18. I felt violated by it, it has stayed very clearly in my memory.”

Louise Godbold

Godbold, the head of non-profit Echo Parenting & Education, wrote about her own experience being "preyed" upon by Weinstein in the 1990s.

"The details of what I have learned was not unique to me are out there now – 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," she wrote.

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