Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie have joined others claiming Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed them in an explosive story in the New York Times.
The report on Tuesday follows a bombshell October 5 piece in the paper chronicling decades of sexual harassment allegations and financial settlements against the studio mogul.
“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” Paltrow said about her experience as a then 22-years-old on the set of 1996’s Emma, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel that was one of her first big roles.
Jolie recalled a similar incident, saying she was propositioned in a hotel room during the release of 1998’s Playing by Heart.
“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 the Times. “This behaviour towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.”
The second Times story hit hours after the New Yorker produced a piece alleging Weinstein raped three women, including actress Asia Argento.
The New Yorker piece also claims that Weinstein harassed Mira Sorvino and Rosanna Arquette.
The Times reporters also spoke to Arquette about an encounter with Weinstein in which he propositioned her and threatened to derail her career after she rejected his advances.
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I wonder if Gwyneth is in damage control. Despite what she's said here... she went on to do Shakespeare in Love with him filmed in 1997 and released in 1998. The rumour going around was Brad found her on her knees in front of Weinstein and that's the real reason they split up.
There are a large number of now big stars, once starlets, who won their breakthrough or Oscar nominated roles in his films by being complicit to his advances and requests. Actresses that were willing to go along with it and become his projects and 'it' girls Look around the web for photos of him with Renee Zellweger, they are very similar to the cosy-cosy of him with Gwyn, with Blake and recently with JLaw. All those actresses were low-key then shot to fame very quickly and very young, all photos look touchy feely, but now look creepy. Who do you think the leaked explicit photos of JLaw were taken by or for? I was always pissed how Gwyn won her Oscar over Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth - now we might guess at why/ how.