Weinstein attorney says disgraced former mogul ‘stunned’ by ‘false’ accusations.
Months after a cryptic statement on a red carpet in which she intimated there would be a story to tell, Uma Thurman has broken her silence and alleged disgraced former film mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her.
The star of Pulp Fiction told The New York Times on Saturday (February 3) that Weinstein forced himself on her many years ago in a London hotel. Through his attorney Ben Brafman, a “stunned” Weinstein called the accusations “false” in a subsequent article in the Times and was understood to be weighing up possible legal action.
Thurman recounted how, prior to that alleged incident, Weinstein appeared before her wearing a bathrobe in a Paris hotel in the late 1990s. The sight did not make her feel threatened, she said.
“Then I followed him through a door and it was a steam room,” Thurman told interviewer Maureen Dowd. “And I was standing...
Months after a cryptic statement on a red carpet in which she intimated there would be a story to tell, Uma Thurman has broken her silence and alleged disgraced former film mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her.
The star of Pulp Fiction told The New York Times on Saturday (February 3) that Weinstein forced himself on her many years ago in a London hotel. Through his attorney Ben Brafman, a “stunned” Weinstein called the accusations “false” in a subsequent article in the Times and was understood to be weighing up possible legal action.
Thurman recounted how, prior to that alleged incident, Weinstein appeared before her wearing a bathrobe in a Paris hotel in the late 1990s. The sight did not make her feel threatened, she said.
“Then I followed him through a door and it was a steam room,” Thurman told interviewer Maureen Dowd. “And I was standing...
- 2/3/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
After only alluding to it over the last few months, Uma Thurman has spoken in detail about what occurred between her and Harvey Weinstein. In an extensive New York Times interview, the actress accuses the disgraced former executive of sexually assaulting her and threatening to end her career.
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The first time this happened, Thurman alleges, was in a London hotel room. “It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things,” she recalls. “But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track.
Read More:Uma Thurman Slams Harvey Weinstein: ‘I’m Glad It’s Going Slowly — You Don’t Deserve a Bullet’
The first time this happened, Thurman alleges, was in a London hotel room. “It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things,” she recalls. “But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track.
- 2/3/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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