MONSTER Vile mogul bullied hotel’s staff
WE CALLED WEINSTEIN THE...
SLEAZY movie boss Harvey Weinstein was so nasty to staff at a five-star hotel that they dubbed him the Monster.
The disgraced mogul preyed on budding actresses in a suite at London’s Savoy Hotel, where he was a regular guest.
An ex- butler has told the Sunday People how Weinstein would scream in staff’s faces if he did not get his way.
He would call female workers ugly and even threw his dirty underwear at one woman’s face.
The incidents became so extreme he was reprimanded by a general manager and all female butlers refused to serve him, said the ex employee.
He said: “The thought of just giving him some water filled people with dread. We called him the monster.
Hollywood Brit Kate Beckinsale has revealed how Weinstein invited her to his room in the Savoy when she was 17 and answered the door in his bathrobe before trying to ply her with booze.
Another actress, Sophie Dix, who once starred alongside Colin Firth, claimed Weinstein, 65, had pinned her down in a Savoy room when she was 22.
She said: “Before I knew it, he started trying to pull my clothes off and pin me down. I just kept saying, ‘No, no, no,’ but he was really forceful.”
She said it was “the single most damaging thing that’s happened in my life”.
They are just two of a series of actresses, i n c l u d i n g Cara Delevingne and Angelina Jolie, accusing the film boss of sexual harassment or assault. Four women claim he raped them, which he denies.
The butler said he auditioned the actresses in a s mall, i nt i mate r oom overlooking the River Thames.
Humiliate
He said: “When work wasn’t going as he wanted he’d be in a foul mood and take it out on the staff. He went up to the girls faces and told them they were useless and incompetent. “He also called a couple of them ugly and really put them down. He liked to humiliate the girls. He’d shout at them if his coffee wasn’t hot enough.” The monstermons also branded theth butlers “nothing b but stupid immigrants” and “slaves” who “couldn’t speak English”. By the end of 2011 all female staff were scared of Weinstein and refused to work with him. The mogul barked orders at staff and on occasion threw cosmetics and shampoo bottles at their heads.
One butler intervened after Weinstein l eft a female colleague in tears on a corridor floor. Weinstein is alleged to have complained to a manager and told him to “shoot” the butler in the hand. The manager apologised to the butler.
Weinstein is now being investigated by the Met Police, as well as by cops in New York.
Met officers are probing claims he sexually assaulted a well-loved British soap star in the London area in the 80s.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have held a meeting to decide whether to expel Weinstein from the academy.
The Oscar awarded to the producer in 1999 for his work on Shakespeare In Love may be nullified. The British Academy Film Awards has already suspended Weinstein’s membership, and the organisers of the Cannes film festival said they were dismayed by the allegations.