Met is now investigating four Weinstein sex attack allegations
THREE further sexual assault allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein have been made to British police, sources have confirmed.
The fresh complaints, from one alleged victim, relate to incidents in 2010, 2011 and 2015, in Westminster and Camden.
It takes the total number of allegations being investigated by the Metropolitan Police to four, after Merseyside Police passed a complaint dating from the late 1980s to Scotland Yard.
The latest allegations, made to police on Saturday, came as more British women came forward saying they were raped by Weinstein.
Hollyoaks actress Lysette Anthony has told the Metropolitan Police she was attacked by the movie mogul in her London home in the late 1980s, while another unnamed former Miramax employee said he raped her in the basement flat of his London offices in around 1992.
The woman, who is granted automatic anonymity as an alleged sex offences victim, said she has only confided in her husband about the attack within the last few days.
The woman, who said she chewed raw garlic and wore tatty clothes to repel Weinstein, told The Mail on Sunday: “Even after all these years, I can still wake up screaming.
“I wanted the opportunity to speak out, but I just couldn’t see how.”
The fresh allegations follow several made by actresses in the US against Weinstein – four of rape and more than 30 of sexual harassment – and come as the organisation behind the Oscars expelled Weinstein.
Bafta had already suspended the producer and on Tuesday Weinstein’s wife, British designer Georgina Chapman, said she was leaving him.
Actress Anthony, 54, told The Sunday Times she met the producer when she starred in 1982 sci-fi film Krull and the alleged assault occurred a few years later.
She said it was a “pathetic, revolting” attack that had left her “disgusted and embarrassed”.
On Wednesday, Anthony tweeted that she had just reported a historical crime, adding “feel sick... so sad”.
On Saturday some of the film industry’s most powerful figures, including Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Whoopi Goldberg, voted to expel the film producer from their ranks.
Dozens of actresses, including Hollywood A-listers Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, have made accusations of sexual assault against the 65-year-old movie mogul over the past 10 days, prompting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to call an emergency meeting.
In a statement, they said the board had “voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority” to expel Weinstein.
Actress Rose McGowan – one of the first women to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment and who has since said he raped her – celebrated the Academy’s decision with a post on Instagram. She wrote: “We slay dragons.”
Through his spokeswoman, Weinstein has “unequivocally denied” any allegations of non-consensual sex after three actresses said he had raped them in an article in The New Yorker.
As the controversy showed little sign of halting, Woody Allen, whose estranged journalist son Ronan Farrow was among those investigating the mogul, said he was “sad” for Weinstein.
The producer is widely credited with reviving Allen’s career after he received abuse allegations of his own – something the filmmaker denies.
Of Weinstein, Allen told the BBC: “No-one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness.
“And they wouldn’t, because you are not interested in it. You are interested in making your movie.
“But you do hear a million fanciful rumours all the time. And some turn out to be true and some – many – are just stories about this actress or that actor.”
There was further controversy when James Corden came under fire for cracking jokes about Weinstein at a star-studded charity gala in Los Angeles.
The Late Late Show star was hosting an AmfAR charity gala in front of stars including Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks when he said: “It’s a beautiful night here in LA. So beautiful, Harvey Weinstein has already asked tonight up to his hotel to give him a massage.”
In footage of the monologue posted on Twitter, it can be heard that the gag received a mixed reaction.
Corden responded by telling the audience: “I don’t know whether that groan was because you like that joke or you don’t like that joke.
“If you don’t like that joke, you should probably leave now.”
Corden’s first big break in Hollywood came when he played Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts in The Weinstein Company’s film One Chance.
Last month the chat show host said he was “disappointed in himself” for cosying up to former White House press secretary Sean Spicer at the Emmy Awards, after a photograph emerged of him kissing Spicer on the cheek.