New York Daily News

Just watch me pleasure myself

- Nancy Dillon

LOUISETTE GEISS was a Hollywood hopeful in 2008 when Harvey Weinstein lured her to a hotel room and pressured her to watch him touch himself, she said Tuesday.

It was the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, and Geiss (below) was pitching a new screenwrit­ing project to the famously domineerin­g movie mogul, she recalled.

After a bathroom break, Weinstein “returned in nothing but a robe with the front open, and he was buck-naked,” she said.

“He just kept asking me to watch him masturbate,” Geiss, 43, said as she stepped forward with lawyer Gloria Allred. “(Weinstein) grabbed my forearm as I was trying to grab my purse. He led me to his bathroom, pleading that I just watch him masturbate. My heart was racing and I was very scared,” she said. Allred said other accusers have contacted her as well, but the statutes of limitation­s for Geiss and the unidentifi­ed women have run out. She called on Weinstein to voluntaril­y enter arbitratio­n with his “victims.” “It gives an opportunit­y for there to be justice,” Allred said.

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