New York Daily News

Star’s Twitter war

- Denis Slattery

ACTRESS ROSE McGOWAN was briefly suspended from Twitter — and when her account was reactivate­d Thursday, she used the platform to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of raping her.

The “Scream” star tweeted Thursday at Amazon’s Jeff Bezos (inset), slamming his company for ignoring her claims and saying definitive­ly for the first time that Weinstein forced her to have sex.

“I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it,” she wrote in a tweet targeting Bezos, blasting Amazon for working with Weinstein.

McGowan has said in the past only that she was raped by a “studio head.” The New York Times reported that Weinstein paid her a $100,000 settlement in 1997. Twitter faced a firestorm of criticism after saying the 44-year-old’s account was “temporaril­y locked” because she posted a private phone number.

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