New York Daily News

Hotel sex vic – hurts to this day

- BY NANCY DILLON

THE NEW YORK actress suing The Weinstein Company for negligence says she felt paralyzed by Harvey Weinstein’s naked come-on in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2010.

In an interview with the Daily News on Wednesday, Dominique Huett said the mogul lured her to his private suite at the Peninsula under the pretense of a business discussion, served her champagne, casually changed into nothing but a bathrobe and asked her to give him a massage.

Huett described feeling confused and intimidate­d — and was adamant she objected.

Weinstein persisted, she said, and she ended up giving him an “awkward” halfhearte­d massage.

Once Huett (photo) gave an inch, Weinstein turned the tables and took a mile, she said.

He removed her pants and performed oral sex on her as she “froze” and allowed her mind to go blank, she recalled.

“Step by step, it was a power play to shut me down to do what he wanted to do to me,” she explained.

“I feel like I was assaulted. This is something I did not want,” she told The News.

Huett, who was 28 years old at the time, said Weinstein used his industry influence and the promise of career assistance to launch his surprise attack, knock her off balance and disarm her defenses.

“I wasn’t able to do what I normally would do,” she told The News. “I felt like I couldn’t say no after saying no so many times. I just kind of allowed it to happen.”

Huett’s lawyer Jeffrey Herman called her reaction “tonic immobility,” a state of involuntar­y paralysis animals enter to deter predators.

“I just felt like I was going through the motions, and I wasn’t really thinking clearly,” Huett, now 35, told The News.

Huett called her experience with Weinstein “devastatin­g,” saying she later “felt guilty” for not physically fighting Weinstein off and running out of the room.

She said it turned her off to Hollywood, leading her to move back to New York.

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