Actress’ tale of new Weinstein perversions
HARVEY WEINSTEIN’s latest accuser said the pervy film producer forced himself onto her after a London awards show in 2008, then later lured her to a Los Angeles hotel and tried to get her into a threesome with another woman.
Natassia Malthe, a Norwegian model and actress, said she met Weinstein in London at an after party, during which he asked her the name of the hotel where she was staying.
Hours after the Feb. 10 event, when she was asleep in her room at the Sanderson Hotel, which was filled with guests from the entertainment industry, Weinstein showed up pounding on her door.
“I was mortified and humiliated,” Malthe said at a Manhattan news conference Wednesday. “I was worried that everyone would wake up and think that I was sleeping with him.”
Malthe, 43, said she opened the door, and Weinstein barged in, took his pants off and sat on her bed. Then he started talking about various A-list actresses whose careers were launched by having sex with him.
She said Weinstein offered to make the same arrangement with her, and started masturbating. When Malthe, who said she weighed 98 pounds, refused, she said Weinstein pushed her on the bed, climbed on top of her and forced intercourse before masturbating some more.
“I laid still and closed my eyes and just wanted it to end,” Malthe said. “I was like a dead person. Afterwards, I lay there in complete disgust.” A day later, he sent her a script. Malthe said that after she returned to Los Angeles, Weinstein called her to set up a meeting with a director for a part in a musical.
“I was very uncomfortable because of what Harvey had done,” she said, “but I decided to do a dance audition.”
The director encouraged her to train with a dance coach and a voice coach. After she started training, she said Weinstein contacted her, and invited her to his room at L.A.’s Peninsula Hotel to discuss the film.
And although Malthe said she insisted on a professional meeting, she said Harvey came into the room in a bathrobe and another girl who began to perform a sex act on him. Malthe said Weinstein insisted she join in.
Malthe refused. She said the two laughed at her.
“Afterwards, I called Harvey and yelled at him for putting me through that,” Malthe said. “I told him that the opportunity of having a part in his upcoming movie was not worth what he wanted me to do in exchange. He became angry and said that he had given me an amazing opportunity and that ‘ungrateful c--t.’ ”
Malthe, accompanied by her lawyer Gloria Allred, said she had been sexually harassed by other powerful men in Hollywood, but that her experiences with Weinstein “were the worst.” More than 40 women — including actresses Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Lupita Nyong’o — have accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault. Weinstein was forced out of his film business, the Weinstein Co., amid the allegations.
Weinstein has denied any allegations of nonconsensual sex.
Allred called on the Weinstein Co. to set up a victim’s compensation fund.
“It’s put up or shut up,” Allred said. “No more crocodile tears. It is never too late to do the right thing.” I was an