Accuser’s att’y rips ‘pimp’ Harv

THE ONLY difference between Hollywood horndog Harvey Weinstein and a lowly street pimp is that Weinstein has fancier duds, a lawyer for one of his alleged victims said Wednesday.

Jeff Herman, the attorney for onetime aspiring British actress Kadian Noble, made the point to a Manhattan Federal Court judge in pressing the case why his client was a sex-trafficking victim of the disgraced movie magnate.

“Harvey Weinstein is a pimp in a tuxedo,” Herman told Judge Robert Sweet during a hearing on Noble’s lawsuit.

Noble (photo below), 31, who lives in London, is suing Weinstein, his brother Bob and their film studio, the Weinstein Co. She accuses Harvey Weinstein (below right) of forcing her into a sex act in his apartment during the Cannes Film Festival in May 2014 by promising her a film role.

The suit is based on a federal law that makes it illegal to force someone into a commercial sex act in the course of interstate or foreign commerce.

During the French festival, Weinstein bumped into Noble and invited her up to look at her acting reel, the lawsuit says.

“Just like a pimp lures a young woman into the United States and promises her a job,” Weinstein dangled the prospect of a role in an upcoming movie, Herman told Sweet.

During the encounter, Weinstein even called a producer to show how serious the opportunity was, according to Herman.

Weinstein is accused of grabbing her breast and vagina before forcing her to masturbate him.

Weinstein’s lawyer, Phyllis Kupferstein, said Wednesday that the lawsuit should be thrown out because Noble never got a film role or any payment for the sexual encounter.

“The promise of a film role has no value,” Kupferstein said. “It’s the actual film role that has value.”

She also said Weinstein might have told her to keep in touch with his people in hopes of setting up another tryst.

“It cannot be the case that every time a woman has sex with a more powerful man in an effort to advance her career, and it doesn’t go the way she likes, somehow she becomes a sex trafficking victim,” Kupferstein said.

Sweet did not make a ruling on the case.

Another British actress, Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, said she could have been victim of the producer, but she fended him off. She told Variety magazine she “wouldn’t do what he was asking me to do.” Weinstein would tell the British actress, “We’re not friends.”

Blanchett told the entertainment industry magazine that Weinstein should be in jail, cryptically alluding to a statistic about statutory rape in an interview published Wednesday.