New York Daily News

Vid shows Harv grab sex accuser

- BY LARRY MCSHANE AND KERRY BURKE

Accused serial sex offender Harvey Weinstein slipped his hand up the skirt of a young woman and inappropri­ately massaged her during a business meeting just hours before she claims the Hollywood power broker raped her.

A video of the creepy September 2011 encounter preceding the alleged sexual assault was obtained by Sky News, which ran the footage along with an interview in which accuser Melissa Thompson provided play-by-play of the hands-on Weinstein’s unwanted attention.

Thompson told Sky News that she could feel things shift beneath her feet as she pitched the Oscar-winning moviemaker on a new video and analytics tech company. “What do I do?” she remembered thinking as a persistent Weinstein (inset) left her unnerved. “How did I get myself here? At some point, his whole affect changed and he looked like a predator. His eyes became dark.”

Thompson recalled arriving at Weinstein’s Tribeca offices, expecting to meet with his marketing team. The video instead shows Weinstein chasing everyone out of his office, asking for privacy and locking the door. As Thompson reaches out for a handshake, the bulky Hollywood big shot instead gives her a twohanded hug and start rubbing her back, the video shows.

“So, am I allowed to flirt with you?” asks Weinstein, wearing a white Tshirt. “Ummm, we’ll see,” Thompson replies uncertainl­y. “A little bit.”

Weinstein, in a total non sequitir a short time later, says to his young guest, “You just tell me what I can do and when it’s going to happen. It’s fun when we do this.”

Weinstein later rubbed Thompson’s shoulder and bicep, and put his hand under her skirt. “You’re hot,” he declares while touching the young woman. “Let me have a little part of you, give it to me.”

Afterward, Weinstein invited her for a drink and what Thompson assumed was a meeting to close the deal. She claims Weinstein instead steered him to his hotel room and raped her.

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