Sick shtick began back in ’81: intern

Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment dates back to the very first feature film he produced — and he even joked about his creepy come-on afterward, according to an intern on the project Sunday.

Paula Wachowiak, 62, told The Buffalo News that Weinstein exposed himself to her inside a hotel room, then reminded her of the image on the set of the 1981 horror flick “The Burning.”

“So, was seeing me naked the highlight of your internship?” she recalled him saying.

Wachowiak said she replied, “Actually, Harvey, you disgust me” — prompting him to laugh, get into his car and drive off.

Wachowiak, a grandmother of three, said she was 24 and attending the University of Buffalo when Weinstein — then a local concert promoter and budding film producer — hired her to work on a movie set.

One day, she said, an auditor told her to take a bunch of checks to Weinstein’s hotel room to get them signed.

“When I got into the room I realized that he was holding a hand towel around his waist,” she said.

Weinstein dropped the towel to grab the folder full of checks, and “sat on the bed with the folder over his groin and pointed to checks and asked me why we were paying for this or that,” she recalled.

Weinstein later complained of a sore shoulder and asked Wachowiak for a massage, but she reportedly told him: “That’s not in my job description.”

“He tried to encourage me by telling me what a fantastic opportunity it was for me to be part of this project,” Wachowiak said.

“I told him that I was happy to be part of the project but I would not touch him. He finally gave up and signed all the checks.”

Weinstein attended the University of Buffalo but dropped out before earning a degree. The school awarded him an honorary doctorate of humane letters in 2000, but last week said it was seeking to revoke the award amid the spiraling allegations against him.

A spokesman noted that Weinstein “personally never made a gift to the university,” though Disney donated $22,750 after buying Miramax from the Weinsteins.