New York Post

SHAMING HARVEY

Customer C at NYC bar confronts Weinstein

- By MARA SIEGLER, EMILY SMITH and CARLOS GREER Additional reporting by Tamar Lapin

An angry actress went ballistic on Harvey Weinstein, calling him a “f--king rapist” while the pervy producer laughed and joked with friends at a Manhattan comedy event on Wednesday night.

Zoe Stuckless confronted Weinstein as she stood a few feet away from the disgraced mogul, shouting at him as he sat with “young, beautiful women and a posse of men” during a private event at Downtime Bar in Alphabet City.

“Nobody’s gonna say anything? Nobody’s really going to say anything?” she yells out, pointing a finger right at Weinstein, in a video posted to her Facebook account. “I’m going to stand four feet from a f--king rapist? And nobody’s going to say anything?”

Weinstein — who is accused of sexual misconduct against some 70 women — sat passively in a darkly lit booth with his entourage as Stuckless raged.

Stuckless said her act of defiance got her booted from the bar, which was hosting Actor’s Hour, a ticketed event billed as a “speakeasy for artists.”

Arep for the bar confirmed that both Weinstein’s security and event security “asked her to leave” and that she did.

During the event, a male comic stroked the fallen moviemaker’s ego by asking who produced “Good Will Hunting” during his set and then saying: “Because that movie is f--king amazing.” After, Stuckless, said the comic stopped by Weinstein’s table to chat and both were smiling.

“At that point, I can feel shame and anger and fear bubbling in my stomach,” she told The Post. “I was still waiting and hoping someone else would say something, that the organizers would say something, one of the performers, and nobody did.”

So she walked up to Weinstein’s table and went off on him.

One female comic performing at the event also blasted Weinstein’s presence.

“Can we address the elephant in the room?” Kelly Bachman cracked — and was promptly booed, according to a video posted to Instagram.

“I didn’t know we had to bring our own Mace and rape whistles to Actor’s Hour.”

None of the staff recognized Weinstein when he arrived at 9 p.m. with two women, because “he used a walker and looked pretty beat up,” the bar rep said.

When Weinstein was confronted by Stuckless, he “asked her to try to calm down and talk to him,” the rep said.

Afterward, “He didn’t seem worked up about the incident. He just sat back down and carried on drinking water. It was weird.”

Comic Amber Rollo said she, too, confronted Weinstein — and was also kicked out.

“I went in and called him a f--king monster and told him he should disappear,” she tweeted. “His friend/bodyguard/goon/ family member called me a c- -t, and I really really wanted to lunge over the table and strangle him . . . I restrained myself . . . There was a woman at the table with him who gently guided me out.”

A spokespers­on for Weinstein said whoever used the word “c--t” was not employed by the producer.

In a statement through his rep, Weinstein said, “I am happy to address anyone’s questions. We should all be offered the courtesy to voice opinions and be heard, and to even get answers. I am glad we all still have these rights.”

Event organizer Alexandra Laliberte wrote on Instagram that Weinstein was “not invited by the organizer or anyone associated with this organizati­on.”

The events are ticketed with the location being kept secret before the show.

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YES YOU Harvey Weinstein can’t hide Wednesday at a downtown bar as he’s called out by a furious Zoe Stuckless.

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