Amazon Studios head Price steps down
Resigns amid sexual harrassment claims
The head of Amazon Studios, Roy Price, stepped down Tuesday, five days after being suspended over allegations of sexual harassment, the company confirmed to USA TODAY.
Price was the powerful chief of Amazon’s prolific television and movie studio.
His fall began last week, when Isa Hackett, the producer with the Amazon Studios’ hit series The Man in the High Castle, accused him of repeatedly and insistently propositioning her in 2015.
Hackett also said that at a party after she rebuffed his come on and had told him she was a lesbian and had a wife and children, he came up to her and made a crude reference to a sexual act, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Hackett said she told Amazon about the issues at the time. She is a producer and the daughter of writer Philip Dick, on whose novel the series was based.
Price’s resignation is the latest Hollywood bombshell after Harvey Weinstein was accused by multiple women of harassment, assault and rape.
Weinstein was fired on Oct. 8 from the company he founded, The Weinstein Company, removed from the board and stripped of his membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars.