Naked but for dressing gown, demanding sex acts and massages - his accusers’ stories

SUMMONED to Harvey Weinstein’s hotel room for a meeting, actress Rosanna Arquette was confronted by the mogul in a white bathrobe.

He complained he needed a massage as his neck was sore, and she replied she could recommend a masseuse. Miss Arquette said he grabbed her hand and put it on his neck. When she yanked it away, he grabbed it again and pulled it towards his groin, which he had exposed.

She told The New Yorker: ‘ My heart was really racing. I was in a fight- or-flight moment… [I told him] “I will never do that”.’

Weinstein responded: ‘Rosanna, you’re making a big mistake’ and named an actress and a model who had previously accepted his advances and whose careers he then helped.

She said she told him, ‘I will never be that girl’ and left, but said her career had then suffered.

Miss Arquette had already appeared in several films, including the 1985 Madonna hit Desperately Seeking Susan, but said she remained silent about the sexual assault because of Weinstein’s reputation for vindictiveness.

Despite her silence, she lost out on at least one role, she said, adding: ‘He made things very difficult for me for years. He’s going to be working very hard to track people down and silence people. To hurt people. That’s what he does.’

In a separate account, given to the New York Times by actress Katherine Kendall, she claimed that the movie producer took her to his flat, where he asked for a massage and then exposed himself to her.

She met the executive in 1993, aged 23, when Weinstein gave her a number of scripts and offered to help her with her career.

The pair took a trip to a cinema near the Lincoln Center in Manhattan and Weinstein later asked if they could go to his flat so he could pick something up.

‘He’s keeping it professional, he makes me a drink, we talk about movies and art and books for about an hour,’ she recalled. ‘I thought, “He’s taking me seriously”.’ Wein- stein then went to the bathroom and emerged in a dressing gown. She said he asked her for a massage and left the room again, returning naked. He told her: ‘Everybody does it.’

She told the New York Times she refused, adding: ‘ He literally chased me. He wouldn’t let me pass him to get to the door.’

Weinstein said a famous model had given him a massage in the past, according to Miss Kendall.

He asked to see her breasts, but the actress refused to do anything. She said she left and told her mother at the time.

She said: ‘I thought to myself, “I can’t believe you’re doing this to me. I’m so offended – we just had a meeting.” ’

Miss Kendall acted in the 1996 film Swingers and has appeared in various movies since.

Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino yesterday claimed she was ‘iced out’ of Hollywood after she rejected Harvey Weinstein’s sexual advances. She said he harassed her and refused to accept she did not want a relationship with him, turning up at her home in New York. Miss Sorvino said the pressure began in 1995 when the pair were in Toronto to promote the film Mighty Aphrodite, for which she later won an Oscar.

She said: ‘He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around.’

The actress told him it was against her religion to date married men, and left, but received a midnight phone call from him weeks later.

Weinstein said he needed to meet to discuss marketing ideas for the film, and said he was on his way to her apartment and hung up. Miss Sorvino said she ‘freaked out’ and called a friend, begging him to come over and pose as her boyfriend, but Weinstein arrived at her door first.

She said: ‘Harvey had managed to bypass my doorman. I opened the door terrified, brandishing my 20lb Chihuahua mix in front of me, as though that would do any good.’ When she said her boyfriend was on his way, Weinstein became dejected and left. Miss Sorvino said she had not wanted to come forward as she felt afraid and intimidated, but also felt she owed the producer a professional debt for her career success.

She confided in a female employee at Miramax and said the woman reacted with ‘shock and horror that I had mentioned it’.

Miss Sorvino said she felt it had hurt her career, saying: ‘There may have been other factors, but I definitely felt iced out and that my rejection of Harvey had something to do with it.’

Further accusations came from French actress Judith Godreche who accused Weinstein of trying to take off her jumper and pressing his body against hers. She was just 24 when she met with him at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France in 1996 to discuss Ridicule, a film she was starring in.

The pair met over breakfast and he then invited Miss Godreche to his hotel suite to look at the view, he asked her to give him a massage, claiming it was an American custom. ‘The next thing I know, he’s pressing against me and pulling off my sweater,’ she said. ‘I was so naive and unprepared.’

Miss Godreche told her father about the encounter the next morning, but when she told a Miramax executive, they told her to stay quiet to not hurt the film’s release. Former actress and screenwriter Louisette Geiss accused the producer of exposing himself to her and asking her to watch him pleasure himself.

She met the executive in 2008 in a hotel, but the movie mogul rescheduled their meeting to be held in his office. Miss Geiss said last night: ‘I had heard stories about Harvey’s behaviour with women. There was a hotel security camera above us and I said to him, “I will take this meeting with you if you promise not to touch me”, and I made him shake my hand in front of the camera.’

In the office, Weinstein then went to the bathroom and

I’ll never do that, I’ll never be that girl Rosanna Arquette He chased me ... he wouldn’t let me pass him Katherine Kendall

returned in an open dressing gown, exposing himself, and asked her to watch while he masturbated in his hot tub.

When she tried to leave, Miss Geiss claimed Weinstein grabbed her forearm and pulled her back into the bathroom.

The movie mogul promised she could act in his next three films and he would help her with her screenplay if she watched him. She refused and left the room.

In another New Yorker revelation Emma de Caunes said she was confronted by a naked Weinstein, claiming her obvious terror appeared to excite the movie producer. Lured to his hotel room at the Ritz in Paris, the French actress said he disappeared while she took a phone call.

When she hung up, she heard him taking a shower and said moments later he returned to the room, naked and aroused.

He demanded she lie down on the bed and told her many other women had done so before her.

She told The New Yorker: ‘I was very petrified. But I didn’t want to show him that I was petrified, because I could feel that the more I was freaking out, the more he was excited. It was like a hunter with a wild animal. The fear turns him on.’ Miss de Caunes said she was leaving, and that he panicked, exclaiming: ‘We haven’t done anything! It’s like being in a Walt Disney movie!’ She said: ‘I looked at him and I said “I’ve always hated Walt Disney movies.” And then I left. I slammed the door.’ The pair had met at a Cannes Film Festival party in 2010 and the executive arranged a lunch meeting with her a few months later. They met at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, where Weinstein told her about a new film he was making, which had been adapted from a book. Miss de Caunes, then in her early thirties, was hosting a TV show later that day, and told the show’s director what had happened to her. She said she had since heard other accounts from women, saying: ‘I know that everybody – I mean everybody – in Hollywood knows that it’s happening.

‘He’s not even really hiding. I mean, the way he does it, so many people are involved and see what’s happening. But everyone’s too scared to say anything.’

In a separate allegation, actress Jessica Barth claimed Weinstein asked her to give him a naked massage at a hotel in Los Angeles. The pair had met at a Golden Globes party in 2011 and the movie executive arranged a business meeting at the Peninsula Hotel, Beverley Hills. She arrived to find Weinstein had ordered champagne and sushi.

She claimed he started making sexual advances. Miss Barth told The New Yorker he said: ‘So, what would happen if, say, we’re having some champagne and I take my clothes off and you give me a massage?’ The actress then went to leave the hotel room, and Weinstein told her she had to lose weight to ‘compete with Mila Kunis’. Aspiring actress Tomi-Ann Roberts was 20 years old when she auditioned for Weinstein while he sat naked in his hotel bath tub.

Miss Roberts, who is now a psychology professor at Colorado College, met the movie mogul in 1984 while she was working as a waitress. He said she should audition for a film which he was going to direct with his brother Bob.

She met with Weinstein at his hotel room where he asked her to take her top off as the character she was auditioning for had to perform a topless scene. When Miss Roberts refused he said she could not be cast in the film if she was not willing to take her top off.

Miss Roberts said she felt manipulated by him, telling the New York Times: ‘I was nobody! How had I ever thought otherwise?’

She told her mother, Asta, soon after the incident.

Temporary employee Emily Nestor claimed Weinstein told her he would help her acting career if she accepted his advances.

Miss Nestor, who had only worked for the executive for a day, met him at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel in 2014 for a breakfast meeting. She told the New Yorker the meeting was the ‘most excruciating and uncomfortable hour of my life’.

Miss Nestor claimed Weinstein said: ‘I could put you in my London office, and you could work there and you could be my girlfriend.’

She admitted ‘I was very afraid of him’, and said Weinstein listed a number of female film stars who he had helped find fame.

Miss Nestor claimed she kept refusing his offer for more than an hour. She described her account to colleagues, who later contacted the Weinstein Company.

An internal document seen by the New York Times said: ‘She said he was very persistent and focused though she kept saying no for over an hour.’ Miss Nestor declined to comment to the New York Times.

Before the string of new allegations in The New Yorker and The New York Times yesterday, British actress Romola Garai had already told how she was just 18 when she was auditioned by Weinstein, who was wearing only a dressing gown.

The actress, who starred in Atonement and the BBC series The Hour, told the Guardian she was left feeling ‘violated’ after the meeting in a hotel room at the Savoy in London.

She said: ‘ Like every other woman in the industry, I’ve had an “audition” with Harvey Weinstein, where I’d actually already had the audition but you had to be personally approved by him.

‘So I had to go to his hotel room in the Savoy, and he answered the door in his bathrobe. I was only 18. I felt violated by it. It has stayed very clearly in my memory. The transaction was just that I was there.’

Once she was in the hotel room with Weinstein he sat on a chair and had a brief discussion about film, she said. ‘The point was that he could get a young woman to do that, that I didn’t have a choice, that it was humiliating for me and that he had the power. It was an abuse of power.’

Sushi, and then he wanted a naked massage Jessica Barth