Victim who wore police wire — and caught predator admitting how he groped her

MODEL Ambra Battilana Gutierrez was just 22 when she accused Harvey Weinstein of groping her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt.

A chilling transcript from a wire she wore during a police sting which followed her claims sees the mogul confess to groping her as he tries to convince her to ‘get in’ his hotel room.

Miss Gutierrez met the movie mogul at a dance show in 2015. Weinstein repeatedly told the Miss Italy finalist that she looked like actress Mila Kunis and arranged a meeting with her through his assistant. But at the meeting, she alleges Weinstein stared at her breasts and then groped them, and tried to put a hand up her skirt while she protested.

The Filipino-Italian model said he arranged for her to see his new musical, Finding Neverland, with him that evening, but instead of meeting him at the theatre, she reported the assault to the New York Police Department.

When the annoyed film executive called Miss Gutierrez to ask why she did not meet him, the model arranged to see him the next day at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in Manhattan and formed a plan with police.

In an exchange recorded by a police wire, and obtained and reported by the New Yorker magazine, Weinstein tried to get the model to come into a hotel room with him ‘for five minutes’ while he took a shower.

When Miss Gutierrez refused and confronted him about touching her breasts, Weinstein said he was ‘used to that’. The movie mogul swore on his children that he would not touch her again. He accused her of embarrassing him and making a scene in the hotel where he stayed ‘all the time’, adding: ‘I’m a famous guy.’

But after a two-week investigation, the Manhattan district attorney decided not to file charges, The New Yorker reported.

‘We had the evidence,’ a police source told the magazine. ‘It’s a case that made me angrier than I thought possible, and I have been on the force a long time.’

The DA’s office said at the time: ‘This case was taken seriously... After analysing the available evidence, including multiple interviews with both parties, a criminal charge is not supported.’

After the story was published, reports about Miss Gutierrez’s past began to emerge, including that she attended one of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘bunga bunga’ parties. She eventually became a witness in a bribery case against Berlusconi, which is ongoing.

Gossip outlets also reported that Miss Gutierrez, as a teenager, had made an allegation of sexual assault against an older Italian businessman but later declined to co-operate with prosecutors.

Miss Gutierrez, who declined to comment to the New Yorker, signed a non-disclosure agreement and an affidavit stating the events in the recording did not happen.

‘We had the evidence’