Weinstein asked me to kiss a girl, says Delevingne
Actress says she fled hotel room after movie mogul made series of inappropriate advances
CARA DELEVINGNE last night came forward to claim that Harvey Weinstein asked her to kiss a female assistant and implied she should have sex with him after he invited her to his hotel room to discuss her film career.
The model and actress became the latest to allege sexual abuse or harassment at the hands of the Hollywood mogul.
Ms Delevingne said she had just started working as an actress when Weinstein invited her to a meeting and suggested she kiss the female assistant, before trying to kiss her himself as she tried to leave.
She also said the producer had asked her about her relationships with women she had been seen with in public – and told her that she would not get any parts as a straight woman if she came out as gay.
Delevingne, who is openly bisexual, said she did not speak out for fear of upsetting Weinstein’s family and because she was scared of the repercussions.
She said that, although she managed to flee the room, “I still got the part in the film and always thought he gave it to me because of what happened. Since then I felt awful that I did the movie.”
In a statement issued yesterday Delevingne added: “I want women and girls to know that being harassed or raped or abused is never their fault and not talking about it will always cause more damage than speaking the truth.”
Earlier yesterday, actress Heather Graham told of her guilt for not previously speaking out over Weinstein’s abusive behaviour.
The star of Boogie Nights said Weinstein implied he would make her career prosper if she had sex with him during a meeting to discuss a film role in the early 2000s.
Graham and Delevingne spoke out after Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie joined the growing list of female stars to accuse Weinstein of sexual abuse and harassment.
In a powerful account of her experience of Weinstein’s behaviour, Graham said he claimed he had an agreement with his then wife, Eve Chilton, that he could sleep with whoever he wanted when he was “out of town”.
Graham said: “I walked out of the meeting feeling uneasy. There was no explicit mention that to star in one of those films I had to sleep with him, but the subtext was there.” She added: “I was never hired for one of his films.”
Graham, added: “While I still do feel guilty for not speaking up all those years ago, I’m glad for this moment of reckoning.”
‘I still got the part in the film and always thought he gave it to me because of what happened’
Last night French actress Lea Seydoux, who starred in the Bond film Spectre and won the Palme d’or for Blue is the Warmest Colour, alleged that she fought off Weinstein when he tried to kiss her.
“All throughout the evening, he flirted and stared at me as if I was a piece of meat,” she wrote in an article for The Guardian. Keira Knightley also yesterday joined the chorus of condemnation. Knightley, who won a best supporting actress Oscar nomination for her part in the Weinstein-produced drama The Imitation Game and was photographed with him at Hollywood parties, said she was “profoundly shocked” by reports of his “disgusting behaviour”. In a statement to The Daily Telegraph, the British actress said: “I worked with Weinstein twice and although he was bullish in his marketing of the films, he was always professional with me. I had heard rumours of his tantrums and bullying but not of the extreme sexual har-