Annabella Sciorra says Weinstein busted into home, raped her
For more than 20 years, actress Annabella Sciorra says she has kept a horrific secret: Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein raped her in the 1990s, and sexually harassed her for years later.
Sciorra, 53, an Emmy-nominated actress for her role in “The Sopranos” and a film actress with credits like Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever” to her name, on Friday became the latest in a string of at least 50 women to accuse Weinstein of sexual abuse and harassment.
The alleged rape occurred sometime around 1992, when Sciorra filmed “The Night We Never Met,” which was backed by Miramax, then Weinstein’s company.
She’d known Weinstein for a few years, she said. They often saw each other at events, dinners and screenings, and after one such evening in New York, she said, Weinstein offered to give her a ride home.
“Harvey had dropped me off before, so I didn’t really expect anything out of the ordinary – I expected just to be dropped off,” the petite, Italian-American actress told The New Yorker.
Weinstein drove her home, said goodbye and Sciorra went to her apartment and got ready for bed.
Harvey Weinstein, who recently did a week at a therapy facility, denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
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A few minutes later, someone knocked at the door.
“It wasn’t that late ... like it wasn’t the middle of the night, so I opened the door a crack to see who it was. And he pushed the door open,” she told The New Yorker.
Weinstein “walked in like it was his apartment, like he owned the place, and started unbuttoning his shirt. So it was very clear where he thought this was going to go. And I was in a nightgown. I didn’t have much on,” the actress said.
After he’d taken a circuit of the apartment – apparently making sure they were alone, Sciorra said – he grabbed at her.
“This is not happening,” she told him,” according to The New Yorker. “You’ve got to go. You have to leave. Get out of my apartment.”
Women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault
But Weinstein wouldn’t budge. He cornered her in the bedroom, she said.
She remembered him saying things like, “Come here, come on, cut it out, what are you doing, come here,” the magazine reported.
“He shoved me onto the bed, and he got on top of me. I kicked and I yelled,” she said in the interview.
But Weinstein, now 65, held her down, with her hands over her head, she told The New Yorker. She fought him – wearing a white cotton nightgown that was a family heirloom from Italy.
“When he was done, he ejaculated on my leg, and on my nightgown. He said, ‘I have impeccable timing,’ and then he said, ‘This is for you,’” Sciorra told The New Yorker.
The alleged rape by Weinstein occurred sometime around 1992, when Annabella Sciorra (pictured) filmed Miramax's “The Night We Never Met."
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“And then he attempted to perform oral sex on me. And I struggled, but I had very little strength left in me,” she said.
Weinstein left, and Sciorra said she never spoke of the rape and never went to police.
She was still living in fear of him, and slept with a baseball bat by her bed.
But her work began to dry up, rumors that she was “difficult” came back to her, she told The New Yorker. From 1992 to 1995, she got no work, she said in the interview.
She finally got a job in “The Innocent Sleep” and went to London where, she said, Weinstein began calling her hotel.
Sciorra said Weinstein sent cars to the hotel and one night pounded on her room door. She asked the film producer to find her another place to stay, The New Yorker said.
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“Splash” actress Darryl Hannah also detailed hair-raising incidents with Weinstein for The New Yorker.
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Similar incidents occurred over the next few years, she alleged.
Weinstein, who did a week at a therapy facility after initial allegations surfaced, denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.
“Splash” actress Darryl Hannah also detailed hair-raising incidents with Weinstein for The New Yorker Friday – although she said he was never able to get her alone.
On one press junket overseas, she said, for a Weinstein film, he strolled into her hotel suite late at night after letting himself in with his own key, she told The New Yorker.
“He came through the living room and into the bedroom. He just burst in like a raging bull. And I know with every fiber of my being that if my male makeup artist was not in that room, things would not have gone well. It was scary,” she said in the interview.
these people are annoying As fukk, why not come out when it ACTUALLY happened?
cacs Is something else
