The Disturbingly Long List of All the Women Who Have Accused Harvey Weinstein (So Far)
Trigger warning: this list contains details about sexual assaults and encounters of an abusive nature that some readers may find disturbing
In the days since The New York Times and the New Yorker published investigations exposing Hollywood’s most open secret, multiple women have come forward accusing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault and in some cases, rape. The incidents take place over nearly three decades in locations all over the globe, but they all seem to follow a similar pattern: the women allege Weinstein approached them on the pretence of a business meeting, invited them up to his hotel room for one reason or another and then attempted to force himself on them.
Weinstein—who co-founded film studios The Weinstein Company and Miramax—is an established, powerful Hollywood executive with six best picture Oscars for films including Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting. He has since been fired and is reportedly checking into a rehab facility in Arizona.
According to The New York Times, Weinstein reached past settlements with eight women, who include actors, models and staff members in his own company. Between the two investigations and the women who have now shared their story on their own, there are now more than 90 women who say they had encounters with Weinstein—encounters that range from uncomfortable, inappropriate situations to allegations of rape.
Here are all the brave women who have spoken out about their alleged experiences with Weinstein, so far:
Alice Evans
Actress Alice Evans, who you may recognize from The Vampire Diaries, wrote an essay in The Telegraph revealing her disturbing encounter with Weinstein. In the piece, she also postulated whether it may have impacted her career in Hollywood and that of her actor husband Ioan Gruffudd. Evans had heard about what could happen in Weinstein’s hotel rooms, but she says that she never thought the producer would try something with her.
'My palms were sweating, my heart was beating. It was chilling' @AliceEvansGruff says Harvey Weinstein propositioned, then threatened her. pic.twitter.com/QrUDATUn4H
— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) October 16, 2017
In 2002, at the Cannes Film Festival, Evans says that Weinstein complimented a recent audition her then-boyfriend Gruffudd had done for one of Weinstein’s films. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Weinstein allegedly asked Evans to follow him into the bathroom. “Just go. I’m right behind you. I want to touch your tits. Kiss you a little,” she alleges Weinstein told her. When she rejected him, she says Weinstein retorted: “Let’s hope it all works out for your boyfriend.” The next day, she was told Gruffudd was not selected for the part. Evans says after that incident, she was “never again considered for a Weinstein film and neither was Ioan.”
Amber Anderson
Following the dozens of allegations against Weinstein and the creation of the #MeToo campaign, The Riot Club actress opened up about her experience on Instagram. Anderson says that when she was 20, Weinstein “propositioned a “personal” relationship to further my career whilst bragging about other actresses he had “helped” in a similar way.” He then proceeded to take her hand and try and put it on his lap, which is when she left the room.
Ambra Battilana Gutierrez
The Filipina-Italian model said that Weinstein groped her and tried to get her into his hotel room. Gutierrez is one of the women Ronan Farrow spoke to for his New Yorker story—hers is the voice heard on the bone-chilling police tape where Weinstein pressures a young woman to join him for “five minutes.” (Even though Gutierrez was working with the NYPD to try and get Weinstein to confess to his crimes, no criminal charges were ultimately laid.) As W Magazine outlines, she was ripped apart by the tabloid press when she went public with her story in 2015. Many of the women in Farrow’s piece said that watching what happened to Gutierrez further deterred them from saying anything about their experience with Weinstein.
Angelina Jolie
“I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,” Jolie told The New York Times via email. “This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.”
Angie Everhart
Actress Angie Everhart was staying on the same boat as Weinstein while attending the Venice Film Festival. She told KLOS radio that she was sleeping but woke up to the producer standing above her bed. “All of the sudden he takes his pants down and starts doing his stuff. He’s blocking the door. I can’t get out and he — I don’t know how to say this on the radio, but he finishes on the carpet of the floor,” she said on the Frosty, Heidi and Frank morning show.
Ashley Judd
According to The New York Times investigation that broke this story, when Ashley Judd showed up for a breakfast meeting, only to have Weinstein tell her to give him a massage or that she could watch him in the shower. She later told Variety about the encounter, but did not name Weinstein until this year.
Ashley Matthau
Ashley Matthau was a dancer during the filming of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. While filming in Puerto Rico, Weinstein visited the set. Matthau told the New York Times that from the moment she met the film exec, he was aggressive. At the time, the now 36-year-old dancer was engaged, but Weinstein allegedly didn’t care. After dinner that night, Weinstein allegedly demanded she enter his car on the pretense that they would only be discussing business, “’Don’t worry,’” she recalled him saying. “’Nothing is going to happen.’”
They ended up in his hotel room and Matthau says the atmosphere quickly turned sexually aggressive, with the director saying he launched the careers of actress who had slept with him. Matthau said she declined, but he forced her onto the bed and fondled her breasts, stripping naked and masturbating while straddling her, “I kept telling him, ‘Stop, I’m engaged,’ but he kept saying: ‘It’s just a little cuddling. It’s not a problem. It’s not like we’re having sex.’”
Matthau returned to her home state of California and recalled the trauma to her then fiancĂ© Charles Matthau, who encouraged her to retain lawyer John S. West, who has a history of fighting powerful men. Matthau received a $100,000 settlement with a legally binding promise of silence, but recently she said she’s willing to break this confidentiality, even if he pursues legal damages, “I want to do my part to help bring this to light so it doesn’t happen with other people in Hollywood or anywhere else.”
Asia Argento
The Italian actress and director is the first name in Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker investigation, telling a disturbing story about how Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her when she was 21. “A big fat man wanting to eat you. It’s a scary fairy tale,” she told the New Yorker. Argento later developed a relationship with Weinstein and had consensual sex with him multiple times over a period of five years, which she says she felt obligated to do because she was in a movie being produced by Weinstein’s company.
