PASADENA, Calif. – Alyssa Milano isn't giving up an inch of the progress women in Hollywood have made since the #MeToo era began.
The actress, who helped spread the hashtag in the wake of sexual harassment and assault allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein, spoke Sunday to reporters at the Television Critics Association along with other female Lifetime actors, producers and directors, about the state of the industry. When asked what happens when men accused of misconduct re-enter the workplace, Milano wasn't concerned.
"That’s going to happen," she said, when a reporter asked about reports that ousted CBS chairman Leslie Moonves has set up a new production company. "We can’t expect that not to happen. We can’t put all these men on an island and expect them to eat themselves. They’re going to get jobs again. We have to figure out (what) re-entering into the workplace looks like. ... We have to set policies."
Milano advocated for strong contracts and internal resources to curb the power of these men.
"I also think that’s contractual as well," she said. "If you’re funding Les Moonves or working with him, I think you need have an ironclad contract." She also suggested using human-resources experts that are "maybe external not internal. ... I think if anything we have proved if you speak up you can hold people accountable for their abuses of power."
Milano isn't worried that progress made since #MeToo began will be undone.
"I won’t allow anyone to go back."
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This is Nazism. This is Fascism. This Italiana reminds me of an Italiano by the name of Benito Mussolini. She has declared war on men I say we take steps to maximize our safety. I will not elaborate beyond that.
If I read that right she is endorsing gendercide. She is endorsing concentration camps and prisons like Devil's Island. She is Benita Mussolini. I definitely see a parallel between her vile and the Nuremberg Laws which stripped Jews of their rights. I say we defend ourselves. Do not underestimate metoo.
Showing posts with label harvey weinstein. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Harvey Weinstein's rape accuser tried to 'fabricate' witness: defense lawyer
Harvey Weinstein’s 2013 rape accuser tried to “fabricate” a witness when she came forward with her allegations last year — four years after the alleged encounter, his lawyers charged Thursday.
Weinstein, who faces a minimum of 10 years behind bars on the top count in his sex assault indictment, is seeking to have the criminal case dismissed on several grounds, including that the investigation was corrupt.
His lawyer Ben Brafman said the woman who said she was forcibly raped by Weinstein at a Doubletree Hotel on Lexington Ave. tried to recruit her former best friend as a deponent — even though the accusation was news to the other woman.
“According to the witness, (the accuser) reached out to her — after not speaking to her for more than two years — and said to her that Mr. Weinstein had assaulted (her) a few years ago in New York,” Brafman wrote in the filing. “She then asked the witness to assist (her) with the accusation she was making against Mr. Weinstein, presumably so as to serve as a prompt outcry witness.”
“The witness responded that (the accuser) never ever told her that she was assaulted or raped by Mr. Weinstein,” the filing continues. “The witness further told (the accuser) that she did not want to be involved with (the accuser’s) allegations against Mr. Weinstein.”
The court papers are part of a battle in writing between Brafman and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
Prosecutors recently defended their case even after they were forced to dismiss a count of criminal sex act related to one victim — former aspiring actress Lucia Evans — who said she was forced to perform oral sex on Weinstein at his Tribeca office in 2004.
The DA’s office accused the lead NYPD detective on the case of withholding exculpatory information relating to Evans and they also uncovered an email draft Evans authored to her husband in 2015 in which she undermined her own account.
The defense probe “has revealed substantial additional exculpatory information that has also been withheld from Mr. Weinstein — including the fact that one of the two remaining complaining witnesses...may have attempted to fabricate a ‘prompt outcry’ witness, years after the alleged assault,” Brafman wrote in Thursday’s document.
Weinstein’s defense team previously revealed that the rape accuser swapped some 40 affectionate and flirtatious emails with the fallen Hollywood honcho in the four years after she says she was attacked in March 2013.
She had a 10-year ongoing consensual relationship with the producer, who has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by dozens of women in the entertainment business.
Weinstein, who is facing several lawsuits, has been criminally charged only in Manhattan Supreme Court.
While charges were pending against him in connection to alleged attacks against three women, he now stands charged with two counts of pattern conduct, which carry a minimum of 10 years behind bars.
There are two counts of rape related to the 2013 accuser and a count of criminal sex act in connection to Mimi Haleyi, a former production assistant who says Weinstein forced a sex act on her in 2006.
The DA’s office declined to comment.
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Weinstein, who faces a minimum of 10 years behind bars on the top count in his sex assault indictment, is seeking to have the criminal case dismissed on several grounds, including that the investigation was corrupt.
His lawyer Ben Brafman said the woman who said she was forcibly raped by Weinstein at a Doubletree Hotel on Lexington Ave. tried to recruit her former best friend as a deponent — even though the accusation was news to the other woman.
“According to the witness, (the accuser) reached out to her — after not speaking to her for more than two years — and said to her that Mr. Weinstein had assaulted (her) a few years ago in New York,” Brafman wrote in the filing. “She then asked the witness to assist (her) with the accusation she was making against Mr. Weinstein, presumably so as to serve as a prompt outcry witness.”
“The witness responded that (the accuser) never ever told her that she was assaulted or raped by Mr. Weinstein,” the filing continues. “The witness further told (the accuser) that she did not want to be involved with (the accuser’s) allegations against Mr. Weinstein.”
The court papers are part of a battle in writing between Brafman and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
Prosecutors recently defended their case even after they were forced to dismiss a count of criminal sex act related to one victim — former aspiring actress Lucia Evans — who said she was forced to perform oral sex on Weinstein at his Tribeca office in 2004.
The DA’s office accused the lead NYPD detective on the case of withholding exculpatory information relating to Evans and they also uncovered an email draft Evans authored to her husband in 2015 in which she undermined her own account.
The defense probe “has revealed substantial additional exculpatory information that has also been withheld from Mr. Weinstein — including the fact that one of the two remaining complaining witnesses...may have attempted to fabricate a ‘prompt outcry’ witness, years after the alleged assault,” Brafman wrote in Thursday’s document.
Weinstein’s defense team previously revealed that the rape accuser swapped some 40 affectionate and flirtatious emails with the fallen Hollywood honcho in the four years after she says she was attacked in March 2013.
She had a 10-year ongoing consensual relationship with the producer, who has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by dozens of women in the entertainment business.
Weinstein, who is facing several lawsuits, has been criminally charged only in Manhattan Supreme Court.
While charges were pending against him in connection to alleged attacks against three women, he now stands charged with two counts of pattern conduct, which carry a minimum of 10 years behind bars.
There are two counts of rape related to the 2013 accuser and a count of criminal sex act in connection to Mimi Haleyi, a former production assistant who says Weinstein forced a sex act on her in 2006.
The DA’s office declined to comment.
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Friday, October 12, 2018
The case against Harvey Weinstein is falling apart
The sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein is in danger of crumbling after Manhattan prosecutors found an accuser’s written account of her encounter with the movie mogul that suggests it was consensual, multiple sources told The Post.
Lucia Evans has accused Weinstein of forcing her to perform oral sex on him inside his Tribeca office in 2004, when she was a 21-year-old college student and aspiring actress. She is one of three women whose allegations of sexual assault are being prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office.
But a prior employer of Evans turned over the personal writings she’d left on the company computer, which appear to contradict her grand jury testimony, a law enforcement source said.
“The writings indicate it was consensual, friendly,” a source told The Post. “It has caused a split [in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office], some believe the charges should be dropped and that there’s a problem [with this complainant].”
Manhattan prosecutors ultimately decided not to drop Evans from the case despite some internal opposition.
The latest revelation comes after another damaging report, that the NYPD’s lead investigator on the case failed to turn over statements from a casting director who said Evans told him she had performed the sex act to score an acting gig.
Another source said, “The casting witness is a problem, but that is still ‘he said, she said.’ It’s harder to explain away her own words.”
The DA’s office declined to comment for this article.
This Thursday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Burke is expected to rule on whether to dismiss count six of the indictment that relates to Evans, sources said.
He’ll also decide whether to lift the protective order, which allowed prosecutors to file the damning disclosures under seal.
Weinstein’s defense lawyer, Ben Brafman, has lobbied the judge to make them public, sources said.
The former Miramax boss faces up to life in prison on charges of rape, predatory sex assault and criminal sex acts for the alleged attack on Evans and two other women.
In court papers, Brafman previously argued that the case against the “Shakespeare in Love” producer should be dismissed because prosecutors hid the fact that he had a “long-term, consensual” relationship with one of the accusers.
Weinstein and the woman, whose name has not been released, exchanged 400 emails during the “weeks and years after the alleged rape,” the papers state.
In a February 2017 email sent nearly four years after the alleged sex attack, she wrote, “I love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call. :)”
Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon countered in court papers that none of the emails show the accuser denying that she was raped and insisted the presentation to the grand jury was fair and complete.
The third complainant, production assistant Mimi Haleyi, alleges that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 inside his SoHo home.
“My client has sacrificed everything for her day in court to hold Harvey Weinstein responsible for sexual assault,” said Evans’ lawyer Carrie Goldberg. “Getting to the truth is the very purpose of trials. And we have utmost confidence that her testimony and supporting evidence will prove his guilt.”
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Lucia Evans has accused Weinstein of forcing her to perform oral sex on him inside his Tribeca office in 2004, when she was a 21-year-old college student and aspiring actress. She is one of three women whose allegations of sexual assault are being prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office.
But a prior employer of Evans turned over the personal writings she’d left on the company computer, which appear to contradict her grand jury testimony, a law enforcement source said.
“The writings indicate it was consensual, friendly,” a source told The Post. “It has caused a split [in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office], some believe the charges should be dropped and that there’s a problem [with this complainant].”
Manhattan prosecutors ultimately decided not to drop Evans from the case despite some internal opposition.
The latest revelation comes after another damaging report, that the NYPD’s lead investigator on the case failed to turn over statements from a casting director who said Evans told him she had performed the sex act to score an acting gig.
Another source said, “The casting witness is a problem, but that is still ‘he said, she said.’ It’s harder to explain away her own words.”
The DA’s office declined to comment for this article.
This Thursday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Burke is expected to rule on whether to dismiss count six of the indictment that relates to Evans, sources said.
He’ll also decide whether to lift the protective order, which allowed prosecutors to file the damning disclosures under seal.
Weinstein’s defense lawyer, Ben Brafman, has lobbied the judge to make them public, sources said.
The former Miramax boss faces up to life in prison on charges of rape, predatory sex assault and criminal sex acts for the alleged attack on Evans and two other women.
In court papers, Brafman previously argued that the case against the “Shakespeare in Love” producer should be dismissed because prosecutors hid the fact that he had a “long-term, consensual” relationship with one of the accusers.
Weinstein and the woman, whose name has not been released, exchanged 400 emails during the “weeks and years after the alleged rape,” the papers state.
In a February 2017 email sent nearly four years after the alleged sex attack, she wrote, “I love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call. :)”
Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon countered in court papers that none of the emails show the accuser denying that she was raped and insisted the presentation to the grand jury was fair and complete.
The third complainant, production assistant Mimi Haleyi, alleges that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 inside his SoHo home.
“My client has sacrificed everything for her day in court to hold Harvey Weinstein responsible for sexual assault,” said Evans’ lawyer Carrie Goldberg. “Getting to the truth is the very purpose of trials. And we have utmost confidence that her testimony and supporting evidence will prove his guilt.”
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