[Reality-TV-Fanatics] Weinstein Company Hit With $5M Suit For Harvey Weinstein’s “Sexual Misconduct”

 

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Weinstein Company Hit With $5M Suit For Harvey Weinstein's "Sexual Misconduct"

by Dominic Patten

October 24, 2017 4:32pm

As yet another women went public today with claims that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her, The Weinstein Company itself was hit with a $5 million civil suit over the alleged misconduct of its former co-chairman and its knowledge of his widely inappropriate behavior.

"Prior to the incident involving Plaintiff, Defendant TWC's executives, officers and employees had actual knowledge of Weinstein's repeated acts of sexual misconduct with women," says the negligence complaint filed by actress Dominique Huett on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court of the November 2010 occurrence at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverley Hills.

"In particular, Defendant was aware of Weinstein's pattern of using his power to coerce and force young actresses to engage in sexual acts with him," the jury seeking document from attorneys at sexual abuse case specialists HermanLaw adds of TWC (read it here). "This knowledge was possessed by Defendant's Board of Directors including, upon information and belief, Bob Weinstein."

In a M.O. that has become haunting familiar in recent weeks since the New York Times first published its expose into sexual harassment claims against Weinstein on October 5, after asking "her to show him her breasts," the now disgraced Oscar winner allegedly inviting the one time Blue Bloods actress up to his hotel room under the pretense of a meeting. Then, in his bathrobe according to Huett, Weinstein promised to help her career but then asked for a massage and to perform oral sex on her.

Huett says in the seven-page complaint that after repeatedly saying No to Weinstein she agreed to both requests.

"After performing oral sex on Plaintiff, Weinstein masturbated in front of Plaintiff until he reached orgasm," the filing notes and adds that Weinstein gave her "contact information for an executive producer with Project Runaway, a television program produced by Defendant, and offered to secure a role for Plaintiff on the program." A role that is it unclear if she ever received on the fashion competition series.

"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein," said a spokesperson for the producer today in response to this latest claim. Reps for TWC or Bob Weinstein did not respond to Deadline's request for comment on the complaint.

"This is the casting couch at the extreme level," Huett's lead lawyer Jeff Herman told Deadline today on the matter, poised for a press conference tomorrow in L.A. "Whether it is a criminal case is not for me to say, we are saying that the company knew he was doing this to women," the Florida based attorney asserted of the multi-damages complaint. "What she wants to do is take on Hollywood, force a change of its attitude towards women," Herman said of Huett's aim in the lawsuit and going public now.

 

Herman also said that he had not been contacted nor had contracted the LAPD on the matter. Like the NYPD and UK police, the LAPD is now conducting an investigation into possible criminal charges against Weinstein that, if he is found guilty could see him behind bars for up to eight years in the Golden State.

The statute of limitations in California on a charge of Negligence, retention and supervision is two years. However, that clock can be reset to start whenever the injured party gains knowledge of such negligence and then restarts to one-year from that point, which would put Huett in the statute of limitations now according to Herman.

"Plaintiff did not discover, and a reasonable and diligent investigation would not have disclosed, that prior to her incident Defendant was aware of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct involving Weinstein," the complaint notes. "Plaintiff was unable to discover Defendant's knowledge of Weinstein's propensity to engage in sexual misconduct until the story of Weinstein's pattern of sexual misconduct with young actresses broke in October 2017."

Bob Weinstein and other TWC executives have claimed that had no knowledge of such behavior on Harvey Weinstein's part. The latter Weinstein was terminated by the declining board of TWC on October 8 and formally resigned from the crippled company he still owns 23% of after calling into to board meeting last week. Attorney Patricia Glaser is representing Weinstein in a coming to a settlement with the company.

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