In the wake of an explosive report in The New York Times on October 5 detailing decades of accused sexual harassment and assault by Hollywood powerhouse Harvey Weinstein, dozens of women have come forward to share their own stories. By Sunday, news broke that the legendary producer had been fired by his board of directors.
Here, we’ve compiled the full list of the women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of harassment or sexual assault—from famous actresses to costume designers. The stories often follow a chillingly familiar pattern—one in which the producer would summon women to a hotel room, alone—and since the 1990s, at least eight women have settled claims with Weinstein. Though Weinstein’s legal team has denied the claims (“Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein,” a spokesperson said in a statement), the fallout from the scandal continues to expand. On October 10, Weinstein’s wife of nearly 10 years, Georgina Chapman, announced she was leaving him.
This post will be updated as women come forward with their stories.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Paltrow told The New York Times that she met Weinstein for a meeting at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills when she was 22. The Goop founder had recently been cast as the lead role in Emma and shooting for the film had yet to begin. According to Paltrow, Weinstein placed his hands on the actress and tried to get her to accompany him to his bedroom for a massage. She said no and subsequently told her boyfriend at the time, Brad Pitt, what had happened. Pitt apparently later confronted Weinstein, and Paltrow claims the producer then told her not to mention the incident to anyone. “I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” the actress told the Times. “I thought he was going to fire me.”
Eva Green
In a statement to Variety, Green, the star of Casino Royale, Sin City, and Penny Dreadful, alleges Weinstein “behaved inappropriately” when they met to talk business in Paris—resulting in her having to “push him off.” “I got away without it going further, but the experience left me shocked and disgusted,” she added in her statement. “I have not discussed this before because I wanted to maintain my privacy, but I understand it is important to do so as I hear about other women’s experiences. Women are often condemned when they speak out and their personal reputations tarnished by association. I salute the great bravery of the women who have come forward. We should recognize that this sort of behavior exists everywhere and is not unique to the entertainment industry. The exploitation of power is ubiquitous. This behavior is unacceptable and needs to be eliminated.”
Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie
In an email to The New York Times, Jolie wrote, “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.” She added, “This behavior toward women in any field, any country, is unacceptable.”
Lauren Sivan
Sivan, a TV reporter, said that Weinstein masturbated in front of her in a secluded hallway of a New York club. According to the Huffington Post, Sivan claimed “Weinstein ejaculated quickly into a potted plant that was in the vestibule and then proceeded to zip up his pants, and they walked back into the kitchen.”
Mira Sorvino
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Mira Sorvino
The Academy Award-winning actress told The New Yorker that she had to “ward [Weinstein] off” after he made an advance on her in a hotel room in the 1990s. Later, she claimed, Weinstein made a light-night call to Sorvino saying he wanted to discuss marketing options for one of their film projects. She offered to meet him at a hotel; he, instead, showed up at her apartment. When she told Weinstein that her new boyfriend was coming over (in actuality, he was a friend of Sorvino’s she had asked to pretend to be her partner), the producer allegedly “became dejected and left.”
Angie Everhart
The former *Sports Illustrated” model said Weinstein masturbated in front of her during the Cannes Film Festival over a decade ago.
“This isn’t really easy to talk about,” she told TMZ. “I was on a friend’s boat. Harvey walked in, walked in front of me, took his pants down, did his thing, exited on the floor, if you know what I mean, pulled his pants back up, said ‘You’re a really nice girl. Don’t tell anybody about this,’ and left.” She also said when she was taking a nap, she woke up to find him standing over her. “I told people on the boat. I told people at the dinner I was at. Everybody was like, ‘Oh, that’s just Harvey,’” she said. “When I talked about it before, nobody listened and now people are listening and … I’m glad people are listening so it doesn’t happen anymore because it’s not OK.”
Rosanna Arquette
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Rosanna Arquette
Arquette spoke with both The New York Times and The New Yorker about her experience with Weinstein, in both cases detailing the same incident. According to Arquette, Weinstein had scheduled a meeting with her at The Beverly Hills Hotel in the 1990s and was wearing nothing but a bathrobe when she arrived. He said he was experiencing neck pain, and when the actress offered a recommendation for a masseuse, he grabbed her hand and thrust it at his crotch. Arquette says she refused his advance, to which Weinstein replied that she was making a “huge mistake.” The actress replied that she would “never be that girl.”
Liza Campbell
Campbell, a British artist and writer, told The Sunday Times that Weinstein asked her to “jump in the bath” with him.
Ashley Judd
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Ashley Judd
Judd went on the record with The New York Times for its incredible report on Weinstein, telling reporters she met Weinstein at the Peninsula Hotel in the 1990s for what she thought would be a breakfast meeting. Instead, she claims, Weinstein was wearing a bathrobe when she arrived at this hotel room. The producer allegedly asked if Judd would watch him shower or let him give her a massage. As Judd told the Times, she remembered thinking, “How do I get out of the room as fast as possible without alienating Harvey Weinstein?”
Emma de Caunes
At a lunch meeting in a Paris hotel, de Caunes told *The New Yorker that Weinstein went to the bathroom and came out naked. According to de Caunes, the producer then demanded she lie on the bed with him.
Kate Beckinsale
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Kate Beckinsale
In an Instagram post, Beckinsale described an incident with Weinstein that occurred when she was only 17 years old. “I was called to meet Harvey Weinstein at the Savoy hotel when I was 17,” the actress wrote. “I assumed it would be in a conference room, which was very common.”
She continued: “When I arrived, reception told me to go to his room. He opened the door in his bathrobe. I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him. After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning, I left, uneasy but unscathed.”
She then claimed that, during a conversation with the producer years later, Weinstein could not remember if he had assaulted her.
“A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. I realized he couldn’t remember if he had assaulted me or not,” Beckinsale wrote. “I had what I thought were boundaries—I said no to him professionally many times over the years—some of which ended up with him screaming at me, calling me a cunt, and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people, ‘Kate lives to say no to me.'”
Louisette Geiss
At a press conference, Geiss said she met Weinstein at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. According to Geiss, the two went to a restaurant together before heading to Weinstein’s office for a meeting to discuss screenwriting opportunities. There, Geiss says, Weinstein began masturbating in front of her and said if she stayed and watched he would greenlight her project.
Melissa Sagemiller
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Melissa Sagemiller
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Sagemiller detailed three encounters with Weinstein during the course of her work on the 2000 film Get Over It. First, Sagemiller described a lunch arranged by one of Weinstein’s assistants in which the producer’s conduct was “pretty inappropriate in terms of just being very flirty.” Later, Sagemiller was invited to Weinstein’s hotel to discuss the film script. According to Sagemiller, Weinstein made advances toward her and asked for a massage. When she tried to leave, he refused to let her go unless he kissed him. And finally, after production wrapped, Weinstein allegedly “ordered airport personnel to deliver her to his private plane, despite her protests and separately scheduled flight.”
Dawn Dunning
The 24-year-old actress told The New York Times she went to meet Weinstein for a meal, but when she was sent up to his hotel suite, Weinstein greeted her in a bathrobe and told her that he would cast her in three films if she had three-way sex with him. When she refused, she says he told her “You’ll never make it in this business.” Dunning is now a costume designer.
“He’s a big guy. He overpowered me,” Evans told The New Yorker. “I just sort of gave up.”
After the alleged incident, Evans said Weinstein continued to call her. She added that the encounter seemed to have a “routine quality.”
“It feels like a very streamlined process,” Evans told The New Yorker. “Female casting director, Harvey wants to meet. Everything was designed to make me feel comfortable before it happened. And then the shame in what happened was also designed to keep me quiet.”
Ambra Battilana Gutierrez
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Ambra Battilana Gutierrez
Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez told The New Yorker that she met with Weinstein at his New York office in 2015 and that the producer grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt. She reported the incident to the police and then worked with the NYPD on a sting operation—one in which Weinstein was actually admitted to groping her on a secret audio recording. Ultimately, however, the New York District Attorney decided not to pursue the case.
Katherine Kendall
Kendall, who appeared in the Miramax movie Swingers, was among the accusers named in The New York Times’ initial report on Weinstein. In a harrowing account that she gave to ‘The Daily’ podcast, Kendall described Weinstein meeting her in his hotel room and fully disrobing, then physically blocking her from trying to leave the room.
Asia Argento
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Asia Argento
Argento told The New Yorker that in 1997, when she was 21, one of Weinstein’s producers invited her to a hotel on the French Riviera for what she was told was a studio party. Instead, she says, she found Weinstein alone in a hotel room. He asked her for a massage, which she reluctantly agreed to do. According to Argento, Weinstein “pulled her skirt up, forced her legs apart, and performed oral sex on her as she repeatedly told him to stop.”
“[He] terrified me, and he was so big,” she told The New Yorker. “It wouldn’t stop. It was a nightmare.”
Emily Nestor
Nestor, a former Weinstein employee, told The New Yorker that Weinstein made repeated advances on her. “Oh, the girls always say ‘no.’ You know, ‘No, no.’ And then they have a beer or two and then they’re throwing themselves at me,” she recalled.
Rose McGowan
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Rose McGowan
The New York Times reported that McGowan reached a $100,000 settlement with Weinstein in 1997 after an incident that occurred in a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival. McGowan has previously alluded to being sexually assaulted by a Hollywood “studio head” and on Thursday she named Weinstein as her rapist in a series of tweets directed to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
Florence Darel
The French actress said that Weinstein made advances toward her numerous times in the 1990s. She apparently pretended to be dating a costar to get him to leave her alone, but when she was asked to meet Weinstein at a Paris hotel in 1995, she says her agent told her that she couldn’t afford not to go. It wasn’t long into their meeting before Darel said Weinstein began propositioning her—even though his then-wife was allegedly sleeping in a hotel room next to his. Darel said that Weinstein claimed she would have to go through him to have a career in the U.S., but she quickly left.
Cara Delevigne
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Cara Delevingne
The model and actress shared her own disturbing Weinstein story on Instagram on October 11, describing two separate incidents with the producer. According to Delevingne, Weinstein once called her to ask if she had slept with any of the women she’d been seen with in the media. Later, she apparently met with Weinstein at a hotel for what she believed would be a lobby meeting. Instead, she says she was summoned to Weinstein’s room where he asked her to kiss another woman who was in the room. He allegedly then tried to get Delevingne to kiss him.
“I felt guilty as if I did something wrong,” Delevingne wrote. “I was also terrified that this sort of thing had happened to so many women I know but no one had said anything because of fear.”
Judith Godreche
In 1996, the then 24-year-old actress had a breakfast meeting with Weinstein and a female executive. After the executive left, Godreche says, Weinstein invited her up to his hotel room, where he asked her to give him a massage. “I wish I’d had someone to talk to, to say, ‘How do you deal with this?’” she told The New York Times.
Lea Seydoux
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Léa Seydoux
Seydoux told The Guardian that she and Weinstein both attended the same Paris fashion show several years ago, and the producer had asked to meet the actress at his hotel. The meeting was scheduled for late at night and though the conversation initially focused on her career, Seydoux told The Guardian that it wasn’t long before she was fighting Weinstein off as he tried to kiss her.
Tomi-Ann Roberts
Roberts was a 20-year-old actress when she first met Weinstein in 1984, according to statements she gave The New York Times. Now a psychologist who studies sexual objectification, Roberts says Weinstein greeted her nude in a bathtub and asked if she would be comfortable “getting naked in front of him,” because the script he had in mind for her featured a nude scene. Decades after the encounter, she said she has had trouble watching Miramax movies.
Heather Graham
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Heather Graham
Graham told Variety that she met with Weinstein in the early 2000s and he told her that he wanted to cast her in one of his films. According to Graham, Weinstein then informed her that he had an agreement with his wife—one in which he could sleep with other people. “I walked out of the meeting feeling uneasy,” Graham told Variety. “There was no explicit mention that to star in one of those films I had to sleep with him, but the subtext was there.” Weinstein apparently tried to arrange a hotel meeting with the actress several weeks later, but she declined.
Jessica Hynes
The British actress said she lost a film role at 19 because she refused to do a screen test in a bikini for Weinstein.
Romola Garai
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Romola Garai
The Atonement actress recently said that Weinstein had her do an “audition” for him in his hotel room at the Savoy hotel while he wore only a bathrobe. Garai was only 18 at the time. “I felt violated by it, it has stayed very clearly in my memory,” she said.
Zoe Brock
The New Zealand model and writer was 23 when she met Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. After a night out, she and several other festival guests joined Weinstein back at his hotel. As the others left, she found herself alone with Weinstein. Brock told The Guardian that Weinstein “pleaded” with her to give him a massage and she ran into the bathroom to escape his advances.
Claire Forlani
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Claire Forlani
Forlani claims that she “escaped five times” from situations in which Weinstein tried to coerce her into sexual contact. The Meet Joe Black star said that she frequently dealt with suggestions of massages and meals. Forlani decided not to participate in The New Yorker story that laid out dozens of accusations againt Weinstein, and she later told The Hollywood Reporter that she had mixed feelings about it. “Today I sit here feeling some shame, like I’m not a woman supporting other women,” she said. “I just read Mira Sorvino’s article in Time and she writes of how scared she was to speak out and participate. I take little solace in that.”
Sophie Dix
The British actress told The Guardian that, at 22, she was summoned to a meeting at Weinstein’s hotel room. Dix claims he then pushed her onto the bed, and she then hid in the bathroom. When she opened the door, Dix said, he masturbated in front of her. She also told The Guardian that her career suffered after the incident.
Tara Subkoff
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Tara Subkoff
The actress and fashion designer told Variety that Weinstein grabbed her and made her sit on his lap while he had an erection. She also claimed that she lost out on a movie role after rejecting his advances, and was blacklisted from working in Hollywood as a result.
Lucia Evans
Evans was a soon-to-be college senior and aspiring actress when she met Weinstein in New York in 2004. After repeated calls trying to set up late-night meetings, Evans told The New Yorker that she was eventually brought to a one-on-one daytime meeting with Weinstein in which he forced her to perform oral sex on him, despite her numerous refusals.
Minka Kelly
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Minka Kelly
The Friday Night Lights actress said in an Instagram post that Weinstein offered her a lavish and luxurious lifestyle if she would be his girlfriend. Weinstein was married at the time.
Jessica Barth
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Jessica Barth
The Ted actress revealed that Weinstein asked her to join him in his hotel room after the 2011 Golden Globes. She said that he told her that she needed to lose weight in order to compete with other top actresses. Barth told her friend and co-star Seth MacFarlane about the harassment, and MacFarlane later made a joke about Weinstein at the Academy Award nominations in 2013. As he announced the Best Actress nominees, MacFarlane said, “Congratulations. You five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.”
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