The campaigning actress spoke out after the movie pervert was jailed for decades  - a move many believe will see him die behind bars. “...There’s a lot of people who have each other’s back.”, It’s been “eye-opening”, she adds, to see who among her entourage has been here to support her and who hasn’t.

The model and actress, who has appeared in around 50 films, said she met Weinstein at a BAFTA after party in 2008 while she was working as a spokeswoman for LG. women and children. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: The verdict is in. When she declined, he got aggressive. Ex-Mexican Military Head Arrested in U.S. on Drug Charges. We are also joined by Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement and now the executive director of the newly established organization of the same name, known as “Me Too” International.

As a teenage mother from a middle-class background, Bender was forced into prostitution, and after escaping that nightmare she has become an authority on teaching law enforcement officers how to hunt out pimps and to get young women out of trafficking. "I was sitting on the bed talking to Harvey when he pushed me back and forced himself onto me. award-winning actress, filmmaker and activist. In the early 1990s, Mr. Weinstein asked Rosanna Arquette to stop by the Beverly Hills Hotel to pick up a script for a role. Rosanna Arquette had a full picture of the extent of Weinstein’s spying when she saw the investigative documents about her, according to Yahoo! But because there were — they couldn’t charge, for some reason, something happened with the jury. “I think a lot of people just don’t want to be involved and have disappeared,” she says. She said: "It's horrible....she's not a very nice woman and you saw (that) when she came out of the court room. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. . Writing on social media, the Game of Thrones actor claims she first met Weinstein at the Venice Film Festival in 2005 where, after taking her for a walk by the water, he “made some suggestive comment and gesture.” Headey claims she bumped into Weinstein years later where he kept asking her questions about her love life. Please join us on our walkabout. On 5 October, the International Business Times reported that after Vance dropped the charges, he received $10,000 from Weinstein’s lawyer, Lauren O’Connor, an employee of the Weinstein Company, penned a memo to executives alleging “a toxic environment for women” at the company. “We are incredibly appreciative of the level of care and attention the NYC Dept. That’s what everybody forgets. Some have been living with PTSD for many years. What happened to them?”, Coming against a powerful man publicly, she says, is “a really dirty job, but somebody has to do it”. Can you respond to yesterday’s verdict? AMY GOODMAN: Rosanna Arquette, your response? "There are many Harvey Weinsteins... he is just one of many," she said. Spaced and W1A star Jessica Hynes tweeted about an encounter with Weinstein earlier this week, but subsequently deleted the tweet. Women like Rebecca Bender and Dr. Heger have done incredible work to stop trafficking and heal its victims in this country—you’ll meet them in a moment. “He could sleep with whomever he wanted when he was out of town. Your reaction to their attempt to discredit the testimony of the women who are charging him with these crimes? She insisted I include them in this interview. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. There are statutes of limitations. But many of those cases were too old to prosecute. Harvey Weinstein was a movie mogul who lorded his power over women, sexually assaulting more than 80 women, according to trial testimony.Actress Rosanna Arquette was one of those. “Why would you spy on me, Harvey, unless you were worried because of what you did to me,” Arquette said after reading the paper on Investigation Discovery’s ‘Harvey Weinstein: ID Breaking Now.’. But I wouldn't change it all because I think this is really a shift in our culture and it’s so important.”. And, you know, I told people. An internal Weinstein Company document cited by the Times describes Nestor’s encounter with Weinstein as follows: “She said he was very persistent and focused though she kept saying no for over an hour”, In March 2015, Battilana, an aspiring model and actress, was reportedly summoned to Weinstein’s office on a Friday night to discuss her career. She said then Weinstein was “begging for a massage, his hands on my shoulders as I attempted to beat a retreat.”, On the topic of #MeToo, Arquette is hopeful and insistent that the movement “is not about taking down men and being men haters”. Weinstein was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom. Before Harvey: Arquette with Madonna on the set of 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan. She was never an A-lister. ROSANNA ARQUETTE: I was asked to go to meet Harvey Weinstein for dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel for a movie that I was going to do, and he was giving me the new script. Weinstein will see you upstairs.” I went upstairs, you know, and thought, “What’s going on? 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And it fits like a glove with her activism against assault and harassment and intimidation in Hollywood. of Corrections is showing regarding Mr. Weinstein’s medical condition,” Engelmayer said. We take women who have escaped trafficking and partner them with life coaches and career coaches—and we help them find their voice and their place and to get out of the poverty that often got them into trafficking in the first place.

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...And this is what everybody has to remember: Harvey Weinstein is on trial. Rosanna’s convictions and years of work make this clear.

My high school was like Friday Night Lights. Her acting career suffered for years. And to convict a very powerful white male is a big deal. I pulled it away. “When you have someone so physically disgusting in front of you, continuing and continuing as though this was all perfectly normal… What happened to me may not be illegal but it was inappropriate. A lot of women who are strippers are trafficked. Weinstein was convicted of first-degree commission of a criminal sexual act and third-degree rape, but he was acquitted of two more serious charges of predatory sexual assault and first-degree rape. Annabella [who was so “petrified” by the rape, she initially denied the rape to Ronan Farrow when he was well underway with his reporting] and Asia [who initially fled to Italy out of fear when she first revealed Weinstein’s rape of her] and Rose [who had, as a young actress, been advised to sign a non-disclosure form and accept a payoff after the assault, but who defied her NDA and has been a major voice against Weinstein]: They are my heroes.

We now know how to believe and support the victims and handle the cases: that’s good news. It was not consensual. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. So give a little or give a lot. ROSANNA ARQUETTE: I think, even though it was five counts — it was only three counts, we are happy. There’s not enough law to cover the breadth of what sexual violence actually is and what it does in people’s lives.

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