of the things you’ve heard are his
M.O.: He had a headache, went into
the bedroom, asked me to come in.
Now he was in a robe. He tried to
give me a massage and was chasing
me around the room. I was scared.
He’s 300 pounds, and I’m five-three.
Then he tried to kiss me. “Look at
this face,” he said. “Who could kiss
a man with a face like this?” I said,
“Your wife, hopefully.” I managed to
get out. I remember getting in my car
and bawling and being really afraid.
I don’t remember anything after that
because I was in shock.
LAUREN O’CONNOR: I started working at
the Weinstein Company as an execu-
tive when I was 26 years old. It was
a dream job. Then one night a young
woman came knocking at my door
and described what is now known as
“a massage incident.” In that moment
I couldn’t unsee or unknow what was
happening. It became clear that other
people were in pain. I filed a lengthy
complaint with HR cataloging what I
had witnessed and heard, and I left
the company.
LUCIA EVANS: I was sexually assaulted by
Harvey Weinstein in 2004, when I was
an aspiring actress. It was the summer
before my senior year of college.
PAULA WILLIAMS: I was 18 or 19, a strug-
gling actress in L.A. He was like, “Oh,
you’re new to town. I can introduce
you to people who can help you get
work.” He invited me to a dinner party
and sent me a car to a house up in the
Hollywood Hills. Nobody was there.
I was like, “Am I early?” I got scared
right away being alone with him. And
he had arranged it so I didn’t have
my car. When I came back from hav-
ing a cigarette, he exposed himself
and started to force himself on me.
It’s still uncomfortable to talk about.
I squirmed away, but I was trying to
be polite. I didn’t want to offend him,
which is so ludicrous to look back on
now. I ended up running out of there
like a maniac. I was scared he might
come and get me in his car, so I ran all
the way down the Hills in heels until I
got to Hollywood Boulevard.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE: He tried to take his
penis out, and he threatened me and
he said I was making a big mistake for
my career. I want to know what hap-
pened to this man to become who he
is now. What happened to people like
Hitler or Charles Manson? Because the
rape of a woman or molestation of a
young child literally obliterates their
lives in many, many ways.
LOUISETTE GEISS: He invited me to meet
him in his hotel lobby to pitch him my
script. When we arrived they were
closing up. So he said, “Let’s recon-
vene in my office.” I looked at him andsaid, “Listen, I will take this meeting
if you’ll shake my hand that you will
not touch me. There’s a camera right
up there, so it’s on camera that you
shook my hand.” He kind of laughed
it off. I did not know that he had raped
women. So up we went to the office.
Then he excused himself to go to the
bathroom and came back in noth-
ing but a robe. Which I now realize
is iconic for his predatory behavior. I
was very scared. He grabbed my arm,
dragged me to the bathroom, wanted
me to watch him masturbate. Finally I
ripped my arm away and got out, lucki-
ly. I’d worked so diligently for years on
my script, and I realized, I can’t even
go pitch the damn thing without being
told I have to masturbate this guy.
LISA ROSE: He just said, “Will you give
me a back rub?” I was shivering and
shaking. It was real fight or flight. He
didn’t keep pushing me when I said no.He just brushed it off. I was one of the
lucky ones. But one day I got some-
body to cover for me at work when I
went off to do an audition. I was think-
ing, I don’t have to tell her anything
because Harvey’s not in London. I
later learned that Harvey had flown
into town and had her taxied to his
hotel. She ended up taking off her top
and giving him a back rub. I’ve lived
with that on my conscience ever since.
SARAH ANN MASSE: I had just moved to
New York and started my own theater
company. I was looking for a second
nannying job to pay my bills, and the
first person my agency sent me to was
Harvey Weinstein. I met him at his
home for my interview. It is a little
traumatic to go back through all the
details of how he assaulted me. I will
say one thing—he knew exactly what
he was doing when he got me there. He
was in his underwear, and he grabbedme and pressed his body up against
mine and whispered in my ear that he
loved me. I was not just blocked behind
his front door—I was blocked behind
the gate leading up to his mansion.
TOMI-ANN ROBERTS: Between my junior
and senior years of college, I was doing
auditions in New York and waiting
tables. Bob and Harvey Weinstein
would come to the restaurant. Harvey
encouraged me to audition for a role. I
was invited to a party at his apartment,
only to discover that it wasn’t a party
at all. A maid let me in, and Harvey
called to me from down the hallway.
I walked into the bathroom, and he
was in the bathtub. It’s hard to describe
how frightening something like that is
when you’re 20. I felt like a terrifying
monster was in front of me. I thought,
Oh, my God, this is how the big time
works. He kept begging me to take
my shirt off. I apologized and backed“His assistant admitted to my face that it was a pattern—that