New York,
\nThree actresses have filed a new lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein alleging sexual assault and urged other victims of the disgraced Hollywood producer to come forward and join their complaint.<\/p>\n
Melissa Thompson, one of the women filing the class action lawsuit yesterday, said she was sexually assaulted by Weinstein during a 2011 meeting to discuss a new marketing tool.<\/p>\n
Following public revelations last year about his predatory behavior, Thompson said she was referred to lawyer Benjamin Brafman and another attorney at his firm, Alex Spiro.<\/p>\n
Brafman is defending Weinstein following his indictment last week on rape and sex crime charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cThompson was led to believe that Brafman and Spiro were representing victims against Weinstein,\u201d the law firm representing her, Hagens Berman, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeceptive tactics were used to entice her to turn over her visual and audio evidence of Weinstein\u2019s conduct (which she did),\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMelissa did not learn that Brafman was actually then or would later be Weinstein\u2019s lead criminal defense attorney until after turning over the video as evidence.\u201d Brafman\u2019s law firm was named as a defendant in the lawsuit along with Weinstein\u2019s former movie company Miramax and The Weinstein Company.<\/p>\n
The other two actresses who are a party to the lawsuit are Caitlin Dulany and Larissa Gomes.<\/p>\n
It accusses Weinstein of \u201cassaulting, threatening and falsely imprisoning (Dulany) in her apartment\u201d in 1996 and again at the Cannes Film Festival that same year.<\/p>\n
As for Gomes, the second time Weinstein met with her, he \u201cimprisoned her in his hotel room and threatened, battered and assaulted her,\u201d the law firm said.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit is the third class action suit filed against Weinstein by Hagens Berman since late last year.<\/p>\n
Other women who were victimised by Weinstein were invited to join the suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe deserve to live in a world in which accountability for the abuse of power exists,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cStand up and say something \u2014 because now is the time that enough is enough.\u201d Elizabeth Fegan, a partner at Hagens Berman, said \u201cwe are working to see a day of justice for the hundreds of women who were exploited for Weinstein\u2019s sexual gratification and silenced by this ring of conspirators.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 66-year-old Weinstein was charged with rape and a sex crime in New York last week, nearly eight months after his career imploded in a blaze of accusations of misconduct.<\/p>\n
Nearly 100 women have now accused Weinstein of crimes ranging from sexual harassment to assault and rape going back decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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