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Weinstein lawyers claim actress Judd made sexual 'deal' with disgraced mogul
France24 ^ | 7/19/18 | Staff

Posted on 07/19/2018 5:42:56 PM PDT by fungoking

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers are calling on a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit from actress Ashley Judd -- who accuses the disgraced mogul of torpedoing her career -- on the grounds that she had made a sexual "deal" with him. The 50-year-old actress says the once-influential Hollywood producer sabotaged her career by convincing Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson not to cast Judd after she rejected Weinstein's sexual advances. Player France 24 Mobile – International News 24/7 france24 FRANÇAISESPAÑOLعربي TOP STORIES SHOWS VIDEOS FRANCE AFRICA MIDDLE EAST EUROPE AMERICAS ASIA / PACIFIC SPORTS BUSINESS / TECH CULTURE ENVIRONMENT DOCUMENTARIES INFOGRAPHICS INFOMIGRANTS THE OBSERVERS

Weinstein lawyers claim actress Judd made sexual 'deal' with disgraced mogul Latest update : 19/07/2018

© AFP/File | Harvey Weinstein's career imploded in October 2017 in a blaze of accusations of sexual misconduct and abuse from dozens of women, triggering a major reckoning about harassment in the workplace and the #MeToo movement

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Harvey Weinstein's lawyers are calling on a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit from actress Ashley Judd -- who accuses the disgraced mogul of torpedoing her career -- on the grounds that she had made a sexual "deal" with him.

The 50-year-old actress says the once-influential Hollywood producer sabotaged her career by convincing Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson not to cast Judd after she rejected Weinstein's sexual advances.

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inRead invented by Teads Weinstein fell from grace after scores of women came forward with allegations against him ranging from harassment to rape.

But in a motion filed Tuesday in a Los Angeles court, Weinstein's defense team insisted Judd had struck a "deal" with Weinstein allowing him to touch her if she "won an Academy Award in one of his films."

Weinstein's attorneys claim the ex-movie mogul then "attempted to live up to his part of the bargain" by working to cast Judd in "as many roles as possible" -- including opposite Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, a role for which Minnie Driver ultimately won an Oscar nomination.

His action "reflects his motivation to advance her career, not ruin it" and undermines Judd's "defamation claim (as well as her retaliation claim) in its entirety," the court documents say....


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KEYWORDS: hollywood; judd; metoo; weinstein
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To: fungoking

Would not surprise me. A women using sex to advance her career? Oh no say it isn’t so!


21 posted on 07/19/2018 6:56:08 PM PDT by BBell (Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
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To: notaliberal

This skag would blow a mule to advance her career.


22 posted on 07/19/2018 6:56:35 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneoHis hottie wife deserves so much better than him.)
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To: Yaelle

[Typical FReepers. Most of this thread just assuming this woman (I know nothing about her or her experience with Weinstein) deserved anything that happened to her. What a shame. Sometimes I love this site. Not when this crap goes on.]


Nope. It’s annoyance that a woman who jumped to the head of the line by offering sexual favors is now complaining. What about all those women who got passed over because she felt compelled to offer a sexual bribe?


23 posted on 07/19/2018 6:57:56 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
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To: Yaelle

I personally knew Ashley...
Worked for Dario when they met, 1996?
She was foul mouthed and easily
Offended then.

Never thought she could act
worth a damn either.


24 posted on 07/19/2018 7:00:17 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: a fool in paradise

Agreed.


25 posted on 07/19/2018 7:00:47 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: notaliberal

She lives up to the title.


26 posted on 07/19/2018 7:18:27 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: fungoking

One of the biggest, foulmouthed, “Pussy Hat” FemiNazis against President Trump and breathlessly promoting the idiotic #MeToo.


27 posted on 07/19/2018 7:19:10 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Zhang Fei
Nope. It’s annoyance that a woman who jumped to the head of the line by offering sexual favors is now complaining. What about all those women who got passed over because she felt compelled to offer a sexual bribe?

The dirty Hollywood secret is that's how all of them became famous.

You can't just go to audition after audition competing with dozens or even hundreds of other actresses and expect to make it unless you're related to someone influential.

That's a major part of becoming famous, you have to somehow wrangle that invitation to the right party or show up at the right club and use your chance to get in the producer or directors pants.

Which is why Weinstein always seemed surprised when he would drop his pants and an actress would actually be offended in those testimonies.

28 posted on 07/19/2018 7:39:19 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Yaelle

Hey, we’d be happy to be otherwise but the Left has declared war and this strumpet was at the fore front of it. Practically calling for blood.


29 posted on 07/19/2018 7:49:16 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Yaelle

What are you talking about? Its well known in Hollywood that she pimped herself out to advance her career.

She choose to do this and was not raped despite what she now claims.


30 posted on 07/19/2018 8:18:53 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Zhang Fei

I apologized. I didn’t know this woman made a conscious decision to pay Harvey in favors to get jobs.


31 posted on 07/19/2018 8:20:12 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: fungoking

I’m super glad Ashley Judd was not in LOTR. She wouldn’t be able to convince me that she was capable of almost unconditional love. She was too old anyway.


32 posted on 07/19/2018 8:49:01 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Big Red Badger

[I personally knew Ashley...
Worked for Dario when they met, 1996?
She was foul mouthed and easily
Offended then.

Never thought she could act
worth a damn either.]


The problem for many actors is that the profession isn’t that hard. The ratio of good enough actors to leading roles is probably 1000 to 1 or higher. Which is why so many get a leg up, so to speak, via the casting couch.


33 posted on 07/19/2018 8:50:54 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
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To: fungoking

Kameltoe?


34 posted on 07/19/2018 8:50:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: fungoking

I don’t think she would have made a good “Smigel” or “Golem”.


35 posted on 07/19/2018 8:52:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: fungoking

36 posted on 07/19/2018 8:56:12 PM PDT by dead
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To: dead

Another reason I hate the Kentucky Wildcats.


37 posted on 07/19/2018 8:59:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dead

Maybe we should cut her some slack. Looks as if she’s already had several neck stretchings.


38 posted on 07/19/2018 9:04:55 PM PDT by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
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To: Big Red Badger

Account of Ashley Judd in Africa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1665919/posts


39 posted on 07/19/2018 9:06:26 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

All About Eve - Marilyn Monroe | shows how it is done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQygKZMosQ


40 posted on 07/19/2018 9:10:07 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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