Posted on 10/28/2017 6:10:48 PM PDT by Enchante
Annabella Sciorra
The actress whose films include “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle” and who was nominated for an Emmy for her role in the hit TV show, “The Sopranos,” told The New Yorker that she was raped by Weinstein in the early 1990s and was sexually harassed by him for several years after that.
Sciorra alleges that one night after a dinner event in New York, Weinstein offered to drop her off at her apartment and then a while later, when she was in her nightgown, he barged into her place and violently raped her. For months afterward, Sciorra said she told no one and never went to police. “Like most of these women, I was so ashamed of what happened,” she said. The actress said she felt she was retaliated against after the alleged assault. “I just kept getting this pushback of ‘We heard you were difficult; we heard this or that.’ I think that that was the Harvey machine,” she said.
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politely on the shoulder and ask for an autograph...
Thanks. You are always informative.
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The kind I like...
It can’t be much longer before Mad Max claims that Harvey raped her (my voluptuous sweating dugs).
Rape is a felony. Why didn’t she file charges “in the early 1990s”? If the statute of limitations has not run shouldn’t she press charges now?
Does she think she’s more credible than Juanita Broaderick?
I suspect he came right back knocking and wheedling his way in, he did that in at least a couple of other cases where it wasn’t his own hotel room. I would hope no one in NYC leaves their door unlocked, but he may have pretended he wanted to tell her something or offer her a part, etc. I imagine there will be more details in the New Yorker article (a 2nd one is coming out, but I haven’t seen it yet).
What do you call a girl who knows someone is engaging in disgusting illegal behavior, destroying other people's lives, and you don't say something? What does that make you?
Enabler
Career's over but she has one more shot to hit the headlines...
I think if you actually read the article I linked above you may form a very different understanding of what Annabella Sciorra is all about. I know I did, and I am now extremely sympathetic to her and what she went through.
I was a fan of Annabella Sciorra back then and I remember when later she was on the Soprano's I thought about how she seemed to have disappeared right when she was on the cusp of a big career.
Now I know why.
I was also a fan of Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd back then too. (c. mid-early 1990s) and thought both of them were headed for much bigger stardom than they ended up obtaining.
I see now the Weinstein was the common thread.
He tore them up.
And then my brother reminded me of someone I worked for 30 years ago who did sexually assault two women, who asked I keep it in confidence.
I have no reason to disbelieve them either. I dated both and they informed what kind of friend I have.
There were two other women, whoss husbands came to our office and informed him what would happen if he didn’t stop with his advances.
He was a fat slob like Weinstein.
He was also effin jealous because I had a new girl every week
I once dated this Msg Ryan looking gal, who worked for us as well. She was beautiful.
Called me up one day to inform me she was going to the Lesbian Capital of the U.S. to give that life a try.
I laughed and wished her luck. Had dinner with her before she left and she was distant.
So, I don’t hear from hear from her for 4 months and she walks into my office. Still beautiful.
Wants to grabs drinks and dancing later. She also had something she wanted to tell me.
Great. She’s pregnant...I thought.
So, we go out have a great time and she tells me about her lesbo experience. Not for her.
I recall pulling her in for a kiss and she invited me back to her apartment.
We wake up the next morning and I make her this almond tea I had bought her.
As I hand her the cup of tea she she begins telling me why she went to Hanford.
My boss/friend had taken advantage of her.
She thanked me for the evening as it had set her straight, so to speak and that she would be okay with men.
I guess I was her therapy...in an odd way
She then said we could be friends because she needed to find someone who would love her and I was too much of a playboy.
A month later I quit my really good job and moved from Oklahoma to California, where I knew no one and had no job.
Time for a change and a challenge.
My ex girlfriend can conform these stories, as can a friend I knew outside of work, my brother observed this jerk off pulling stuff with women we worked with as well.
So we are clear, the laws at that time without a rape kit and the passage of time didn’t allow for prosecution and the women who told me these things were beyond embarrassed and mortified if anyone found out that fat pig had done what he did.
One joked that it wouldn’t be so bad if Val Kilmer had done it.
This guy really was not attractive.
That’s six women I know who confided in me and that was a during a three year period.
So my comments before really have no place in the context of how these women felt and they were beautiful inside and out.
yup, well said!
I hope that Swinestein can still be prosecuted. I looked briefly online and NY seems to have no statute of limitations for sex crimes (and at least one was as recent as 2015, the one he admitted to on a recording). So something may still happen in NY, especially if any more come forward.
Normally I am very hesitant about judging allegations which have not been independently investigated and adjudicated, but there certainly seems to be lots of smoke and fire around Swinestein. Certainly he deserves to have all of these episodes investigated more thoroughly.
Well, somebody is doing the raping.
If Weinstein hasn’t been so cheap he could have hired hookers rather than treat decent young women like hookers.
I’m betting he didn’t save a dime when all this is said and done...
Does it explain HOW Harvey broke down a steels door, or say that he never left when she got out of her clothes?
These actresses did their whoring with Harvey years ago and now they’re saying, “Me too, me too”, in order to get publicity and sympathy. I have very little to give.
Article says he left and came back, and she opened the door to him, much to her everlasting regret.
Women who make their living showing their tits and simulating sex always seem to be shocked that some homely bastard like Weinstein get the wrong idea.
That’s NOT what this article claims.
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