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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But...she opened the door to him, wearing a nightgown? WHO DOES THAT ?
No, I'm not blaming the victim for being raped; just now blaming her for being a MORON!
Her apartment didn't have an intercom or phone system connected to the lobby?
She didn't have a chain-latch on her front door?
She worked/lived in NYC and was THIS "street stupid"...as opposed to being "street smart"...a term which means that one knows how to avoid many situations.
And nobody better come back at me saying that I don't know what I'm talking about, because I'm a born and bred New Yorker and NYC kids, with good parents were raised to be "street smart"! And being young isn't an excuse either.
And if you want more info...FRmail me.
Frankly, I’m mystified as to why anybody finds these Weinstein revelations all that surprising. It is part of man’s humanity since creation that sexual development is part of how people grow into adulthood….. and God set up a marvelous system for dealing with it. It is called marriage and it was designed to be the outlet for the sexual tension that is a characteristic of the physical maturation of both men and women. So…. there is a faction of society that doesn’t want to live by the rules and order that God set up. They want to do (as quite precisely stated in Judges 21:25) “that which was right in his own eyes.” However, that doesn’t mean that when people ignore God (and set aside the system neatly set up by God to deal with the reality of sexual tension) that the need for sexual release goes away. And so, what you have are folks like Weinstein who try to handle that need another way. So tell me again why is this a surprise that that there are such wicked deviants as rapists in the world? They are simply the product of what has been sown and the real mystery is why God doesn’t let things get far worse…..
You don’t really expect that someone you know is gonna come inside your apartment and rape you.
But after reading the New Yorker article, I am so disgusted. And I am disgusted with the eerily similar stories of victims of Bill Clinton. Harvey Weinstein was powerful in Hollywood. The Clintons had far greater means to harm those who crossed them.
Yes, this quote is from the more detailed article in The New Yorker (by Dylan Farrow) which I linked in #28.
I believe this isn't as much about sex as it is about power and humiliation.
Juanita was NOT looking for a job, money, a favor and Billyboy RAPED her and bit through her lip until it bled, tore off pieces of her clothing, so violently, they were shredded.
Not that FUGLY Harvey wasn't/isn't a POS and should be punished...he should be!
Neither do you open a door to anyone you know casually, in night clothes!
Most NYC apartment buildings have an intercom system or a phone system in the lobby. WHY WASN'T SHE CALLED?
Most people have chain locks ( it's a lock but it has a chain on it, so that you can open the door a crack and NOT let someone barge right in ) on their doors in apartments in NYC!
Harvey may be one of THE most evil and disgusting people alive today, vis-a-vis his treatment of women, but she was/is STUPID beyond belief!
By Dylan Farrow...Ronan's sister?
That’s what RAPE is always about...not sexual relations.
oh noooo, sorry I mis-typed, the article is by Ronan Farrow, not Dylan.
If Bill can get away with it, then why not Harvey?
We are an equal opportunity nation don’t cha know?
I was just surprised, is all.
The money didn't matter. Hiring hookers wouldn't satisfy his needs. It's all about domination.
Ronan Farrow did the investigation and was coming out with a book. The media knew the story would sell , and the DNC was begging for some kind of distraction.
Harvey is bad, but may not even be the worst. At least he only picked on ‘legal’ women. The DNC and Hillary get a DISTRACTION and the rest of Hollywood gets to continue the casting couch process, male and female, legal age and not legal age.
Harvey is the sacrificial lamb. A bad lamb, but he is sacrificed so they don’t have to sacrifice themselves.
I wonder if all of this rape rape enough for Whoopi Goldberg.
Probably. After all, Ms. Sciorra is an "artist," so she's special. Juanita Broaddrick wasn't in movies.
It is getting to sound like if you are a Hollyweird actress and not raped by Harvey Weinstein, you are a nobody!
PFL
I suspect he did the same thing to Prince Harry’s ex, Cressida Bonas. She had made a trip to the U.S. to visit Weinstein wrt furthering her acting career.
The last I saw/read of her was in a Daily Mail photograph of her posing next to Weinstein. Her facial expression was a forced, pained smile as if she was grossed out beyond description.
The article finished with Weinstein stating Cressida had ahead of her a “very promising” career.
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