The latest lawsuit, however, alleges that Weinstein’s employers were complicit in his devious behavior and even went out of their way to keep it quiet. Weinstein after the passing of decades, and he is confident that the evidence will not support Ms. “This is yet another example of a complaint filed against Mr. Imran Ansari, one of Weinstein’s lawyers, told The Daily Beast that his client “categorically denies the allegations made against him by Julia Ormond and he is prepared to vehemently defend himself.” The statement also noted that CAA also shared the internal investigation with Ormond about her four year relationship with the agency and that they “vigorously refute” her “baseless” claims.ĭisney, Miramax, and one of Ormond’s former CAA agents did not immediately respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment. Ormond not making the allegations against CAA public,” and that the agency rejected that demand. Ormond’s attorneys, that CAA pay $15,000,000 in exchange for Ms. The spokesperson added that CAA “received a demand, through its counsel, from Ms. Their review found nothing to support Ms. “Knowing these allegations to be untrue, the agency then retained attorney Loretta Lynch and her law firm, Paul Weiss, to defend the company. Ormond approached CAA in March with these allegations about the agency,” the spokeswoman said. Ormond has levied against the agency are completely without merit. Ormond and the experience she described in her complaint.” In a statement to The Daily Beast, a CAA spokesperson stressed that the agency “takes all allegations of sexual assault and abuse seriously and has compassion for Ms. I seek a level of personal closure by holding them accountable to acknowledge their part and the depth of its harms and hope that all of our increased understanding will lead to further protections for all of us at work.” “Their courage and the Adult Survivors Act has provided me a window of opportunity and way to shed light on how powerful people and institutions like my talent agents at CAA, Miramax and Disney enabled and provided cover for Weinstein to assault me and countless others. “After living for decades with the painful memories of my experiences at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, I am humbled and grateful to all those who have risked speaking out,” Ormond said. The lawsuit, which was first reported by Variety, also names Disney and CAA for allegedly telling her to stay quiet after the assault. She alleges that Weinstein lured her into a room under the guise of giving her a massage before he allegedly forced her to give him oral sex and masturbated on her. In the Wednesday lawsuit filed in Manhattan, Sabrina star Julia Ormond states that Weinstein sexually assaulted her after a business dinner. An English actress has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, claiming the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted her in 1995.
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