“I remember, right when Georgina’s clothing line Marchesa was starting. That’s when he came to visit me in London while we were shooting. He’d be like, ‘Ok, so I’d like you to wear one of these to the premiere,'” Aniston said in an interview forVariety‘s Power of Women issue, referencing the time she worked with Weinstein for the film,Derailed, in 2005.
The actress continued: “And I went through the book, and at the time, it wasn’t what it is today. It was not for me. He was like, ‘You have to wear the dress.’ That was my only bullying. And I was like, ‘No, I will not wear the dress.'”
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In October 2017, the publication of bombshell,Pulitzer Prize-winning articlesinTheNew YorkerandTheNew York Timesdocumented Weinstein’sdecades of alleged sexual misconduct and sexual assaultsand sparked the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
ActressAshley Juddtold theNew York Timeshow Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed her during a 1997 hotel meeting. Other actresses including Asia Argento andRose McGowanopened up toRonan Farrow ofThe New Yorkerwith their stories of Weinstein’s alleged sexual assaults and harassment against them.
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Weinstein surrendered to authoritiesin May 2018 at a police precinct in New York wherehe was arrested and chargedwith allegedly raping a woman and forcing another to perform oral sex, police sources confirmed to PEOPLE.
Weinstein is currently set to go to trial in January 2020 for charges of rape, predatory sexual assault and criminal sexual act based on the accusations of two women, according toThe Washington Post.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
source: people.com
