Thurman breaks silence on ‘Weinstein abuse’
Uma Thurman has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her after they worked together on Pu..
Uma Thurman has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her after they worked together on Pulp Fiction.
The actress claims Weinstein would spend "hours" complimenting her after they got to know one another in the mid-Nineties.
The 47-year-old alleges that things took a sinister turn when the director told her to follow him down a corridor in a Paris hotel – leading her to a steam room.
She told the New York Times: "And I was standing there in my full black leather outfit – boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, 'This is ridiculous, what are you doing?'
"And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out."
Thurman claims Weinstein also tried to expose himself to her while at his suite at the Savoy Hotel in London.
"He did all kinds of unpleasant things," she said.
"It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself.
"But he didn't actually put his back into it and force me. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.
"I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track."
Weinstein representatives have responded to the claims, saying that "Mr Weinstein acknowledges making a pass at Ms Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris".
They added that he "later apologised".
In a long statement sent to Deadline, the producer's representatives shared public photos of Weinstein with Thurman in movie premieres and awards shows, to try to prove the two were friends.
"We have pulled a number of images that demonstrate the strong relationship Mr Weinstein and Ms Thurman had had over the years and we wish the New York Times would have published them," the statement reads.
Weinstein's lawyer, Ben Brafman, later said his client would consider legal action against Thurman, and asked why the actress "would wait 25 years to publicly discuss this incident" and then "embellish" it with "false accusations".
Thurman also claims to have told Quentin Tarantino of the incident, which led the filmmaker to confront Weinstein, with Weinstein then apologising to the actress.
"I just walked away stunned, like 'Okay, well there's my half-assed apology,'" said Thurman.
Thurman, who has worked on several films with Weinstein including Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, had previously said she was too angry to comment on sexual misconduct claims against the producer.
"I've been waiting to feel less angry," she said last year.
"And when I'm ready, I'll say what I have to say."
Meanwhile, in unrelated allegations, British police said on Saturday they were investigating two more sexual assault claims against the disgraced producer.
These allegations were made to the Met Police in November last year, but have only now been made public.
It brings the total number of women who have reported the Hollywood producer to British police to nine, in a time period ranging from the 1980s to 2015.
"On November 13 an allegation was received that the man sexually assaulted a woman (Victim 9) in Westminster in 2011 and outside the jurisdiction of the UK in 2010," police said.
"The second allegation will be passed to the relevant police force in due course."
The UK police investigation into Weinstein claims is known as Operation Kaguyak and there have been no arrests made so far.
Weinstein has denied all allegations of sexual assault.
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:: Who are Weinstein's accusers?
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Salma Hayek, Actress
Hayek is the latest actress to speak out against film producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of sexual harassment and branding him a "monster".
The Mexican-born 51-year-old hit out at the Hollywood mogul in a revealing article published in the New York Times, detailing alleged sexual harassment, bullying and threats made against her.
She claimed he once told her: "I will kill you, don't think I can't."
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Paz de la Huerta, Actress
The NYPD is investigating claims Weinstein raped Paz de la Huerta twice in 2010.
The actress appeared in Weinstein's film Cider House Rules at the age of 14 and ran into the producer 12 years later in a New York City hotel.
She claims she accepted a lift home from Weinstein and was raped when they got inside.
Weeks later, Weinstein allegedly raped de la Huerta again after turning up in her apartment lobby.
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Annabella Sciorra, Actress
The Emmy nominated star of The Sopranos accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her in the early 1990s.
She told The New Yorker that Weinstein forced his way into her apartment "like he owned the place and started unbuttoning his shirt".
"It was very clear where he thought this was going to go."
She told the magazine that she resisted but he carried on.
"He shoved me onto the bed, and he got on top of me" and "attempted to perform oral sex on me.
"I struggled, but I had very little strength left in me. I was so ashamed."
The actress said she then stopped working for several years and fell into depression.
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Daryl Hannah, Actress
Hannah appeared in Kill Bill: Volume 1 which was produced by Harvey Weinstein.
She told The New Yorker Magazine that while she was in a hotel with a makeup artist Weinstein "burst in like a raging bull" and asked to touch her breasts.
She says she refused but that it had an immediate impact on her career.
"I experienced instant repercussions," she said. "I called all the powers that be and told them what had happened. It didn't matter.
"We are not believed. We are more than not believed – we are berated and criticised and blamed."
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Brit Marling, Actress
The OA star said she was asked to meet Harvey Weinstein in a bar before a female assistant said the meeting had been moved to his suite.
"I, too, was asked if I wanted a massage, Champagne, strawberries," she wrote.
"It was clear that there was only one direction he wanted this encounter to go in, and that was sex or some version of an erotic exchange.
"I was able to gather myself together – a bundle of firing nerves, hands trembling, voice lost in my throat – and leave the room."
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Natassia Malthe, Actress
The Norwegian actress and model claims Harvey Weinstein raped her in a London hotel after a Bafta awards ceremony in 2008.
Malthe, now 43, said: "I was sitting on the bed talking to Harvey when he pushed me back and forced himself on me, it was not consensual.
"I was completely grossed out. I believe that I disassociated during the time that he was having sex with me.
"I laid still and closed my eyes and just wanted it to end. I was like a dead person. Afterwards I lay there in complete disgust."
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Dominique Huett, Actress
The Blue Bloods star accused The Weinstein Company of having "actual knowledge" of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, after claiming the producer performed oral sex on her and then performed a sexual act in front of her.
In a £3.8m negligence lawsuit, Huett accuses The Weinstein Company's "executives, officers and employers had actual knowledge of (Harvey) Weinstein's repeated acts of sexual misconduct with women".
The star says the company's board of directors, including his brother Bob Weinstein, were "aware of Weinstein's pattern of using his power to coerce and force young actresses to engage in sexual acts with him".
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Sarah Polley, Director
Polley spoke of a meeting she had with Weinstein when she was a 19-year-old actress.
She claims he insisted that he had a "very close relationship" with a particular actress and that if Polley were to do the same, it would get her leading roles and awards.
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Melissa Sagemiller, Actress
The actress told the Huffington Post that she experienced Weinstein's behavior on three separate occasions – firstly in the summer of 2000, when she filmed Get Over It.
"He said: 'Well, you're not going to leave until you kiss me'. I remember that's when it turned from: 'Oh, ha ha, I can handle this guy' to: 'Well, OK, he's blocking the door, sort of' – he'd walked over and put his hand on the door. It was just one of those things where I was like, 'Really?' He just wouldn't stop. It was relentless."
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Katya Mtsitouridze, TV Host
The Russian TV host accused Weinstein of sexual harassment, saying the producer tricked her into visiting his hotel room alone where he threatened her to stay silent.
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Sean Young, Actress
The Blade Runner star said: "I personally experienced him pulling his you-know-what out of his pants to shock me".
"My basic response was, 'You know, Harvey, I really don't think you should be pulling that thing out, it's not very pretty.'"
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Erika Rosenbaum, Actress
The actress said: "He brought me into the bathroom. I don't remember what I said, if I said anything at all. I think I was too afraid to say anything.
"He held me by the back of the neck and had me face the mirror and said, 'I just want to look at you,' and then he started masturbating behind me.
"He was holding me by the back of the neck and looking right into my face. I remember seeing my own face in the mirror and I just could not believe I was standing there.
"I could not believe that I had let this happen. I felt incredibly guilty."
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Zelda Perkins, Assistant
Harvey Weinstein's former assistant said she broke a confidential agreement to speak out about alleged sexual harassment by the producer.
She worked for Miramax in London and shared a £250,000 payment with another woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by Weinstein.
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Lena Headey, Actress
Game of Thrones star Lena Headey has claimed Harvey Weinstein angrily marched her out of a hotel after she rejected his advances.
"We walked to the lift and the energy shifted, my whole body went into high alert, the lift was going up and I said to Harvey, I'm not interested in anything other than work, please don't think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen.
"His hand was on my back, he was marching me forward, not a word, I felt completely powerless, he tried his key card and it didn't work, then he got really angry.
"He walked me back to the lift, through the hotel to the valet, by grabbing and holding tightly to the back of my arm, he paid for my car and whispered in my ear, don't tell anyone about this, not your manager, not your agent."
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Lina Esco, Actress
She says Weinstein told her: "I think we should see a movie in the theatre, like back in the day, and we should kiss."
She allegedly brushed him off but he pressed on and forcefully tries to kiss her.
"It's just a kiss," he allegedly said.
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Minka Kelly, Actress
After meeting to Weinstein at a party, Kelly claims he set up a "general meeting" via her agent in his hotel room.
"He said: 'I know you were feeling what I was feeling when we met the other night' and then regaled me with offers of a lavish life filled with trips around the world on private planes etc. – If I would be his girlfriend."
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Lysette Anthony, Actress
The British actress, who now stars in Hollyoaks, accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her in the 1980s.
She told the Sunday Times: "He pushed me inside and rammed me against the coat rack. He was trying to kiss me and shove inside me. Finally I just gave up."
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Tara Subkoff, Actress
The 44-year-old actress says she was invited to a premiere after-party in 1990 where she met Weinstein.
"He motioned for me to come over to him, and then grabbed me to sit me on his lap. I was so surprised and shocked I couldn't stop laughing because it was so awkward."
Subkoff told Page Six she then felt "that he had an erection".
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Myleene Klass, Presenter
The TV presenter said Weinstein offered her a sex contract, to which she said she replied: "F*** off".
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Angie Everhart, Model
Everhart told a radio station she was sleeping in her bedroom on a yacht at a European film festival when she awoke to find Weinstein standing over her and masturbating.
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Eva Green, Actress
The Casino Royale actress said she felt "shocked and disgusted" after an encounter with Harvey Weinstein in which she allegedly had to "push him off".
"I met him for a business meeting in Paris at which he behaved inappropriately and I had to push him off. I got away without it going further, but the experience left me shocked and disgusted.
"I have not discussed this before because I wanted to maintain my privacy, but I understand it is important to do so as I hear about other women's experiences. Women are often condemned when they speak out and their personal reputations tarnished by association.
"I salute the great bravery of the women who have come forward. We should recognise that this sort of behaviour exists everywhere and is not unique to the entertainment industry. The exploitation of power is ubiquitous. This behaviour is unacceptable and needs to be eliminated."
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Claire Forlani, Actress
The actress tweeted about her experience of Harvey Weinstein.
She said: "You see, nothing happened to me with Harvey – by that I mean, I escaped 5 times.
"I had two Peninsula Hotel meetings in the evening with Harvey and all I remember was I ducked, dived and ultimately got out of there without getting slobbered over, well just a bit.
"Yes, massage was suggested. The three dinners with Harvey I don't really remember the time period, I was 25.
"I remember him telling me all the actresses who had slept with him and what he had done for them."
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Kate Beckinsale, Actress
In a statement released to her Instagram the actress accused Weinstein showing up to a meeting in a bathrobe and offered her alcohol when she was 17.
"After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed. A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. I realised he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not."
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Florence Darel, Actress
The French actress told French media that Weinstein promised to help her make it in America if she became his "part-time" mistress.
"I told him I was very much in love with my partner, but he said that that didn't worry him and he wanted me to be his mistress for a few days a year."
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Cara Delevingne, Model
The model turned actress claims she was invited up to his room where Weinstein asked her to kiss another woman, before later trying to kiss her on the lips.
"I went to a meeting with him in the lobby of a hotel with a director about an upcoming film.
"The director left the meeting and Harvey asked me to stay and chat with him. As soon as we were alone he began to brag about all the actresses he had slept with and how he had made their careers and spoke about other inappropriate things of a sexual nature.
"He then invited me to his room. I quickly declined and asked his assistant if my car was outside. She said it wasn't and wouldn't be for a bit and I should go to his room.
"At that moment I felt very powerless and scared but didn't want to act that way hoping that I was wrong about the situation.
"When I arrived I was relieved to find another woman in his room and thought immediately I was safe.
"He asked us to kiss and she began some sort of advances upon his direction. I swiftly got up and asked him if he knew that I could sing. And I began to sing….I thought it would make the situation better….more professional….like an audition….I was so nervous.
"After singing I said again that I had to leave. He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room."
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Lea Seydoux, Actress
The French actress, who stars in James Bond film Spectre, wrote an article in the Guardian saying: "He suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me. I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him."
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Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress
Paltrow told The New York Times that Weinstein hired her for the lead role in the film Emma and, before shooting the film, invited her to his suite.
She then claims he touched her and suggested having joint massages in the bedroom when she was 22 years old.
"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified," she said.
She claimed she then told Brad Pitt, her boyfriend at the time, about the incident and that the actor confronted Weinstein.
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Louisette Geiss, Actress
Geiss claimed she was called to a late night meeting with Weinstein, when he emerged in a bathrobe and told her he would approve her script if she watched him masturbate.
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Judith Godreche, Actress
Weinstein allegedly harassed French actress Judith Godreche in Cannes, but she claims she was advised by a colleague not to speak out against him.
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Dawn Dunning, Actress
Weinstein allegedly offered aspiring actress Dawn Dunning roles in upcoming films in exchange for sexual favours.
She claims he told her she would "never make it in this business" if she denied him.
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Asia Argento, Actress
The Italian actress who stars in action film xXx, spoke to The New Yorker, accusing Weinstein of forcibly performing oral sex on her at his hotel in 1997. She told the magazine: "It wouldn't stop. It was a nightmare."
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Katherine Kendall, Actress
In 1993, Weinstein allegedly exposed himself to actress Katherine Kendall at his apartment.
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Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, Model
The Italian model leaked a recording of Weinstein allegedly sexually harassing her.
"Why yesterday you touch my breast?" she is heard saying.
"Oh, please, sorry, just come on in, I'm used to that," he answers.
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Mira Sorvino, Actress
In 1995, at the Toronto International Film Festival, Weinstein allegedly harassed actress Mira Sorvino, star of 1996 comedy Beautiful Girls.
She claims he later went to her apartment late one night for a marketing meeting he had suggested.
She told him her boyfriend was coming over and he left, she says.
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Rosanna Arquette, Actress
Weinstein allegedly tried to put Pulp Fiction actress Rosanna Arquette's hand on his penis.
When she rejected him, she claimed he said she was "making a big mistake".
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Rose McGowan, Actress
Weinstein reached a reported $100,000 settlement with Charmed actress Rose McGowan after she alleged a sexual harassment incident.
McGowan has tweeted that "HW raped me".
She later spoke out saying: "I've been silenced for 20 years, I've been slut-shamed, I've been harassed, I've been maligned, and you know what I'm just like you because what happened to me behind the scenes happens to all of us in this society and that cannot stand and it will not stand.
"I came to be a voice for all of us who have been told we are nothing, for all of us who have been looked down on, for all of us who have been grabbed by the m*****-f****** p****.
"No more. Name it, shame it, call it out. Join me, join all of us as we amplify each others' voices and we do what is right for us and our for sisters and for this planet."
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Ashley Judd, Actress
Actress Ashley Judd was one of the first women to come forward with accusations against Weinstein, alleging he made an indecent proposal to her at her hotel suite.
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Emma de Caunes, Actress
In 2010, Weinstein allegedly showed his penis and demanded sex from French actress Emma de Caunes after a business meeting.
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Lauren O'Connor, Executive
Lauren O'Connor, a former Weinstein employee, wrote a memo about his actions, saying she felt "sexualised and diminished".
Weinstein reportedly agreed on a settlement with her.
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Jessica Barth, Actress
In 2011, Weinstein allegedly pressured actress Jessica Barth to give him a naked massage at the Peninsula Hotel in New York.
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Lauren Sivan, Journalist
Journalist Lauren Sivan says she refused a kiss from Weinstein before he allegedly performed a sex act in front of her at the Cafe Socialista restaurant in New York.
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Jessica Hynes, Actress
The British actress said she was invited to audition in a bikini for Weinstein when she was 19.
She claims she lost the job when she refused to wear it.
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Romola Garai, Actress
British actress Romola Garai said she felt "violated" following a meeting with the mogul when she was 18.
"So I had to go to his hotel room in the Savoy and he answered the door in his bathrobe. I was only 18. I felt violated by it," she said.
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Heather Graham, Actress
Graham accused Weinstein of calling her into his office and implying she had to sleep with him in order to get a part.
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Angelina Jolie, Actress
In 1998, Weinstein allegedly harassed actress Angelina Jolie in a hotel room.
In an email to The New York Times, Jolie said: "I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did.
"This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable."
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Juls Bindi, Massage Therapist
Bindi accused Weinstein of masturbating in front of her in 2010 after a massage.
She says he simultaneously groped her and masturbated in front of her after she told him to stop.
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Lupita Nyong'o, Actress
The 12 Years A Slave and Star Wars actress claims that when she was a drama school student in 2011, she was invited to Weinstein's family home to watch a film.
She said that shortly after it started he "insisted" in front of his children that she follow him and was led to his bedroom.
The actress said she felt pressured into giving him a massage after he offered her one.
"Before long he said he wanted to take off his pants," she wrote in The New York Times.
"I told him not to do that and informed him that it would make me extremely uncomfortable. He got up anyway to do so and I headed for the door, saying that I was not at all comfortable with that."
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Lauren Holly, Actress
The Beautiful Girls star claims Weinstein took a shower in front of her in a hotel room, later asking her to give him a massage.
She said no and the producer, allegedly, threatened her.
At that point, Holly said, she "pushed him and ran".
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Mia Kirshner, Actress
The L Word actress alleged Weinstein attempted to treat her "like chattel that could be purchased with the promise of work in exchange for being his disposable orifice".
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Marisa Coughlan, Actress
The actress said she had a string of encounters with Weinstein who she claims propositioned her multiple times, suggesting trading sex for work.
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Alice Evans, Actress
The star claims Weinstein asked her to go into the bathroom with him because "he wanted to 'touch your t***, kiss you a little'".
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Trish Goff, Actress
The actress claims that after a party Weinstein arranged a private room for them.
"Then he started putting his hands on my legs, and I said, 'Can you stop doing that?' When we finally stood up to go, he really started groping me, grabbing my breasts, grabbing my face and trying to kiss me."
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Heather Kerr, Actress
Kerr claims Weinstein exposed himself to her and forced himself on her sexually in a private meeting in 1989.
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Anonymous #1
A woman who did not wish to be named told The New Yorker that he summoned her to a hotel where he was staying and raped her.
Anonymous #2
An unnamed assistant accused him of pressuring her for a "massage" in a hotel in 2015.
Anonymous #3
An unnamed Miramax employee accused him of sexual harassment which was settled out of court.
Anonymous #4
A British woman accused Weinstein of sexual assault in three separate dates in 2010, 2011 and 2015 in Westminster and Camden.
Anonymous #5
A British woman accused Weinstein of sexual assault in Westminster in 1992.
