CAA and Disney Challenge Julia Ormond’s Claim They Enabled Harvey Weinstein in Alleged Assault
20.12.2023 - 00:59
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer CAA and Disney are fighting back against Julia Ormond‘s claim that they acted as enablers for Harvey Weinstein and failed to protect her from being sexually assaulted. Ormond rose to fame in the mid-90s, appearing in “Legends of the Fall” and “Sabrina.” She has alleged that Weinstein lured her to a business meeting in December 1995, then sexually assaulted her at her apartment in New York.
She filed suit in October, accusing Disney, which then owned Weinstein’s company, and CAA, her agency at the time, of failing to warn her of Weinstein’s history of sexual assault because he was “too important, too powerful and made them too much money.” The companies filed motions to dismiss Ormond’s lawsuit on Tuesday, arguing they did not know about Weinstein’s sexual misconduct before the meeting. “CAA thus had no reason to believe there was any risk to Plaintiff in arranging a business dinner with Weinstein,” the company argued.
“In suing CAA, Plaintiff places blame on the wrong defendant.” Ormond’s lawsuit alleges that Weinstein’s pattern of misconduct was already known in the industry, specifically at CAA, by the time of her meeting. The suit references a 2017 New York Times story, “Weinstein’s Complicity Machine,” which reported that the actor Mia Kirshner rejected an advance from Weinstein at a hotel room in 1994 and told her CAA agents about it.
But in its motion to dismiss, CAA argues that Kirshner’s experience was not analogous to Ormond’s claim of sexual assault. “Neither the Complaint nor the underlying news article asserts that Weinstein engaged in conduct other than verbally propositioning Kirshner, and neither source alleges that Kirshner’s interaction with Weinstein involved any
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