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Julia Ormond is wielding a massive lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein for sexual assault, and she’s also pointing the courtroom finger at the CAA, The Walt Disney Company and Miramax for allegedly enabling his behaviour.
While most of the world is now aware of Weinstein’s heinous crimes of sexual harassment, it is rare for business partners profiting from Weinstein’s work to be named defendants for allegedly enabling his behaviour.
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In court docs obtained by Variety, the “Legends of the Fall” actress, 58, alleges Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 1995 after a business dinner. Ormond claims that after informing her CAA agents, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, they cautioned her against speaking out about the tragic crime.
She is now suing the CAA for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.
Miramax and The Walt Disney Company, once linked to Harvey Weinstein, now face a lawsuit for negligent supervision and retention, although former executives like Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg aren’t defendants.
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The suit alleges that these companies and the talent agency CAA were aware of Weinstein’s misconduct but failed to warn the actress because he was too influential and profitable.
Ormond, speaking out under the Adult Survivors Act, aims to bring change to Hollywood’s reporting structures and the use of NDAs to silence victims. She believes Weinstein’s enablers played a crucial role, and early action could have prevented further harm.
Weinstein, currently serving time for rape convictions, has been accused by over 100 women.
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CAA had been silent all day Wednesday since Julia Ormond named the uber-agency and Disney in her sexual battery lawsuit against the imprisoned Harvey Weinstein, but tonight the Bryan Lourd-led company is calling its inclusion in the calling the action “baseless,”
Elizabeth Wagmeister Chief Correspondent Julia Ormond, the English actress best known for her roles in ’90s films such as “Legends of the Fall,” “First Knight” and “Smilla’s Sense of Snow,” is suing Harvey Weinstein for sexual battery. Ormond is additionally suing CAA, The Walt Disney Company and Miramax.
Variety first reported.A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday morning in the New York Supreme Court.The disgraced movie producer — who is currently serving a 23-year sentence in jail for rape — allegedly sexually assaulted Ormond in 1995 after a business dinner.The “Sabrina” star was reportedly “lured” into a private room with Weinstein, who asked her to give him “a massage, climbed on top of her, masturbated and forced her to give him oral sex.”Ormond then told her agents at CAA, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, about the incident that transpired.The court docs state that the men advised against speaking out and did not give her their protection.The “Curious Case of Benjamin Button” star is suing the talent company for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.The Walt Disney Company was the parent corporation that purchased Miramax — the film production office that Weinstein and his brother Bob founded in 1979 — in the 1990s.Ormond is coming at the two brands for negligent supervision and retention.“Our client has suffered tremendously both personally and professionally due to the assault by Harvey Weinstein, and the failure from Disney, Miramax and CAA to prevent it and to appropriately respond when she reported what happened,” Ormond’s attorneys said in a statement.
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“Gangs of New York.”“I realized that I couldn’t work if I had to make films that way ever again,” Scorsese told GQ in a profile published last week.“If that was the only way that I was able to be allowed to make films, then I’d have to stop,” he said. “Because the results weren’t satisfying. It was at times extremely difficult, and I wouldn’t survive it.
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