New York Times Alleges Years of Sexual Harassment From Harvey Weinstein

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The New York Times released an investigative report against renowned movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of decades of sexual harassment against women — some of whom were starring in the movies he’d produced.

But Harvey told The Post immediately after the story was printed that he planned on suing the Times for $50 million for “reckless reporting.”

In the piece, reporters accused Harvey of paying at least eight women between $80,000 to $150,000 each to settle their complaints, including Rose McGowan (who’d mentioned a while back that the man who raped was a very famous person, though she never mentioned names).

Another actress was Ashley Judd (who wasn’t one of the women that received money). Allegedly, Ashley told the Times she was filming 1997’s Kiss The Girls when Harvey lured her to his hotel room and offered a massage, then asked if she wanted to watch him shower.

“I said no, a lot of ways, a lot of times, and he always came back at me with some new ask,” Ashley told the Times. “It was all this bargaining, this coercive bargaining.”

Ashley said she decided to identify him because “women have been talking about Harvey amongst ourselves for a long time, and it’s simply beyond time to have the conversation publicly.”

The women were mostly in their early to mid-20s at the time, and they’d describe how Harvey would appear near or fully naked and make them watch him bathe or give them a massage.