Harvey Weinstein ‘demanded actress, 24, have threesome saying “that’s how Charlize Theron and Selma Hayek got ahead”‘
HARVEY Weinstein demanded a young actress have a threesome with him before saying "that's how Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek got ahead," a court heard on Wednesday.
Witness Dawn Dunning told jurors in a Manhattan court that the 67-year-old predator asked her to meet him in a hotel suite in when she was just 24 years old - but when she declined, he told her she'd need to trade sex for career opportunities.
"You'll never make it in this business! This is how the industry works!" Dunning claims Weinstein shouted at her before name-dropping Theron and Hayek to pressure her into three-way sex.
He claimed that was how the actresses found success and that it was something that happened often in the film industry before, she testified.
The former aspiring actress then ran out of the room and never spoke to him again, she claimed.
Now 40, Dunning claimed Weinstein put his hand up her skirt in an earlier assault - all while his employees sat in an adjoining room at a hotel in in 2004.
A second woman, Tarale Wulff, recounted her own alleged assault by the predatory film producer, which she testified took place in 2005 inside his apartment at what she initially believed would be a business meeting.
But Weinstein grabbed her by the arms, forced her onto a bed and threw himself on top of her, she claims.
"Don't worry I had a vasectomy," he said, according to her court testimony.
At least a week before the alleged assault, Wuff said the accused rapist masturbated in front of her and that she could see his hand moving beneath his untucked shirt.
Both Dunning and Wulff met Weinstein in their early twenties while working as waitresses in Manhattan during the early 2000s.
The women were called to the stand as "prior bad acts" witnesses, which means that their testimonies aren't connected to any specific charges, according to
The young aspiring actresses were in search of their big break in Hollywood - instead, they say they were victimized by the former movie mogul and his unwanted sexual advances.
Through a spokeswoman, Weinstein previously denied any encounters involving "non-consensual" sex or "acts of retaliation".
He has pleaded not guilty to five charges, including two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison.
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Theron and Hayek have both shared their own disturbing encounters with Weinstein.
Theron told the in December 2019 that he has lied about sleeping with her in an attempt to manipulate other women.
In May 2017, Hayek called Weinstein a "monster" in an op-ed for the and revealed she had repeatedly rejected his harassment and endured verbal abuse on the set of her film "Frida" in 2002.
Reps for Theron and Hayek didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Sun.
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