Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow have both alleged that they suffered sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein in the 1990s.Paltrow starred in the Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love which was a Miramax Films production, produced by Weinstein. She claimed that after being asked to attend a meeting in his hotel room he suggested they enter the bedroom for a massage.‘I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,’ Paltrow told the New York Times.She rejected the offer and reportedly told her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt who at a party approached Weinstein ands told him to never touch Paltrow again.Representatives for Pitt confirmed the story.'I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth,’ added Angelina Jolie in an email to the publication, which broke the story of decades of harassment by Weinstein.‘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,’ she added.In the past week dozens of other women have spoken out and alleged assault and harassment by Weinstein.Asia Argento, an Italian film actress and director, claimed that Weinstein ‘forcibly performed oral sex on her’ but that she refused to speak out because ‘he has crushed a lot of people’.‘That’s why this story—in my case, it’s twenty years old, some of them are older—has never come out,’ she added.‘The thing with being a victim is I felt responsible,’ she said. ‘Because if I were a strong woman, I would have kicked him in the balls and run away. But I didn’t. And so I felt responsible.’ An audio recording made by a Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez features Weinstein pleading with her to enter a bathroom and watch him have a shower.As she continues to say no he gets angrier, and when she asks why he groped her breasts the day before he apologises and admits it is simply behavior he is ‘used to’.That recording was made with the NYPD as part of a sting after Gutierrez went to the police about Weinstein’s behaviour.The District Attorney later decided to drop the case.

 source : Metro