Angelina Jolie has joined the many women who have come forward with on-the-record sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did," the Oscar winner, 42, claimed in an email to The New York Times in a report published on Tuesday, October 10. “This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.”
According to the newspaper, Weinstein, 65, allegedly made unwanted advances on Jolie in a hotel room in the late 1990s around the time of the release of her film Playing by Heart.
Gwyneth Paltrow shared a similar story with the Times. She claimed that after the producer hired her for the lead role in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, he invited her to his suite at The Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills for a work meeting that ended with him placing his hands on her and suggesting bedroom. massages.
"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified," the 45-year-old actress, who was 22 at the time of the alleged encounter, recalled in an interview with the paper.