british actress Julia Ormond He filed a lawsuit this Wednesday Walt Disney Companyto the talent company CAAto the producer Miramaks already Harvey Weinstein for an alleged sexual assault committed by the former producer in 1995.
In the case filed in the New York Supreme Court, Ormond claims Weinstein, who is now in prison, harassed her after a business dinner and it provides CAA and Disney, owners of Miramax, knew about the producer’s behavior and they did nothing to protect him.
In the legal document obtained by specialist media Variety, the ‘Legends of the Fall’ or ‘First Knight’ actor explains: Weinstein seduced her for a massage, got on top of her, masturbated and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
According to his story, Ormond informed his then-agents Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane (today CAA co-presidents) about what had happened to the producer of ‘Pulp Fiction’, among other big hits, and they warned him not to talk and protected him. him-her-it..
Neither Lourd nor Huvane appear as defendants but are mentioned repeatedly as Ormond’s representatives at the time throughout the case.
Ormond is suing CAA, one of Hollywood’s largest talent agencies, for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, and accuses Miramax, a company founded by Weinstein that bought Disney in the 1990s, of negligent supervision and retention.
This last term refers to the fact that: Keeping an employee despite the company being aware of the potential harm he or she could cause to others.
Right now Weinstein, 71, is serving a 23-year prison sentence for sexual assault in New Yorkand in February Sentenced to 16 more years in prison in Los Angeles.
Even though the alleged assault took place almost 30 years ago, Ormond has legal recourse thanks to the Adult Survivors Act, which New York passed in 2022 as a result of the movement. #Me too.
The wave of accusations against Weinstein began in 2015when some actresses started speaking out about their abuse.
But Weinstein didn’t see his career collapse until October 2017, when The New York Times and a few days later The New Yorker magazine revealed the producer’s decades-long history of sexual harassment.