Actor
Rose McGowan has claimed on Twitter that
Harvey Weinstein raped her, clarifying her past comments about being sexually assaulted by an unnamed studio head. McGowan has been vocal in her criticism of
Weinstein
since the paper expose on the studio honcho.
She was named among the eight women in the article who allegedly reached a private settlement with Weinstein following an undisclosed incident in a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. In her tweets, McGowan alleged that a studio optioned a TV series from her and then killed it after she voiced concern to executives about Weinstein who was behind two of the programmes on the streaming platform.
The actor directed a series of tweets at Jeff Bezos. "I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn't been proven. I said I was the proof," McGowan wrote.
"I had already sold a script I wrote to your studio, it was in development. When I heard a Weinstein bailout was in the works... I forcefully begged studio head to do the right thing. I was ignored. Deal was done. Amazon won a dirty Oscar," she alleged.
McGowan said she finally decided to get her script back but she she was informed by the studio that her show had been killed. "I am calling on you to stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers. I love @amazonstudios but there is rot in
Hollywood
," she alleged.
Weinstein's representative
Sallie Hoffmeister
said that Weinstein denies the allegation, saying that "any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein."
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