Disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein is facing yet another rape allegation in a new class-action lawsuit.
Three women have filed the lawsuit again Weinstein, which includes an accusation of rape by Melissa Thompson. Thompson said the rape occurred in Weinstein’s hotel room in 2011 after she met with him to pitch marketing tech.
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Furthermore, Thompson is accusing Weinstein’s current lawyer Ben Brafman and Brafman’s fellow attorney Alex Spiro of deceptively acquiring evidence from her.
She says in 2017 Spiro approached her on behalf of Brafman’s firm, telling her they were working with Weinstein’s victims following the first expose against the mogul in Oct. 2017. Thompson says the firm collected video and audio evidence from her with no intention of using the evidence against Weinstein.
Both Brafman and Spiro denies the allegations in a statement to CNN. “This firm has never represented Melissa Thompson and I personally never met with her or any of the other women named in the lawsuit,” said Brafman. “[I have] never met with Mr. Weinstein nor did he have any responsibility whatsoever in connection with our representation of Mr. Weinstein in any matter,” added Spiro.
“I never have and I never would represent Harvey Weinstein,” Spiro continued. “I left the Brafman firm well before Brafman ever represented Weinstein, and, in fact, I represent one of the key victims, but Ms. Thompson has never been a client.”
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The other two women in the class-action lawsuit are Caitlin Dulany, who accused Weinstein of performing nonconsensual oral sex on her in Cannes, France in 1996, and Larissa Gomes who says Weinstein forced her to kiss him and groped her breasts in 2000.
Weinstein, 66, turned himself into New York Police last week on charges of sex crimes.
