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Kate Beckinsale shares a shocking account of Harvey Weinstein's abuse

Kate Beckinsale shares a shocking account of Harvey Weinstein's abuse

"Hearing that he's gone to prison for 23 years is a huge relief to me on behalf of all the women he sexually assaulted."
12 Mar, 2020

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison on charges of first-degree and third-degree rape during his trial in New York.

More than 80 women have accused the media mogul of sexual misconduct; one of them was Kate Beckinsale who, after Weinstein's verdict, took to Instagram to share "one of the many experiences" she had with gone through with him.

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Beckinsale shared her memory after the Serendipity premiere, revealing no one wanted to go "because holding a premiere mere weeks after 9/11 with the city still smoking felt like the most insensitive, tone deaf,disrespectful idea possible. But Harvey insisted."

According to the actor, Weinstein had invited her and her daughter "for a playdate with his similar aged daughter," but when they showed up, he had the daughters taken to another room and proceeded to yell at Kate and abuse her for not dressing provocatively.

"The shock made me burst into tears," she said.

"I managed to get myself and my child out of there and yes, that was one of many experiences I had that there was no recourse for,and falls under no felony. But I was punished for it, and for other instances where I said no to him for years, insidiously and seeming irreversibly."

She went on to say, "Hearing that he has gone to prison for 23 years is a huge relief to me on behalf of all the women he sexually assaulted or raped, and I hope will be a deterrent to that sort of behavior in this and any other industry."

"I hope and pray that we as an industry can start to actually outlaw all abuses of power and expose them and eliminate them, for all genders, forever."

She ended her note with a "Brava" for Rose McGowan, who was one of the most vocal fighters against Weinstein when the accusations started coming out.

The verdict for Harvey Weinsten was seen as a milestone for the #MeToo movement, which was fueled by his case starting in late 2017. The movement inspired women to accuse hundreds of powerful men - in entertainment, business, news media, politics and other fields - of sexual misconduct.

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Alih Mar 12, 2020 03:31pm
This guy has made many people so rich and famous.
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The Truth Spy Mar 12, 2020 04:10pm
waaw and you were silent all these years
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M. Saeed Mar 12, 2020 04:16pm
This is a very elucidate narrative to tell the horrible morale decadence of the high society of the West.
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BrownFlower Mar 12, 2020 05:42pm
Weinstein is just the tip of the iceberg. Every other man at the position of power is like that.
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Adnan Mar 12, 2020 07:21pm
Censorship?
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Big John Mar 12, 2020 07:41pm
Reality will soon sink in. Harvey is all through.
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Steve lomas Mar 12, 2020 07:52pm
Seems to have been a relatively satisfactory outcome to this sorry saga. Hope he is in prison the full term.
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Shailesh Mar 12, 2020 11:10pm
It would be interesting to learn how these people become so powerful in the first place. Do they have political backing, police help in becoming things they are?
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A Khan Mar 13, 2020 07:18am
Kids also read your paper, can you kindly censor the language. Or is that another thing you people don't care about anymore.
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AJ Mar 13, 2020 09:21am
What a monster this Harvey is! Very disappointed in those who knew all of this, but kept quiet because they wanted to be in this villain's good books for money and fame.
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Anonymouseee Mar 13, 2020 10:40am
The story sounds too fake.
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Laila Mar 15, 2020 09:58am
@M. Saeed we got a whole lotta moral bankruptcy and moral corruption going on right here in the East except we are great at sweeping it under the rug and pretend it's not there. People in power get away with the most horrible things every day. Nothing to do with east or west.
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