Currently, former American filmmaker Harvey Weinstein is serving a 23-year prison sentence for sexual assault in New York starting in 2020, but his sentence could be increased after the new charge.
In 2022, he was found guilty on three counts of rape, the sentence is 16 yearsand a few days ago, Julia Ormond, a well-known face in 90s Hollywood, accused Weinstein of sexual assault.
Career of Ormond, British actress, He was on the rise when he experienced the alleged attack, which he said happened in 1995 in New York, after a business dinner.
After what happened, Ormond, 58, warned Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the agency that represented her, but they advised her not to talk about it or try to take legal action because it would jeopardize her acting career.
To that end, the British actress filed a lawsuit in New York, where the law allows for sex crime lawsuits outside the statute of limitations, against Weinstein, Miramax, the production company founded by the former producer, Disney and CAA.
Disney bought Weinstein’s production company in 1993, so in the alleged victim demands She claimed that they did not protect her knowing the risk of working with Weinstein.
“This sexual assault on Ormond could have been prevented if Miramax or Disney had properly supervised Weinstein and not hired him knowing he was a danger to the women he encountered at work,” the lawsuit states.
CAA, for its part, lost interest in representing the actress after what happened, and her career suffered the consequences to the point that she disappeared from the public scene, and after decades of silently painful memories of the traumatic experience, she feels touched by all those who risked to speak.
“His courage (…) paved the way for me to shed light on how powerful people and institutions, like my talent agents at CAA, Miramax and Disney, enabled and covered up Weinstein to attack me and countless others,” the actress said. . .
In recent years, more than 80 people condemned the former producer, The 71-year-old, for rape or inappropriate behavior committed since the late 1970s, BBC News reported.
Last year, in Los Angeles, the former producer was court in seven counts of the indictment, he was found guilty in three, based on the accusations of four women who abused each other from 2005 to 2013 in hotel rooms in the city.
The former producer was acquitted of one of the charges accusations, and the rest by the jury he did not enter into a plea agreement, the charges for which he was found guilty are related to the accusation of a model of Italian descent.
Career and image of the former producer failed in 2017, in which her decades-long history of sexual abuse was exposed, however, in 2015, some actresses began to speak out.
Who is Julia Ormond?
The British actress has credits in films such as “Legends of the Passion”, “Sabrina” and “Lancelot: The First Knight”, but before stepping onto the big screen, her first acting steps were on stage during her school days. .
The daughter of a businessman and a laboratory technician, she has four siblings and studied acting at London’s Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and West Surrey College of Art and Design.
Susannah Fincannon, the role she played in “Legends of Passion” (1994), brought her world fame, but the television movie “Stalin” (1992) is the achievement that made her famous as an actress.
Source: Panama America
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