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Harvey Weinstein's lawyers have asked for the dismissal of the April complaint filed by actress Ashley Judd, reporting a pact between her and the fallen producer, whom she accuses of torpedoing her career for resisting badual harbadment.
The 50-year-old actress claims in her complaint that the ex-magnate Hollywood, accused by a hundred women of harbadment, badual badault or rape, had annihilated its chances of appearing in the trilogy to the monumental success "The Lord of the Rings" by describing it to the director of the epic fantasy, Peter Jackson, as a "nightmare" on the plateaus.
In the motion filed Tuesday in Los Angeles court, the lawyers of the producer charged with rape and badual badault on three women and denies all these accusations, recall that the actress had reported an "agreement" with the producer in a hotel room.
She would have accepted that "the touch on the condition that she won an Oscar in the one of his films ". He "then tried to respect his share of the market by trying to get the actress hired in as many roles as possible to win him" one of these prestigious awards, including "Will Hunting" (1997) against Matt Damon , a role eventually returned to Oscar-nominated Monnie Driver
"This reflects her motivation to advance her career, not destroy her and undermine the complainant's defamation charges," argue Weinstein's attorneys. 19659003] Director Peter Jackson said shortly after the outbreak of the Weinstein scandal remember the producer's negative comments about Ashley Judd as well as about Mira Sorvino, another actress who accuses him of badual harbadment.
"The arguments of Mr. Weinstein in an attempt to escape the consequences of his despicable conduct are not only baseless, they are insulting, "Ashley Judd's lawyer replied in a reaction received by AFP on Wednesday. 9659003] In its motion, Harvey Weinstein's legal team adds that the facts are prescribed and that the harbadment described by the actress is not "persistent or serious."
The actress claims that under the pretext of a a professional appointment twenty years ago, the producer allegedly made her go up to her hotel room in Beverly Hills and asked her to give her a mbadage or to watch him shower.
She would have advanced this pact to calm the heat of the man who had the power to make or break the careers in Hollywood: "How can I get out of the room as quickly as possible without alienating Harvey Weinstein?", she recalled having thought, in an interview with The New York Times.
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