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Los Angeles – Harvey Weinstein's lawyers have called for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed in April by actress Ashley Judd, citing a pact between her and the fallen producer, whom she accuses of torpedoing his career for resisting his badual harbadment.
The 50-year-old actress claims in her complaint that the ex-Hollywood mogul, accused by a hundred women of harbadment, badual badault or rape, had annihilated her chances of appearing in the monumental trilogy " The Lord of the Rings "by describing it to the director of the epic fantasy, Peter Jackson, as" a nightmare "on the plateaux.
In a motion filed in Los Angeles court on Tuesday, the plaintiff's lawyers charged with raping and badually badaulting three women and denying all these charges, recall that the actress had reported a " agreement "spent with the producer in a hotel room.
She would have accepted that " the touch on the condition that she won an Oscar in one of his films ". He would have " then tried to respect his share of the market by trying to get the actress hired in as many possible roles to make him win " one of those prestigious awards, notably in " Will Hunting "(1997) against Matt Damon, a role finally returned to Monnie Driver, nominated for the Oscars.
" This reflects her motivation for advancing her career, not destroying her, and undermining the complainant's defamation allegations ," argue Weinstein's lawyers.
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.
" Mr. Weinstein's arguments in an attempt to escape the consequences of his despicable conduct are not only groundless, they are insulting ," Ashley Judd's counsel replied in a reaction received Wednesday by AFP.
In his 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 professional appointment twenty years ago, the producer had made her go up to her hotel room in Beverly Hills and asked her to give her a mbadage or watch taking a shower.
She would have advanced this pact to calm the heat of the one who then had the power to make or break the careers in Hollywood: " How I can leave the room as soon as possible without alienating Harvey Weinstein? "she recalled thinking in an interview with The New York Times.
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