Harvey Weinstein's lawyers put forward a pact with Ashley Judd

Harvey Weinstein's lawyers have asked for the rejection of the April suit filed by actress Ashley Judd. Their argument? They reported a pact between her and the fallen producer, whom she accuses of torpedoing her career for resisting her badual harbadment.

A Pact for an Oscar . The 50-year-old comedian 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 trilogy at the monumental success The Lord rings 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 who denies all these accusations, recall that the actress had reported an "agreement" with the producer in a hotel room. She would have accepted that he "touch her as long as she wins an Oscar in one of her films". He then "tried to respect his share of the bargain by trying to get the actress hired in as many roles as possible to win him" one of these 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 plaintiff's defamation charges," Harvey Weinstein's lawyers argue.

"Insulting" Arguments, according to the actress' 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 Mira Sorvino, another actress who accuses him of badual harbadment. "The arguments of Mr. Weinstein to try to escape the consequences of his despicable conduct are not only unfounded, they are insulting," replied Ashley Judd's lawyer.

"How can I get out of the room ? " 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 to watch him take a shower. She would have advanced this pact to temper the ardor of the one who then 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 remembered having thought, in an interview with New York Times .