A video shows Weinstein stroking a woman before an alleged rape

A video of Harvey Weinstein stroking and proposing a woman who accused him of rape was broadcast Wednesday on television.

Melissa Thompson, who sued Weinstein in June, said she made the recording, presented by Sky News, while demonstrating video technology for the villain turned to # MeToo at her New York office in 2011.

Weinstein is seen on the video throwing a handshake from Thompson, then hugging and scrubbing her.

He then caresses her shoulder while they sit side by side in front of her laptop during what was supposed to be a professional presentation.

At one point, he said to her, "Leave me a little bit of you, can you give it to me?"

After quickly agreeing to use technology to promote his films, Thompson said Weinstein had put his hand in his dress.

The video, which captures only the two from the waist, does not show Weinstein's hands at that point, but shows that Thompson reacts uneasily and tells Weinstein: "It's too high." C & # 39; is too high. "

It also shows that she's joking about her progress, saying that "the data is hot".

Sky News has only broadcast parts of the video. Thompson's lawyers refused to share it with The Associated Press.

Weinstein's attorney stated that the entire video "demonstrates that there is nothing forced" and shows "occasional, even clumsy, flirtation of both parties".

"All that is wrong in order to make Mr. Weinstein appear inappropriate and even abusive," said lawyer Ben Brafman. "It was produced by Ms. Thompson to strengthen her position in a civil lawsuit for money, a new attempt to publicly dishonor Mr. Weinstein for financial gain and we will not tolerate him. "

In an interview with Sky News, Thompson stated that Weinstein's behavior was distracting and that she was struggling to stay "on script" with the product's presentation. She said that her affect has changed since the beginning of the meeting, that her eyes had become darker and that he "looked like a predator".

Thompson later stated that she had met Weinstein at a bar in the neighboring hotel, where she had declared that she was expecting to enter into the technology deal. She said Weinstein had driven her into a hotel room and had raped her.

On the way, she says, he has repelled his attempts to fight or leave.

"If I tried to fight him, he would move where he could block me somewhere, and he's a great individual," Thompson told Sky News. "I always felt trapped, no matter where I turned."

Weinstein was charged in New York with sexually assaulting three women. Thompson is not among them. Brafman says the defense team has accumulated "overwhelming evidence" from email traffic and witness accounts to refute these allegations.

Weinstein is free on bail pending trial.

Thompson, who had previously worked on Wall Street, rejected suggestions that she encouraged Weinstein's behavior.

She told Sky News that she wanted to keep the conversation professional and politely rebuffed her advances while trying to preserve the deal.

"I've never met anyone that I could not handle until Harvey Weinstein," she said. "We do not have to live with rape when we think we are going to a work meeting."