Harvey Weinstein

[Anonymous]

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

She mentioned an upcoming criminal trial so she may be 1 of 3 testifying in NY retrial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

Why don't you ever believe the girls and women? Why would she lie? You just proved that she would be punished for speaking out.

You pp are a bystander and it really sickens me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

Why don't you ever believe the girls and women? Why would she lie? You just proved that she would be punished for speaking out.

You pp are a bystander and it really sickens me

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

The bolded is rape, but was she one of the victims he was charged with raping in the criminal trial? The article says she is suing him in civil court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

Why don't you ever believe the girls and women? Why would she lie? You just proved that she would be punished for speaking out.

You pp are a bystander and it really sickens me

Why? Because he’s really rich and she has much to gain from a civil trial against him. There’s something very opportunistic about her. She was a teen who voluntarily moved by herself to a new country for work. That takes a certain type of person who is not shy or diminutive. She got from Poland to a top NYC modeling agency and yet I’m supposed to believe she had no idea what a meeting with Weinstein would entail when apparently everyone in the business knew.

Yeah, I don’t think so. Especially not when she needs to tell her story in Rolling Stone, as opposed to going to the police promptly when it happened. No, I don’t believe her at all. They are all very, very skeezy and gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

Why don't you ever believe the girls and women? Why would she lie? You just proved that she would be punished for speaking out.

You pp are a bystander and it really sickens me

Why? Because he’s really rich and she has much to gain from a civil trial against him. There’s something very opportunistic about her. She was a teen who voluntarily moved by herself to a new country for work. That takes a certain type of person who is not shy or diminutive. She got from Poland to a top NYC modeling agency and yet I’m supposed to believe she had no idea what a meeting with Weinstein would entail when apparently everyone in the business knew.

Yeah, I don’t think so. Especially not when she needs to tell her story in Rolling Stone, as opposed to going to the police promptly when it happened. No, I don’t believe her at all. They are all very, very skeezy and gross.

The age of consent in NY is 17 and she was 16, so it's statutory rape regardless. There are also some elements of force, as described. Her story is a lot more sympathetic than the adult women who pretty much went to his hotel to suck him off and then said his body parts were really gross and they felt like they were raped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

Why don't you ever believe the girls and women? Why would she lie? You just proved that she would be punished for speaking out.

You pp are a bystander and it really sickens me

How do you know that I NEVER believe the girls and women?
Why would she lie? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but sometimes, women do lie just like men do.
Nowhere did I say that she should be punished.

If you believe everything women say just because they say it happened, I hope that if you ever have a close male relative like a husband, son or dad accused of any sort of sexual assault, you don't advice them to get a lawyer to defend themselves. Just assume that they're guilty and tell them to stay away from you.

People like you sicken me. Everybody deserves their day in court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No, he was in a position of power and exploited it. He SHOULD be convicted.

A position of power? These were all wanna be actresses, striving for movie star roles, not hungry women desperate to feed their children with no other options. Nobody forced them to have sex with him. They did so willingly and then he didn’t give them the roles they thought they deserved to get for sleeping with him. There was a lot of disgusting behavior, on all sides, but no criminality.
Even the children?

Kaja Sokola 16

IN SEPTEMBER 2002, the 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland. While attending an event whose guest list was curated by her agency — NEXT She met Harvey Weinstein. He was 50 years old at the time

Sokola recalls he said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I can see you have potential and I would like to meet with you for lunch and discuss it.’ Of course, I’ve heard, ‘Do not go out for dinners. People can put all sorts of drugs in your drinks.’ But a lunch seemed safe.”

As she laid out in a 2019 lawsuit, Sokola tells Rolling Stone she gave her phone number to the Miramax mogul. Three days later, he called and told her that his driver would pick her up for lunch. While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age. She told him the truth: 16. The driver dropped the two off at Weinstein’s Soho apartment.

When the elevator door opened directly into Weinstein’s home, she realized that they were alone. Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor. Terrified, she tried to bolt, but he blocked her exit and held her in place by her arms. In an effort to normalize the situation, Weinstein insisted that what just happened was commonplace for him and threw out the names of Gwyneth Paltrow and Penélope Cruz as women whose careers he’d helped. As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice. He told the teen that she needed to work on her stubbornness.

Lindsay Goldbrum, one of Sokola’s attorneys—“Harvey could not do what he did to these women if he was not enabled by scores of people,” says

Heiress Abigail Disney—“It’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability. Harvey was an open secret. I mean, it wasn’t even a secret. Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, Well, this is just how business is done. Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, Well, not here. We don’t do it that way here. I think Disney needs to step up. When you’ve done a wrong thing, even if it’s only by stepping back and letting something happen, that’s still a wrong thing to do. And you have to take responsibility.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-weinstein-accuser-interview-youngest-kaja-soloka-1393654/

A serious question, so don't get upset or think that I approve of sexual assault. But were any of her accusations proved in court? From what I've read, it seems like a "He said she said" type of situation.

Why don't you ever believe the girls and women? Why would she lie? You just proved that she would be punished for speaking out.

You pp are a bystander and it really sickens me

Why? Because he’s really rich and she has much to gain from a civil trial against him. There’s something very opportunistic about her. She was a teen who voluntarily moved by herself to a new country for work. That takes a certain type of person who is not shy or diminutive. She got from Poland to a top NYC modeling agency and yet I’m supposed to believe she had no idea what a meeting with Weinstein would entail when apparently everyone in the business knew.

Yeah, I don’t think so. Especially not when she needs to tell her story in Rolling Stone, as opposed to going to the police promptly when it happened. No, I don’t believe her at all. They are all very, very skeezy and gross.

The age of consent in NY is 17 and she was 16, so it's statutory rape regardless. There are also some elements of force, as described. Her story is a lot more sympathetic than the adult women who pretty much went to his hotel to suck him off and then said his body parts were really gross and they felt like they were raped.

I don’t believe a word coming out of her mouth, including her alleged age. She wasn’t born in the US, so the documentation is iffy at best. Who knows what’s true or not, why would her parents let her move to NYC alone if she were just 16?