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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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.
[b][u]Even the children[/u][/b]?[/quote]
[u][b]Kaja Sokola 16[/b][/u]

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/[/quote] 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.[/quote]

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[/quote]
Exactly. [/quote]

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