Paz de la Huerta Sues Harvey Weinstein For Sexual Assault

According to TMZ, Paz de la Huerta is suing Harvey Weinstein for 2 alleged sexual assaults she says took place in 2010. She details meeting Weinstein at an NYC movie premiere on Dec. 7, 2010. She claims he offered a ride home to her apartment, and insisted on coming in because he didn’t want to discuss business in her very public lobby.

The suit claims that once Weinstein got upstairs he threatened her career if she didn’t have sex with him and then raped her. She then claims that the 2nd incident went down on Dec. 23, 2010, when Weinstein called her to say he’d be waiting outside her building when she got home. In the suit, she says she decided to confront him, and drank heavily on the way home, out of fear and depression, and couldn’t consent to sex due to being intoxicated.

She claims that Weinstein “again forced himself on [her] by performing unconsented vaginal intercourse through overpowering physical force.” She also claims a 2011 incident where Weinstein opened his robe and exposed himself as soon as she entered his hotel room for a meeting. Instead, she claims he invited her to have a threesome with another naked woman in the room, but rejected him and left the room.

De la Huerta claims that Weinstein retaliated by getting her fired from Boardwalk Empire, and estimates his actions have cost her $55 million in earnings over her career. She’s suing him for assault, sexual battery and emotional distress; she’s also going after the now-defunct TWC. Weinstein’s attorney has responded…

“It is our understanding that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office carefully reviewed Ms. De la Huerta’s claims of sexual assault by Mr Weinstein many months ago and made a conscious decision to reject her as a complainant for obvious reasons. We also believe that her newly minted version of events including her new California claims are equally preposterous and unfortunately, the product of an unstable personality with a vivid imagination.”