The statement said the agency hired lawyers to investigate her claims when she first came to them in March, and they found only “evidence of a dynamic and engaged relationship between CAA and Ms Ormond, and the agency’s consistent efforts to support her career”. She has accused CAA, Disney and Miramax, saying that they knew Weinstein presented a danger to women, but did nothing to stop him or to help her.Īccording to the filing, “none of these prominent companies warned Ormond that Weinstein had a history of assaulting women because he was too important, too powerful, and made them too much money”.ĬAA responded in a statement that the agency “takes all allegations of sexual assault and abuse seriously, and has compassion for Ms Ormond”. Ormond claimed she told her US agents at the time, Creative Artists Agency, but received no support and was advised not to take any legal action or other steps. Imran Ansari, Weinstein’s lawyer, said his client “categorically denies the allegations made against him by Julia Ormond and he is prepared to vehemently defend himself”. She accuses him of committing sexual battery against her in December 1995 after a business meeting, and then retaliating against her and negatively affecting her career after she confronted him weeks later. She claimed that she met Weinstein in 1994 and kept in touch with him to discuss scripts and projects, before entering into a production agreement with Miramax, where he was co-chairman. The actress alleges in her lawsuit that Weinstein hindered her career at the time her star was rising. In 1994, she starred alongside Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall, and then a year later with Harrison Ford in Sabrina, and with Sean Connery and Richard Gere in First Knight. Ormond first appeared on British television in the series Traffik in 1989, and within four years had made her international film debut as the lead in The Baby of Mâcon. ![]() The case was filed in New York under the Adult Survivors Act, a law passed last year that allows a temporary window for those who allege sexual assault to file outside the statue of limitations. She also accuses The Walt Disney Co, Miramax and her former agents of knowing Weinstein was a problem, but doing nothing about it. The actress Julia Ormond has filed a lawsuit accusing the disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 1995.
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