Former Actress Alleges Harvey Weinstein Assaulted Her at TIFF and Told Her: ‘My Wife Loves This. You’re Going to Love This’
assaulted her two times, decades apart, during the Toronto International Film Festival.
Kelly S. met Weinstein at a TIFF party in 1991 when she was 24 years old. She was an aspiring actor and was casually introduced to him, as she was mingling with friends at the festival event. She said she and Weinstein hit it off with a cordial conversation, which she assumed to be friendly and professional. After “bantering about art and film,” Weinstein suggested the two grab a glass of wine to continue their discussion. Kelly S.
“It all happened fast,” Kelly S. muttered. She said Weinstein then took her skirt off and put the hot cloth on her vagina. “My wife loves this. You’re going to love this,” she recalls him saying. After the alleged assault in 1991, Weinstein often called Kelly S. This was before cell phones and caller ID, so she never knew it was him calling. The first time he called, she told the jury that she was very upset and asked “why was he raping me.” He told her that’s not what happened and said, “I really like you and I would leave my wife for you.” He then said he wanted her to come to New York to meet one of his executives in charges of casting, so that she could audition for a role.
“Actually, I wanted to see him because I wanted to ask why,” she testified. “All those years ago … I had thought about it often.” She added, “I felt like I was ready to give it to him.”
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