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Disney, CAA Fail to Dismiss Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Suit From Julia Ormond

Disney, CAA, and Miramax lost a bid to toss out a lawsuit by Julia Ormond, who alleged the companies failed to protect her from now-incarcerated Harvey Weinstein.

Disney, CAA, and Miramax lost a bid to toss out a lawsuit by Julia Ormond, who alleged the companies failed to protect her from now-incarcerated Harvey Weinstein. The actress, who rose to fame with 1994’s Legends of the Fal l, which also featured Fall Brad Pitt, and 1995’s First Knight, in which she starred alongside Richard Gere and Sean Connery, filed a lawsuit in October last year claiming the disgraced movie mogul forced her to perform oral sex on him in December 1995. In a statement at the time, Ormond said that she had lived for decades with “the painful memories” of her experiences with Harvey Weinstein, and thanked those before her who had “risked speaking out.” She added that their “courage and the Adult Survivors Act” gave her a “window of opportunity and way to shed light on how powerful people and institutions like my talent agents at CAA, Miramax and Disney enabled and provided cover for Weinstein to assault me and countless others.”

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