The lawsuit accuses Weinstein of running offices at the movie companies he controlled – Miramax and then the Weinstein Company – and hotel rooms like a “casting couch”, and says this was “a choice facilitated and condoned by Miramax, the Weinstein Company and its board of directors”.
Weinstein is already the defendant in another class action lawsuit filed by six women in California.
Three women filed a class action lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein on Friday – a fresh blow for the fallen movie mogul, who was arrested in New York and indicted on rape and other charges related to sexual misconduct last week.
The lawsuit sues Weinstein, a series of companies, including Disney, and named executives and unnamed plaintiffs that he has worked with, many of whom are seen as having enabled his conduct.