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Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan appeared at a premiere for the film Grindhouse in 2007<\/p><\/div>\n
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The scandal deluging Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has deepened after US actress Rose McGowan publicly accused him of raping her.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a series of tweets, McGowan also accused Amazon Studio chief Roy Price of having ignored her when she made the allegation earlier.<\/p>\n Amazon has put Price – himself accused on Thursday of sexually harassing a female producer – on leave of absence.<\/p>\n Weinstein denies any sexual assaults. There was no comment from Price.<\/p>\n Police forces in the US and UK police have launched\u00a0investigations into sexual assault allegations<\/a>\u00a0against Weinstein:<\/p>\n Film producer Stephen Woolley tells Today film industry “should be ashamed” of the way it handled Weinstein<\/p><\/div>\n Addressing Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos on Twitter, McGowan criticised the company for doing business with Weinstein.<\/p>\n “I told the head of your studio that HW raped me,” she wrote. “Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof.”<\/p>\n Price was separately accused by Isa Hackett, a producer on one of Amazon’s shows, of having lewdly propositioned her in a taxi and at a corporate dinner in 2015,\u00a0the Hollywood Reporter writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hackett reported the incident to Amazon executives immediately, she was quoted as saying, and an outside investigator was brought in.<\/p>\n She was not told the outcome of the investigation but did not see Price again at any events involving her shows, she added.<\/p>\n In a statement, Amazon said: “Roy Price is on leave of absence effective immediately. We are reviewing our options for the projects we have with The Weinstein Co.”<\/p>\n Three women earlier accused Weinstein of rape in an investigative article\u00a0in The New Yorker magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n They are Italian actress and director Asia Argento, former aspiring actress Lucia Evans and a third woman who was anonymous.<\/p>\n Emma Thompson: “This man is at the top of a very particular iceberg”<\/p><\/div>\n The same article says 10 other women told the author that Weinstein had either sexually harassed or assaulted them between the 1990s and 2015.<\/p>\n The New York Times broke the story on 5 October when\u00a0it detailed decades of allegations<\/a>\u00a0of sexual harassment against Weinstein.<\/p>\n Weinstein has insisted through a spokeswoman that any sexual contacts he had were consensual.<\/p>\n Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has said he believes that Weinstein should not be judged prematurely.<\/p>\n GETTY IMAGES –\u00a0(L-R) Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Cara Delevingne, Lea Seydoux, Rosanna Arquette, Mira Sorvino have all spoken about their experiences with Harvey Weinstein<\/p><\/div>\n Jane Fonda: “I should have been braver”<\/p><\/div>\n “If he broke the law it will come out,” he told reporters on a visit to South Korea for a film festival. “I believe that a man shouldn’t be condemned by a vigilante system.”<\/p>\n\n
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\nAFP –\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Amazon Studio’s Roy Price has been suspended from his job<\/h5>\n\n
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