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Harvey Weinstein’s Youngest Accuser Speaks Out - Rolling Stone

Harvey Weinstein’s Youngest Accuser Speaks Out - Rolling Stone

Harvey Weinstein’s Youngest Accuser Speaks Out - Rolling Stone
Aug 11, 2022 4 mins, 18 secs

Kaja Sokola was just 16 when she says the movie mogul attacked her.

Kaja Sokola in Los Angeles, 2022.

In September 2002, Kaja Sokola was a 16-year-old model newly arrived in Manhattan from her native Poland.

“People at the event said, ‘This is the king of Hollywood, and he can make everything happen,’” Sokola recalls.

While sitting side by side in the car, Weinstein asked Sokola her age.

Within minutes, Sokola says, Weinstein sexually assaulted her and then ejaculated on the floor.

As he released his grip on her arms, Sokola says, he gave her a parting piece of advice.

(On behalf of Weinstein, his attorney Imran H. Ansari of Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins PC, states that his client “categorically and emphatically” denies Sokola’s allegations. Ansari adds that “a timeline of events, corroborated by other evidence, including witness testimony, will refute Ms. Sokola’s allegations of sexual abuse as a minor, that were statutorily required to be alleged in her complaint in order to sue Mr. Weinstein under the Child Victims Act and not be time-barred due to the passing of the statute of limitations.” A spokesperson for Weinstein also claims that he did not buy his Soho apartment, where Sokola alleges the attack took place, until 2005.).

Even more intriguing, Sokola’s suit takes direct aim at Disney, the former parent company of Miramax that has emerged from the Weinstein debacle unscathed despite footing all of Weinstein’s business expenses from 1993 to 2005.

The complaint, which was filed in December 2019 in New York, states: “During the time Disney owned Miramax, Miramax paid settlements to multiple women who were victims of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse.

Based on Disney’s control of Miramax finances, Disney knew or should have known of these payments, which should have caused additional inquiry and investigation.” (Disney did not respond to a request for comment.) While nearly all of Weinstein’s accusers were of age at the time of their respective incidents, at least one other underage claimant has surfaced, echoing Sokola’s allegations.

Sokola’s suit, which also names Bob Weinstein and Miramax as defendants, notes that Disney employed and paid the salaries of many of the people who helped facilitate Weinstein’s predatory behavior.

Bob Weinstein’s attorney Gary Stein says, “This suit is yet another attempt to hold Bob Weinstein responsible for an alleged sexual assault committed by Harvey Weinstein that Bob had nothing to do with.

Each and every one of them has been dismissed by the courts.” An attorney for Miramax did not respond to a request for comment.

I was at the age when I just grew out of watching Disney movies a few years earlier.”.

Kaja Sokola at 17 years old.

(Weinstein’s attorney provided an affidavit from Helga Rose Samuelson, a former assistant to photographer Marco Glaviano, who said, “I am of the conviction that Kaja Sokola and Harvey Weinstein met in late 2005, during the time she was staying with me in Marco Glaviano’s apartment in the CitySpire building in New York City, and not in 2002, as she has now claims [sic].”).

Over the years that followed the alleged Soho apartment assault, Sokola says Weinstein dangled promises to help her career and made good on just enough to keep her on the hook?

When Sokola was 20 years old, Weinstein connected her with influential fashion figure Marilyn Gauthier, founder of Marilyn Agency in Paris and New York.

Sokola recalls sitting with Gauthier and two bookers while Weinstein’s voice boomed through on a speaker phone.

In 2017, the DNA scout reached out to Sokola with a link to an article about Paltrow sharing her story of being sexually harassed and intimidated by Weinstein.

Disney, Miramax, and the Weinstein brothers filed motions to dismiss

In disputing Sokola’s claims, Harvey Weinstein’s team has argued, in part, that the Child Victims Act is unconstitutional, while Disney, Miramax, and Bob Weinstein claimed that they can’t be held liable for Harvey Weinstein’s actions

Sokola’s lawyers intend to keep the legal pressure on Disney, Bob Weinstein, and Miramax, which is now owned by beIN Media Group and Paramount Pictures

Some observers who have a vested interest in Disney, like heiress Abigail Disney, say it’s high time that the company that once owned Miramax during Weinstein’s most prolific period of predation acknowledge its own culpability

Everyone knew what Harvey was about, and that was just fine as long as everybody saw it as, ‘Well, this is just how business is done.’ Nobody had the moral clarity to step up and say, ‘Well, not here

“I am very curious if Harvey looks in the mirror and he still thinks, ‘All these bitches,’ or if he has any kind of reconciliation of what he has done.” As for Weinstein’s inner circle, Sokola says, “I would ask, ‘Was it worth it?’ Because there’s no shadow of doubt in me that they knew.”

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