A new woman has come forward claiming that she was raped by Harvey Weinstein.
Mimi Haleyi claims that she was visiting Weinstein at his New York City loft back in 2006 when the 65-year-old executive forced himself on her.
The young woman said she tried to shoot down Weinstein’s repeated sexual advances by telling him she was menstruating, but he eventually overpowered her and shoved her onto a bed in his child’s bedroom.
‘He wouldn’t take no for an answer and backed me into a room which was not lit, but looked like a kids’ bedroom with kids’ drawings on the walls,’ said Haleyi.
‘He held me down on the bed, I tried to get him off me and kept asking him to stop but it was impossible. He was extremely persistent and physically overpowering.’
At that point Weinstein ripped out her Tampon said Haleyi.
‘He then orally forced himself on me while I was on my period. I was mortified. I was in disbelief,’ said Haleyi, accompanied by her attorney Gloria Allred.
‘I would not have wanted anyone to do that to me even if that person had been my romantic partner.’
She then added: ‘I remember Harvey afterwards rolling over onto his back and saying “don’t you feel we’re so much closer to each other now?” I replied “no.”
Haleyi, who had been fighting back tears, then began to openly weep.
Heartbreak: Mimi Haleyi (above) claims she was raped by Harvey Weinstein in 2006 when she visited the movie mogul’s NYC loft
Haleyi claims that she first met Weinstein at the European premiere of ‘The Aviator,’ then bumped into him again in 2006 while she was at the Cannes Film Festival.
She said that she approached the Hollywood heavyweight at that time about doing some work on one of his sets, and he urged her to come meet him at his hotel so they could discuss the matter.
When she arrived at the Hotel du-Cap Eden Roc she said that she was ushered into Weinstein’s room and soon after he asked her about giving him a massage.
She recommended he call a masseuse, and when the conversation continued on this same course she eventually made the decision to leave the room.
Haleyi said that she was then shocked when Weinstein called soon after to offer her work in New York City on one of his television projects.
She accepted the work, and after it had wrapped she met with Weinsten at the Mercer Hotel.
She said that during this time Weinstein was very charming and kind, nothing like he was when they had last seen one another in Cannes.
Haleyi then ran into him again a few days later when she had to retrieve something from the Weinstein Company offices in Tribeca.
Weinstein again behaved like a gentleman according to Haleyi, and offered to drive her home.
During the drive he informed her that he was flying off to attend the haute couture shows in Paris, and invited her to join him on the trip.