Attorney Aaron Filler, who formerly represented de la Huerta, filed the lawsuit on Friday in Los Angeles
A lawyer who represented actress Paz de la Huerta has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and an attorney, alleging they coordinated in a scheme to get the actress to drop her rape complaint against the movie mogul.
Attorney Aaron Filler, who formerly represented de la Huerta, filed the lawsuit on Friday in Los Angeles against Weinstein, his company and attorney Michael Rubin.
Rubin, a former New York prosecutor turned defense attorney, is a ‘specialist in the criminal defense of rapists’, the suit claims.
But Rubin, posing as a ‘victims rights advocate’, contacted de la Huerta in a nefarious attempt to gain access to and expose her medical records and convince her to drop her rape allegations against Weinstein, the suit claims.
A lawyer who represented actress Paz de la Huerta (left) has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein (right) and a former New York prosecutor, alleging they coordinated in a scheme to get the actress to drop her sexual misconduct complaint against the movie mogul
Rubin initiated contact with de la Huerta after she came forward in a November 3 interview with Vanity Fair, alleging that Weinstein raped her twice, according to the suit.
De la Huerta said that the sexual assaults occurred in 2010 in New York, within New York’s statute of limitation for first degree rape. Prosecutors have said they are considering bringing charges, but not have yet been filed.
The complain alleges that Rubin approached de la Huerta, insisted she keep their communications secret, and urged her the immediately drop Filler and his firm as her attorneys in the matter.
‘After this series of efforts to damage and humiliate De La Huerta, Rubin informed her, on November 12, she had no case and should withdraw her allegations against Weinstein,’ the lawsuit states.
De la Huerta said that the sexual assaults occurred in 2010 in New York, within New York’s statute of limitation for first degree rape
Rubin denied the allegations and said that Filler is just upset he lost a client.
‘I never met Harvey Weinstein in my life,’ he said.
Rubin said his intentions in reaching out to the actress were to help de la Huerta get Weinstein arrested.
Weinstein spokeswoman Holly Baird said in an email to The Associated Press on Saturday that it’s ‘insanity’ to suggest that Weinstein ‘had any involvement.’
More than 80 women have come forward to accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct, but he has yet to face criminal charges in any of the cases.
Weinstein and his team reportedly provided a list of names to former Mossad agents and other Israeli intelligence agencies to gather intelligence about his accusers.