The latest developments in the Harvey Weinstein scandal, as they happen:
Kate Beckinsale comes forward: In an Instagram post published Thursday Kate Beckinsale accuses Weinstein of offering her alcohol during their first meeting at his hotel room when she was just 17. While that encounter didn't progress to sexual harassment, she writes that she was struck by a later encounter in which he revealed he couldn't remember what happened.
The Underworld actress said she'd assumed their morning meeting would take place in a hotel conference room, which she says was “very common.” However, when she arrived at London's Savoy Hotel, the front desk directed her to Weinstein's room, where he answered the door, she says, clad in a bathrobe.
I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older," unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him,” she wrote in the post. ”After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed.”She continued, “A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not. I had what I thought were boundaries — I said no to him professionally many times over the years —some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a (expletive) and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people, 'Oh ‘Kate lives to say no to me.’"Beckinsale believes denying Weinstein “undoubtedly harmed my career,” and seeks to “create a new paradigm where producers, managers, executives and assistants and everyone who has in the past shrugged and said ‘ well, that's just Harvey/Mr X/insert name here ‘ will realize that we in numbers can affect real change.”Scotland Yard, NYPD reviewing at Weinstein reports: On Thursday, Britain's Guardian reported Scotland Yard's child abuse and sexual offense unit is investigating a report referred to them by London's Metropolitan Police have referred a case involving Weinstein. Meanwhile, New York Police Department spokesman Peter Donald told the Associated Press that detectives are reviewing police files for cases involving Weinstein. He added that so far, no complaints have been found aside from that of model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, which led to a 2015 investigation.