Harvey Weinstein asks judge to dismiss Ashley Judd lawsuit
LOS ANGELES — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss Ashley Judd’s lawsuit against him, saying allegations that he tried to hurt her career after she rejected him sexually are baseless and were filed far too late.
In the federal court filing in Los Angeles, the attorneys discuss Judd’s comment that she would only let Weinstein touch her after she won an Academy Award in one of his films.
Judd said in her lawsuit that the statement was just a “mock bargain” she made in order to leave after he asked in a Beverly Hills hotel room 22 years ago if he could give her a massage or she could watch him shower.
Judd said Weinstein, a former movie mogul, “lorded” the comment over her many times in the future.