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The head of Amazon Studios was put on leave Thursday following sexual harassment allegations from a producer on the Amazon series Man in the High Castle, adding to Hollywood’s crisis over its mistreatment of women.
Studio executive Roy Price is on a leave of absence effective immediately, Amazon said in a statement. He is accused of crudely propositioning producer Isa Hackett.
The company also said it’s reviewing its options for projects it has with The Weinstein Co, the embattled firm that fired co-founder Harvey Weinstein on Sunday over an avalanche of allegations of sexual misconduct and assault.
The announcements came after actress Rose McGowan said on Twitter Thursday that she had warned Amazon not to do business with Weinstein and was ignored.
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The actress forcefully re-emerged from a suspension from Twitter, stating bluntly what she has long suggested: “HW raped me.”
Amazon is developing two series with The Weinstein Co, The Romanoffs from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and an untitled drama from filmmaker David O. Russell and starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore.
Dozens of women, including actresses Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, have gone public with accusations against Weinstein after a report by The New York Times on misconduct claims by others. Many are calling for sweeping changes in the industry, and urging more women to speak out about harassment and abuse.
The Eastern branch of the Writers Guild of America noted the scope of the problem in a statement Thursday, writing “sexual harassment and assault have long been hallmarks of the entertainment industry.”
The Amazon statement tied together the Weinstein scandal roiling Hollywood and rumoured allegations against Price by producer Hackett. Details of her claims were first reported by The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday.
Christopher Tricarico, an lawyer for Hackett, said that the trade paper’s account of her allegations was accurate.

1) @jeffbezos I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof.
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017

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Hackett, a producer on Amazon’s High Castle drama based on the work of her late father, author Philip K. Dick, alleged that Price propositioned her with crudely suggestive language after a 2015 Comic-Con event in San Diego.
Hackett doesn’t intend to pursue legal action against Amazon or Price, Tricarico said in an email Thursday, adding that she declined further comment.
Jolie, Paltrow accuse Weinstein of harassment, as others allege rape
According to Hackett’s account in The Hollywood Reporter, she met Price for the first time at a post-convention dinner attended by the cast of High Castle and Amazon staff.
He invited her to a company party at a hotel and she joined Price and another then-Amazon executive in a cab ride there. According to Hackett, Price repeatedly propositioned her, saying, “You will love my [slang for penis].”
Price persisted at the party even after Hackett told him she was a lesbian with a wife and children, she told the trade paper. At one point, she said, Price drew close to her and loudly said, “anal sex!” even as others stood nearby.
She promptly told Amazon executives, Hackett said, and the company brought in an outside investigator. Hackett said she did not receive word of the results but never again saw Price at events involving her Amazon shows, which include High Castle and the upcoming Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.
In a series of tweets Thursday, McGowan addressed Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and said she repeatedly told an Amazon Studios executive that “HW raped me.” McGowan says the executive told her it wasn’t proven and she said “I am the proof.”
She pleaded with Bezos to end his company’s alleged involvement in a culture of exploitation and abuse.

4) @jeffbezos I am calling on you to stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers. I love @amazon but there is rot in Hollywood
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017

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McGowan last year said she had been raped by a “studio head”. A New Yorker expose that ran on Tuesday reported that Weinstein had allegedly sexually assaulted three women, though the third woman was unnamed. The New York Times earlier reported that Weinstein paid a financial settlement of US$100,000 to McGowan in 1997 over an incident in a hotel room at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

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Amazon Studios chief Roy Price, pictured in 2015, is accused by producer Isa Hackett of loudly propositioning her using crudely suggestive language. Photo: AP

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2015 file photo, producer Isa Dick Hackett attends "The Man in the High Castle" photo call at the Amazon Summer TCA Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Another powerful Hollywood executive is facing allegations of sexual harassment. Hackett, a producer on an Amazon series, claims that Amazon Studios chief Roy Price propositioned her using crudely suggestive language. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this April 15, 2015 file photo, Rose McGowan arrives at the LA Premiere Of "DIOR & I" held at the Leo S. Bing Theatre on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Los Angeles. McGowan’s Twitter account has been suspended, temporarily muting a central figure in the allegations against Harvey Weinstein. McGowan said late Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, that Twitter had suspended her from tweeting after the social media company said she broke its rules.(Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

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(FILES) This file photo taken on July 24, 2017 shows British model and actress Cara Delevingne posing for a photograph upon arrival for the European premiere of "Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets" in London. Model and actress Cara Delevingne on October 11, 2017 accused disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein of propositioning her and attempting to kiss her after a meeting about an upcoming film. In a statement released via her publicist, the 25-year-old alleged she had initially received an "uncomfortable call" from the producer, during which he questioned her about her sexuality. / AFP PHOTO / Chris J Ratcliffe

(FILES) This file photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows US film producer Harvey Weinstein posing during a photocall as he arrives to attend the De Grisogono Party on the sidelines of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, at the Cap-Eden-Roc hotel in Antibes, near Cannes, southeastern France. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) said on October 11, 2017 it has suspended Harvey Weinstein's membership, effective immediately. The organisation acted as the scandal engulfing the Hollywood producer continued to widen, with new claims he raped an Italian film star and two other women drawing condemnation from across the film world and America's liberal political elite. / AFP PHOTO / Yann COATSALIOU

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Virginia Rappe in 1921, and comedian Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle. Photo: AP

FILE- In this May 23, 2017 file photo, Charlize Theron appears at the 70th Anniversary of the film festival in Cannes, southern France. For anyone thinking the days of the so-called casting couch were long gone, this past week has been eye-opening. Theron was new in Hollywood but knew the warning signs when she went to an audition. In a 2005 interview in Marie Claire, she said she thought it was a little odd that the audition was on a Saturday night at his house in Los Angeles. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 1954 file photo, Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch," in New York. For anyone thinking the days of the so-called casting couch were long gone, this past week has been eye-opening. The lengthy allegations directed at Harvey Weinstein suggest they never left Hollywood. Monroe was no stranger to studio chiefs and filmmakers and addressed it in her memoir, “My Story.” (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2017 file photo, Casey Affleck arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles. Two women who worked on Casey Affleck’s film “I’m Still Here” filed sexual harassment lawsuits against him in 2010. Both claims were settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in 2010. Affleck has repeatedly denied the allegations. He went on to win the best actor Oscar for “Manchester by the Sea.” (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

This combination photo showsMetro Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer in 1948, left, and singer actress Judy Garland on the set of "The Harvey Girls," in Los Angeles in 1945. Garland was pawed and propositioned for sex by studio bigwigs at MGM between the ages of 16 and 20, according to author Gerald Clarke, who wrote “Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.” One of the most notorious harassers was allegedly Louis B. Mayer, the head of the studio. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - In this June 21, 1939 file photo, Australian actor Errol Flynn appears at a tennis match in Los Angeles. Flynn conducted a two-year affair with Beverly Aadland, starting when she was 15-year-old. At the time of the affair Flynn had already been accused _ and found not guilty _ of the statutory rape of two underage girls in 1942. (AP Photo, File)

In this combination photo, Samantha Geimer arrives at the premiere of the HBO Documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" in New York on May 6, 2008, left, and director Roman Polanski appears at the 70th international film festival, in Cannes, France on June 9, 2017. Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with Samantha Geimer, then a 13-year-old aspiring actress during a photo shoot in Los Angeles in 1977. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - In this May 28, 1963 file photo, British actress Joan Collins appears at El Morocco in New York. Collins says she lost out on the lead role in “Cleopatra” because she wouldn't sleep with the studio head. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo, Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Cosby, the "Cosby Show" star once known as America's Dad, is facing a retrial on charges he drugged and molested a former Temple University employee, at his home in 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

FILE - This 1941 file photo shows child actress Shirley Temple. In her memoir “Child Star,” Temple claimed that an MGM producer known to have an “adventuresome casting couch” unzipped his trousers and exposed himself to her during their first meeting in 1940. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2016 file photo, producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles. Harvey Weinstein's wife, Georgina Chapman, tells People magazine she is leaving her husband. She said in a statement her heart breaks for all the women who have suffered because of Weinstein's "unforgivable" actions and pleaded for privacy for herself and her two young children as allegations against her husband mount. They married in 2007. (Photo by Al Powers/Invision/AP, File)

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US film producer Harvey Weinstein on the sidelines of the 70th Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2017. Photo: AFP

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Studio chief Roy Price is accused of crudely propositioning producer, while actress Rose McGowan says she warned Amazon that Weinstein assaulted her and was ignored
