British actress Lysette Anthony becomes fifth woman to accuse Weinstein of rape
‘He was half undressed and he grabbed me’
British actress Lysette Anthony has told police that Harvey Weinstein raped her, The Sunday Times reported, becoming the fifth woman to level such accusations against the disgraced Hollywood mogul.
The 54-year-old actress, who currently appears in British soap Hollyoaks, told Metropolitan Police last week that she had originally met Weinstein in New York, and agreed to meet him later at his rented house in London, according to the paper.
“The next thing I knew he was half undressed and he grabbed me. It was the last thing I expected and I fled,” she told The Times.
Anthony, who appeared in Woody Allen’s 1992 film Husbands and Wives, said that Weinstein then began stalking her, turning up unannounced at her house.
“He pushed me inside and rammed me against the coat rack,” she said of the attack in the 1980s.