The ‘Sopranos’ Actor Annabella Sciorra Accuses Weinstein of Rape

In a tell-all New Yorker piece, Sciorra and actress Daryl Hannah accuse Weinstein of rape and relentless harassment.

The Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra accused producer Harvey Weinstein of rape. 

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The Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra claimed on Friday she was raped by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, after he barged his way into her apartment. Writing a confessional piece in the New Yorker, Sciorra describes how Weinstein “shoved” her onto her bed and had non-consensual sex, back in 1992.

He got on top of me. I kicked and I yelled...When he was done, he ejaculated on my leg, and on my nightgown. 

Annabella Sciorra

She alleged that Weinstein continued to sexually harass her for years. In the same article, actress Daryl Hannah also says she was harassed by Weinstein, adding that the movie mogul once tried to force his way into her hotel room.

Relentless Harassment by Weinstein

Sciorra claims in the New Yorker that after a dinner party one night, Harvey offered to drop her off home. Since nothing had happened before this, she took him up on the offer. After she reached and was getting ready for bed, within minutes, she heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, “[Weinstein] pushed the door open, walked in like it was his apartment, like he owned the place, and started unbuttoning his shirt. So it was very clear where he thought this was going to go. And I was in a nightgown. I didn’t have much on.”

When he was done, he ejaculated on my leg, and on my nightgown. He said, ‘I have impeccable timing,’ and then he said, ‘This is for you.’ And then he attempted to perform oral sex on me. And I struggled, but I had very little strength left in me. I think, in a way, what made him leave, because it looked like I was having a seizure or something.

Annabella Sciorra

She also alleges that the harassment continued for years later in the form of unwanted messages, and barging into her rooms without invitations.

Daryl Hannah alleges in the same piece that on two occasions, Weinstein pounded on her hotel-room door to let him in. The first time she had to escape out a back entrance. The next day when it happened again, she barricaded herself in using furniture. She also says Weinstein once asked to touch her breasts and after she refused repeatedly to his advances, he retaliated against her professionally.

On Thursday, another actress, Natassia Malthe, accused the producer of raping her in a London hotel room in 2008. Sciorra and Hannah are the latest of dozens of women who have spoken out against Weinstein.

He has been ousted from his own company and expelled from the motion picture academy.