Harvey Weinstein allegedly used Project Runway to meet models

The accusations of sexual harassment and other misconduct against Harvey Weinstein keep mounting.

A new Los Angeles Times investigation alleges that Weinstein used his extensive fashion ties as a “pipeline” for models. Among those ties—which include his backing of Marchesa, the fashion line cofounded by Weinstein’s wife, Georgina Chapman, and his investment in the brand Halston, which he once hoped to revitalize—is his connection to the long-running show Project Runway. The Weinstein Company produces the show, though its name was recently scrubbed from the credits after the allegations against Weinstein began to surface.

According to the Times, which spoke with nearly a dozen people tied to the fashion industry, including executives and publicists connected to the show, Weinstein used his links to fashion and his company’s ownership of Project Runway “as enticements or pretexts for meetings.”

In multiple instances, models claimed Weinstein tried to coerce them into unwanted sexual situations. Former model Juliana De Paula told the Times that Weinstein “groped her and forced her to kiss other models that he had taken to his loft in New York a decade ago. When she tried to leave, she said, he chased her through the apartment, naked. She fended him off with a broken glass.”

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