Ashley Judd files lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein
Source: The Hill
Actress Ashley Judd on Monday filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, suing him for sexual harassment and defamation. Judd alleged that Weinstein attempted to derail her career in the late 1990s after she denied his sexual advances.
Weinsteins wrongful and outrageous conduct has not just deprived Ms. Judd of the specific opportunity to play a prominent role in a blockbuster film trilogy; it has had a long-lasting ripple effect on her whole career, the complaint said, according to The New York Times.
Director Peter Jackson said he wanted to cast Judd in a lead role in his movie franchise "The Lord of the Rings," but changed his mind after Weinstein gave him what he now says is "false information" about Judd.
If this isnt an example of unfair business practice then I dont know what is," Judd's lawyer Thomas Boutrous told the Times.
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rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)She was doing an excellent job appearing in many good movies, and it seemed like all of sudden it stopped.
Good luck to her. I hope she wins big.
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)who enabled and ignored what he was doing is also exposed to the public through this lawsuit (and others)
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I hope she gets a judgment against him. He's going bankrupt, so she probably won't get any money. But this will send a message to other moguls who try to damage careers in revenge for women not letting them molest them.
Her career just sort of fizzled, after it seemed to be increasing. I thought she'd stopped to have a baby and raise a family. Turns out maybe she had a baby and raised a family because her career petered out.
This is horrible and so wrong. That cost her a career, fame, lots of money...if she had done well. She's beautiful and a good actress, so there's no reason to think her career wouldn't have continued upward, at least for a while.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)She is a pretty smart person. She has a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Kentucky
In 2010, she earned a one-year mid-career master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
In August 2016, she enrolled at UC Berkeley to pursue a PhD in Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy but she took a medical leave of absence. She has consistently been making films and appearing on tv.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I hate to think that I'm remembering her cat! Quite a difference between a child and a cat. But I remember a magazine article about her, where she talks about taking time off, tending to her family life. Maybe the little thing she spoke of was her cat...and maybe she had a husband or was living with someone at the time.
She's all but disappeared in major film...well, films that I've seen or heard about. But she had been a rising star in the 90s & maybe early 2000s.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)She said on her memoir "The fact is that I have chosen not to have children because I believe the children who are already here are really mine, too. I do not need to go making 'my own' babies when there are so many orphaned or abandoned children who need love, attention, time, and care. I have felt this way since I was at least eighteen and I had an argument about it with a childhood friend I figured it was selfish for us to pour our resources into making our 'own' babies when those very resources and energy could not only help children already here, but through advocacy and service transform the world into a place where no child ever needs to be born into poverty and abuse again. My belief has not changed. It is a big part of who I am."
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Not a major movie, but reasonably high profile.
Weinstein aside, this has long been recognized as a problem in Hollywood, that leading roles for women start drying up for women one they hit their mid 30s or so.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I haven't seen her in anything since that movie years ago where she was framed for murder. It was her husband who'd framed her...for his own supposed murder, I think.
Yes, the major roles dry up for many actresses once they hit 40, maybe sooner, unless they've become a major star. They last longer, now. Change of times, I guess, plus more women own production cos. and are directors & producers.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)performance she could have delivered all this time -
Rock whats left of his shitty little world, Ms. Judd!!!
RESPECT
BootinUp
(47,187 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)She let Harvey Weinstein destroy her career.
DLevine
(1,788 posts)20 years ago, she would not have been believed. Nothing about this is her fault.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)See the lawsuit between singer Kesha and her producer Dr. Luke.
If Bill Cosby's trial were the date it initially was, he probably would have been free. THere's been a significant cultural shift in the last 6 months.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)A very talented, bright woman. Some years ago there was talk of her running for congress from KY I think but no action.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)What a disgusting monster he is! I hope many, many women sue him into the ground.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)She won an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite, then just disappeared.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)To deny Harvey was to quit the business, basically.
What a horrid human being.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Go after the money 💰.