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Less than one week after bombshell reports of sexual assault and harassment allegations, police responded to Harvey Weinstein‘s daughters home following a report that he was suicidal.
According to TMZ, no verbal suicidal statements were made, but a “heated argument” erupted between Weinstein and his 22-year-old daughter Wednesday.
Law enforcement sources told the news outlet that the Hollywood producer was at Remy Lily Weinstein’s home when an argument between the father and daughter moved outside and onto the street, where neighbors could see and hear it unfolding.
“You’re making it worse,” sources said Weinstein yelled at Remy, before he attempted to flag down a vehicle in the street and ask for a ride.
Eventually, Remy convinced Weinstein to go back inside the home, but he left a short while later prior to the police response. The officers showed up at the home around 10:30 a.m. local time because they received an emergency call from Remy saying her father “suicidal and depressed.”
The new development comes after multiple women in the entertainment industry have come forward to media outlets with stories of sexual assault and harassment committed by Weinstein dating back to the 1980s. Many of them involve much of the same scenario, with them being invited up to Weinstein’s hotel room where he greeted the women in only a robe. On a few occasions, Weinstein allegedly asked women to give him massages or watch him shower.
One encounter involved Lauren Sivan, who was a news anchor on a New York cable channel during the early 2000s when the alleged incident took place. Sivan said she ended up being “trapped” inside of a restaurant kitchen with Weinstein, who masturbated in front of her and ejaculated into a nearby potted plant.
Another incident allegedly occurred in 2015 and involved Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez. She filed a report with the New York Police Department after Weinstein allegedly sexually assaulted her during a meeting regarding her modeling potential.
Gutierrez’s report prompted investigators to set her up with a wire the next day, attempting to get a confession from Weinstein. The police sting was captured in audio that was obtained by The New Yorker and released October 10.
In the recording, Weinstein can be heard telling Gutierrez in the hallway of a hotel that he was going to take a shower in his room while she sits and watches. Gutierrez continuously says she had no desire to do so and added, “Yesterday was kind of aggressive for me,” in reference to her allegation that the producer groped her breasts.
“I’m not going to do anything, I swear on my children, please come in,” Weinstein says, ordering her to come into the room to watch him bathe. “On everything, I’m a famous guy. Please come in now for one minute.”
“Yesterday you touched by breasts,” Gutierrez says at one point, with Weinstein replying that he’s “used to that.”
Listen to the shocking audio below:
Weinstein, in conversation with Gutierrez, admits to groping her. Here’s the audio: t.co/zSQbK5NV0c
Despite the recording, Weinstein was never charged in the incident. He would have likely faced third-degree sexual abuse charges, a misdemeanor in New York.
According to The New Yorker, the reason Weinstein was never charged was because background information about Gutierrez’s past came out in tabloids shortly after, and it included other sexual assault allegations where she ended up declining to cooperate with prosecutors. After about two weeks of investigating her allegations against Weinstein, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office declined to file charges.
But an unidentified source close to the investigation told The New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow that there were several red flags in the investigation, and Weinstein should have been charged.
“We had the evidence,” the source told Farrow. “It’s a case that made me angrier than I thought possible, and I have been on the force a long time.”
The Manhattan DA’s office released a statement after the story was published, saying that if they could have prosecuted Weinstein, they would have.
JUST IN: “If we could have prosecuted Harvey Weinstein for the conduct that occurred in 2015, we would have,” Manhattan DA’s office says.
Gutierrez declined to comment in The New Yorker story, but a source told Farrow that the two parties settled and she signed a “highly restrictive nondisclosure agreement.”
Other women coming forward with similar allegations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein include Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Rosanna Arquette and many more.
Click below for a list of the accusers and their reported encounters with Weinstein.
