2017 11 15 Weinstein Complaint

1 STEVE W.
BERMAN (pro hac vice to be applied for)

HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP
2 1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300
Seattle, WA 98101
3 Telephone: (206) 623-7292
Facsimile: (206) 623-0594
4 steve@hbsslaw.com
5 ELAINE T. BYSZEWSKI (SBN 222304)
6 301 N. Lake Avenue, Suite 920
Pasadena, CA 91101
7 Telephone: (213) 330-7150
Facsimile: (213) 330-7152
8 elaine@hbsslaw.com
9 M. CRIS ARMENTA (SBN 177403)
CREDENCE E. SOL (SBN 219784)
10 THE ARMENTA LAW FIRM, APC
1230 Rosecrans Ave, Suite 300
11 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Telephone: (310) 826-2826 Ext. 108
12 Facsimile: (310) 695-2560
cris@crisarmenta.com
13 credence.sol@orange.fr
14 Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class
15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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JANE DOE 1, individually and on behalf No.
19 of all others similarly situated.
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Plaintiff, CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT
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v.
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23 THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY

HOLDINGS, LLC, MIRAMAX, LLC, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
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HARVEY WEINSTEIN, and JOHN
25 DOES 1-50, inclusive,
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Defendants.
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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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3 I. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................3
4 II. JURISDICTION AND VENUE .........................................................................7
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6 A. Plaintiff .....................................................................................................8 Field Code Changed
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7 B. Defendants................................................................................................9 Field Code Changed
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8 IV. FACTS................................................................................................................9 Field Code Changed
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9 A. Weinsteins power in the entertainment industry from his time at both Field Code Changed
Miramax and TWC was extensive. .......................................................9
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B. Weinsteins predatory behavior followed a pattern designed for his Field Code Changed
11 personal gratification at the expense of Plaintiff and the Class. ............11 Unknown
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12 C. Miramax and TWC facilitated Weinsteins predatory behavior. ...........20
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13 D. TWC and Miramax are liable for Weinsteins conduct, because it was Field Code Changed
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E. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise harassed and misled Class members and
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16 misconduct. ............................................................................................25
17 1. Each member of the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise had a specific
role in fulfilling their common purpose. ......................................25 Unknown
2. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise, or Army of Spies, engaged in a
19 pattern of racketeering activity. ...................................................27 Unknown
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20 F. The statute of limitations is tolled based on the continuing violations
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21 threatened the Class if they complained.................................................34 Field Code Changed
22 V. CLASS ALLEGATIONS .................................................................................39 Unknown

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23 VI. CAUSES OF ACTION ....................................................................................42 Unknown
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24 COUNT I VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. 1962(C) (THE WEINSTEIN SEXUAL Unknown
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COUNT II VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. 1962(D) BY CONSPIRING TO VIOLATE
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26 18 U.S.C. 1962(C) (THE WEINSTEIN SEXUAL ENTERPRISE) .............46
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1 COUNT IV CIVIL BATTERY VERSUS WEINSTEIN AND MIRAMAX ............49
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7 COUNT VIII RATIFICATION VERSUS MIRAMAX............................................55
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1 Jane Doe 1, individually and on behalf of all women who (i) met with Harvey
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Weinstein (Weinstein) in person to audition for or to discuss involvement in a
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4 project to be produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company Holdings, LLC
5 (TWC), and/or (ii) met with Harvey Weinstein in person to audition for or to discuss
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involvement in a project to be produced or distributed by Miramax LLC (Miramax),
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8 allege as follows:
9 I. INTRODUCTION
10 1. The proverbial casting couch was Harvey Weinsteins office of choice,
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a choice facilitated and condoned by TWC and Miramax. Plaintiff, and hundreds of
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13 other female actors like her, found themselves with Weinstein on the casting couch at
14 offices, in hotel rooms, or at rooms at industry functions. Under the guise of meetings
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ostensibly to help further Class Members careers or hire them for roles, Weinstein
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17 isolated Plaintiff and the Class Members in an attempt to engage in unwanted sexual
18 conduct that took many forms: flashing, groping, fondling, battering, sexual assault,
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attempted rape and/or completed rape.
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21 2. Plaintiff and Members of the Class wanted to have careers in the film
22 and/or TV industry and understood that Weinstein was a powerful force in the
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production world. At all times, Plaintiff and the Class operated under duress and the
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25 threat of being blacklisted by Weinstein and major film producers such as Miramax if
26 they refused Weinsteins unwanted sexual advances or complained about his behavior.
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1 Weinsteins behavior (and the fact it was facilitated by TWC and Miramax, the
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Complicit Producers) nonetheless caused injury to their business prospects, career,
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4 reputation, and severe emotional distress.
5 3. Weinsteins power and the pervasiveness of his misconduct was recently

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summarized in The New Yorker as follows:
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8 Since the establishment of the first studios, a century ago, there

have been few move executives as dominant, or as
9 domineering, as Harvey Weinstein. He co-founded the
10 production-and-distribution companies Miramax and the
Weinstein Company, helping to reinvent the model for
11 independent films with movies including Sex, Lies, and
12 Videotape, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, The English
Patient, Shakespeare in Love, and The Kings Speech.
13 Beyond Hollywood, he has exercised his influence as a prolific
14 fund-raiser for Democratic Party candidates, including Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton. Weinstein combined a keen eye
15 for promising scripts, directors, and actors with a bullying, even
16 threatening, style of doing business, inspiring both fear and
gratitude. His movies have earned more than three hundred
17 Oscar nominations, and, at the annual awards ceremonies, he
18 has been thanked more than almost anyone else in movie
history, ranking just after Steven Spielberg and right before
19 God.
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For more than twenty years, Weinstein, who is now sixty-five,
21 has also been trailed by rumors of sexual harassment and
assault. His behavior has been an open secret to many in
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Hollywood and beyond, but previous attempts by many
23 publications, including The New Yorker, to investigate and
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publish the story over the years fell short of the demands of
journalistic evidence. Too few people were willing to speak,
25 much less allow a reporter to use their names, and Weinstein
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and his associates used nondisclosure agreements, payoffs, and
legal threats to suppress their accounts. Asia Argento, an
27 Italian film actress and director, said that she did not speak out
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1 on herbecause she feared that Weinstein would crush her.
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I know he has crushed a lot of people before, Argento said.
Thats why this storyin my case, its twenty years old, some
3 of them are olderhas never come out.
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On October 5th, The New York Times, in a powerful report by
5 Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, revealed multiple allegations
of sexual harassment against Weinstein, an article that led to the
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resignation of four members of the Weinstein Companys all-
7 male board, and to Weinsteins firing.1
8 4. Weinsteins widespread sexual misconduct did not occur without the help
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of others. Rather, over time, Weinstein enlisted the aid of other firms and individuals
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11 to facilitate and conceal his pattern of unwanted sexual conduct. This coalition of
12 firms and individuals became part of the growing Weinstein Sexual Enterprise, a
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RICO enterprise. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise had many participants and grew
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15 over time as the obfuscation of Weinsteins conduct became more difficult to conceal
16 and included: (i) TWC, Weinstein, and Miramax, all of whom are responsible for
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Weinsteins sexual offenses because Weinstein acted within the scope of his
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19 employment and/or these entities ratified or concealed Weinsteins conduct

20 (collectively, the Weinstein Participants); (ii) third parties Kroll Associates, Inc. and
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Corporate Risk Holdings, LLC (Kroll), a global leader in corporate intelligence;
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23 B.C. Strategy U.K. Ltd. (Black Cube), a company comprised of a select group of
24 veterans from the Israeli elite intelligence units that specializes in tailored solutions to
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1 complex business and litigation challenges2; Jack Palladino and Sara Ness of
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Palladino & Sutherland; and other investigators whose identities are currently
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4 unknown (collectively, the Intelligence Participants); (iii) lawyers and law firms,
5 including, but not limited to, David Boies and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP; K&L
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Gates; BCL Burton Copeland; and Gross, Kleinhandler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg&
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8 Co. (collectively, the Law Firm Participants); (iv) co-producers of Miramax and
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9 TWC and other entertainment industry members (the Film Participants); and (v)
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journalists, including an unnamed freelance reporter, along with reporters from and the
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12 chief content officer (Dylan Howard) for American Media Inc., which publishes the
13 National Enquirer (collectively, Journalist Participants). The identities of many of

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the members of the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise are currently unknown but
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16 discoverable through the discovery process.
17 5. After the initial assault(s) were over, Weinstein engaged or directed

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private investigators, a global provider of risk solutions, lawyers, and others
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20 (collectively, the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise) or, as The New Yorker calls it,
21 Weinsteins Army of Spies3) to harass, threaten, extort, and mislead his victims and
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the media to prevent the prosecution, reporting, or disclosure of his sexual misconduct.
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24 Weinstein and members of the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise also either directed or
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See www.blackcube.com (last accessed November 7, 2017).
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26 Ronan Farrow, Harvey Weinsteins Army of Spies, The New Yorker (Nov. 6,
2017), available at https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-
27 army-of-spies/amp (last accessed November 7, 2017).
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1 facilitated the Weinstein Sexual Enterprises destruction, mutilation, and concealment
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of records, documents, and/or other evidence in an effort to prevent the use of such
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4 evidence to reveal his sexual offenses.
5 6. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprises long-running practice of isolating and

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blacklisting Weinsteins victims and covering up Weinsteins predatory tactics should
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8 not be permitted to overcome the interests of the Plaintiff and the Class Members to
9 proceed collectively, with strength together, in a unified manner in this class action.
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Plaintiff will seek certification of a Rule 23(c)(4) class for liability for violations of the
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12 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), civil battery, assault,
13 and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress against the Complicit
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Producers and Weinstein. Plaintiff will also seek certification of a Rule 23(c)(4) class
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16 for liability against the Complicit Producers for the negligent supervision or retention
17 of an unfit officer, director and/or employee. Defendants conduct has caused

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widespread damage, including personal injury, emotional distress, and damage to the
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20 careers of Plaintiff and the Class, for which Defendants must be held responsible.
21 II. JURISDICTION AND VENUE
22 7. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1331,
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because this action arises under the laws of the United States, and 18 U.S.C.
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25 1964(c), because this action alleges violations of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt
26 Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. 1962.
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1 8. This Court also has subject-matter jurisdiction pursuant to the Class
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Action Fairness Act of 2005, 28 U.S.C. 1332(d)(2), because this is a class action,
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4 including claims asserted on behalf of a nationwide class, filed under Rule 23 of the
5 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; there are dozens, and likely hundreds, of proposed
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Class members; the aggregate amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional
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8 amount or $5,000,000.00; and the Complicit Producers are citizens of a State different
9 from that of Plaintiff and members of the Class. This Court also has subject matter
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jurisdiction over Plaintiffs and the proposed Classs claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
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12 1367(a).
13 9. Venue is proper in this District under 28 U.S.C. 1391 (a)(d) because,

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inter alia, substantial parts of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred
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16 in the District and/or a substantial part of property that is the subject of the action is
17 situated in the District.

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III. THE PARTIES
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A. Plaintiff
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10. Plaintiff Jane Doe 1 is a citizen of the United States and a resident of
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22 Lancaster, California. As set forth more fully below, Jane Doe 1 auditioned with
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Weinstein for a part in a Miramax production. During her audition, Jane Doe 1 was
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assaulted by Weinstein, threatened, falsely imprisoned, and suffered emotional and
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26 physical distress, and was injured in her property or livelihood as a result of

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1 his requests, he would ruin her, and he ultimately withdrew the offer he had given her
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for a part because she would not accede to his advances.
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4 B. Defendants
5 11. Defendant The Weinstein Company Holdings, LLC is a Delaware limited

6 liability company whose principal place of business is in New York, New York.
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12. Defendant Miramax LLC is a Delaware corporation headquartered in
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9 Santa Monica, California.

10 13. Defendant Harvey Weinstein is a citizen of the United States and a
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resident of New York, New York.
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13 IV. FACTS
14 A. Weinsteins power in the entertainment industry from his time at both
Miramax and TWC was extensive.
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14. In the late 1970s, using profits from their concert promotion business,
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17 brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein created a small independent film-distribution
18 company named Miramax, named after their parents, Miriam and Max. The
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companys first releases were primarily music-oriented concert films such as Paul
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21 McCartneys Rockshow. The Secret Policemans Other Ball released in May 1982,
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became Miramaxs first hit. The Weinsteins slowly built upon this success throughout
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the 1980s with films that achieved critical attention and modest commercial success.
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25 Harvey Weinstein and Miramax gained wider attention in 1988 with the release of
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Errol Morris documentary The Thin Blue Line, which detailed the struggle of Randall
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1 surrounded the case resulted in Adams release and nationwide publicity for Miramax.
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In 1989, Steven Soderberghs Sex, Lies, and Videotape propelled Miramax to become
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4 the most successful independent studio in America.
5 15. Miramax continued to grow its library of films and directors. In 1993,
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after the success of The Crying Game, Disney offered to purchase Miramax from the
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8 Weinsteins for $80 million. The Weinstein brothers agreed to the deal, which
9 promised to cement their Hollywood clout and ensure that they would remain at the
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head of their company. The next year, Miramax released its first blockbuster, Quentin
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12 Tarantinos Pulp Fiction, and distributed the popular independent film Clerks.
13 16. Miramax won its first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1997 with the
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victory of The English Patient (Pulp Fiction was nominated in 1995 but lost to Forrest
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16 Gump). This started a string of critical successes that included Good Will Hunting
17 (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), both of which won numerous Academy
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Awards.
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20 17. The Weinstein brothers left Miramax on September 30, 2005, to form
21 their own production company, TWC, with several other media executives.
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18. Attached as Exhibit A is a list of Weinstein-produced films that
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24 demonstrates his power and influence in the film industry.
25 19. Plaintiff and the Class were aware of Weinsteins ability to make or break
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their careers. Moreover, Weinstein wielded and was outspoken about his power and
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1 B. Weinsteins predatory behavior followed a pattern designed for his
personal gratification at the expense of Plaintiff and the Class.
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20. Wielding this unfettered power in the movie and television industry,
4 Weinstein has admitted that his predatory and sexually harassing behavior toward
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female actresses was his modus operendi. For example, in an audio recording captured
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7 during a 2015 New York Police Department sting operation, Weinstein admitted that
8 he groped a female model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, describing it as behavior

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he is used to.4
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11 21. An executive who worked for Weinstein for many years reportedly told
12 The New Yorker: This wasnt a one-off. This wasnt a period of time. This was
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ongoing predatory behavior toward womenwhether they consented or not.5
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15 22. The way in which Weinstein set up, harassed and assaulted Plaintiff and
16 the members of the Class followed a pattern. As The New York Times explained:
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Across the years and continents, accounts of Mr. Weinsteins
18 conduct share a common narrative: Women reported to a
19 hotel for what they thought were work reasons, only to
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An audio recording of Weinstein aggressively trying to persuade Ambra Battilana
21 Gutierrez, a model, to come into his hotel room in 2015 while he showered was
published by The New Yorker on October 10, 2017 and is available at
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVu02qk3-Jc (last accessed November 2, 2017). It
23 is also available with closed captioning at https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-
desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-
24 their-stories (last accessed November 2, 2017). When Ms. Battilana refused Mr.
Weinstein, saying I dont want to be touched and Please, I dont want to do
25 something I dont want to do, he tells her, Dont ruin your friendship with me and
26 Never call me again. Id.
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1 discover that Mr. Weinstein, who has been married for most
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of three decades, sometimes seemed to have different
interests. His home base was New York, but his rolling
3 headquarters were luxury hotels: the Peninsula Beverly Hills
4 and the Savoy in London, the Htel du Cap-Eden-Roc near
the Cannes Film Festival in France and the Stein Eriksen
5 Lodge near the Sundance Film Festival.6
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23. An employee who worked for Weinstein told The New Yorker that the
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8 pattern of meetings was nearly uninterrupted in her years of working for Weinstein.7
9 24. Since October 10, 2017, more than 60 women have reported that
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Weinstein used his power in the entertainment industry to sexually harass them. On
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12 information and belief, these reports are just the beginning of the revelation of the full
13 scope of Weinsteins misconduct. All of these reports follow the same pattern. For
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illustrative purposes of Weinsteins pattern and practice of sexual harassment against
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16 Plaintiff and the Class, Plaintiff provides the following non-exhaustive list of
17 examples of Weinsteins predatory behavior:

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25. Weinsteins pattern of using the guise of helping female actresses with
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20 their careers was typically the start:
21 a. After Weinstein hired her for the lead in Emma, but before
22 shooting began in or about 1994, Gwyneth Paltrow received a
faxed schedule from her agents at Creative Artists Agency
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1 scheduling a meeting with Weinstein in his suite at the Peninsula
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Beverly Hills for a work meeting.8
3 b. In 1996, starring in a new film to which Miramax had just obtained

the rights, Judith Godrche was invited to a breakfast meeting with
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Weinstein and a female executive to discuss the movie.9
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c. Asia Argento, a 21-year-old actress with a role in a Miramax film
6 released in the United States in 1999, was told during filming in
7 1997 to attend a party thrown by Miramax at a hotel and was
brought to the hotel by another producer.10
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d. In the 1990s, Rosanna Arquette was supposed to meet Weinstein
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for dinner at a hotel to pick up the script for a new film.11
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e. In the 1990s, Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Hotel
11 for a business breakfast meeting.12
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f. In or about 1997, Weinstein invited himself to Mira Sorvinos
13 apartment after midnight to tell her about new marketing
ideas for a film she was in.13
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15 g. In 2003, acting in small gigs, Dawn Dunning was invited by

Weinsteins assistant to a meal with Weinstein at a New York
16 hotel.14
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18 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-harvey-
weinstein.html?article-sidebar.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-harvey-
20 weinstein.html?article-sidebar.
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21 https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-
sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories.
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24 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-
allegations.html.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-
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1 h. Wanting to be an actress, Lucia Stoller was approached by
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Weinstein in 2004, who had an assistant call to set up a daytime
meeting at the Miramax office in Tribeca, first with Weinstein and
3 then with a casting executive, who was a woman (which made
4 Lucia feel safer).15
5 i. In 2010, Weinstein told actress Emma de Caunes he was interested

in casting her in the lead role of a movie adapted from a book,
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asking her to come to his hotel room after lunch to get the book.
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j. In January 2011, Weinstein invited Jessica Barth to a business
8 meeting at the Peninsula Hotel to talk career stuff. 16
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26. When the actresses arrived for their meeting, they were isolated from
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the public and employees:
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12 a. Although Lucia Stollers meeting took place at Miramax, [s]he

was led to an office with exercise equipment in it, and takeout
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boxes on the floor. Weinstein was there, alone.17
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b. A producer led Asia Argento to what she thought was a Miramax
15 party at a hotel, taking her to a hotel room empty but for
16 Weinstein.18
17 c. When Rosanna Arquette showed up for dinner at a hotel restaurant

with Weinstein, she was told to meet him in his room.19
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19 d. When Jessica Barth arrived at the Peninsula Hotel for a business

meeting, Weinstein told her on the phone to come to his room.20
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1 e. When Ashley Judd arrived at the Peninsula Hotel for a business
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meeting, she was told to meet him in his room.21
3 f. After a breakfast meeting with Weinstein and a female executive,

the female executive left, leaving Judith Godrche alone with
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Weinstein, who told her to join him in his room to discuss the
5 films marketing and an Oscar campaign.22
6 g. When Dawn Dunning arrived at the hotel for a meeting, she was
7 told that Weinsteins earlier meeting was running late and to head
up to his suite.23
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27. Once isolated, Weinstein battered, assaulted or attempted to assault the
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10 women:
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a. Rose McGowan: In a hotel room in 1997, HW raped me.24
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b. Lucia Stoller: He forced me to perform oral sex on him. As she
13 objected, Weinstein took his penis out of his pants and pulled her
14 head down onto it. I said, over and over, I dont want to do this,
stop, dont.25
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c. Asia Argento: Weinstein left the hotel room and returned wearing
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a bathrobe and holding a bottle of lotion. He asks me to give a
17 massage. I was, like, Look, man, I am no fucking fool. [A]fter
she reluctantly agreed to give Weinstein a massage, he pulled her
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21 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-
allegations.html.
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24 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-
harvey-weinstein.html?article-sidebar.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4673738/rose-mcgowan-harvey-weinstein-rape-
26 claims-amazon-jeff-bezos/, quoting tweet from Rose McGowan.
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1 skirt up, forced her legs apart, and performed oral sex on her as she
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repeatedly told him to stop. 26
3 d. Mira Sorvino: In a hotel room, Weinstein started massaging her

shoulders and then chased her around the room.27
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e. Sophie Dix: Weinstein masturbated in front of her after Dix said
no a thousand times, causing Dix to lock herself in the
6 bathroom.28
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f. Emma de Caunes: Weinstein went into the hotel bathroom, turned
8 on the shower, returned naked with an erection, and demanded she
lie on the bed.29
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10 g. Rosanna Arquette: Weinstein answered his hotel door in a

bathroom, tried to force Arquette to give him a neck massage, and
11 pulled her hand toward his erect penis.30
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h. Jessica Barth: Weinstein demanded a naked massage in his bed.31
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i. Ashley Judd: Weinstein appeared in a bathrobe, asking if he could
14 give her a massage or she could watch him shower.32
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j. Gwyneth Paltrow: Weinstein touched her, suggesting they head to
16 his bedroom for massages.33
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1 k. Angelina Jolie: Weinstein made unwanted advances on her in a
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hotel room.34
3 l. Katherine Kendall: Weinstein undressed and chased her around a

living room.35
4
5
m. Judith Godrche: After Godrche declined to give him a massage,
hes pressing against me and pulling off my sweater.36
6
n. Dawn Dunning: In his bathrobe, Weinstein told Dunning that he
7
had contracts for her for his next three films, but that she could
8 only sign them if she would have three-way sex with him. When
Dunning laughed, assuming Weinstein was joking, Weinstein
9
became angry, stating: Youll never make it in this business. This
10 is how the business works.37
11 o. Darryl Hannah: On multiple occasions, Weinstein tried to barge
12 into her hotel room at night; she escaped out back doors; she used
furniture to bar the door; and she had her male make-up artists
13 present when Weinstein was able to secure a key to her room
14 without her consent. The New Yorker reported: Weinstein had a
key, Hannah recalled. He came through the living room and into
15 the bedroom. He just burst in like a raging bull. And I know with
16 every fibre of my being that if my male makeup artist was not in
that room, things would not have gone well. It was scary.
17 [Hannahs make-up artist] remembered the incident vividly. I was
18 there to keep her safe, he told The New Yorker.38
19 33
34
22 35
36
25 37
38
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/weighing-the-costs-of-speaking-
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1 p. Paz de la Huerta first rape: In November 2010, Weinstein offered
2
de la Huerta a cab ride home after bumping into her at a hotel bar
in New York and then demanded to come in for a drink:
3 Immediately when we got inside the house, he started to kiss me
4 and I kind of brushed [him] away, de la Huerta said. Then he
pushed me onto the bed and his pants were down and he lifted up
5 my skirt. I felt afraid. . . . It wasnt consensual . . . It happened very
6 quickly. . . . He stuck himself inside me. . . . When he was done he
said hed be calling me. I kind of just laid on the bed in shock.39
7
q. Paz de la Huerta second rape: In December 2010, Weinstein
8
showed up in her building lobby after she came home from a photo
9 shoot: He hushed me and said, Lets talk about this in your
apartment, de la Huerta said. I was in no state. I was so terrified
10
of him. . . . I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, I
11 dont want to do this. He kept humping me and it was disgusting.
Hes like a pig. . . . He raped me.40
12
13 28. These were not isolated instances, but the practiced role and pattern of a
14 predator. Like these Class Members and countless others, Plaintiffs experiences
15
followed the same script:
16
17 29. While at an audition on the first floor of a building also occupied by
18 Miramax, an associate of Weinsteins invited Jane Doe 1 to meet Weinstein in his

19
private office on another floor, because he was reportedly casting a film and was
20
21 looking for an actress who had her look. The meeting was timed for the end of the
22 workday. Jane Doe 1 shook hands, provided her headshot and resume to Weinstein
23
and engaged in cordial pleasantries and polite conversation. Weinstein then asked her
24
25 39
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/paz-de-la-huerta-harvey-
26 weinstein-allegations (last accessed November 7, 2017).
40
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/paz-de-la-huerta-harvey-
27 weinstein-allegations.
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1 to read from a script, explaining that he was looking for a new face with a very
2
European look. Jane Doe 1 and Weinstein then read from three pages of the untitled
3
4 script; she read a few more pages with him upon his request. Weinstein appeared very
5 happy and pleased and told her he had several other projects she might be right for.
6
He told Jane Doe 1 that she was exactly what I am looking for and that she had
7
8 gotten the part and told her to take the script home to study. Jane Doe 1 placed the
9 script in her briefcase and prepared to leave. Weinstein then told her he just needed
10
one more thing from you. He asked her to disrobe and explained he needed to see her
11
12 breasts, repeatedly stating, Its just your breasts. When Jane Doe 1 refused
13 repeatedly, Weinstein told her to take your dress down and you are going to need
14
to expose them. Weinstein told Jane Doe 1 that the role required him to review and
15
16 approve of her breasts. Jane Doe 1, realizing she was about to be sexually assaulted,
17 was terrified.
18
30. When Jane Doe 1 continued to refuse, Weinstein angrily inquired
19
20 whether she knew who he was, told her he could make her or break her, and that
21 she would never work in this town again. You know, I could launch your career
22
and I can make you or I can break you, he insisted, again demanding that she expose
23
24 her breasts. Weinstein then told Jane Doe 1 to Give me my script back. Weinstein
25 was belligerent and ranting. He told her, Without me, you will never work again.
26
31. Weinstein then told Jane Doe 1 to show herself out and advised her she
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1 stairwell. He then locked the door behind her. Jane Doe 1, realizing she was locked
2
in, banged on the door and begged to be let out. Scared and upset, she panicked,
3
4 walking up and down flights of stairs, banging on doors and yelling on each landing
5 that she was locked in all the while not knowing whether Weinstein would return
6
and assault her further. Terrified and sweating through her dress, Jane Doe 1 feared for
7
8 her safety and life. Finally, a maintenance worker heard her yelling and let her out;
9 that worker immediately asked Jane Doe 1 if she was coming from Weinsteins floor.
10
32. This assault was profoundly disturbing and life changing for Jane Doe 1.
11
12 As a result, Jane Doe 1 has changed how she conducts her life, pursues her career,
13 takes meetings and interacts with men both personally and professionally. She limits
14
interactions that are one-on-one, even though those meetings are necessary to connect
15
16 and bond with both professional colleagues and personal acquaintances. Her
17 professional and personal interactions are thus limited by her fears generated by
18
Weinsteins assault. In other words, Jane Doe 1 lost the part Weinstein offered, lost
19
20 other opportunities at Miramax and TWC, and has lost other professional
21 opportunities as the consequence of Weinsteins assault.
22
C. Miramax and TWC facilitated Weinsteins predatory behavior.
23
33. The Complicit Producers Miramax and TWC often aided and abetted
24
25 Weinstein in the commission of his sexual misconduct. For example, female
26
employees of TWC were often used as honeypots to make Weinsteins victims feel
27
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1 woman in whom Weinstein was interested. Weinstein would dismiss the employee,
2
leaving him alone with his female target.41
3
4 34. Sixteen current and former executives and assistants at TWC told a
5 reporter from The New Yorker about a pattern of professional meetings that were
6
pretexts for sexual advances on young actresses and models. All sixteen said that the
7
8 behavior was widely known within both Miramax and the Weinstein Company.42
9 35. Irwin Reiter, the Executive Vice President of Accounting and Financial
10
Reporting at TWC from 2005 to the present and who previously worked in the same
11
12 capacity from 1989 to 2005 at Miramax,43 sent messages to Emily Nestor, a temporary
13 employee of TWC, who alleged that she was harassed, describing Weinsteins
14
mistreatment of women as a serial problem at TWC.44
15
16 36. A female executive at the Complicit Producers told The New Yorker:
17 There was a large volume of these types of meetings that Harvey would have with
18
aspiring actresses and models. He would have them late at night, usually at hotel
19
20
21
22
41
24 42
43
26 https://www.linkedin.com/in/irwin-reiter-58828a4/.
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1 bars or in hotel rooms. And, in order to make these women feel more comfortable, he
2
would ask a female executive or assistant to start those meetings with him.45
3
4 37. A female employee at TWC, Lauren OConnor, wrote in a memo
5 obtained by The New York Times that Weinstein required her to schedule casting
6
discussions with aspiring actresses after they had private appointments in his hotel
7
8 room. She suspected that she and other female Weinstein employees, she wrote, were
9 being used to facilitate liaisons with vulnerable women who hope he will get them
10
work.46
11
12 38. Mark Gil, the former president of Miramax Los Angeles from
13 approximately 1994 to 2002,47 told The New York Times that behind the scenes at
14
Miramax, Weinsteins treatment of women was the biggest mess of all.48
15
16 39. TWC ratified Weinsteins conduct and found it an acceptable part of his
17 employment so long as it made a profit on it. According to TMZ.com, which

18
reportedly obtained a copy of Weinstein's 2015 employment contract, Weinstein and
19
20 TWC agreed that if he gets sued for sexual harassment or any other misconduct that
21
22
45
24 46
47
26 http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/16/business/fi-gill16.
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1 results in a settlement or judgment against TWC, all Weinstein has to do is pay what
2
the companys out, along with a fine, and hes in the clear.49
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for settlements or judgments. Additionally, You [Weinstein] will pay the company
7
8 liquidated damages of $250,000 for the first such instance, $500,000 for the second
9 such instance, $750,000 for the third such instance, and $1,000,000 for each additional
10
instance.50
11
12 41. Weinstein and TWC further agreed that Weinsteins payment constitutes
13 a cure for the misconduct and no further action can be taken.51

14
42. These provisions in an employment contract are unique and reflect
15
16 TWCs knowledge that Weinstein was more likely than not to engage in sexual
17 harassment and other misconduct affecting the Class and female employees.
18
D. TWC and Miramax are liable for Weinsteins conduct, because it was
19 perpetuated within the scope of his employment.
20 43. Miramaxs and TWCs executives, officers and employees had actual
21
knowledge of Weinsteins repeated acts of sexual misconduct with women. In
22
23 particular, Defendants were aware of Weinsteins pattern of using his power to coerce
24
49
25 https://www.tmz.com/2017/10/12/weinstein-contract-the-weinstein-company-
sexual-harassment-firing-illegal/ (last accessed November 7, 2017).
26 50
Id.
27 51
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1 and force young actresses to engage in sexual acts with him. This knowledge was
2
possessed by Defendants Board of Directors, including, upon information and belief,
3
4 Bob Weinstein.
5 44. Defendants were aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against

6
Weinstein going back to the 1990s.
7
8 45. Mira Sorvino, who was harassed by Weinstein, told a Miramax female
9 employee about the harassment. Rather than shock and horror at Weinsteins action,
10
the employees reaction was shock and horror that I had mentioned it.52
11
12 46. Kathy DeClesis, Bob Weinsteins assistant in the early 1990s at Miramax
13 stated to The New York Times: It [Weinsteins harassment of women] wasnt a secret
14
to the inner circle.53
15
16 47. Weinsteins 2015 employment contract with TWC also reflects that the
17 acts of sexual harassment did or were highly likely to occur within the scope of his
18
employment, providing contingency payments to cover the business expenses
19
20 associated with such occurrences.
21
22
23
24
25 52
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1 E. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise harassed and misled Class members and
the media with the intent to prevent the victims from reporting Weinsteins
2 sexual misconduct and to destroy evidence of the sexual misconduct.
3
1. Each member of the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise had a specific role
4 in fulfilling their common purpose.
5 48. Throughout the Class Period, the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise had the
6 common purpose of preventing (or attempting to prevent) the reporting, prosecution,

7
or disclosure of Weinsteins sexual misconduct through harassment, threats, extortion,
8
9 and misrepresentations to Weinsteins victims and the media. The Weinstein Sexual
10 Enterprise also shared the common purpose of destroying, mutilating, or concealing

11
records, documents, or other evidence to prevent the use of such evidence to report,
12
13 prosecute, and/or publicize Weinsteins sexual offenses, including, but not limited to,
14 the execution of non-disclosure agreements intended to cover up, squelch, and
15
maintain the veil of secrecy around Weinsteins offenses, with threat of legal
16
17 proceedings or financial duress if the victims were to disclose their experiences.
18 49. Each member of the Enterprise played a role in directing and
19
participating in the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise.
20
21 50. The Weinstein Participants determined the members of the Weinstein

22
Sexual Enterprise and assigned each member of the enterprise its task in fulfilling the
23
common purpose of using false pretenses to prevent the publication or reporting of
24
25 Weinsteins sexual misconduct and to destroy evidence. Weinstein monitored the
26
progress of the investigations personally.
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1 51. The Complicit Producers, TWC and Miramax, each allowed Weinstein to
2
conduct business at their offices and were aware of his misconduct and agreed to
3
4 conceal it so that they could continue to benefit from the lucrative collaboration with
5 Weinstein.
6
52. The Intelligence Participants targeted dozens of Class Members and
7
8 reporters, using false names and identities to gather information from them regarding
9 Weinsteins sexual offenses, recording conversations in violation of law, and

10
compiling psychological profiles that focused on the Class Members personal or
11
12 sexual histories that could be used to extort those individuals silence. The Intelligence
13 Participants also destroyed or concealed evidence, including, but not limited to,
14
documents and recordings.
15
16 53. The Film Participants collected names of Class Members and reporters
17 with information concerning Weinsteins sexual offenses and placed calls to the Class
18
Members and reporters to intimidate them and prevent them from reporting
19
20 Weinsteins sexual misconduct.
21 54. The Law Firm Participants provided cover and shield to the Weinstein
22
Participants by contracting with the Intelligence Participants on behalf of the
23
24 Weinstein Participants and permitting the Weinstein Participants to protect evidence
25 of Weinsteins misconduct under the guise of the attorney-client privilege or the
26
doctrine of attorney work product when that was not the case. The Law Firm
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1 Participants also approved the Intelligence Participants operational methodologies,
2
which were illegal.
3
4 55. The Journalist Participants also gathered information from Weinsteins
5 victims regarding Weinsteins sexual offenses under the pretense of writing a story,
6
illegally recorded conversations, and compiled profiles that focused on their personal
7
8 or sexual histories that could be used to extort those individuals silence.
9 2. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise, or Army of Spies, engaged in a

pattern of racketeering activity.
10
56. As an example of how the Enterprise worked, in 2016 and 2017,
11
12 Weinstein learned that several reporters were talking to Class Members regarding their
13
allegations of rape, battery and assault by Weinstein. Weinstein directed the Law Firm
14
Participant Boies Schiller to retain the Intelligence Participant Black Cube to
15
16 investigate which Class Members were providing information, to gather intelligence to

17
prevent the reporting or publication of the accusations, and to secretly record Class
18
Members conversations.54
19
20 57. Boies Schiller and Black Cube signed a contract to help Weinstein Sexual
21
Enterprise in October 2016. They also signed several subsequent contracts for the
22
same purposes. On or about October 28, 2016, Boies Schiller wired Black Cube an
23
24 initial payment of $100,000 to fulfill those purposes. 55
25
26 54
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies.
27 55
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1 58. Rose McGowan intended to publish a book detailing how Weinstein
2
raped her in 1997. Weinstein directed the Law Firm Participant Boies Schiller to retain
3
4 the Intelligence Participant Black Cube to prevent the reporting of the rape, 56 and
5 Black Cube agreed to do so.

6
59. Boies Schiller did retain Black Cube with a contract dated July 11, 2017,
7
8 providing that the projects primary objectives are to provide intelligence which
9 will help the Clients efforts to completely stop the publication of a new negative
10
article in a leading NY newspaper and to obtain additional content of a book which
11
12 currently being written and includes harmful negative information on and about the
13 Client, who allegedly is identified as Weinstein in multiple documents obtained by

14
The New Yorker. 57
15
16 60. The July 11, 2017 contract included several success fees if Black Cube
17 met its goals, including $300,000 if the agency provide[d] intelligence which will
18
directly contribute to the efforts to completely stop the Article from being published at
19
20 all in any shape or form and $50,000 if it secured the other half of McGowans
21 book in readable book and legally admissible format. 58
22
23
24
25 56
26 57
27 58
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1 61. The contract between Boies Schiller and Black Cube included a
2
description of the duplicitous tactics to be used to accomplish the objectives of the
3
4 Weinstein Sexual Enterprise. 59
5 62. Black Cube agreed to provide a dedicated team of expert intelligence

6
officers that will operate in the USA and any other necessary country, including a
7
8 project manager, intelligence analysts, linguists, and Avatar Operators specifically
9 hired to create fake identities on social media, along with operations experts with
10
extensive experience in social engineering. The agency also said that it would
11
12 provide a full time agent by the name of Anna (hereinafter the Agent), who will
13 be based in New York and Los Angeles as per the Clients instructions and who will
14
be available full time to assist the Client and his attorneys for the next four months.
15
16 According to The New Yorker, four sources with knowledge of Weinsteins work with
17 Black Cube confirmed that this was the same woman who would meet with McGowan
18
and Wallace under false pretenses. 60
19
20 63. Black Cube also agreed to hire an investigative journalist, as per the
21 Client request, who would be required to conduct ten interviews a month for four
22
months and be paid forty thousand dollars. Black Cube agreed to promptly report to
23
24 the Client the results of such interviews by the Journalist. 61
25
59
26
60
27 61
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1 64. Black Cube did fulfill its contract with Boies in furtherance of the
2
Weinstein Sexual Enterprises objectives. In May, 2017, Rose McGowan received an
3
4 e-mail from a literary agency introducing her to a woman who identified herself as
5 Diana Filip, the deputy head of sustainable and responsible investments at Reuben
6
Capital Partners, a London-based wealth-management firm. In reality, Filip was an
7
8 employee of Black Cube, which had developed the fictional Reuben Capital Partners.
9 According to The New Yorker, Diana Filip was an alias for a former officer in the
10
Israeli Defense Forces who originally hailed from Eastern Europe. 62
11
12 65. Duplicitously claiming in an email that she was launching an initiative to
13 combat discrimination against women in the workplace, Filip asked McGowan to

14
speak at a gala kickoff event for a fee of sixty thousand dollars. Using false pretenses,
15
16 Filip met with McGowan on at least four occasions, including at the Peninsula Hotel
17 in Beverly Hills, in hotel bars in Los Angeles and New York, and on the Venice
18
boardwalk. Filip repeatedly told McGowan that she wanted to make a significant
19
20 investment in McGowans production company. The purpose of these meetings, which
21 were secretly recorded by the Intelligence Participant Black Cube, was to secretly
22
extract information regarding Weinstein and to prevent the publication of McGowans
23
24 book and/or the reporting of accusations against Weinstein. 63
25
26 62
27 63
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1 66. At one meeting in September 2017, Filip was joined by another Black
2
Cube operative, who used the name Paul and claimed to be Filips colleague at
3
4 Reuben Capital Partners. The purpose of the meeting was to pass McGowan to another
5 operative to extract more information. 64

6
67. Black Cube used information extracted from McGowan regarding
7
8 McGowans reporting of the rape to a reporter at The New Yorker to contact the
9 reporter in an attempt to prevent the publication of the accusation. 65

10
68. In 2016, Black Cubes Filip used a second alias, Anna, to meet twice
11
12 with Ben Wallace, a reporter from New York who was working on a story about
13 Weinstein, suggesting she had an allegation against Weinstein. However, Anna never
14
shared information, but instead pushed the reporter for information about what he
15
16 knew and who he was talking to. During their second meeting, Anna requested that
17 they sit close together, leading Wallace to suspect that she was secretly recording their
18
conversation. 66
19
20 69. Filip also allegedly used her alias to email Jodi Kantor, a reporter for The
21 New York Times, regarding a story about Weinstein. 67
22
23
24
64
25 65
26 66
27 67
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1 70. Black Cube also retained a freelance journalist to further the objectives of
2
the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise, providing the journalist with contact information for
3
4 actresses, journalists, and Weinsteins business rivals. The freelancer conducted
5 interviews to be used by the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise and provided summaries of

6
those interviews to Black Cube, which then sent the summaries to one or more Law
7
8 Firm Participants, including Boies Schiller. 68
9 71. In January 2017, the freelance journalist called McGowan and secretly
10
recorded their lengthy conversation. He also contacted other Class Members
11
12 (including the actress Annabella Sciorra) and reporters Ben Wallace from New York
13 and Ronan Farrow from The New Yorker in furtherance of the objectives of the
14
enterprise. 69
15
16 72. Weinstein also enlisted Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of
17 American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, to have his reporters
18
obtain information that would discredit McGowan. Howard obtained secret
19
20 recordings of those interviews from his reporters and shared them with Weinstein to
21 be used to discredit victims of Weinsteins sexual offenses. 70
22
73. Examples of Krolls participation in the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise
23
24 include the destruction of evidence. After Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, an Italian
25 68
26 69
27 70
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1 model, accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 2015, Weinstein required her
2
to surrender all her personal devices to Kroll so that they could be wiped of evidence
3
4 of a conversation in which Weinstein admitted to groping her. 71
5 74. Recent e-mails obtained by The New Yorker also purportedly show that
6
Dan Karson, the chairman of Kroll Americas Investigations and Disputes practice,
7
8 contacted Weinstein at his personal e-mail address with information intended to
9 discredit Class Members.72

10
75. Another Intelligence Participant, Palladino & Sutherland (Palladino),
11
12 produced detailed profiles of various Class Members with information to be used to
13 undermine their credibility. Palladino sent Weinstein a 100+-page report in December

14
2016, featuring McGowans address and other personal information, along with
15
16 sections labeled Lies/Exaggerations/Contradictions, Hypocrisy, Potential
17 Negative Character Wits [sic Witnesses], and Past Lovers. 73

18
76. Other unidentified Intelligence Participants prepared similar reports. One
19
20 such profile targeted Rosanna Arquette, an actress who later, in The New Yorker,
21 accused Weinstein of sexual harassment. The file mentions Arquettes friendship with
22
23
24
25 71
26 72
27 73
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1 McGowan, social-media posts about sexual abuse, and the fact that a family member
2
had gone public with an allegation that she had been molested as a child. 74
3
4 F. The statute of limitations is tolled based on the continuing violations

doctrine, equitable estoppel, and the duress under which Weinstein
5 threatened the Class if they complained.
6 77. The power Weinstein wielded and his ability to blacklist an actress for
7
complaining about his predatory behavior was so legendary that it was the rule in the
8
entertainment industry that actresses needed to acquiesce to Weinstein to succeed.
9
10 This rule was so widely accepted that male producers and actors laughingly voiced
11
their expectations that Plaintiff and the Class had and would follow it to further their
12
13
careers. For example, at the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony, Seth MacFarlane, the
14 creator of Family Guy, was onstage to announce the five nominees for best supporting
15
actress when he stated: Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to
16
17
be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.75
18 78. If actresses did not accede to his demands, Weinstein and his associates
19
used nondisclosure agreements, payoffs, and legal threats to suppress their
20
21 accounts.76 This uniform response to those who challenged Weinsteins behavior,
22 which was widely known throughout the industry, actually and reasonably placed
23
24 74
25 75
http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/11/seth-macfarlane-harvey-weinstein-jessica-barth/
26 (last accessed November 1, 2017).
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1 class members under duress and induced them to forebear asserting their legal rights in
2
response to Weinsteins actions.
3
4 79. For example, Asia Argento, an Italian film actress and director, said that
5 she did not speak out until 2017, after Weinstein had forcibly performed oral sex on
6
her years before, because she feared that Weinstein would crush her. I know he
7
8 has crushed a lot of people before Thats why this storyin my case, its twenty
9 years old, some of them are olderhas never come out.77

10
80. Four actresses, including Mira Sorvino and Rosanna Arquette, told The
11
12 New Yorker that they suspected that, after they rejected Weinsteins advances or
13 complained about them to company representatives, Weinstein had them removed

14
from projects or dissuaded people from hiring them. Multiple sources told the same
15
16 reporter that Weinstein frequently bragged about planting items in media outlets
17 about those who spoke against him; these sources feared similar retribution.
18
81. Several sources pointed to Gutierrezs case: after she went to the police,
19
20 negative items discussing her sexual history and impugning her credibility began
21 rapidly appearing in New York gossip pages. (In the taped conversation, part of which
22
23
24
25
26
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1 The New Yorker posted online, Weinstein asks Gutierrez to join him for five
2
minutes, and warns, Dont ruin your friendship with me for five minutes.)78
3
4 82. Women who spoke to The New Yorker on condition of anonymity were
5 too afraid to allow me to use their names, but their stories are uncannily similar to
6
these allegations. One, a woman who worked with Weinstein, explained her reluctance
7
8 to be identified. He drags your name through the mud, and hell come after you hard
9 with his legal team.79

10
83. Mira Sorvino, who rejected Weinsteins advances and complained about
11
12 his harassment to Miramax felt that saying no to Weinstein and reporting the
13 harassment had ultimately hurt her career. She told a New Yorker reporter: I
14
definitely felt iced out and that my rejection of Harvey had something to do with it.80
15
16 84. After Gwyneth Paltrow was harassed, she complained to her then-
17 boyfriend Brad Pitt, who confronted Weinstein. Weinstein subsequently called and
18
berated Paltrow for disclosing what happened. Paltrow feared she would be fired from
19
20 the Miramax film Emma if she complained further.81
21
22 78
79
25 80
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1 85. After Judith Godrche complained to a female producer at Miramax
2
about Weinsteins harassment, she was told not to say anything so as not to endanger
3
4 the release of the Miramax films in which she appeared.82
5 86. Darryl Hannah felt immediate repercussions from turning down

6
Weinsteins advances and sexual demands. A Miramax plane on a film tour left
7
8 without her, her plane and hotel reservations were cancelled, and her hair and make-up
9 artist was let go.83 Darryl Hannah was not about to let Weinsteins actions go,
10
however she complained to her manager, a producer on the film, and her director,
11
12 Quentin Tarantino, who has since admitted that he did nothing.84 Nonetheless, Hannah
13 not only was not believed but also, consistent with the objectives of the Weinstein
14
Sexual Enterprise, was berated, criticized, and blamed.85
15
16 87. Moreover, Weinstein enforced a code of silence; employees of the
17 Weinstein Company have contracts saying they will not criticize it or its leaders in a
18
19
20
21
22 82
83
24 https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/weighing-the-costs-of-speaking-
out-about-harvey-weinstein.
25 84
26 out-about-harvey-weinstein.
85
27 out-about-harvey-weinstein.
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1 way that could harm its business reputation or any employees personal reputation,
2
a recent document shows.86
3
4 88. Shortly before The New York Times and The New Yorker finally revealed
5 the decades-long pattern of harassment, Weinstein and his legal team began calling
6
Class Members, threatening them for talking. They also threatened to sue The New
7
8 York Times and other media outlets.87
9 89. The type of emotional and physical abuse Weinstein used to command
10
silence from his victims and cover up his assaults has been studied by psychologists.
11
12 Psychologists John Gottman and Neil Jacobsen, authors of When Men Batter Women
13 (first published in 1998 and reissued in 2007), extensively researched emotional abuse
14
and domestic violence and created a 27-question survey designed to help doctors
15
16 establish whether patients were suffering from systematic abuse at the hands of a
17 partner. The four factors that determine emotional violence, Gottman and Jacobson
18
concluded, were isolation, degradation, sexual abuse, and property damage. Each of
19
20 these factors can be found in Weinsteins abuse of Plaintiff and the Class.
21 90. The statute of limitations was thus tolled at least until The New York
22
Times published a powerful report revealing allegations of sexual harassment against
23
24
25 86
87
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1 Weinstein, which led to the resignation of four members of TWCs Board and to the
2
firing of Weinstein.
3
4
V. CLASS ALLEGATIONS
5
91. Plaintiff brings this action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
6 23(b)(3) and 23(c)(4) on behalf of herself and the following Class:

7
All women who (i) met with Harvey Weinstein in person to
8 audition for or to discuss involvement in a project to be
9 produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company
Holdings, LLC, and/or (ii) before September 30, 2005, met
10 with Harvey Weinstein in person to audition for or to discuss
11 involvement in a project to be produced or distributed by
Miramax LLC.
12
13 92. The Class consists of dozens, if not hundreds, of women, making joinder
14 impracticable, in satisfaction of Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a)(1). The exact size of the Class
15
and the identities of the individual members are ascertainable through records
16
17 maintained by Weinstein, the Complicit Producers, and members of the Weinstein
18 Sexual Enterprise. For example, one former employee of the Complicit Producers told
19
The New Yorker that she was asked to keep track of the women, who, in keeping with
20
21 a practice established by Weinsteins assistants, were all filed under the same label in
22 her phone: F.O.H., which stood for Friend of Harvey.88
23
24
25
26
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1 93. The claims of Plaintiff are typical of the Class. The claims of the Plaintiff
2
and the Class are based on the same legal theories and arise from the same unlawful
3
4 pattern and practice of sexual harassment and assault.
5 94. There are many questions of law and fact common to the claims of
6
Plaintiff and the Class, and those questions predominate over any questions that may
7
8 affect only individual Class members within the meaning of Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a)(2)
9 and (c)(4).
10
95. Common questions of fact and law affecting members of the Class
11
12 include, but are not limited to, the following:
13 a. Whether Defendants engaged in a scheme with the Intelligence

14 Participants, Law Firm Participants, Journalist Participants and
others to use false pretenses to tamper with victims and witnesses
15 of Weinsteins sexual misconduct in order to prevent the
16 publication, prosecution or reporting of Weinsteins sexual
misconduct and to destroy evidence.
17
b. Whether Defendants violated RICO, 18 U.S.C. 1962.
18
19 c. Whether Weinstein engaged in a pattern and practice of sexual

harassment, assault, and battery.
20
d. Whether Weinsteins pattern and practice of sexual harassment,
21
assault and battery was committed within the scope of his
22 employment at Miramax or TWC.
23 e. Whether TWC or Miramax had knowledge of Weinsteins pattern
24 and practice of sexual harassment, assault, and battery.
25 f. Whether TWC or Miramax facilitated Weinsteins pattern and
26
practice of sexual harassment, assault, and battery.
27 g. Whether TWC or Miramax ratified Weinsteins pattern and

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1 h. Whether Weinstein, TWC or Miramax engaged in conduct
2
designed to suppress complaints or reports regarding Weinsteins
conduct.
3
i. Whether Miramax or TWC negligently retained or supervised
4
Weinstein.
5
j. Whether Miramax and TWC are responsible for Weinsteins
6 conduct under the doctrine of respondeat superior.
7
96. Absent a class action, most of the members of the Class would find the
8
cost of litigating their claims to be prohibitive and will have no effective remedy. The
9
10 class treatment of common questions of law and fact is also superior to multiple
11
individual actions or piecemeal litigation, particularly as to TWC and Miramaxs legal
12
responsibility for Weinsteins actions, in that it conserves the resources of the courts
13
14 and the litigants and promotes the consistency and efficiency of adjudication.
15
97. Plaintiff will fairly and adequately represent and protect the interests of
16
the Class. Plaintiff has retained counsel with substantial experience in prosecuting
17
18 complex litigation and class actions. Plaintiff and her counsel are committed to
19
vigorously prosecuting this action on behalf of the other Class members, and have the
20
financial resources to do so. Neither Plaintiff nor her counsel have any interests
21
22 adverse to those of the other members of the Class.
23
24
25
26
27
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1 VI. CAUSES OF ACTION
2 COUNT I
3 VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. 1962(C)
4 (THE WEINSTEIN SEXUAL ENTERPRISE)
5 98. Plaintiff incorporates by reference all preceding paragraphs, as if fully set

6 forth herein.
7
99. Defendants are persons within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. 1961(3) who
8
9 conducted the affairs of the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity in

10
violation of 18 U.S.C. 1962(c).
11
100. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise is an association-in-fact within the
12
13 meaning of 18 U.S.C. 1961(4) consisting of (i) Defendants, including their

14
employees and agents; (ii) the Weinstein Participants; (iii) the Intelligence
15
Participants; (iv) the Firm Participants; (v) the Journalist Participants, (v) the Film
16
17 Participants, and other unnamed co-conspirators as set forth supra. The Weinstein
18
Sexual Enterprise is an ongoing organization that functions as a continuing unit. The
19
Weinstein Sexual Enterprise was created and used as a tool to effectuate Defendants
20
21 pattern of racketeering activity. The Defendant persons are distinct from the
22
Weinstein Sexual Enterprise.
23
101. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise falls within the meaning of 18 U.S.C.
24
25 1961(4) and consists of a group of persons associated together for the common
26
purpose of: (i) harassing, threatening, extorting, and misleading Weinsteins victims
27
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1 misconduct, and (ii) destroying, mutilating, or concealing records, documents, or other
2
evidence to prevent the use of such evidence to report (or prosecute) his sexual
3
4 offenses.
5 102. Defendants have conducted and participated in the affairs of the

6
Weinstein Sexual Enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity within the
7
8 meaning of 18 U.S.C. 1961(1) and 1961(5), which includes multiple violations of
9 instances tampering with a witness or victim in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512, as

10
described above.
11
12 103. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise engaged in and affected interstate
13 commerce, because, inter alia, Weinstein, TWC, and Miramax contracted with multi-
14
national corporations not only for movie and television productions but also for the
15
16 investigation, slander, and blackmail of Weinsteins victims.
17 104. Defendants exerted control over the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise, and
18
Defendants participated in the operation or management of the affairs of the Weinstein
19
20 Sexual Enterprise.
21 105. Within the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise, there was a common
22
communication network by which co-conspirators shared information on a regular
23
24 basis. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise used this common communication network for
25 the purpose of enabling Weinsteins sexual activities.
26
106. Each participant in the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise had a systematic
27
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1 financial ties, and the continuing coordination of activities. Through the Weinstein
2
Sexual Enterprise, the Defendants and their co-conspirators functioned as a continuing
3
4 unit with the purpose of furthering the illegal scheme and their common purposes.
5 107. The RICO Defendants use of the mails and wires include but are not
6
limited to the transmission, delivery, or shipment of the following by the RICO
7
8 Defendants or third parties that were foreseeably caused to be sent as a result of
9 Defendants illegal scheme:

10
(a) Contracts between Weinstein and the Law Firms and Intelligence
11 Participants;
12 (b) Wires among the Complicit Producers about Weinsteins sexual
misconduct; and
13 (c) Wires and mails between the Law Firms and the Intelligence Participants
14
on the subject of Weinsteins sexual activities, his victims, and
concealing his activities of sexual misconduct.
15
16 108. The RICO Defendants utilized the interstate and mail and wires for the
17 purpose of obtaining money or property by means of the omissions, false pretenses,
18
and misrepresentations described therein.
19
20 109. The RICO Defendants also used the Internet and other electronic facilities
21
to carry out the scheme and conceal the ongoing fraudulent activities.
22
110. The RICO Defendants also communicated by U.S. Mail, by interstate
23
24 facsimile, and by interstate electronic mail with various other affiliates, regional
25
offices, divisions, and other third-party entities in furtherance of the scheme.
26
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1 111. The mail and wire transmissions described herein were made in
2
furtherance of Defendants scheme and common course of conduct to deceive the
3
4 public about Weinsteins sexual activities.
5 112. To achieve their common goals, the RICO Defendants hid from the
6
general public the unlawfulness of Weinsteins conduct and the RICO Defendants
7
8 suppressed and/or ignored warnings from third parties about his conduct.
9 113. Defendants scheme and the above described racketeering activities

10
amounted to a common course of conduct intended to cause Plaintiff and others to
11
12 hide and conceal Weinsteins conduct. Each such racketeering activity was related,
13 had similar purposes, involved the same or similar participants and methods of
14
commission, and had similar results affecting similar victims, including Plaintiff.
15
16 Defendants fraudulent activities are part of their ongoing business and constitute a
17 continuing threat to Plaintiffs property.

18
114. The pattern of racketeering activity alleged herein and Weinstein are
19
20 separate and distinct from each other. Defendants engaged in a pattern of racketeering
21 activity alleged herein for the purpose of conducting the affairs of the Weinstein
22
Sexual Enterprise.
23
24 115. Plaintiff has been injured in her property and business by reason of these
25 violations. Defendants interfered with Plaintiffs current and prospective contractual
26
relations, because Plaintiff lost employment and employment opportunities as a result
27
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1 members of the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise not been complicit and had they revealed
2
instead of concealed Weinsteins predatory behavior, Plaintiff and members of the
3
4 Class would not have been injured. Thus, Plaintiffs injuries were directly and
5 proximately caused by Defendants racketeering activity, as described above.

6
116. By virtue of these violations of 18 U.S.C. 1962(c), Defendants are
7
8 liable to Plaintiff for three times the damages Plaintiff has sustained, plus the cost of
9 this suit, including reasonable attorneys fees.

10
COUNT II
11
VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. 1962(D) BY
12 CONSPIRING TO VIOLATE 18 U.S.C. 1962(C)
13 (THE WEINSTEIN SEXUAL ENTERPRISE)
14 117. Plaintiff incorporates by reference all preceding paragraphs, as if fully set

15 forth herein.
16
118. Section 1962(d) of RICO provides that it shall be unlawful for any
17
18 person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of subsection (a), (b) or (c) of this
19 section.
20
119. Defendants have violated section 1962(d) by conspiring to violate 18
21
22 U.S.C. 1962(c). The object of this conspiracy has been and is to conduct or
23
participate in, directly or indirectly, the conduct of the affairs of the section 1962(c)
24
Enterprise described previously through a pattern of racketeering activity.
25
26 120. As demonstrated in detail above, Defendants co-conspirators, including,

27
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1 Firm Participants, the Film Participants, and the Journalist Participants have engaged
2
in numerous overt and predicate fraudulent racketeering acts in furtherance of the
3
4 conspiracy, including multiple instances of tampering with a victim or witness in
5 violation of 18 U.S.C. 1512.

6
121. The nature of the above-described Defendants co-conspirators acts in
7
8 furtherance of the conspiracy gives rise to an inference that they not only agreed to the
9 objective of an 18 U.S.C. 1962(d) violation of RICO by conspiring to violate 18

10
U.S.C. 1962(c) but also were aware that their ongoing fraudulent acts have been and
11
12 are part of an overall pattern of racketeering activity. At all relevant times, all
13 Defendant and all Defendants co-conspirators were aware of the essential nature and
14
scope of the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise and intended to participate in it.
15
16 122. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants overt acts and predicate
17 acts in furtherance of violating 18 U.S.C. 1962(d) by conspiring to violate 18 U.S.C.

18
1962(c), Plaintiff has been and is continuing to be injured in her business or
19
20 property, as set forth more fully above.
21 123. Defendants have sought to and have engaged in the violations of the
22
above federal laws and the effects thereof detailed above are continuing and will
23
24 continue unless injunctive relief prohibiting Defendants illegal acts constituting a
25 pattern of racketeering activity is fashioned and imposed by the Court.
26
27
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1 COUNT III
2 NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION AND RETENTION
3 VERSUS MIRAMAX
4 124. Plaintiff restates and incorporates herein by reference the preceding

5 paragraphs as if fully set forth herein. Plaintiff brings Count III under California law
6
against Miramax.
7
8 125. At all times material prior to September 30, 2005, Miramax employed
9
Weinstein and Weinstein was an executive and/or director of Miramax.
10
126. Weinstein was unt or incompetent to work directly with female actresses
11
12 and posed a particular risk of sexually harassing and assaulting them.

13
127. Miramax knew or should have known that Weinstein was unt or
14
incompetent to work directly with female actresses and posed a particular risk of
15
16 sexually harassing and assaulting them, and that this untness created a particular risk
17
to Plaintiff and the Class.
18
128. Weinsteins untness and particular risk to female actresses harmed
19
20 Plaintiff and the Class.
21
129. Miramaxs negligence in supervising and or retaining Weinstein was a
22
substantial factor in causing harm to Plaintiff and the Class.
23
24
25
26
27
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1 COUNT IV
2 CIVIL BATTERY VERSUS WEINSTEIN AND MIRAMAX
3
130. Plaintiff restates and incorporates herein by reference the preceding
4
paragraphs as if fully set forth herein. Plaintiff brings this Count V against Weinstein
5
6 and Miramax for the period prior to September 30, 2005.

7
131. Weinstein intended to commit an act of unwanted contact and/or caused
8
imminent apprehension of such an act against Plaintiff and the Class Members. He did
9
10 so by, inter alia:

11
a. Isolating Plaintiff and Class Members in closed quarters and
12 dismissing any bystanders; and
13 b. Demanding or threatening sexual contact.
14
132. Weinstein did commit an unwanted contact with Plaintiff and the Class
15
16
Members person or property in a harmful or offensive manner, including, but not
17 limited to, causing sexual contact between Weinstein and each Class Member.
18 Deleted: by
133. Weinsteins battery of Plaintiff and the Class caused harm, including
19
20 physical, mental, and/or emotional harm of each Class Member.
21 134. Weinsteins conduct was committed within the scope of his employment
22
at Miramax. A causal nexus existed between Weinsteins grooming of young actresses
23
24 to play parts in Miramaxs productions and his abuse of his power to coerce and batter
25 those actresses. Each act of battery of a Class Member lured with the prospect of
26
being cast in a Miramax production was foreseeable given, inter alia, the use of
27
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1 Miramax employees to lure the victims and the commission of the acts on Miramax
2
property or at locations paid for by Miramax.
3
4 135. Weinsteins conduct is not so unusual or startling that it would seem
5 unfair to include the loss resulting from it among other costs of Miramaxs business.
6
Assaults in the context of the casting couch are exactly why female actresses would
7
8 expect production companies to take extra precautions to ensure that they are
9 protected from the coercive power and lure of a powerful executive promising fame.
10
136. Holding Miramax liable furthers the policy goals of respondeat superior,
11
12 including the prevention of future injuries and the assurance of compensation to
13 victims, given that Plaintiff and the Class Members do not have separate remedies
14
under Title VII because they were not employees of Miramax.
15
16 COUNT V
17 ASSAULT VERSUS WEINSTEIN AND MIRAMAX

19
paragraphs as if fully set forth herein. Plaintiff brings this Count VII against Weinstein
20
21 and Miramax for the period prior to September 30, 2005.
22 138. Weinstein intended to cause apprehension of harmful or offensive

23
conduct against Plaintiff and the Class Members. He did so by, inter alia:
24
25 a. Isolating Plaintiff and Class Members in closed quarters and
dismissing any bystanders;
26
b. Demanding or threatening sexual contact;
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1 c. Cornering, chasing, blocking, or otherwise using his heft to cause
2
Plaintiff and the Class to fear that Weinstein had the ability to carry
out his physical threats; and
3
d. Threatening harm to the careers and reputations of Plaintiff and
4
Class Members if they did not participate in such conduct.
5
139. Weinsteins actions did, in fact, cause Plaintiff and the Class Members to
6
7 fear imminent harmful or offensive contact by Weinstein.
9
10
11 to play parts in Miramaxs productions his abuse of his power to coerce and batter
12 those actresses. Each act of assault of a Class Member lured with the prospect of
13
being cast in a Miramax production was foreseeable given, inter alia, the use of
14
15 Miramax employees to lure the victims and the commission of the acts on Miramax
16 property or at locations paid for by Miramax.

17
141. Weinsteins conduct is not so unusual or startling that it would seem
18
20 Assaults in the context of the casting couch are exactly why female actresses would
21
expect production companies to take extra precautions to ensure that they are
22
23 protected from the coercive power and lure of a powerful executive promising fame.
24 142. Holding Miramax liable advances the policy goals of respondeat
25
superior, including the prevention of future injuries and the assurance of
26
27
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1 compensation to victims, given that Plaintiff and the Class Members do not have
2
separate remedies under Title VII because they were not employees of Miramax.
3
4 COUNT VI
5 INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

VERSUS WEINSTEIN AND MIRAMAX
6
7
8 paragraphs as if fully set forth herein. Plaintiff brings this Count VI against Weinstein
9
and Miramax for the period prior to September 30, 2005.
10
144. Weinsteins extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly
11
12 caused severe emotional distress to Plaintiff and the Class Members.

13
145. Weinsteins outrageous conduct was not the type of ordinary rude or
14
obnoxious behavior that women should be expected to weather. Rather, Weinsteins
15
16 conduct exceeded all possible bounds of decency.

17
146. Weinstein acted with intent or recklessness, knowing that his female
18
victims were likely to endure emotional distress. Indeed, he used this distress to
19
20 subdue and threaten the women and prevent them from complaining or suing based on
21
his actions. He did so with deliberate disregard as to the high possibility that severe
22
emotional distress would occur.
23
24 147. Weinsteins conduct caused suffering for Plaintiff and the Class Members
25
at levels that no reasonable person should have to endure.
26
27
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2
3
4 to play parts in Miramaxs productions his abuse of his power to coerce and batter
5 those actresses. Each act of intentional infliction of emotional distress of a Class

6
Member lured with the prospect of being cast in a Miramax production was
7
8 foreseeable given, inter alia, the use of Miramax employees to lure the victims and the
9 commission of the acts on Miramax property or at locations paid for by Miramax.

10
149. Weinsteins conduct is not so unusual or startling that it would seem
11
13 The intentional infliction of emotional distress in the context of the casting couch is
14
exactly why female actresses would expect production companies to take extra
15
16 precautions to ensure that they are protected from the coercive power and lure of a
17 powerful executive promising fame.

18
150. Holding Miramax liable advances the policy goals of respondeat
19
20 superior, including the prevention of future injuries and assurance of compensation to
21 victims, given that Plaintiff and the Class Members do not have separate remedies
22
under Title VII because they were not employees of Miramax.
23
24
25
26
27
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1 COUNT VII
2 NEGLIGENT INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS VERSUS
3
WEINSTEIN AND MIRAMAX
5 paragraphs as if fully set forth herein. Plaintiff brings this Count VII against Weinstein
6
and Miramax for the period prior to September 30, 2005.
7
8 152. Weinsteins conduct negligently caused emotional distress to Plaintiff and

9 the Class Members.
10
153. Weinstein could reasonably foresee that his action would have caused
11
12 emotional distress to Plaintiff and the Class Members.

13 154. Plaintiff and the Class Members were in a specific zone of danger
14
meeting with Weinstein and at risk of physical harm, causing their fear.
15
16 155. Plaintiff and the Class Members, immediately or shortly after meeting
17 with Weinstein, suffered distress and emotional harm.
18
156. Weinsteins conduct was committed within the scope of his employment
19
20 at Miramax. A causal nexus existed between Weinsteins grooming of young actresses
21
to play parts in Miramaxs productions his abuse of his power to coerce and batter
22
those actresses. Each act of negligent infliction of emotional distress of a Class
23
24 Member lured with the prospect of being cast in a Miramax production was
25
foreseeable given, inter alia, the use of Miramax employees to lure the victims and the
26
commission of the acts on Miramax property or at locations paid for by Miramax.
27
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1 157. Weinsteins conduct is not so unusual or startling that it would seem
2
unfair to include the loss resulting from it among other costs of Miramaxs business.
3
4 The negligent infliction of emotional distress in the context of the casting couch is
5 exactly why female actresses would expect production companies to take extra
6
precautions to ensure that they are protected from the coercive power and lure of a
7
8 powerful executive promising fame.
9 158. Holding Miramax liable advances the policy goals of respondeat

10
superior, including the prevention of future injuries and the assurance of
11
12 compensation to victims, given that Plaintiff and the Class Members do not have
13 separate remedies under Title VII because they were not employees of Miramax.
14
COUNT VIII
15
RATIFICATION VERSUS MIRAMAX
16
17
18 paragraphs as if fully set forth herein. Plaintiff brings this Count XIII against Miramax
19
for ratification of Weinsteins sexual misconduct for the period before September 30,
20
21 2005.
22 160. Weinstein was an agent and employee of Miramax prior to September 30,
23
2005.
24
25 161. At the time of the acts prior to September 30, 2005, there was an actual or
26 assumed agency relationship between Weinstein and Miramax.

27
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1 162. All acts or omissions alleged for the period before September 30, 2005
2
were ratified by Miramax. Miramax had investigated or knew of the acts and
3
4 omissions of Weinstein, and Miramax's employees, managers, supervisors, executives,
5 and directors were informed that Weinstein was sexually abusing female actors and
6
refused to take any action to stop him. Moreover, Miramaxs managers, supervisors,
7
8 executives, and directors hid this information so that Weinstein could continue to work
9 for Miramax.
10
163. Despite knowledge of Weinsteins sexual misconduct, no disciplinary
11
12 action was taken and he was allowed to be alone with women who were prospective or
13 actual actors in Miramax productions.

14
164. Miramax is thus responsible for Weinsteins acts of assault, battery, and
15
16 intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress.
17 PRAYER FOR RELIEF

18
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, individually and on behalf of all Class Members prays
19
that this Court:
20
21 1. Certify the Class pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(c)(4) for liability and
22
reserve damages and pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(2) for injunctive relief, name
23
Plaintiff as representative of the Class, and appoint her lawyers as Class Counsel;
24
25 2. Enter judgment against Harvey Weinstein on liability on Counts I-VIII in
26
favor of Plaintiff and the Class;
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1 3. Enter judgment against Miramax LLC on liability on Counts I-VIII in
2
favor of Plaintiff and the Class;
3
4 4. Enter judgment against The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC on
5 liability on Counts I and II in favor of Plaintiff and the Class;

6
5. In individual damage proceedings and prove-ups, award Plaintiff and the
7
8 Class Members damages for pain and suffering, and compensatory and punitive
9 damages.
10
DATED: November 15, 2017 THE ARMENTA LAW FIRM, APC
11
By: /s/ M. Cris Armenta
12 M. Cris Armenta
Credence E. Sol
13 1230 Rosecrans Ave, Suite 300
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
14 Telephone: (310) 826-2826 Ext. 108
cris@crisarmenta.com
15 credence.sol@orange.fr
16 Steve W. Berman (pro hac vice to be applied for)
17 1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300
Seattle, WA 98101
18 Telephone: (206) 623-7292
steve@hbsslaw.com
19
Elaine T. Byszewski
20 HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO LLP
301 N. Lake Avenue, Suite 920
21 Pasadena, CA 91101
Telephone: (213) 330-7150
22 elaine@hbsslaw.com
23 Robert B. Carey
24 11 West Jefferson Street, Suite 1000
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
25
Telephone: (602) 840-5900
Facsimile: (602) 840-3012
rob@hbsslaw.com
26
Elizabeth A. Fegan (pro hac vice to be applied for)
27 Emily Brown (pro hac vice to be applied for)
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1 EXHIBIT A
2 ORIGINAL MIRAMAX COMPANY FILMS 19801993
3
RELEASE DATE TITLE
4
November 1, 1980 Rockshow
5
October 31, 1981 Spaced Out
6
May 8, 1981 The Burning
7 January 1, 1982 The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
8 May 2, 1983 Erndira
9 April 13, 1983 dith et Marcel
10 July 10, 1984 B.C. Rock
11 June 20, 1985 Crossover Dreams
12
May 1, 1986 The Quest
October 3, 1986 Playing for Keeps
13
March 1987 Ghost Fever
14
March 31, 1987 Working Girls
15
September 11, 1987 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
16 January 28, 1988 Light Years
17 May 15, 1988 Mio in the Land of Faraway
18 August 25, 1988 The Thin Blue Line
19 July 20, 1988 Aria
20 August 18, 1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape
21 November 10, 1989 My Left Foot
January 26, 1990 Strike It Rich
22
February 23, 1990 Cinema Paradiso
23
April 6, 1990 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her
24 Lover
25 May 4, 1990 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
26 August 31, 1990 The Lemon Sisters
27 September 14, 1990 Hardware
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2 September 21, 1990 The Tall Guy
3 October 26, 1990 The Nasty Girl
4 November 9, 1990 The Krays
5 November 23, 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
6
December 5, 1990 The Grifters
December 21, 1990 The Long Walk Home
7
March 6, 1991 Ju Dou
8
March 13, 1991 Paris Is Burning
9
April 26, 1991 Dancin' thru the Dark
10 April 26, 1991 Journey of Hope
11 May 3, 1991 A Rage in Harlem
12 May 24, 1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare
13 May 31, 1991 Ambition
14 May 31, 1991 Everybody's Fine
15
June 28, 1991 The Reflecting Skin
July 3, 1991 The Miracle
16
August 9, 1991 Crossing the Line
17
August 23, 1991 Pastime
18
August 30, 1991 The Pope Must Die
19 October 30, 1991 A Grande Arte
20 November 15, 1991 Prospero's Books
21 November 22, 1991 The Double Life of Veronique
22 December 20, 1991 High Heels
23 December 27, 1991 Hear My Song
24 January 24, 1992 Love Crimes
March 22, 1992 Mediterraneo
25
April 3, 1992 Delicatessen
26
May 1, 1992 K2
27
June 26, 1992 Incident at Oglala Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 July 31, 1992 Enchanted April
3 August 14, 1992 Johnny Suede
4 August 28, 1992 Freddie as F.R.O.7
5 September 4, 1992 Bob Roberts
6
September 18, 1992 Sarafina!
October 9, 1992 Breaking the Rules
7
October 23, 1992 Reservoir Dogs
8
October 30, 1992 Close to Eden
9
November 6, 1992 The Efficiency Expert
10 November 6, 1992 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
11 November 25, 1992 The Crying Game
12 December 11, 1992 Passion Fish
13 February 12, 1993 Strictly Ballroom
14 February 17, 1993 Like Water for Chocolate
15
March 12, 1993 Ethan Frome
March 19, 1993 Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
16
March 26, 1993 The Opposite Sex and How to Live with
17 Them
18 April 23, 1993 Map of the Human Heart
19 April 30, 1993 The Night We Never Met
20 June 25, 1993 House of Cards
21 July 16, 1993 Benefit of the Doubt
22
July 30, 1993 Tom and Jerry: The Movie
August 13, 1993 Especially on Sunday
23
September 17, 1993 Into the West
24
October 13, 1993 Dust Devil
25
October 15, 1993 Farewell My Concubine
26 October 29, 1993 Deception
27 November 12, 1993 The Piano Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 December 3, 1993 The Snapper
3 December 5, 1993 Three Colours: Blue
4
MIRAMAX COMPANY FILMS 19932010
5

7 February 12, 1993 Strictly Ballroom
8 February 17, 1993 Like Water for Chocolate
9
March 12, 1993 Ethan Frome
March 19, 1993 Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
10
March 26, 1993 The Opposite Sex and How to Live with
11 Them
12 April 23, 1993 Map of the Human Heart
13 April 30, 1993 The Night We Never Met
14 June 25, 1993 House of Cards
15 July 16, 1993 Benefit of the Doubt
16
July 30, 1993 Tom and Jerry: The Movie
August 13, 1993 Especially on Sunday
17
September 17, 1993 Into the West
18
October 13, 1993 Dust Devil
19
October 15, 1993 Farewell My Concubine
20
October 29, 1993 Deception
21 November 12, 1993 The Piano
22 December 3, 1993 The Snapper
23 December 5, 1993 Three Colours: Blue
24 February 18, 1994 Three Colours: White
25 March 18, 1994 Mother's Boys
April 1, 1994 The House of the Spirits
26
May 11, 1994 The Crow
27
May 23, 1994 Desperate Remedies Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 May 25, 1994 Little Buddha
3 July 15, 1994 Ciao, Professore!
4 August 24, 1994 Fresh
5 October 14, 1994 Pulp Fiction
6
October 19, 1994 Clerks
November 3, 1994 Sirens
7
November 16, 1994 Heavenly Creatures
8
November 23, 1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
9
November 25, 1994 Camilla
10 December 2, 1994 Tom & Viv
11 December 9, 1994 Queen Margot
12 December 25, 1994 Ready to Wear
13 December 25, 1994 Three Colours: Red
14 January 18, 1995 Bullets over Broadway
15
January 20, 1995 Strawberry and Chocolate
February 17, 1995 Through the Olive Trees
16
March 3, 1995 Exotica
17
March 10, 1995 Muriel's Wedding
18
March 24, 1995 Priest
19 April 11, 1995 Roadflower
20 May 5, 1995 Picture Bride
21 May 12, 1995 The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but
22
Came down a Mountain
May 12, 1995 Gordy
23
June 2, 1995 The Glass Shield
24
June 9, 1995 Smoke
25
June 14, 1995 Il Postino: The Postman
26 July 7, 1995 The Crude Oasis
27 July 12, 1995 Grosse Fatigue Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 July 28, 1995 Country Life
3 July 28, 1995 Kids
4 August 11, 1995 Unzipped
5 August 25, 1995 The Thief and the Cobbler
6
September 1, 1995 The Innocent
September 22, 1995 A Month by the Lake
7
October 6, 1995 The Horseman on the Roof
8
October 13, 1995 Blue in the Face
9
November 9, 1995 The Star Maker
10 November 16, 1995 The Crossing Guard
11 November 22, 1995 Two Bits
12 December 1, 1995 Things to Do in Denver When You're
Dead
13
December 8, 1995 Georgia
14
December 15, 1995 Cry, the Beloved Country
15
December 25, 1995 Four Rooms
16
December 29, 1995 Restoration
17 January 11, 1996 Mighty Aphrodite
18 January 12, 1996 Don't Be a Menace to South Central
19 While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
January 19, 1996 French Twist
20
January 26, 1996 The Journey of August King
21
February 2, 1996 The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from
22 Fantasia
23 February 9, 1996 Beautiful Girls
24 March 8, 1996 Chungking Express
25 March 22, 1996 Flirting with Disaster
26 April 3, 1996 Faithful
April 12, 1996 Jane Eyre
27
Unknown
April 26, 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome
EXHIBIT A
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2 May 3, 1996 Captives
3 May 3, 1996 The Pallbearer
4 May 10, 1996 Dead Man
5 May 10, 1996 Of Love and Shadows
6
July 17, 1996 Walking and Talking
July 19, 1996 Trainspotting
7
July 26, 1996 Billy's Holiday
8
August 2, 1996 Emma
9
August 9, 1996 Basquiat
10 September 17, 1996 Hidden Assassin
11 September 27, 1996 Curdled
12 October 9, 1996 Microcosmos
13 October 11, 1996 Hard Core Logo
14 October 18, 1996 Swingers
15
November 15, 1996 Miracle at Oxford
November 22, 1996 Ridicule
16
November 27, 1996 Sling Blade
17
December 6, 1996 The English Patient
18
December 13, 1996 Citizen Ruth
19 December 13, 1996 Victory
20 December 18, 1996 Marvin's Room
21 January 3, 1997 Everyone Says I Love You
22 January 17, 1997 Albino Alligator
23 January 24, 1997 Kolya
24 February 14, 1997 Unhook the Stars
March 5, 1997 Rhyme & Reason
25
March 14, 1997 The Substance of Fire
26
April 4, 1997 Chasing Amy
27
April 11, 1997 Cosi Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 April 30, 1997 Children of the Revolution
3 May 23, 1997 Addicted to Love
4 May 23, 1997 Brassed Off
5 June 6, 1997 Squeeze
6
June 12, 1997 Robinson Crusoe
June 13, 1997 Temptress Moon
7
July 11, 1997 Shall We Dance?
8
July 18, 1997 Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
9
August 1, 1997 Love Serenade
10 August 15, 1997 Cop Land
11 August 27, 1997 She's So Lovely
12 September 5, 1997 Mouth to Mouth
13 October 10, 1997 The House of Yes
14 November 7, 1997 The Wings of the Dove
15
November 26, 1997 Welcome to Sarajevo
December 3, 1997 Office Killer
16
December 5, 1997 Good Will Hunting
17
December 20, 1997 Life Is Beautiful
18
December 25, 1997 Jackie Brown
19 December 25, 1997 Wishful Thinking
20 December 25, 1997 Shades of Fear
21 January 19, 1998 Jerry and Tom
22 January 30, 1998 Four Days in September
23 February 20, 1998 Little City
24 March 14, 1998 God Said Ha!
March 20, 1998 Wide Awake
25
March 27, 1998 A Price Above Rubies
26
April 10, 1998 The Big One
27
April 10, 1998 Sonatine Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 April 10, 1998 Summer Fling
3 April 18, 1998 Since You've Been Gone
4 April 24, 1998 Sliding Doors
5 April 24, 1998 The Truce
6
May 8, 1998 Artemisia
June 5, 1998 Beyond Silence
7
June 16, 1998 The Rage
8
June 19, 1998 Hav Plenty
9
June 26, 1998 Smoke Signals
10 August 7, 1998 Telling You
11 August 21, 1998 Next Stop Wonderland
12 August 28, 1998 54
13 September 4, 1998 All I Wanna Do
14 September 4, 1998 Firelight
15
September 10, 1998 With Friends Like These...
September 11, 1998 Rounders
16
September 25, 1998 Monument Ave.
17
October 9, 1998 The Mighty
18
October 30, 1998 Talk of Angels
19 November 6, 1998 Velvet Goldmine
20 November 20, 1998 Celebrity
21 December 4, 1998 Little Voice
22 December 11, 1998 Shakespeare in Love
23 December 18, 1998 Playing by Heart
24 December 25, 1998 Down in the Delta
December 25, 1998 Sweet Revenge
25
January 22, 1999 Children of Heaven
26
January 24, 1999 Get Bruce
27
January 29, 1999 She's All That Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 March 12, 1999 Comedian Harmonists
3 March 26, 1999 A Walk on the Moon
4 May 7, 1999 The Castle
5 June 18, 1999 An Ideal Husband
6
June 25, 1999 My Son the Fanatic
June 25, 1999 Rogue Trader
7
July 2, 1999 The Lovers on the Bridge
8
July 23, 1999 My Life So Far
9
August 27, 1999 The Very Thought of You
10 September 1, 1999 Outside Providence
11 September 10, 1999 B. Monkey
12 September 24, 1999 Guinevere
13 October 1, 1999 Happy, Texas
14 October 8, 1999 The Grandfather
15
October 29, 1999 Music of the Heart
October 29, 1999 Princess Mononoke
16
November 19, 1999 Mansfield Park
17
December 1, 1999 Spanish Fly
18
December 3, 1999 Holy Smoke!
19 December 10, 1999 The Cider House Rules
20 December 10, 1999 Diamonds
21 December 25, 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley
22 January 21, 2000 Down to You
23 April 14, 2000 East is East
24 April 18, 2000 Committed
May 5, 2000 Human Traffic
25
May 12, 2000 Hamlet
26
June 9, 2000 Love's Labour's Lost
27
June 16, 2000 Butterfly's Tongue Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 September 1, 2000 Highlander: Endgame
3 October 20, 2000 The Yards
4 November 15, 2000 Bounce
5 December 1, 2000 A Hard Day's Night
6
December 25, 2000 All the Pretty Horses
December 25, 2000 Malna
7
December 25, 2000 Vatel
8
January 5, 2001 Chocolat
9
February 9, 2001 The Taste of Others
10 March 7, 2001 Blow Dry
11 March 9, 2001 Get Over It
12 April 13, 2001 Bridget Jones's Diary
13 May 11, 2001 Calle 54
14 May 18, 2001 About Adam
15
June 8, 2001 The Son's Room
June 14, 2001 Tears of the Black Tiger
16
June 29, 2001 The Closet
17
June 29, 2001 Everybody's Famous!
18
August 3, 2001 Apocalypse Now Redux
19 August 10, 2001 The Others
20 August 17, 2001 Captain Corelli's Mandolin
21 August 24, 2001 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
22 September 7, 2001 The Musketeer
23 October 5, 2001 Serendipity
24 October 12, 2001 Iron Monkey
October 26, 2001 On the Line
25
October 26, 2001 Daddy and Them
26
November 16, 2001 Amlie
27
December 7, 2001 Baran Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 December 12, 2001 Behind the Sun
3 December 13, 2001 Piero
4 December 14, 2001 Iris
5 December 25, 2001 In the Bedroom
6
December 25, 2001 Kate & Leopold
January 11, 2002 The Shipping News
7
January 18, 2002 Italian for Beginners
8
February 1, 2002 Birthday Girl
9
March 1, 2002 40 Days and 40 Nights
10 March 22, 2002 Stolen Summer
11 April 19, 2002 Enigma
12 April 19, 2002 Lucky Break
13 May 17, 2002 The Importance of Being Earnest
14 August 2, 2002 Tadpole
15
August 2, 2002 Full Frontal
August 23, 2002 Undisputed
16
September 20, 2002 The Four Feathers
17
October 4, 2002 Heaven
18
October 11, 2002 Comedian
19 October 11, 2002 Pokmon 4Ever
20 October 18, 2002 Naqoyqatsi
21 October 25, 2002 Frida
22 October 25, 2002 Paid in Full
23 October 25, 2002 Waking Up in Reno
24 November 15, 2002 Ararat
November 29, 2002 Rabbit-Proof Fence
25
December 20, 2002 Gangs of New York
26
December 25, 2002 Pinocchio
27
December 25, 2002 Speakeasy Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 December 27, 2002 Chicago
3 December 31, 2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
4 January 17, 2003 City of God
5 January 24, 2003 The Hours
6
February 7, 2003 The Quiet American
February 14, 2003 Gerry
7
March 12, 2003 View from the Top
8
April 4, 2003 Dysfunktional Family
9
April 25, 2003 People I Know
10 May 2, 2003 Blue Car
11 May 16, 2003 Pokmon Heroes
12 June 13, 2003 Jet Lag
13 July 18, 2003 Dirty Pretty Things
14 July 25, 2003 Buffalo Soldiers
15
August 1, 2003 The Magdalene Sisters
August 22, 2003 The Battle of Shaker Heights
16
September 16, 2003 Bionicle: Mask of Light
17
September 26, 2003 Duplex
18
October 3, 2003 The Station Agent
19 October 10, 2003 Kill Bill: Volume 1
20 October 31, 2003 The Human Stain
21 November 14, 2003 Master and Commander: The Far Side
22
of the World
November 21, 2003 The Barbarian Invasions
23
December 25, 2003 Cold Mountain
24
January 9, 2004 My Baby's Daddy
25
February 27, 2004 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
26 March 26, 2004 Jersey Girl
27 April 2, 2004 Shaolin Soccer Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 April 9, 2004 Ella Enchanted
3 April 9, 2004 I'm Not Scared
4 April 9, 2004 You Can't Stop the Murders
5 April 16, 2004 Kill Bill: Volume 2
6
May 7, 2004 Valentn
June 1, 2004 Pokmon: Jirachi Wish Maker
7
June 4, 2004 Zatichi
8
July 28, 2004 Garden State
9
August 27, 2004 Hero
10 September 24, 2004 Infernal Affairs
11 October 15, 2004 Shall We Dance?
12 October 19, 2004 Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui
13 October 21, 2004 Chestnut: Hero of Central Park
14 November 19, 2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
15
November 24, 2004 Finding Neverland
December 22, 2004 The Chorus
16
December 25, 2004 Darkness
17
December 25, 2004 The Aviator
18
February 11, 2005 Bride and Prejudice
19 February 15, 2005 Pokmon: Destiny Deoxys
20 February 25, 2005 Cursed
21 March 2, 2005 The Best of Youth
22 March 4, 2005 Dear Frankie
23 March 11, 2005 Hostage
24 May 6, 2005 Twin Sisters
June 3, 2005 Cinderella Man
25
July 15, 2005 The Warrior
26
August 5, 2005 Secuestro Express
27
August 12, 2005 The Great Raid Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 August 26, 2005 The Brothers Grimm
3 September 2, 2005 Underclassman
4 September 9, 2005 An Unfinished Life
5 September 25, 2005 Daltry Calhoun
6
September 30, 2005 Proof
October 11, 2005 Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows
7
November 4, 2005 Show Me
8
November 11, 2005 Derailed
9
November 12, 2005 Undertaking Betty
10 December 30, 2005 The Matador
11 February 24, 2006 Spymate
12 February 24, 2006 Tsotsi
13 April 14, 2006 Kinky Boots
14 April 14, 2006 Scary Movie 4
15
May 12, 2006 Keeping Up with the Steins
July 7, 2006 The Heart of the Game
16
August 4, 2006 The Night Listener
17
September 8, 2006 Hollywoodland
18
September 22, 2006 Renaissance
19 October 6, 2006 The Queen
20 December 21, 2006 Venus
21 January 26, 2007 Breaking and Entering
22 March 30, 2007 The Lookout
23 April 6, 2007 The Hoax
24 June 15, 2007 The Golden Door
June 15, 2007 Eagle vs Shark
25
July 27, 2007 No. 2
26
August 10, 2007 Becoming Jane
27
October 19, 2007 Gone Baby Gone Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 November 21, 2007 No Country for Old Men
3 November 30, 2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 December 26, 2007 There Will Be Blood
5 February 29, 2008 City of Men
6
April 11, 2008 Smart People
May 16, 2008 Reprise
7
July 25, 2008 Brideshead Revisited
8
October 3, 2008 Blindness
9
October 10, 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky
10 November 28, 2008 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
11 December 25, 2008 Doubt
12 February 21, 2009 Dean Spanley
13 April 3, 2009 Adventureland
14 June 26, 2009 Chri
15
September 4, 2009 Extract
September 25, 2009 The Boys Are Back
16
December 4, 2009 Everybody's Fine
17
August 20, 2010 The Switch
18
December 10, 2010 The Tempest
19
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22 November 11, 2005 Derailed
23
November 25, 2005 The Libertine
December 23, 2005 Transamerica
24
December 25, 2005 Mrs. Henderson Presents
25
December 30, 2005 The Matador
26
January 13, 2006 Hoodwinked!
27
February 24, 2006 Doogal Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 April 7, 2006 Lucky Number Slevin
3 April 14, 2006 Scary Movie 4
4 June 23, 2006 Wordplay
5 July 21, 2006 Clerks II
6
August 11, 2006 Pulse
September 8, 2006 The Protector
7
September 22, 2006 Feast
8
September 29, 2006 School for Scoundrels
9
October 6, 2006 Stormbreaker
10 November 10, 2006 Shut Up & Sing
11 November 16, 2006 Fast Food Nation
12 November 23, 2006 Bobby
13 December 25, 2006 Black Christmas
14 December 29, 2006 Factory Girl
15
December 29, 2006 Miss Potter
January 12, 2007 Arthur and the Invisibles
16
January 17, 2007 Alone with Her
17
February 9, 2007 Breaking and Entering
18
February 9, 2007 Hannibal Rising
19 March 16, 2007 Nomad
20 March 23, 2007 TMNT
21 April 6, 2007 Grindhouse (Planet Terror & Death
22
Proof)
May 11, 2007 The Ex
23
June 15, 2007 DOA: Dead or Alive
24
June 22, 2007 1408
25
June 22, 2007 Sicko
26 June 22, 2007 Black Sheep
27 July 27, 2007 Who's Your Caddy? Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 August 24, 2007 Dedication
3 August 24, 2007 The Nanny Diaries
4 August 31, 2007 Halloween
5 September 5, 2007 I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
6
September 14, 2007 The Hunting Party
November 21, 2007 The Mist
7
November 30, 2007 Awake
8
December 25, 2007 The Great Debaters
9
January 18, 2008 Cassandra's Dream
10 January 25, 2008 Rambo
11 March 19, 2008 La Misma Luna
12 March 28, 2008 Superhero Movie
13 April 18, 2008 The Forbidden Kingdom
14 April 25, 2008 Rogue
15
June 6, 2008 The Promotion
July 23, 2008 Boy A
16
August 8, 2008 Hell Ride
17
August 15, 2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
18
August 22, 2008 The Longshots
19 September 19, 2008 Elite Squad
20 October 31, 2008 Zack and Miri Make a Porno
21 November 7, 2008 Soul Men
22 January 23, 2009 Outlander
23 January 23, 2009 Killshot
24 January 30, 2009 The Reader
February 6, 2009 Fanboys
25
February 27, 2009 Crossing Over
26
August 21, 2009 Inglourious Basterds
27
August 28, 2009 Halloween II Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 September 11, 2009 A Single Man
3 October 2, 2009 Capitalism: A Love Story
4 October 16, 2009 Janky Promoters
5 November 25, 2009 The Road
6
December 18, 2009 Nine
January 8, 2010 Youth in Revolt
7
February 9, 2010 Hurricane Season
8
May 5, 2010 Shelter
9
July 30, 2010 Le Concert
10 August 20, 2010 Piranha 3D
11 August 20, 2010 The Tillman Story
12 October 8, 2010 Nowhere Boy
13 December 3, 2010 All Good Things
14 December 10, 2010 The Fighter
15
December 24, 2010 The King's Speech
December 31, 2010 Blue Valentine
16
January 21, 2011 The Company Men
17
March 25, 2011 Miral
18
April 15, 2011 Scream 4
19 April 29, 2011 Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
20 June 3, 2011 Submarine
21 July 22, 2011 Sarah's Key
22 August 19, 2011 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
23 August 26, 2011 Our Idiot Brother
24 September 2, 2011 Apollo 18
September 16, 2011 I Don't Know How She Does It
25
October 7, 2011 Dirty Girl
26
November 25, 2011 My Week with Marilyn
27
November 25, 2011 The Artist Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 December 30, 2011 The Iron Lady
3 January 20, 2012 Coriolanus
4 February 3, 2012 W.E.
5 February 17, 2012 Undefeated
6
March 30, 2012 Bully
May 25, 2012 The Intouchables
7
June 1, 2012 Piranha 3DD
8
August 31, 2012 Lawless
9
September 14, 2012 The Master
10 October 5, 2012 Butter
11 November 2, 2012 This Must Be the Place
12 November 16, 2012 Silver Linings Playbook
13 November 30, 2012 Killing Them Softly
14 December 25, 2012 Django Unchained
15
February 15, 2013 Escape from Planet Earth
February 22, 2013 Dark Skies
16
March 1, 2013 Quartet
17
March 22, 2013 The Sapphires
18
April 12, 2013 Scary Movie 5
19 July 12, 2013 Fruitvale Station
20 August 16, 2013 The Butler
21 August 23, 2013 The Grandmaster
22 November 22, 2013 Philomena
23 November 29, 2013 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
24 December 27, 2013 August: Osage County
January 17, 2014 The Nut Job
25
February 7, 2014 Vampire Academy
26
April 4, 2014 On the Other Side of the Tracks
27
April 11, 2014 The Railway Man Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 May 16, 2014 The Immigrant
3 June 27, 2014 Begin Again
4 August 15, 2014 The Giver
5 August 22, 2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
6
September 12, 2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
September 19, 2014 Tracks
7
October 10, 2014 One Chance
8
October 24, 2014 St. Vincent
9
November 21, 2014 The Imitation Game
10 December 25, 2014 Big Eyes
11 January 16, 2015 Paddington
12 March 13, 2015 Eva
13 April 1, 2015 Woman in Gold
14 July 24, 2015 Southpaw
15
July 31, 2015 The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
August 26, 2015 No Escape
16
October 30, 2015 Burnt
17
November 20, 2015 Carol
18
December 4, 2015 Macbeth
19 December 25, 2015 The Hateful Eight
20 January 29, 2016 Jane Got a Gun
21 February 5, 2016 Regression
22 February 26, 2016 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Sword of Destiny
23
April 15, 2016 Sing Street
24
August 26, 2016 Hands of Stone
25
September 16, 2016 Wild Oats
26 November 25, 2016 Lion
27 January 20, 2017 The Founder Unknown
EXHIBIT A
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2 January 27, 2017 Gold
3 May 5, 2017 3 Generations
4 August 4, 2017 Wind River
5 August 11, 2017 The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
6
August 25, 2017 Leap!
September 1, 2017 Tulip Fever
7
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1 STEVE W.

BERMAN (pro hac vice to be applied for)

23 THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY

22 V. CLASS ALLEGATIONS .................................................................................39 Unknown

CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

4 project to be produced or distributed by The Weinstein Company Holdings, LLC

CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

4 reputation, and severe emotional distress.

5 3. Weinsteins power and the pervasiveness of his misconduct was recently

8 Since the establishment of the first studios, a century ago, there

CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

19 employment and/or these entities ratified or concealed Weinsteins conduct

CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

13 National Enquirer (collectively, Journalist Participants). The identities of many of

16 discoverable through the discovery process.

17 5. After the initial assault(s) were over, Weinstein engaged or directed

CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

4 evidence to reveal his sexual offenses.

5 6. The Weinstein Sexual Enterprises long-running practice of isolating and

17 of an unfit officer, director and/or employee. Defendants conduct has caused

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13 9. Venue is proper in this District under 28 U.S.C. 1391 (a)(d) because,

17 situated in the District.

26 physical distress, and was injured in her property or livelihood as a result of

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5 11. Defendant The Weinstein Company Holdings, LLC is a Delaware limited

9 Santa Monica, California.

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4 the most successful independent studio in America.

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8 he groped a female model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, describing it as behavior

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17 examples of Weinsteins predatory behavior:

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3 b. In 1996, starring in a new film to which Miramax had just obtained

15 g. In 2003, acting in small gigs, Dawn Dunning was invited by

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5 i. In 2010, Weinstein told actress Emma de Caunes he was interested

12 a. Although Lucia Stollers meeting took place at Miramax, [s]he

17 c. When Rosanna Arquette showed up for dinner at a hotel restaurant

19 d. When Jessica Barth arrived at the Peninsula Hotel for a business

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3 f. After a breakfast meeting with Weinstein and a female executive,

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3 d. Mira Sorvino: In a hotel room, Weinstein started massaging her

10 g. Rosanna Arquette: Weinstein answered his hotel door in a

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3 l. Katherine Kendall: Weinstein undressed and chased her around a

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18 Miramax, an associate of Weinsteins invited Jane Doe 1 to meet Weinstein in his

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4 37. A female employee at TWC, Lauren OConnor, wrote in a memo

17 employment so long as it made a profit on it. According to TMZ.com, which

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13 a cure for the misconduct and no further action can be taken.51

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5 44. Defendants were aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against

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6 common purpose of preventing (or attempting to prevent) the reporting, prosecution,

10 Enterprise also shared the common purpose of destroying, mutilating, or concealing