Harvey Weinstein victim: “He abused me in a children’s bedroom”

One of the women who accuses 67-year-old Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, says the film producer committed her wrongdoing in a children’s bedroom in his New York home. Former production assistant Mimi Haleyi was crying while she made a statement in New York on Monday about the alleged abuse in 2006.

Haleyi said that Weinstein invited her back to his house in the SoHo neighborhood. He would have been “friendly” at first, but then worked her into a bedroom. The woman said she was kissed and touched and always showed that she “didn’t want this”.

Haley, 42, who worked on Project Runway, says Harvey had oral sex with her against her will. The woman from Finland did not go to the police afterwards, in her own words because she did not have a valid work permit. She feared she would be deported.