Rosanna Arquette Lambasts Weinstein’s Denials in Prison Interview: ‘The Rapes Happened’

Harvey Weinstein continued to deny that he ever sexually assaulted any women during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter conducted from Rikers Island. When speaking to the publication, the convicted rapist maintained his innocence and claimed he may have “misled” the numerous women accusing him of assault. “I cheated on both my wives. That’s immoral. But I did not assault them.

That is the big lie of all of this,” he said. “I won’t apologize for something I didn’t do. I will be proven innocent. That I promise you.” Nearly 100 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct. Rosanna Arquette, who told The New Yorker in 2017 that Weinstein assaulted her at a hotel in the early 1990s, slammed the mogul’s ongoing denials in a statement posted to Instagram on Thursday.

The actress wrote, “here are the facts: The assaults happened. The rapes happened.” Arquette underlined how prior to his convictions, “the rapes and assaults were substantiated by investigative journalists at different legacy news outlets, passing the meticulous scrutiny of teams of lawyers and editors through a rigorous pre-publication process.”...