“[Weinstein] terrified me, and he was so big,” she tells Farrow. “It wouldn’t stop. It was a nightmare.”

Shortly after The New Yorker published the piece, Argento tweeted a clip from her 2000 film Scarlet Diva, of a scene in which an actress (played by Argento) is persuaded into giving a producer a massage. The producer then makes a lewd comment and lunges at the actress.

The article features numerous similar accounts from various women, including an aspiring actress named Lucia Evans, who says she went to meet Weinstein at his Miramax office in 2004. When she arrived, she was taken to an office room with “exercise equipment and takeout boxes on the floor.” Weinstein came to meet her alone. He began discussing her figure, she tells Farrow, mentioning two film projects that might be a fit for her. “At that point, after that, is when he assaulted me,” Evans says. “He forced me to perform oral sex on him.”

She tried to get away, but was “overpowered” by Weinstein and eventually gave in. “That’s the most horrible part of it, and that’s why he’s been able to do this for so long to so many women: people give up, and then they feel like it’s their fault.”

In another account, Weinstein Company employee Emily Nestor recalls that Weinstein would refer to her as “the pretty girl” and asked her to work from the London office, where she “could be my girlfriend.” He also allegedly told her that women threw themselves at him, bragging that he “never had to do anything like Bill Cosby.”

Amid all the disturbing reports, however, is a particularly compelling one from Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, who says Weinstein groped her breast at an event. She immediately reported the alleged assault to the N.Y.P.D., who then devised a plan for Gutierrez to meet up with Weinstein again. This time, she would be wearing a wire, and would be guided by undercover officers in an attempt to get a confession from Weinstein on tape.

The next day, she met Weinstein at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, where he was recorded demanding that she go to his hotel room. Gutierrez insisted on staying in the hallway, which frustrated Weinstein, as the audio shows. She then asked him why he grabbed her breast.

“Oh, please, I’m sorry, just come on in,” Weinstein can be heard saying. “I’m used to that. Come on. Please.”

Soon after the audio was recorded, however, reports surfaced that Gutierrez had attended a sex party thrown by disgraced former Italian prime minister **Silvio Berlusconi,**and that she had previously made an allegation of sexual assault “against an older Italian businessman but later declined to cooperate with prosecutors.”

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office dropped the investigation against Weinstein after two weeks. No charges were filed.

Sallie Hofmeister, a spokesperson for Weinstein, released this statement to The New Yorker in response to the article: “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances. Mr. Weinstein obviously can’t speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr. Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr. Weinstein has begun counseling, has listened to the community, and is pursuing a better path. Mr. Weinstein is hoping that, if he makes enough progress, he will be given a second chance.”