Norwegian actress Natassia Malthe took to the stand in court to testify her horrific experience with kinky sex predator Harvey Weinstein.
Malthe claimed that Weinstein demanded her to join in a threesome two months after he raped her.
Malthe said, “I walked in on him and another woman at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills in April 2008.”
Testifying at Weinstein’s sexual assault trial, the model-turned-actress said she was tricked into going to the then-big-shot producer’s hotel suite under the belief that he would talk to her about a movie part.
When she entered the room, another woman was already inside with him.
“They were trying to get me to do a threesome with them,” Malthe said in tears. “I had already said I didn’t want to. … And this woman, who I think is a prostitute is like, ‘Oh, she is so shy,’ and her and Weinstein were laughing. And she gave him a b—job. She kept trying to coax me to put a robe on so I could join them.”
“He has you by the f—king throat, knowing that if you don’t comply, that your career is down the drain … and that’s not right,” Malthe said of Weinstein.
During her testimony, Malthe, one of many women to give testimony about Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, said the incident happened two months after Weinstein raped her at a London hotel, around the same time as the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
During that incident, Malthe claims Weinstein forced himself into her hotel room and pushed her onto the bed.
“As he penetrated my vagina with his penis, I saw a big hole in his stomach,” Malthe testified.
Other victims of Weinstein, have also described Weinstein’s sexual organs in various unflattering ways, after he had surgery to move his testicles into his thighs after contracting a disease known as Fournier’s gangrene.
Malthe continued to testify, “He told me to think about all the Oscars people had won and everyone had to go through him. He was insinuating that I just comply too. It didn’t last long because I had zero response because I just played dead. He got off me and finished off himself. He ejaculated into his hand.”
The actress said during that time, Weinstein was referred to as “One-phone-call-away Harvey” because he could make or break careers as the most powerful person in Hollywood.
Malthe said she saw Weinstein about three or four years later at a party attended by Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga, where he pulled her aside and told her, “I thought you were going to go to the tabloids,” meaning that she would sell a story about him.
When she replied she would never “mess around with the most powerful guy in Hollywood,” Weinstein allegedly replied, “It pays to be my friend.”
Malthe also claimed that in 2011, her and a friend met with Weinstein at a restaurant and he invited the to his New York office.
However, once they were inside, Malthe said, Weinstein tried to force her friend to perform oral sex on him. When her friend refused, Malthe claimed, Weinstein pulled her into another room and pulled down his pants.
“He just unbuckled it and brings it out,” she said of Weinstein’s privates. “He whips it out. He groped me as he masturbated. I didn’t know how to respond. I was humiliated in front of my friend.”
During cross-examination, defense attorney Mark Werksman asked her about the rape incident.
“You never actually told Mr. Weinstein you didn’t want to have sex that evening, did you,” the defense attorney asked.
“I did, I told him I don’t do the ‘casting couch thing,’” Malthe said, referring to a supposed practice of actors or actresses using sexual favors to get parts in films or other projects.
“You didn’t say no, or ‘Get off my bed.’ You said, ‘I don’t do the casting couch thing,’” Werksman asked.
“He’s very entitled and he just pushes you down,” Malthe replied.
“My question is did you ever actually say, ‘No, I don’t want to have sex with you, Mr. Weinstein,’” Werksman pressed.
Malthe replied that she did not say no.
When asked why she decided to go to the Peninsula Hotel two months after the altercation, Malthe said, “I didn’t feel like I had a choice.”
