Harvey Weinstein denies accusations by Angelina Jolie

Disgraced Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has said that he never assaulted Angelina Jolie after she recently claimed in a new interview she had to escape an encounter with the disgraced movie mogulWeinstein who is currently serving a 23year sentence for rape and battery responded in a statement to TMZ via his assistant on Saturday He said THERE WAS NEVER an assault and NEVER an attempt to assaultThe statement continued It is brazenly untrue and clickbait publicity Youre Angelina Jolie every male and female in the world Im sure shows interest in you Is the whole world assaulting youThe heated response from Weinstein comes after the actor described her alleged prior experience with him as beyond a pass while promoting her upcoming book Know Your Rights to a news outlet in an interview published on SaturdayIts very clear to me that this is for more sales on Angies BOOK Weinstein added in his statementIn the interview Jolie who starred in Weinsteins Playing By Heart when she was 21 said she told her first husband Jonny Lee Miller about the alleged incidentI stayed away and warned people about him I remember telling Jonny my first husband who was great about it to spread the word to other guys dont let girls go alone with him Jolie shared She added that she was asked to do 2004s The Aviator but said no because Weinstein was involvedJolies claims about Weinstein came out while she was discussing the ongoing issues she had with her exhusband Brad Pitt that eventually led to their marriage endingThe Maleficent star claimed that Pitt asked Weinstein to be a producer on his film Killing Them Softly a film The Weinstein Company later distributed We fought about Weinsteins involvement Of course it hurt Jolie sharedAlso read Angelina Jolie feared for familys safety during Brad Pitt marriageHowever another one of Pitts exes Gwyneth Paltrow had a completely different experience after Weinstein allegedly invited her then just 22 years old back to his hotel room and suggested they get massages in the bedroomPitt allegedly confronted Weinstein at a movie premiere and physically threatened the producer which at the time was a huge risk for the up and coming actorPlan B productions Pitts company is also working on a film about reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey who helped take down Weinstein with their Pulitzer Prizewinning reportJolie first opened up about the alleged incident with Weinstein in 2017 claiming hed made unwanted advances toward her in a hotel roomI had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth and as a result chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did This behaviour towards women in any field any country is unacceptable Jolie told a news outlet at the time as per Fox NewsAlso read Angelina Jolie says she fought with Brad Pitt for working with Harvey WeinsteinThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliabilitsy and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever