Ashley was the first well-known actress to bring bombshell accusations against media mogul Harvey Weinstein in 2017 as the keystone of a New York Times investigation. Ashley says her #MeToo moment with Weinstein began in 1997 when she was making a movie called “Kiss the Girls.” Arriving at what she thought was a business appointment in the public area of the Peninsula Beverly Hills, Ashley was puzzled by Weinstein’s request to have the meeting take place in his private hotel suite. In October 2017, she told ABC News that she agreed to meet him there against her better judgment. It wasn’t long, Ashley says, before Weinstein began to pressure her into massages and later to watch him shower. “I fought with this volley of noes, which he ignored,”
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…” When I was 19 and on a cruise with family, I went to a comedy show. A man clearly more than old enough to be my father sat next to me and quickly ordered me several drinks that I said I did not want. When I started to leave, he grabbed my wrist under the table and said I couldn't go unless I gave him "a good enough reason." He let go after a scary few seconds, and I'm still grateful that I was in a public place and lots of people could have seen if things escalated. IN COLLEGE Sarah Miller, Rollins “The dynamic shifted after I refused his sexual request.” I was invited to Italy by the former chairman of the art department at my college. (We had previously gone to Italy when I was a student during our winter semester art history trip where I created a photographic series, “Machismo.”) Just “dinner company” was expected of me, I clarified. It was my summer break from teaching art at the college in my hometown. My former art history professor, Bud, and I had kept in touch over the years and this was his retirement trip. His partner had to drop out at the last moment. The host was an aristocratic Cuban man, Dino. The trip started out as festive and Dino commissioned me to do his portrait. Several days into our trip, while wandering in Rome from a historic church that had just been renovated to the Duomo, Dino asked me if I could do Bud a sexual favor; that it would make him so happy. I was in shock and calmly stated: My company is my gift to Bud. The dynamic shifted after I refused his sexual request. We traveled to Montepulciano, then Florence, where I took the train to Venice to go home early. In Florence, the taxi driver tried to convince me to stay in Italy in his villa in the country! After I returned home, Dino reneged on the portrait I created. I felt obligated to divulge the entire story to the president of my college as Dino was on the board of the graduate
…” When I was 19 and on a cruise with family, I went to a comedy show. A man clearly more than old enough to be my father sat next to me and quickly ordered me several drinks that I said I did not want. When I started to leave, he grabbed my wrist under the table and said I couldn't go unless I gave him "a good enough reason." He let go after a scary few seconds, and I'm still grateful that I was in a public place and lots of people could have seen if things escalated. IN COLLEGE Sarah Miller, Rollins “The dynamic shifted after I refused his sexual request.” I was invited to Italy by the former chairman of the art department at my college. (We had previously gone to Italy when I was a student during our winter semester art history trip where I created a photographic series, “Machismo.”) Just “dinner company” was expected of me, I clarified. It was my summer break from teaching art at the college in my hometown. My former art history professor, Bud, and I had kept in touch over the years and this was his retirement trip. His partner had to drop out at the last moment. The host was an aristocratic Cuban man, Dino. The trip started out as festive and Dino commissioned me to do his portrait. Several days into our trip, while wandering in Rome from a historic church that had just been renovated to the Duomo, Dino asked me if I could do Bud a sexual favor; that it would make him so happy. I was in shock and calmly stated: My company is my gift to Bud. The dynamic shifted after I refused his sexual request. We traveled to Montepulciano, then Florence, where I took the train to Venice to go home early. In Florence, the taxi driver tried to convince me to stay in Italy in his villa in the country! After I returned home, Dino reneged on the portrait I created. I felt obligated to divulge the entire story to the president of my college as Dino was on the board of the graduate