Courtney Love warned young female actors about Harvey Weinstein in 2005
Grunge singer says she was blacklisted by agents at Creative Artists Agency for speaking out against disgraced movie mogul
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Your support makes all the difference.A clip of Courtney Love issuing a stern warning to young female actors about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been unearthed.
The grunge singer, who rose to fame as the former front woman of Hole, was probed about whether she had any advice for young women trying to make it in the hills of Hollywood.
“I’ll get libelled if I say it,” the musician said in footage from the red carpet of a Comedy Central event which has just been published by TMZ.
“If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party in the Four Seasons, don’t go.”
The punk songwriter, who was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, said she not one of Weinstein’s alleged victims but claimed she had been blacklisted by agents at Creative Artists Agency for speaking out against him.
“Although I wasn’t one of his victims, I was eternally banned by CAA for speaking out against Harvey Weinstein,” she wrote on Twitter.
CAA declined to comment on the issue but a source inside the agency told The Independent they did not know what Love was referring to.
Weinstein, who produced Oscar-winning films Shakespeare in Love, The English Patient, and The Artist, has seen his career unravel since allegations of sexual harassment first emerged last week.
Since then, the disgraced movie mogul has faced an avalanche of allegations, including three of rape.
Dozens of women, including actresses Angelina Jolie, Kate Beckinsale and Gwyneth Paltrow, have gone public with accusations against him in the wake of recent reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker detailing allegations of rape, sexual assault, and harassment. Police forces in the UK and US have announced they are investigating allegations made against him.
Weinstein has been fired from his namesake company, expelled from the Oscars and had his wife leave him.
The producer has apologised for having “caused a lot of pain” but has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex. He is thought to currently be in Arizona receiving “treatment” linked to his behaviour.
"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," his spokesperson told The Independent in a statement.
A representative of Weinstein did not immediately respond to request for comment about Love's remarks.
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