Vietnamese model and actress Vu Thu Phuong is adding her voice to the chorus of women who are accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
On Thursday, Phuong posted a candid Facebook post (translated by the Vietnamese culture site Saigoneer) about a disturbing encounter she had with the producer almost a decade ago.
“I believe that I can’t be silent anymore. It’s time that I liberate myself,” she wrote. “It’s time that I can explain about the ‘Shanghai’ failure and why I shelved my ‘American dream’ as well as the contract with Weinstein’s film company.”
According to Phuong, in 2008 she was cast in the film “Shanghai,” a drama starring John Cusack and Gong Li. The film was produced by TWC Asian Film Fund, which was launched by The Weinstein Company in 2007.
Phuong’s supporting role eventually devolved into a brief cameo in the final cut of the film, which she said left her disappointed. Phuong agreed to meet with Weinstein about being cast in a future project.
Unfortunately, when Phuong met with Weinstein, the meeting quickly became sexual.
“Everything suddenly turned dark when I saw Mr. Harvey Weinstein standing before me with only a towel around his waist, smiling,” she wrote.
According to Phuong, Weinstein told her that the role he had in mind for her involved sex scenes, and asked her if she was ready to take them on.
“I can teach you, don’t worry. Many stars have also been through this,” Weinstein told Phuong, according to her post. “Just treat this as necessary experiences so that you’ll have a stronger foundation in the future.”
Phuong said that she rejected his advances.
“I was thinking at the moment that if he were to rape me or kill me, would anybody find out and stop him?” Phuong wrote on Facebook. “It was an extremely horrifying feeling.”
Phuong said the experience was part of the reason why she eventually left show business, writing that she decided “I didn’t want to sell myself” to become a star.
“Weinstein should be punished for disrespecting and devaluing women,” Phuong wrote on Facebook. “I encourage other females who were abused to tell their story to caution others.”
Elon Musk made some striking predictions about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs and income at the inaugural AI Safety Summit in the U.K. in November. The serial entrepreneur and CEO painted a utopian vision where AI renders traditional employment obsolete but provides an “age of abundance” through a system of “universal high income.” “It’s hard to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where no job is needed,” Musk told U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “Yo
Saving $1 million (or more) for retirement is a great goal to have. Putting that much aside could make it easier to live your preferred lifestyle when you retire, without having to worry about running short of money. However, not … Continue reading → The post What Percentage of Retirees Have a Million Dollars? appeared first on SmartAsset Blog.
Managing your taxes can be one of the most complex aspects of estate planning and a new IRS rule change continues that trend. The rule, published at the end of March, changes how the step-up in basis applies to assets held in an irrevocable trust. If you need help interpreting the IRS rule change or setting […] The post Want to Leave Assets to Heirs? IRS Rule Change Should Have You Rethinking Your Irrevocable Trust appeared first on SmartReads CMS - SmartAsset.
At its GTC conference, Nvidia today announced Nvidia NIM, a new software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments. NIM takes the software work Nvidia has done around inferencing and optimizing models and makes it easily accessible by combining a given model with an optimized inferencing engine and then packing this into a container, making that accessible as a microservice. Typically, it would take developers weeks -- if not
In a 2022 interview with Charlie Rose, Warren Buffett shared his perspective on the United States economy and the unprecedented level of wealth among its citizens. Buffett remarked, "The United States is the United States economy, and it's very easy to look at the statistics on it. I mean, more people, a greater percentage of the American population, are wealthy now or have more income now than they've ever had." He pointed to indicators such as Bank of America's average deposit figures to under
The heavy selling pressure might have exhausted for Adobe (ADBE) as it is technically in oversold territory now. In addition to this technical measure, strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher indicates that the stock is ripe for a trend reversal.
General Electric will soon emerge as an aerospace and defense company, shedding its diversified conglomerate past. Is GE stock a buy amid the countdown to GE Aerospace? Ahead of its final breakup, GE held events in March to that dug deeper into the post-split companies — GE Aerospace and GE Vernova.