SAN DIEGO—A lawyer who represented actress Paz de la Huerta has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and a former New York prosecutor, alleging they co-ordinated in a scheme to get the actress to drop her sexual misconduct complaint against the movie mogul. The lawsuit accuses Rubin of persuading de la Huerta to drop Filler as her lawyer, and encouraging her to withdraw her complaint alleging Weinstein raped her. Rubin also contacted New York prosecutors assigned to the de la Huerta case and gave “false and discouraging advice, leading to the abrupt halt of progress toward indictment of Weinstein,” according to the court documents. Rubin said his intentions in reaching out to the actress were to help de la Huerta get Weinstein arrested. De la Huerta’s current lawyer, Carrie Goldberg, said the actress has nothing to do with the lawsuit.

Source: thestar January 07, 2018 03:11 UTC