What if Harvey Weinstein’s many accusers had known they were not alone? A new, anonymous platform lets victims report abuse – and get their stories heard
On 9 January 2018 the American actors Jessica Barth and Caitlin Dulany met at Verlaine, a hip coffee bar on Beverly Boulevard, in West Hollywood. They weren’t alone. Nine other women had also arrived, all of whom had recently accused the film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. The meeting had been arranged as part of an hour-long BBC Panorama documentary, Weinstein: The Inside Story, on which I worked as a producer. At Verlaine, some of the women were not far away from where their alleged abuse had taken place.
Until only a few months earlier, Barth and Dulany had felt alone and powerless, unaware that other women had suffered through similar incidents, and unable to find a platform through which they could safely speak out.
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