HALF-SPANISH actress Paz de la Huerta has just revealed disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein raped her twice, according to reports from the US-based TV channel CBS.
Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus R Vance Junior confirmed that he is aware of Paz's accusations and has assigned an investigator.
Paz (pictured), born in the USA to a Spanish father and American mother and best known for her role in the series Boardwalk Empire, says Weinstein offered her a lift home in October 2010 after a party, since they both lived in the same New York neighbourhood.
The star says Weinstein 'insisted they had a drink together' and they both ended up in her apartment.
Once there, Paz says, the producer took off her dress and forced himself on her.
She says Weinstein appeared at her apartment once again on December 23 of that same year and raped her again.
De la Huerta says on the second occasion, she had been drinking and was in no fit state to consent to sexual relations, meaning there was no way the now-notorious producer could claim she had agreed to his advances.
Dozens of women have now come forward and confessed to groping, harassment and full-on rape at Weinstein's hands, and lately, actors Dustin Hoffman and Kevin Spacey and director-producer Brett Ratner have been similarly accused.
Recently, chairwoman of the Spanish Film Academy, British-born costume designer Yvonne Blake, admitted that an undisclosed American producer raped her in 1964 when she was 24 years old and working on a film in the UK.
Women who have finally spoken out about the ongoing abuse say they have stayed silent because Weinstein was powerful enough in Hollywood that he could have ruined their careers if they had reported him.
