Legends of the Fall actress Julia Ormond says she’s ‘been living in fear’ as she sues Harvey Weinstein, Miramax, Disney and CAA claiming the rapist producer forced her into oral sex in 1995

“Legends of the Fall” actress Julia Ormond said she has been “living in fear” since suing Harvey Weinstein, Miramax, Disney and CAA — alleging the rapist producer forced her to perform oral sex in 1995.

British actress Ormond, 58, said she is “another victim of Weinstein’s depravity” in a lawsuit filed Wednesday morning in New York Supreme Court.

Along with the disgraced producer, Ormond’s claim also targets the CAA, the Walt Disney Company and Miramax for allegedly turning a blind eye to his behavior because he “made them so much money.”

The “Legends of the Fall” star, who earned $3.5 million per film at the height of her career, said Weinstein lured her into giving her a massage before climbing on top of her, masturbating and forcing her to performed oral sex in December 1995.

Now, she has explained why she is taking on the industry giants – and said she had ‘familiarity in our industry’ which ‘he used to make care less easy to identify.’

Ormond said she told her agents — Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane — about the alleged assault, but they warned her not to talk.

the actress said Rolling Stone: “I’m caught in this trap of, ‘I’m going to face terrible backlash that I’ll probably never work again if I speak up, and I love what I do and I don’t want to lose it, but I don’t’ either I want to participate in it as a hypocrite.”

“I am holding myself accountable and hopefully this will bring about further change.”

She said it was the Adult Survivors Act, a new New York law that created a one-year window for victims of sexual assault, that compelled her to come forward.

In response to the CAA’s accusation that she is only doing this for the money, the actress said: “I think I’ve lived a life that has made it very clear that what I want is accountability and transparency.”

Ormond said she “doesn’t think I’m going to be able to go back to the person I was before.”

Explaining what he hopes to achieve from the lawsuit, Ormond told Rolling Stone: “The way I see it is that accountability will lead to greater information.

“I hope the industry will step up to fund ongoing research, potentially even a government task force that looks at all of these things — not just sexual assault and sexual harassment, but prejudice, race, and other ways that people are framed.” insecure or unequal work.’

Describing the alleged December 1995 assault, the suit says Ormond met Weinstein for what she believed was a business dinner after first meeting him a year earlier at the Savoy Hotel in London.

But he refused to discuss business matters during their dinner and “kept changing the subject,” according to the lawsuit.

The producer said he would discuss the project only working in an apartment that Miramax had secured for Ormond as part of a first deal with him — and after buying him copious amounts of liquor.

“Her defense collapsed because she had had a few drinks and wanting to finally accomplish what she believed was the purpose of their meeting, Ormond agreed to have Weinstein return to her apartment,” the lawsuit states.

“Soon after that, Weinstein stripped her naked and forced her to perform oral sex on him.

Interestingly, Ormond was suddenly dropped from Hollywood after the 1990s when the industry turned against her for seemingly no reason.

Lourd and Huvane are the current co-chairs of the CAA and are named in Ormond’s lawsuit — though they are not targeted as defendants.

Ormond, from Surrey in England, is instead suing the LA-based talent and sports agency for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.

She is also accusing Miramax, the company Weinstein co-founded with his brother, and the Walt Disney Company as its owner in the 1990s, of negligent supervision and retention.

Ormond names several former company executives in the lawsuit — including former Disney CEO Michael Eisner and former chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg — but they are not targeted as defendants.

“The #MeToo movement has unequivocally demonstrated the horrors experienced by so many women who aspired to be Hollywood stars,” her lawsuit states.

“This case shows, however, that even those who have reached the highest level of the film industry are not immune.”

The suit says Ormond was represented by ‘the most influential talent agents at CAA’ in the mid-90s, who helped him land signings with Miramax.

“What Ormond didn’t know is that Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was a sexual predator who systematically targeted women actresses he met, whether they were trying to break into the movie business or, like Ormond, already had great success.

But the people at CAA who represented Ormond knew about Weinstein. So did Weinstein’s employers at Miramax and Disney.

“Shamefully, none of these prominent companies warned Ormond that Weinstein had a history of assaulting women because he was so important, so powerful, and made them so much money.”

In a statement, a spokesman for Creative Artists Agency said Ormond, 58, claims they are responsible for Weinstein’s behavior are ‘baseless’ and claims she asked the company for $15 million to keep their name. out of file. In her lawsuit, Ormond’s attorneys are asking the court to determine how much damages should be paid.

Despite the CAA’s statement, Ormond’s lawyer told Variety: ‘Rest assured, we will expose the real facts.’