‘Suicidal’ Harvey Weinstein sold his £1million home where he lived with his British wife just days before sex abuse scandal broke
HARVEY Weinstein has sold his £1m Connecticut home as he faces huge legal bills over the allegations of rape and sex assault by at least three women, it has been reported.
The news comes as it was revealed New York detectives are searching for evidence against the disgraced movie mogul.
Weinstein, who lived there with British wife Georgina Chapman, has owned the property since 1995, when he bought it for £620,000.
Located in the heart of the Compo Beach area, the mid-century modern estate is one of the most coveted addresses in Connecticut.
And he recently listed his seven bedroom, eight-and-a-half-bathroom home in Amagansett, the celebrity enclave in East Hampton, New York, for a whopping £9.1million.
Meanwhile, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce has ordered investigators in the Special Victims Division “to endeavour to identify and locate and interview any potential victims” of the disgraced movie producer, a high-ranking police source told the .
"He’s a super predator. His conduct shows he’s been at this a long time, and he’s a professional at it,” another police official said.
"He’s been at this so long, there’s no way there are not other victims out there.
"Imagine how many promises he’s made to these young women who were trying to make it into the industry."
Boyce’s directive followed a blockbuster report by the New Yorker magazine, which on Tuesday published accusations from three women who accused Weinstein of raping or otherwise sexually abusing them.
One of the women, Lucia Evans, said she was a Middlebury College student and aspiring actress when Weinstein approached her at the since-shuttered Cipriani Upstairs club in Soho in 2004.
Evans, now 34, said she later accepted an assistant’s invitation to meet Weinstein at his office, where he raised the possibility of casting her in a movie.
"At that point, after that, is when he assaulted me," Evans said.
"I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t'….He’s a big guy. He overpowered me."
DISGRACED MOVIE PRODUCER IS 'SUICIDAL'
A video shows the moment Harvey Weinstein staggered into the road and tried to flag down a passing car after his worried daughter told cops he is "suicidal".
The movie producer was heard screaming "you're making it worse" after he stormed out of her LA home on Wednesday, TMZ reports.
The 65-year-old rushed to comfort 22-year-old Remy because she was "very upset and concerned for her father", Page Six reports.
The pair reportedly had a row and he stormed out of the house - causing her to call cops telling them her dad was "suicidal and depressed" as sexual abuse claims from Hollywood A-listers mounted against him.
She later had a change of heart and told officers he was not at risk of self harm after Weinstein came back to her home.
A friend told Page Six: "Remy overreacted at the situation, out of love and concern for her father, and called the police, telling them he was depressed and suicidal."
Although New York at the time had a five-year statute of limitations for prosecuting felony sex crimes, the incident is covered by a 2006 law that removed that restriction, officials said.
Evans didn’t return messages, and police sources said she may be outside the country.
Her dad declined to comment at his home outside Albany.
In addition to Evans, actress Asia Argento also told the New Yorker that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 1997 inside the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, and an unidentified woman alleged that Weinstein raped her, but the magazine didn’t say when or where.
In 2015, Weinstein avoided prosecution in the groping of a Filipina-Italian model inside his Tribeca office, even though cops secretly recorded him apologizing to Ambra Batillana Gutierrez, then 22, while trying to coax her into a room inside the Tribeca Grand Hotel.
“Why yesterday you touched my breast?” Gutierrez asked him, according to an audio clip posted online by the New Yorker.
“Oh, please. I’m sorry, Just come on in. I’m used to that,” Weinstein replied.
Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Wednesday defended his decision not to charge Weinstein, saying: “Our sex-crimes prosecutors made the determination that this was not going to be a provable case and the decision was made not to go forward.”
At one point, Vance very familiarly referred to Weinstein by his first name only.
“We’re focused on the facts, not whether people liked Harvey,” the DA told reporters.
NYPD sources have expressed outrage over Vance’s decision, and one cop said that if presented with new cases, “The feeling is, this time they wouldn’t be so quick not to charge.”
Weinstein, meanwhile, hired high-powered Los Angeles criminal-defense lawyer Blair Berk to represent him, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Her list of troubled celebrity clients includes Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan, Kiefer Sutherland and Kanye West.
Also, the University of Buffalo said it was moving to revoke an honorary “doctorate of humane letters” it awarded Weinstein in 2000, 30 years after he dropped out.
In announcing its desire to strip Weinstein of the honor, the school noted that he “personally never made a gift to the university,” but that the Walt Disney Co. donated $22,750 on behalf of the Miramax film company after buying it from Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob.
Weinstein has denied any “non-consensual sex.”
A spokeswoman didn’t return a request for comment for this story.
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