Salma Hayek Says Harvey Weinstein Only Responded to Her and Lupita Nyong’o’s Harassment Claims Because Women of Color Are Easier to Discredit

Last December, Salma Hayek penned a blistering essay for the New York Times, in which she accused former mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment during the making of “Frida.”She also claimed Weinstein threatened to kill her.“No to me taking a shower with him.

No to letting him give me a massage.

No to letting a naked friend of his give me a massage.

No to letting him give me oral sex,” she wrote in the op-ed, titled “Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster, Too.”Weinstein’s lawyers immediately denied the claims: “All of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not accurate and others who witnessed the events have a different account of what transpired.”Weinstein would later deny badgering another high-profile actress: Oscar-winner Lupita N’yongo, who said Weinstein sexually harassed her in 2011 when she was still a student at Yale.“Harvey led me into a bedroom

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