Rosanna Arquette among the first to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein — and the career price she says she paid

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Rosanna Arquette among the first to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein — and the career price she says she paid

Rosanna Arquette / Harvey Weinstein / 2010s

When the Harvey Weinstein scandal exploded in October 2017, Rosanna Arquette emerged as one of the earliest actresses to go on record. Arquette told reporters — including Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker and Jodi Kantor for The New York Times — that Weinstein had sexually harassed her, threatened her after she refused to enter his hotel room, and then retaliated professionally: she alleges she was paid less than she deserved for Pulp Fiction and was effectively sidelined from A-list lead roles after rejecting his advances. Her willingness to speak publicly placed her in the center of the wider #MeToo convulsion; she later appeared in the 2019 documentary Untouchable alongside other accusers (Paz de la Huerta, Erika Rosenbaum) as the industry reckoned with decades of alleged abuse. Weinstein was convicted of sex offenses in 2020, and Arquette’s testimony and public accounts helped map how power dynamics and quid-pro-quo harassment translated into tangible career damages for actresses who resisted. The episode remains a defining late-career controversy for Arquette and a touchstone in Hollywood’s ongoing discussion about abuse, silence, and institutional complicity.