Rose McGowan says Weinstein launched 'diabolical' effort to silence her

Movie mogul engaged fixers, lawyers and spies to intimidate actor over her allegations of rape, she says in lawsuit

The actor Rose McGowan alleges in a new lawsuit that the film mogul Harvey Weinstein took "diabolical" actions when he learned she was going to write in a memoir that the producer had raped her decades prior, engaging a team of fixers, lawyers and an international spy agency to intimidate and silence her.

"This case is about a diabolical and illegal effort by one of America's most powerful men and his representatives to silence sexual-assault victims. And it is about the courageous women and journalists who persisted to reveal the truth," the actor alleges in the lawsuit filed in a California federal court on Wednesday.