The MeToo movement arguably got under way on March 27, 2015, when Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, a young Italian model and former Miss Italy finalist, donned a hidden microphone to record her meeting with Harvey Weinstein.
No one had ever taken such a bold step to expose the movie mogul’s predatory behaviour and it was another two years before well-known American actresses would find the courage to help bring him down and change Hollywood for ever.
At Weinstein’s trial last year, the jury heard the recording Battilana made in the corridor of a New York hotel in which he admitted to grabbing her breast and promised: “I won’t do it again.” He then tried to bully her into entering his room.
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