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An anonymous actress on Wednesday filed a class-action ​civil ​suit over Harvey Weinstein‘s alleged serial sexual misconduct that relies on a legal maneuver usually reserved for mobsters — a racketeering rap.

The Los Angeles federal court filing accuses The Weinstein Company and Miramax of conspiring in a sleazy scheme — dubbed the “Weinstein Sexual Enterprise” — to enable and cover up Weinstein’s alleged predations.

“The proverbial ‘casting couch’ was Harvey Weinstein’s office of choice, a choice facilitated and condoned by TWC and Miramax,” court papers say.

The “Jane Doe” plaintiff claims she and other actresses were lured to meetings where Weinstein would “engage in unwanted sexual conduct that took many forms: flashing, groping, fondling, battering, sexual assault, attempted rape and/or completed rape.”

She says Weinstein demanded that she expose her breasts to him in his Miramax office, saying, “You know, I could launch your career and I can make you or I can break you.”

When she refused, Weinstein allegedly “corralled her to a side door that led into a pitch-black stairwell” and locked her inside until “a maintenance worker heard her yelling and let her out,” then asked “if she was coming from Weinstein’s floor.”

Court papers say the proposed class of co-plaintiffs could include “dozens, if not hundreds, of women.”

More than 80 women have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or worse, with actresses Rose McGowan, Asia Argento and Paz de la Huerta among those saying he sexually assaulted them.

“At all times, Plaintiff and the Class operated under duress and the threat of being blacklisted by Weinstein and major film producers such as Miramax if they refused Weinstein’s unwanted sexual advances or complained about his behavior,” the suit says.

“To the extent a woman was ‘lucky’ enough to escape physically unscathed, Weinstein’s behavior (and the fact it was facilitated by TWC and Miramax, the ‘Complicit Producers’) nonetheless caused injury to their business prospects, career, reputation, and severe emotional distress.”

The suit seeks unspecified damages on grounds including violations of the civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, civil battery, assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Weinstein has repeatedly denied engaging in “nonconsensual sex” with anyone.

Neither Miramax — which Weinstein and his brother, Bob, sold for $80 million in 1993 — nor The Weinstein Company, which fired Harvey as the allegations against him mounted, immediately returned requests for comment.