Harvey Weinstein: Sean Young, new accusers speak to 'Frontline'

Andrea Mandell | USA TODAY

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Is there more to tell in the sordid Harvey Weinstein saga?

Frontline seems to think so, digging up new details in its new PBS special, Weinstein, (Friday, 9 ET/PT, times may vary), timed to Oscars weekend.

Actress Sean Young, who had previously given her account to print media, goes on camera to detail her Weinstein experience.

In 1992, she starred in Weinstein's film Love Crimes. "I was sitting in Harvey's office after the picture," she says in an early version of the special made available for review. "And this is the only time this has ever happened to me – he pulled his thing out. And my response was, 'You know, Harvey, i really wouldn't be pulling that thing out because it's really not pretty. And I got up and I left."

Weinstein told Frontline the account was "untrue."

But they never worked together again. "The reason that I never got another movie with Harvey Weinstein was that I made him feel foolish," Young says. "I was set to have a very big career, but I upset a few very important men. And the trajectory of my career went (all the way down)."

Frontline also includes a new accusation from Suza Maher-Wilson, who worked on his 1981 film The Burning. At a wrap party, Wilson says Weinstein asked her to give him a massage in a hotel room off the lobby of a hotel.

"I agreed, being a 23-year-old, naïve, trusting young woman," she says. After excusing himself to go to the bathroom, "he came out and he was naked with a towel. It was a little shocking. And I just said, 'I'm sorry, this isn't what I signed on for. And I left the room immediately.'"

The program also includes the first interview with Tom Prince, who served as The Weinstein Company's vice president of production until last year. Prince alleges Weinstein used company funds to fly starlets around the world.

"Pretty much on every production I would get a phone call or an email saying we have to fly an actress to the movie set," says Prince. "I would always come back and explain to them that this is a one or two-day role and we're spending an awful lot of money flying somebody from Paris to Philadelphia or from New York to New Zealand to fulfill a role that could be occupied by a local resident.

"But this was a mandate from Harvey...clearly there was something more than the actress' acting abilities involved with us flying somebody and spending $20,000 on a role that would have cost $2,000."

Weinstein denied the account to Frontline, saying he and Prince repeatedly clashed over budgets and production issues.

The special, while rehashing much of the already known timeline and particulars of his alleged sexual abuse, compiles arresting on-camera accounts from accusers including Weinstein's former U.K. assistant, Zelda Perkins and model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, whose claims set off a firestorm after they hit the front page of the New York Post in 2015.

Gutierrez gives an emotional interview about her experience going to the New York police. Cops asked to wear a wire and meet Weinstein again, and while the model complied, capturing his bullying tactics on tape, she soon saw the effects Weinstein's PR smear campaign against her.

Police began "asking me questions like, 'You were a prostitute? I was asking them, like, 'Did you hear the recording?'...I was like, 'guys, I'm the victim,'" she says. The district attorney ultimately declined to prosecute Weinstein.