A Harvey Weinstein accuser sent the disgraced producer hundreds of affectionate messages — including one that said “I’m thinking about you” just a day after he allegedly raped her in 2010, newly unsealed emails obtained show.
Alexandra Canosa, who is suing Weinstein for unspecified damages in Manhattan federal court, tried to keep the messages under wraps — but Judge Paul Engelmayer denied the motion last week, issuing a ruling that said the emails “are not properly designated as confidential.”
Canosa, who claims Weinstein repeatedly attacked her from 2010 through 2017, wrote him the 2010 missive along with, “Miss you too. Love to you and the girls” in early 2011 — less than two weeks after she alleges he forced her to perform oral sex on him, the emails show.
A Jan. 30, 2013, email also shows that Canosa, who worked at The Weinstein Company for a decade and produced the Netflix series “Marco Polo,” addressed the fallen Hollywood heavyweight with the greeting, “hi love.”
“You have been my mentor and friend for many years now and have never failed to give me the right advice. I am trying to figure out what my next step should be for my career as a whole and I trust your guidance completely,” she wrote.
Canosa signed that message, “love, Ally.”
Canosa also sent him a condolence message in January 2017 after his mom died.
“I know how much she meant to you and how deeply loved and respected she was and I can only imagine how proud she must have been of all you have created and contributed to, throughout your life,” she wrote.
Canosa signed that message, “Warmest, Ally.”
Canosa, who is suing Weinstein for unspecified damages, blasted him for refusing to agree to her request to keep the messages under wraps.
“Weinstein and his counsel are trying to manipulate and misuse these emails out of context to taint the Jury pool by creating a false impression that there was a consensual sexual relationship when there was only a consensual business relationship,” Canosa lawyer Jeremy Hellman wrote in an Aug. 21 letter to the judge.
Weinstein lawyer Elior Shiloh said that “the truth was finally coming out” after Canosa “desperately tried to hide her own emails from the public as they completely undermine her claims.”
“This lawsuit is a slap in the face to actual victims of sexual violence,” Shiloh said.
Another Canosa lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, said Sunday, “The defense has thousands of emails between Miss Canosa and Harvey Weinstein. They’re choosing to cherry-pick five or six of those emails to attempt to show some kind of consensual relationship between the two.”
Canosa is not among the alleged victims in the criminal case pending against Weinstein in Manhattan Supreme Court, even though her claims against him fall within the statute of limitations.
Her allegations also involve locations in Manhattan, including the Tribeca Grand Hotel, near his former office.
Weinstein, 67, faces life in prison if convicted of predatory sexual assault in the alleged rape of a longtime lover, who hasn’t been publicly identified, in 2013 and an alleged sex attack on production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006.
He has denied the allegations in that case, which is scheduled for trial on Jan. 6.
Weinstein defense lawyer Donna Rotunno called Canosa’s emails “analogous to the type of facts that will come out during the trial on the criminal case.”
Emails and conversations that will be introduced into evidence “will paint a different picture” than the one painted by Weinstein’s accuser, she said.