When he and Ms. Sorvino started dating in 1995, she told him that not long before, Mr. Weinstein had massaged her without asking, chased her around a hotel room and even showed up at her apartment in the middle of the night, a story she recently shared with The New Yorker.
I was shocked and appalled back then, Mr. Tarantino said. I couldnt believe he would do that so openly. I was like: Really? Really? But the thing I thought then, at the time, was that he was particularly hung up on Mira. She had won accolades for her performance in Mighty Aphrodite, and I thought Harvey was hung up on her in this Svengali kind of way, Mr. Tarantino said. Because he was infatuated with her, he horribly crossed the line.
The problem was resolved, he said he felt at the time, because he and Ms. Sorvino were dating. Im with her, he knows that, he wont mess with her, he knows that shes my girlfriend, Mr. Tarantino said, describing his attitude back then.
Over the years, he learned of other accounts. Another actress friend told him a troubling story of unwanted advances by Mr. Weinstein in a hotel room. Mr. Tarantino confronted Mr. Weinstein, who offered the woman what the director described as a weak apology. (She confirmed the account to The Times but declined to be identified.)