Roy Price lacks the Hollywood name and fame of Harvey Weinstein, but he’s suffering the same fate for alleged “dinosaur” behavior toward women.
Price is the head of Amazon Studios — with hits like “Transparent” and “Manchester by the Sea.” Now he’s been suspended amid alleged sexual harassment.
The New York Daily News said Rose McGowan claimed in a series of tweets that Harvey Weinstein — who she called “HW” — raped her and that she had warned the head of the Amazon studio about the producer.
“I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof,” she tweeted at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, likely referring to Price, who earned a law degree from the USC Gould School of Law.
Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter scored an interview with Isa Hackett, a producer on “The Man in the High Castle,” who told of a July 2015 incident at Comic-Con in San Diego.
“You will love my dick,” Price allegedly told Hackett, who called the experience “shocking and surreal.” (He wasn’t talking about Hackett’s father, sci-fi author Philip K. Dick.)
Hackett says she met Price for the first time at a dinner at the U.S. Grant Hotel.
“He asked her to attend an Amazon staff party later that night at the W Hotel (now the Renaissance) and she ended up in a taxi with Price and Michael Paull, then another top Amazon executive and now CEO of the digital media company BAMTech,” THR said.
“Once in the cab, Hackett says Price repeatedly and insistently propositioned her … Hackett says she made clear to Price she was not interested and told him that she is a lesbian with a wife and children.”
THR continued: “Hackett says Price did not relent in the cab or once they arrived at the Amazon party. As she talked with other executives, she says that Price stepped close to her and loudly said, ‘Anal sex!’ in her ear.”
An outside investigator spoke to Hackett and executives at Amazon, but Hackett says she was never told the outcome of that inquiry.
She told THR she hasn’t seen Price at any events involving her shows.