"Most of the women said Rose alternated btw fury & flattery in his interactions w them. Five described Rose putting his hand on their legs, sometimes their upper thigh...Two said that while they were working for Rose...he emerged from the shower and walked naked in front of them"
"One said he groped her buttocks at a staff party"
"Reah Bravo was an intern and then associate producer...she described unwanted sexual advances while working for Rose at his private waterfront estate...and while traveling with him in cars, in a hotel suite and on a private plane."
"one of Rose’s assistants, recalled at least a dozen instances where Rose walked nude in front of her while she worked...He also repeatedly called the then-21-year-old late at night...to describe his fantasies of her swimming naked...as he watched from his bedroom"
“'There are so few jobs,' said one of the women who said Rose groped her. 'You know if you don’t behave a certain way, there’s someone else behind you.'"
"A woman in her 30s who was at the Bellport home...to discuss a job opportunity said Rose appeared before her in an untethered bathrobe, naked underneath. She said he subsequently attempted to put his hands down her pants. She said she pushed his hands away & wept throughout"
"A few days later, she said, a male colleague approached her, laughing, 'Oh, you got the shower trick.'"
"Another woman said that during her internship in the early 2000s, Rose groped her breasts and stomach as she drove him from Bellport back to Manhattan."
"On more than one occasion, she said, he groped her in the back seat. One time, she said, he 'grabbed me by my hair, holding a fist of it at the base of my scalp.'"
"Later, flying on a small private plane alone with Rose, she said he requested that they watch a documentary..Suddenly, she said, Rose got out of his seat and pressed his body onto hers. 'I felt at a loss. I mean, what am I going to do? We were how many feet up in the air?'"
"he began yelling at her, calling her stupid & incompetent & pathetic....After the bouts of rage, Rose would often be conciliatory. 'It would usually entail some version of him also touching me...A hand on the upper thigh'...Then he began calling her as late as midnight..."
“'It would be wanting to know details of my sex life,' she said. '"Who’s next to you? What do you do? Is he touching you?" And I was like, "Okay, Charlie, I’ll see you tomorrow." I just acted like it wasn’t happening.'"
"she reported the touching & calls...but nothing happened. 'She just made me feel like I was being a dramatic little girl' She...eventually confided to a mutual friend outside the show about Rose, and the friend told Rose. She said Rose fired her."
"Eager to land the job, the woman agreed to travel with Rose to Bellport...they arrived at the house after midnight. She did not see anyone else there.... Rose ...returned wearing a white bathrobe, which was open; he wore nothing underneath."
"It was nearly 2 a.m. and she was exhausted...She also said she felt alone and powerless. It was the middle of the night, they were on his secluded property, and she did not know how to drive."
“'I started talking in this feeble and compulsive way,' she said. 'I started talking about power, how the abuse of power can be. He completely lost it.' She said he then tried to put a hand down her pants. 'By the time he touched me the first time, he was already very angry.”
All of the above is, of course, from this story, exquisitely reported by @irin and @AmyJBrittain washingtonpost.com/investigations…
