Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley

Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley is a hotel in Park City whose significance in the book comes from Rose McGowan’s account of a meeting there with Harvey Weinstein in 1997. What began as a professional visit during her ascent as an actress became, in her telling, the site of an alleged sexual assault and the beginning of a settlement intended to put the matter behind her.

Setting and Context

McGowan was in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival, where she attended premieres and parties as a rising young actress. She recalled sitting near Weinstein at a screening of Going All the Way. Afterward, he asked to meet with her; the request seemed consistent with his position as a powerful producer and distributor and her growing prominence.

The Meeting

McGowan went to see Weinstein in his room at the lodge. She said they initially spoke about films and roles. As she was leaving, she alleged, he took her into a room with a hot tub and sexually assaulted her. The account makes the hotel more than a backdrop: its private meeting space marks the shift from an apparently ordinary professional encounter to an event McGowan described as profoundly shocking.

Aftermath and Significance

Within days, McGowan said, Weinstein left a message at her home in Los Angeles offering her a place among his special female friends. Shocked and distressed, she complained to her managers and hired a lawyer. The matter ended in a $100,000 settlement, with no admission of wrongdoing by Weinstein; McGowan said she donated the money to a rape crisis center. She also said she was never given a copy of the settlement. The lodge’s place in the narrative is therefore tied to a wider pattern: a meeting framed around work was followed by a private allegation, a legal response, and an agreement that helped make the episode disappear from public view.