Ambra Battilana eyes next move, possibly an interview, after DA declines to file charges against Harvey Weinstein

With round one against heavyweight movie mogul Harvey Weinstein behind her, Italian model Ambra Battilana is planning her next move.

Just before the weekend, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced it would not press charges against Weinstein, whom the 22-year-old One Management stunner had accused of sexually assaulting her in what she told investigators was some sort of audition for a lingerie ad.

By Saturday, the media feeding frenzy outside the apartment at 23rd St. and Third Ave., where she’d been staying with a friend, had forced her to find another home.

“Her roommate didn’t want all the paparazzi hanging around outside,” said our insider.

We’re told that throughout the weekend there were at least three shutterbugs camped outside, waiting for Battilana to come out. On Saturday she briefly managed to shake her shadows long enough to go into a West Side recording studio.

After she returned, Battilana reached out to friends in the art community, who finally found her a vacant apartment on the Lower East Side where she could lay low for a while. By early afternoon Sunday, a friend stealthily picked Battilana up outside her Murray Hill pad and drove her downtown to the LES “safe house,” where she’s now holed up, figuring out where to go and what to do next.

“Her place was too hot,” our source said of the earlier location.

 

We’re also told Battilana isn’t upset that the district attorney sided with Weinstein, and that she’s vowed to move ahead with a plan B, though what that means is unclear. She also continues to decline interview requests, though we’re told “something is coming this week.”

“She’s in a great mood,” according to a friend of Battilana’s.

One insider close to the model tells us her composure throughout the Weinstein incident has been impressive, possibly because she’s been down this road before.

When she was a teenager testifying as a witness to Italian billionaire and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s infamous Bunga Bunga parties in 2011, Battilana told our insider that paparazzi would routinely wait for her outside classrooms when she was a student in Milan.

Our source says Battilana isn’t concerned that the Weinstein incident could cost her a career in acting, because her interests are in modeling, singing and gaining entree to the downtown art scene.

“She doesn’t want to be a part of sleazy Hollywood anyway,” said our insider. “She’s an art girl.”