Italian model accusing Harvey Weinstein of groping ‘not afraid of’ film producer, source says

She's not afraid of the powerful movie producer Harvey Weinstein — just creeped out.

The curvaceous Italian model who accused the cinema mogul of a casting-couch grope in his Manhattan office is braced for a full-on war with the Hollywood heavyweight.

Weinstein’s camp dismissed Ambra Battilana, a 22-year-old who testified in the sex scandal case of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, as an opportunist with a sketchy past.

The head-turning brunette was hardly surprised by the attack on her credibility.

Battilana “knows that Harvey has money and power and that he’s going to come after her,” a source close to the accuser told the Daily News on Tuesday. “But she’s confident. ... She’s not afraid of Harvey.”

The model’s lawyer said his client was disgusted by the alleged Friday night encounter in Weinstein’s Tribeca space.

Battilana told cops that the 63-year-old married father of five put his hands on her breasts and underneath her skirt despite her efforts to rebuff the unwanted attention, a source told The News.

“When she was describing what happened, her face became contorted,” said her lawyer, Mark Heller. “It was that look of someone who was creeped out.

“She’s a very young woman who was relating her disgust that a much older man — an old man in view of someone her age — conducted himself like that.”

Battilana, who once had designs on a television career, claims that Weinstein asked if her breasts were real before groping her chest and asking for a kiss, sources said.

The distraught model allegedly asked the moviemaker to stop and flatly turned down his request, sources said.

Weinstein had invited Battilana to his office in the Tribeca Film Center one day earlier for a supposed business meeting, sources said.

The two had met the night before at the red carpet premiere of the new Rockettes show at Radio City Music Hall. Weinstein, a co-producer of the show, gave her a business card and they arranged their Friday evening gettogether.

A video camera captured Battilana entering the building at 375 Greenwich St. at 6 p.m. and leaving at a rapid pace 31 minutes later, a source told The News.

Battilana twice ran her hand through her hair as she climbed inside the elevator for the ride to Weinstein’s third-floor office.

She was taped making a phone call as she departed, beginning on the elevator down and continuing as she walked quickly out of the building lobby, the source said.

Battilana’s face betrayed no emotion on the video, the source indicated. But the former Miss Italy hopeful was “very upset,” and called a friend, a source said.

The friend brought her to the 9th Precinct, with cops there taking her to the 1st Precinct in Tribeca to make out a report.

Despite the alleged incident, Battilana, who also uses the last name Gutierrez, attended a Broadway show produced by Weinstein the next day. She posted a picture to Instagram Saturday of a ticket from the musical “Finding Neverland.”

Weinstein was questioned by police, but no charges have been filed. He was spotted Tuesday heading into his Greenwich St. offices, and has promised full cooperation with the probe. “We are confident that we will be fully vindicated,” a Weinstein spokesman said.

A source close to Weinstein described the model as someone with a history of pursuing older men.

While still a minor, she sued a 70-year-old businessman for sexual assault. The businessman, identified only as Mr. G. by the Italian media, said he considered their relationship consensual despite her age.

Newspaper il Giornale reported in 2011 that it obtained the complaint Battilana filed against him. 

According to il Giornale Battilana admitted she met the man at a restaurant in 2009 and began accepting 2,000 euro payments from him in exchange for sexual liaisons.

“To my great embarrassment, he began to ask me questions about my sexual tastes and explained in great detail his erotic fantasies,” she allegedly said in the complaint.

She was a naive 17-year-old and felt forced to take the money because of her family’s “severe poverty,” she reportedly said.

She also took the witness stand in the Silvio Berlusconi sex scandal after unwittingly accepting an invitation to an August 2010 orgy.

Battilana insisted she was unaware of what awaited her, and felt “greatly offended” when she discovered the soiree was a sex party.

She wound up testifying in 2013 against Berlusconi about the wild “bunga bunga” romp, in which the prime minister allegedly patted her on the backside while unsuccessfully encouraging her to get naked.

Heller said any implications of blackmail, as seen in some published reports, were wrong.

“Regrettably, like many sex crimes victims, she is being inappropriately branded and persecuted for coming forward to report an act of sexual abuse perpetrated against her.”

Battilana has received offers of close to $100,000 from media outlets to go public with her story — but has so far turned them down, according to a source.

The source added that challenging Weinstein, the producer behind “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love,” is typically career suicide for ambitious young actresses.

Battilana’s lawyer said she became the unwilling star of a movie business production that’s endured since the days of silent films: Movie execs targeting beautiful young women.

“This is the old Hollywood story that’s been told over and over, and it’s a very tragic one,” Heller said. “This lady is a 22-year-old who has put her faith in America as her future.”