Will Harvey Weinstein get the Cosby treatment? Decades of Alleged Sexual Assault and Harassment

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Judge Tells Harvey Weinstein to Stop Using His Cell Phone in Court
By Victoria Bekiempis

Harvey Weinstein Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images

While Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan sexual-assault case got even more complicated today with a new indictment, the judge overseeing proceedings had a simple message for the disgraced movie mogul: Put your cell phone away.

“I’ve been informed you have taken your cell phone out,” Justice James Burke said at the conclusion of a brief proceeding. “Please refrain from doing that.”

“Your Honor —” Weinstein started to respond.

“It’s a court order,” Burke retorted sternly. “Don’t talk to me,” the judge then instructed, directing Weinstein to speak with his lawyer.

Weinstein appeared in court this morning because he was just hit with two predatory-sexual-assault counts in a new indictment, a move that enables accuser Annabella Sciorra to testify.

Weinstein, who sported a black suit and tie, as well as chocolate-brown sneakers, pleaded not guilty.

While his trial had been scheduled for September 9, this latest twist will delay it until January 6.

Weinstein, whose lawyers have repeatedly pushed for a postponement, seemed pleased, smiling after the proceeding wrapped. And, at one point while walking down the hall to leave, Weinstein stuck his tongue out.

So how did Weinstein get hit with a new indictment a few weeks before his trial was supposed to start?

Until last week, Weinstein faced one indictment. This indictment was for two counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree, one count of rape in the first degree, and one count of rape in the third degree. It related to two accusers, Mimi Haleyi and a still-unidentified woman.


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Prosecutors revealed in court filings earlier this year that they wanted to use Sciorra’s accusation in court. By bringing Weinstein’s alleged 1993 rape of The Sopranos actress, it could have strengthened their case that he was a habitual sexual abuser.

Burke recently decided that Sciorra couldn’t testify because a grand jury didn’t hear evidence about the alleged incident.

Prosecutors said in court filings a few days later that they still wanted to get Sciorra’s accusation into the trial.

“We do believe that the trial jury should have the benefit of hearing the testimony of the remaining witness and therefore, we will cure the deficiency by representing the case to a new Grand Jury,” they said.

Prosecutors did re-present the case to a grand jury, hence today’s developments. While Weinstein isn’t charged with raping Sciorra, her claim can now be used to boost their predatory-sexual-assault allegation.

Prosecutors want to consolidate both indictments. If that happens, they would prosecute the revamped predatory-sexual-assault counts, as well as the other charges.

At a post-proceeding press conference, Weinstein lawyer Donna Rotunno said, “I think it shows the strength of our case that the DA went to the grand jury at the 11th hour.”

She also said, “We believe we will be successful” in pushing for the new indictment’s dismissal.

Asked what Weinstein was doing with his cell phone out, Rotunno said that “he was turning it off.”

 

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Judge Tells Harvey Weinstein to Stop Using His Cell Phone in Court
By Victoria Bekiempis

Harvey Weinstein Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images

While Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan sexual-assault case got even more complicated today with a new indictment, the judge overseeing proceedings had a simple message for the disgraced movie mogul: Put your cell phone away.

“I’ve been informed you have taken your cell phone out,” Justice James Burke said at the conclusion of a brief proceeding. “Please refrain from doing that.”

“Your Honor —” Weinstein started to respond.

“It’s a court order,” Burke retorted sternly. “Don’t talk to me,” the judge then instructed, directing Weinstein to speak with his lawyer.

Weinstein appeared in court this morning because he was just hit with two predatory-sexual-assault counts in a new indictment, a move that enables accuser Annabella Sciorra to testify.

Weinstein, who sported a black suit and tie, as well as chocolate-brown sneakers, pleaded not guilty.

While his trial had been scheduled for September 9, this latest twist will delay it until January 6.

Weinstein, whose lawyers have repeatedly pushed for a postponement, seemed pleased, smiling after the proceeding wrapped. And, at one point while walking down the hall to leave, Weinstein stuck his tongue out.

So how did Weinstein get hit with a new indictment a few weeks before his trial was supposed to start?

Until last week, Weinstein faced one indictment. This indictment was for two counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree, one count of rape in the first degree, and one count of rape in the third degree. It related to two accusers, Mimi Haleyi and a still-unidentified woman.


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Prosecutors revealed in court filings earlier this year that they wanted to use Sciorra’s accusation in court. By bringing Weinstein’s alleged 1993 rape of The Sopranos actress, it could have strengthened their case that he was a habitual sexual abuser.

Burke recently decided that Sciorra couldn’t testify because a grand jury didn’t hear evidence about the alleged incident.

Prosecutors said in court filings a few days later that they still wanted to get Sciorra’s accusation into the trial.

“We do believe that the trial jury should have the benefit of hearing the testimony of the remaining witness and therefore, we will cure the deficiency by representing the case to a new Grand Jury,” they said.

Prosecutors did re-present the case to a grand jury, hence today’s developments. While Weinstein isn’t charged with raping Sciorra, her claim can now be used to boost their predatory-sexual-assault allegation.

Prosecutors want to consolidate both indictments. If that happens, they would prosecute the revamped predatory-sexual-assault counts, as well as the other charges.

At a post-proceeding press conference, Weinstein lawyer Donna Rotunno said, “I think it shows the strength of our case that the DA went to the grand jury at the 11th hour.”

She also said, “We believe we will be successful” in pushing for the new indictment’s dismissal.

Asked what Weinstein was doing with his cell phone out, Rotunno said that “he was turning it off.”

 

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Harvey Weinstein and His Lawyer, Lisa Bloom, Tried to Smear Rose McGowan in the Press
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax

McGowan (left) and Bloom (right). Photo: Getty Images

As the criminal case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein wages on, the New York Timeshas obtained a damning excerpt from She Said,abook by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who first broke the story in 2017 about Weinstein’s alleged behavior. Among other details that the Times excerpted, Kantor and Twohey unearthed that Weinstein’s short-lived adviser, victims’-rights attorney Lisa Bloom, hatched a plan with Weinstein in late 2016 to discredit one of his most prominent accusers, Rose McGowan.

“I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them,” Bloom wrote in a memo to Weinstein, before outlining a plan for how to undermine and intimidate accusers, or make them look like liars. “We can place an article re her becoming increasingly unglued,” Bloom suggested for McGowan, “so that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she’s discredited.” As the Times notes, Bloom and Weinstein visited the newsroom a day before the first sexual-abuse exposé against him was published in October 2017, where the duo tried to discredit other accusers — including Ashley Judd. Bloom would go on to quit as Weinstein’s adviser, saying she “deeply regretted” representing him.

McGowan, who has now read the Times excerpt, said in a statement to Varietythat Bloom should be immediately disbarred. “Her email is staggering. Staggering!” she said. “This woman should never work again.” Bloom has also tweeted an apology to the women she worked to discredit.

 

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Harvey Weinstein and His Lawyer, Lisa Bloom, Tried to Smear Rose McGowan in the Press
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax

McGowan (left) and Bloom (right). Photo: Getty Images

As the criminal case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein wages on, the New York Timeshas obtained a damning excerpt from She Said,abook by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who first broke the story in 2017 about Weinstein’s alleged behavior. Among other details that the Times excerpted, Kantor and Twohey unearthed that Weinstein’s short-lived adviser, victims’-rights attorney Lisa Bloom, hatched a plan with Weinstein in late 2016 to discredit one of his most prominent accusers, Rose McGowan.

“I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them,” Bloom wrote in a memo to Weinstein, before outlining a plan for how to undermine and intimidate accusers, or make them look like liars. “We can place an article re her becoming increasingly unglued,” Bloom suggested for McGowan, “so that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she’s discredited.” As the Times notes, Bloom and Weinstein visited the newsroom a day before the first sexual-abuse exposé against him was published in October 2017, where the duo tried to discredit other accusers — including Ashley Judd. Bloom would go on to quit as Weinstein’s adviser, saying she “deeply regretted” representing him.

McGowan, who has now read the Times excerpt, said in a statement to Varietythat Bloom should be immediately disbarred. “Her email is staggering. Staggering!” she said. “This woman should never work again.” Bloom has also tweeted an apology to the women she worked to discredit.

 

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Harvey Weinstein and His Lawyer, Lisa Bloom, Tried to Smear Rose McGowan in the Press
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax

McGowan (left) and Bloom (right). Photo: Getty Images

As the criminal case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein wages on, the New York Timeshas obtained a damning excerpt from She Said,abook by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who first broke the story in 2017 about Weinstein’s alleged behavior. Among other details that the Times excerpted, Kantor and Twohey unearthed that Weinstein’s short-lived adviser, victims’-rights attorney Lisa Bloom, hatched a plan with Weinstein in late 2016 to discredit one of his most prominent accusers, Rose McGowan.

“I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them,” Bloom wrote in a memo to Weinstein, before outlining a plan for how to undermine and intimidate accusers, or make them look like liars. “We can place an article re her becoming increasingly unglued,” Bloom suggested for McGowan, “so that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she’s discredited.” As the Times notes, Bloom and Weinstein visited the newsroom a day before the first sexual-abuse exposé against him was published in October 2017, where the duo tried to discredit other accusers — including Ashley Judd. Bloom would go on to quit as Weinstein’s adviser, saying she “deeply regretted” representing him.

McGowan, who has now read the Times excerpt, said in a statement to Varietythat Bloom should be immediately disbarred. “Her email is staggering. Staggering!” she said. “This woman should never work again.” Bloom has also tweeted an apology to the women she worked to discredit.

 

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Gwyneth Paltrow Was Crucial to Launching the Harvey Weinstein Investigation
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah

Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Gwyneth Paltrow rose to stardom with her roles in Harvey Weinstein–backed films like Emma and Shakespeare in Love. Years later, she’d become one of the first to expose the sexual-misconduct allegations against him. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the New York Times reporters who investigated Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, shared a story on the Today show about one crucial source: Paltrow herself. Their bookShe Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, which debuts this week, features Paltrow’s help in kicking off the investigation.



“Gwyneth Paltrow is one of Harvey’s biggest stars, and he had really kind of presented himself as kind of a godfather to her over the years,” Twohey said on Monday. “I think that many people will be surprised to discover that when so many other actresses were reluctant to get on the phone and scared to tell the truth about what they had experienced at his hands, that Gwyneth was actually one of the first people to get on the phone, and that she was determined to help this investigation — even when Harvey Weinstein showed up to a party at her house early and she was sort of forced to hide in the bathroom.” From there, she called Twohey and Kantor, asking what to do. “I think Harvey Weinstein was extremely aware and extremely scared of what the implications would be if his biggest star actually ended up going on the record,” Twohey added. Although Paltrow didn’t initially go on the record, she later revealed her own encounters with Weinstein alongside Angelina Jolie. Twohey and Kantor’s book, She Said, arrives September 10 and contains even more revelations about the investigation that took down Harvey Weinstein.

 

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Gwyneth Paltrow Was Crucial to Launching the Harvey Weinstein Investigation
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah

Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage


Gwyneth Paltrow rose to stardom with her roles in Harvey Weinstein–backed films like Emma and Shakespeare in Love. Years later, she’d become one of the first to expose the sexual-misconduct allegations against him. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the New York Times reporters who investigated Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, shared a story on the Today show about one crucial source: Paltrow herself. Their bookShe Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, which debuts this week, features Paltrow’s help in kicking off the investigation.



“Gwyneth Paltrow is one of Harvey’s biggest stars, and he had really kind of presented himself as kind of a godfather to her over the years,” Twohey said on Monday. “I think that many people will be surprised to discover that when so many other actresses were reluctant to get on the phone and scared to tell the truth about what they had experienced at his hands, that Gwyneth was actually one of the first people to get on the phone, and that she was determined to help this investigation — even when Harvey Weinstein showed up to a party at her house early and she was sort of forced to hide in the bathroom.” From there, she called Twohey and Kantor, asking what to do. “I think Harvey Weinstein was extremely aware and extremely scared of what the implications would be if his biggest star actually ended up going on the record,” Twohey added. Although Paltrow didn’t initially go on the record, she later revealed her own encounters with Weinstein alongside Angelina Jolie. Twohey and Kantor’s book, She Said, arrives September 10 and contains even more revelations about the investigation that took down Harvey Weinstein.

 

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Gwyneth Paltrow Was Crucial to Launching the Harvey Weinstein Investigation
By Zoe Haylock@zoe_alliyah

Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage


Gwyneth Paltrow rose to stardom with her roles in Harvey Weinstein–backed films like Emma and Shakespeare in Love. Years later, she’d become one of the first to expose the sexual-misconduct allegations against him. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the New York Times reporters who investigated Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, shared a story on the Today show about one crucial source: Paltrow herself. Their bookShe Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, which debuts this week, features Paltrow’s help in kicking off the investigation.



“Gwyneth Paltrow is one of Harvey’s biggest stars, and he had really kind of presented himself as kind of a godfather to her over the years,” Twohey said on Monday. “I think that many people will be surprised to discover that when so many other actresses were reluctant to get on the phone and scared to tell the truth about what they had experienced at his hands, that Gwyneth was actually one of the first people to get on the phone, and that she was determined to help this investigation — even when Harvey Weinstein showed up to a party at her house early and she was sort of forced to hide in the bathroom.” From there, she called Twohey and Kantor, asking what to do. “I think Harvey Weinstein was extremely aware and extremely scared of what the implications would be if his biggest star actually ended up going on the record,” Twohey added. Although Paltrow didn’t initially go on the record, she later revealed her own encounters with Weinstein alongside Angelina Jolie. Twohey and Kantor’s book, She Said, arrives September 10 and contains even more revelations about the investigation that took down Harvey Weinstein.

 

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Harvey Weinstein Told Cara Delevingne She Needed to ‘Get a Beard’
By Amanda Arnold@aMandolinz

Photo: Taylor Hill/WireImage

While Cara Delevingne isn’t sure whether being openly queer has influenced her acting career in any lasting way, she says she doesn’t think it helped her when she was just starting out. Her evidence: the homophobic comments that disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly made to her, long before he tried to make her kiss another actress in front of him. It’s one of a few vulnerable subjects Delevingne touches on in an interview with Net-a-Porter, in which she opens up about everything from feeling voiceless as a supermodel to defining her sexuality. “I fucking hate it,” she says of the latter topic, before speaking more broadly to her experience as a queer woman in the industry and recounting the anecdote about Weinstein, which she says was one of her first interactions with him.

“One of the first things Harvey Weinstein ever said to me was, ‘You will never make it in this industry as a gay woman — get a beard,’” she says. She also claims that he when she was starting to audition for screen roles, Weinstein would name famous women and ask her if she had ever slept with them. “I just thought: This is insane,” Delevingne says.

Weinstein’s prediction didn’t hold up. While it is inarguable that queer female celebrities still face homophobia — just last week, Kristen Stewart opened up about an unnamed Hollywood figure who warned her against holding hands with her girlfriend in public — Delevingne has objectively seen success in her career. She’s currently promoting Carnival Row, the new Amazon Prime show in which she appears alongside Orlando Bloom. Meanwhile, she’s also become a vocal advocate for LGBTQ youth and is in a happy, committed relationship with Ashley Benson. Though the couple has kept many details about their relationship under wraps, Delevingne isn’t apprehensive to talk about how much she loves her girlfriend.

“I never really trusted people, or felt worthy of it, and I always pushed them away,” she added. “[Benson is] the first person that has said: ‘You can’t push me away. I’m going to be nice to you, I love you.’ I’m just like, wait, so all I have to do is just let you be nice to me? Why have I never done that before?”

 

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Brad Pitt Talks About Confronting Harvey Weinstein
By Madeleine Aggeler@mmaggeler

Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week, Brad Pitt discussed confronting Harvey Weinstein after the disgraced Hollywood mogul allegedly harassed Pitt’s then-girlfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow, saying, “At that moment, I was just a boy from the Ozarks on the playground, and that’s … and that’s how we confronted with things.”

As Paltrow told the New York Times in 2017, shortly after she landed the lead role in the film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma when she was 22, Weinstein invited her to his hotel suite, and tried to force a “massage” on her. Paltrow told Pitt, who she says later went up to Weinstein at a Broadway production of Hamlet, and told the producer, “If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I’ll kill you.”

“What he did was he leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when I didn’t have fame or power yet,” Paltrow told the Times. “He’s the best.”

“It’s obviously Gwyneth’s story to tell, and the reporters story to tell,” Amanpour said in this week’s interview, referring to Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who reported extensively on the allegations against Weinstein, including Paltrow’s. “But I wonder if you can add anything to that, because you do come out as one of the heroes of this story. You confronted a guy that very few people were willing to confront, apparently.”

“Oh, well I think that’s a bit much,” Pitt replied. He explained that, growing up in Missouri, getting in someone’s face was how he learned to deal with things.

“I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to happen further because she was going to do two films [with Weinstein],” he went on. “I think the interesting thing is that we, Hollywood specifically — but the workplace, men and women’s dynamics — is being recalibrated, recalibrated in a very good way that is long overdue. And I do think that’s an important story to tell.”

 

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'You should be the hero, not the villain' Lisa Bloom told Harvey Weinstein how to destroy Rose McGowan and expose the 'weaknesses and lies' of his sexual assault victims at a rate of $895 per hour

• Lisa Bloom worked with Harvey Weinstein for a year prior to the publication of the two exposes that brought him down in The New York Times and New Yorker
• In an email sent after their first meeting, she detailed her plan to help him deal with the accusations of sexual assault and harassment that were set to come out
• 'You should be the hero of the story, not the villain. This is very doable,' said Bloom, who was paid a $50,000 retainer and $895 per hour
• 'They start out as impressive, bold women, but the more one presses for evidence, the weaknesses and lies are revealed,' said Bloom of assault victims
• She also discussed how she would take down Rose McGowan, saying that teh actress was 'dangerous' and a 'pathological liar'
• 'Lisa Bloom had in her hands folders that included pictures of Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd in friendly poses with Weinstein,' said Twohey of one meeting

By Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com

Published: 12:32 EDT, 20 September 2019 | Updated: 12:32 EDT, 20 September 2019

Rose off the bloom: Lisa Bloom worked with Harvey Weinstein (in October 2017 outside his office just five minutes after the Times story was published online) for a year prior to the publication of the two exposes that brought him down in The New York Times and New Yorker

 

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Clients Turn on ‘Champion for Women’ Lisa Bloom After Her Scorched-Earth Crusade for Harvey Weinstein


To some clients Lisa Bloom is a passionate advocate. Others claim she wants the spotlight on herself. And fighting for Harvey Weinstein may have damaged the Bloom brand forever.


Lloyd Grove
Editor at Large

Updated 10.30.17 10:53PM ET / Published 10.26.17 9:00AM ET

 

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Weinstein Loses Bid to Move Rape, Sexual-Assault Trial Out of Manhattan
By Victoria Bekiempis

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Harvey Weinstein’s request to move his sexual-assault trial out of Manhattan was shot down by a state appeals court on Thursday.

“Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is denied in its entirety,” an Appellate Division, First Judicial Department panel said in its short decision.

Weinstein’s lawyers had previously claimed in court papers that he couldn’t get a fair trial here because of extensive media coverage and possible jurors’ liberal leanings. They wanted the case to go before a jury in Albany, Suffolk County, or elsewhere in the state.

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“An internet search of the New York Post’s Page Six, a mainstay of local New York City news, and the name Harvey Weinstein in 2019, yields over 11,000 hits,” one of Weinstein’s lawyers, Arthur Aidala, argued in court papers.

“Political, cultural and social organizations with headquarters in Manhattan (’MeToo’ and ‘Times Up’) were catapulted to prominence as a direct result of Harvey Weinstein’s arrest in this case and New York City is ground zero in their activism, with such activities as the so-called women’s march, and the rallying cry ‘believe all women,’ a position that is antithetical to due process,” Aidala had also claimed. “Polls show that this activism disproportionately impacts the opinions of democrats, the largest demographic group in New York City on central issues in this case.”

Prosecutors had disagreed with Weinstein, claiming in prior response papers that his team “contributed to the media coverage they now complain about by making extrajudicial statements about the case, portraying the defendant as a scapegoat who has been targeted by the ‘Me Too’ movement, thus employing the well-worn strategy of trying his case outside of the courtroom.”

Weinstein presently faces five counts in Manhattan Supreme Court, including two counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of a criminal Sexual Act in the first degree, one count of first-degree rape, and one count of third-degree rape. His trial, which has been repeatedly delayed, is scheduled to start on January 6, 2020.

Weinstein has maintained his innocence.

 

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Clients Turn on ‘Champion for Women’ Lisa Bloom After Her Scorched-Earth Crusade for Harvey Weinstein


To some clients Lisa Bloom is a passionate advocate. Others claim she wants the spotlight on herself. And fighting for Harvey Weinstein may have damaged the Bloom brand forever.


Lloyd Grove
Editor at Large

Updated 10.30.17 10:53PM ET / Published 10.26.17 9:00AM ET

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'New York Times' reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, talk about the obstacles Weinstein created to prevent their investigation, getting actors to speak on the record, and the final showdown at the 'NYT' before publishing. Their book is 'She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.'

Also, Kevin Whitehead reviews the album, 'Love & Liberation,' from jazz singer and composer Jazzmeia Horn.

 

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After all the bullshit I’m starting to think ain’t shit gonna happen to this dude. Damn. White privilege is a motherfucker

 

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Kevin Smith: I ‘felt sick’ after scheming call from Harvey Weinstein
By Eric Hegedus

October 1, 2019 | 6:49pm | Updated


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Filmmaker Kevin Smith says Harvey Weinstein tried to “circle the wagons” for his support just days before the now-disgraced movie mogul was exposed for alleged sexual misconduct two years ago.

In an interview with Business Insider, Smith says that Weinstein called him out of the blue in the fall of 2017 to talk about making his 1999 movie “Dogma” — starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon — available for streaming for the first time ever. Smith says Weinstein suggested that they “might even be able to do a sequel” to the movie about fallen angels crafting a return to heaven. (In 1999, then-Miramax co-presidents Weinstein and his brother Bob purchased the rights to the controversial film from Walt Disney Co. to protect Disney from backlash by Catholic groups.)

Before the call ended, Weinstein suggested he and Smith talk again — but a week later, on Oct. 5, 2017, the New York Times reported that he had allegedly paid off sexual harassment accusers for many years.

After the story broke, Smith said, “I felt sick to my stomach.”

He says it was clear that Weinstein was trying to jump-start damage control.

“It was him looking to see who was a friend still because his life was about to shift completely,” Smith tells Business Insider.

reacted to the news on Twitter: “He financed the first 14 years of my career — and now I know while I was profiting, others were in terrible pain. It makes me feel ashamed.”

Smith had previously defended Weinstein in a 2004 Variety editorial after author Peter Biskind talked about alleged shady practices by the Weinstein brothers at Miramax in the 1990s. At the time, Smith stepped up “to defend a man I respect, love, and would like to take a bullet for: the last great movie mogul,” he wrote of the situation in his 2012 book, “Tough S–t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good.”

Smith adds that while he wishes he could release “Dogma” on streaming platforms for its 20th anniversary this year, he sees the potential for opening it up to screening in time for its 25th anniversary.

“You know, it sounds like he’s got legal bills,” Smith tells Business Insider of Weinstein’s pending court appearances next year. “That’s an asset you can sell to somebody.”

 

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Harvey Weinstein Allegedly Told Assistant ‘He’d Never Had a Chinese Girl’ Before Rape Attempt
By Marie Lodi

Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Harvey Weinstein’s former assistant, Rowena Chiu, shared details of the alleged sexual assault she endured at the hands of her former employer, as well as the harrowing experience of being pressured by Weinstein’s lawyers to sign an NDA.

Chiu, who was hired by Weinstein in 1998 after graduating from the University of Oxford, described how her ethnic background, which is Chinese, first marked her as “different and inferior” to Weinstein. She alleges that Weinstein told her colleague and fellow assistant, Zelda Perkins, that he wouldn’t harass Chiu because he didn’t “do Chinese or Jewish girls.” Chiu then wrote that later, “he turned around and defined me in terms of sexual exoticism, telling me, just before he tried to rape me, that he’d never had a Chinese girl.”

Chiu also described how, during the evening of the attempted rape, which happened at a late meeting during the Venice Film Festival, she tried to protect herself from Weinstein by wearing two pairs of tights:

I had expected to discuss potential film productions and scripts, and we did. But after hours of fending off his chitchat, flattery, requests for massages and a bath, ultimately I found myself pushed back against the bed. I’d worn two pairs of tights for protection, and tried to appease him by taking one of them off and letting him massage me, but it hadn’t worked. He’d taken off the other pair and I was terrified my underwear would be next. Harvey moved in: Please, he told me, just one thrust, and it will all be over.
Chiu managed to get out of the situation, and told Perkins about it the next day. The two women tried reporting Weinstein to higher-ups, but were “shut down” and laughed at. “The message was always the same: Who would ever believe us over the most powerful man in Hollywood?” she wrote. When Chiu and Perkins were finally able to obtain legal representation, they were faced with weeks of intense pressure from Weinstein’s team to sign a non-disclosure agreement:

The negotiations were conducted under conditions of extreme duress: We were once kept at the office overnight, from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m., escorted to the bathroom, provided with the barest minimum of food and drink and not permitted pen and paper to keep notes. We were not even allowed to keep a copy of this most egregious of agreements: We had signed our lives away in a complex 30-page document that we could not refer to.

Chiu accepted a settlement of around $213,000, and she and Perkins were told to never speak about the incident again. After not being able to find work elsewhere in London, she ended up employed by Miramax again, but in Hong Kong, which she suspected was a way for Weinstein to still keep tabs on her. The trauma from the assault and its aftermath led Chiu to attempt suicide twice before she finally quit. “I lived in constant fear of Harvey’s abuse, control and power; that the story would come back to haunt me; that I would inadvertently slip up on my promise to never speak of this,” she wrote.

Over the years, Chiu had remained quiet about her assault, and continued to do so, even as the allegations against Weinstein came to light and the #MeToo movement picked up speed. “I had been so completely silenced that although I was central to a story that had ignited a global movement, I did not participate,” she explained. “Remaining silent had become integral to my identity, both as a woman and a person of color.”

But when Christine Blasey Ford came out with her allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Chiu was inspired to share her story, and met with Ford and other survivors during an interview that was organized by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. “Meeting others who’d had similar experiences created a seismic shift within me,” Chiu wrote. Later, she agreed to participate in Kantor and Twohey’s book, She Said, and talked about her assault on the Today show. Weinstein denied the accusations, claiming that he and Chiu had a consensual “six-month physical relationship.”

Chiu pointed out how, while many women have come out with their own allegations about Weinstein, the stories of assistants and women of color have gotten “relatively little attention” in comparison. “It is important to me now that I speak up, that I allow my voice, an Asian voice, an assistant’s voice, to join the array of voices in the #MeToo movement,” she added.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Harvey Weinstein Allegedly Told Assistant ‘He’d Never Had a Chinese Girl’ Before Rape Attempt
By Marie Lodi

Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Harvey Weinstein’s former assistant, Rowena Chiu, shared details of the alleged sexual assault she endured at the hands of her former employer, as well as the harrowing experience of being pressured by Weinstein’s lawyers to sign an NDA.

Chiu, who was hired by Weinstein in 1998 after graduating from the University of Oxford, described how her ethnic background, which is Chinese, first marked her as “different and inferior” to Weinstein. She alleges that Weinstein told her colleague and fellow assistant, Zelda Perkins, that he wouldn’t harass Chiu because he didn’t “do Chinese or Jewish girls.” Chiu then wrote that later, “he turned around and defined me in terms of sexual exoticism, telling me, just before he tried to rape me, that he’d never had a Chinese girl.”

Chiu also described how, during the evening of the attempted rape, which happened at a late meeting during the Venice Film Festival, she tried to protect herself from Weinstein by wearing two pairs of tights:

I had expected to discuss potential film productions and scripts, and we did. But after hours of fending off his chitchat, flattery, requests for massages and a bath, ultimately I found myself pushed back against the bed. I’d worn two pairs of tights for protection, and tried to appease him by taking one of them off and letting him massage me, but it hadn’t worked. He’d taken off the other pair and I was terrified my underwear would be next. Harvey moved in: Please, he told me, just one thrust, and it will all be over.
Chiu managed to get out of the situation, and told Perkins about it the next day. The two women tried reporting Weinstein to higher-ups, but were “shut down” and laughed at. “The message was always the same: Who would ever believe us over the most powerful man in Hollywood?” she wrote. When Chiu and Perkins were finally able to obtain legal representation, they were faced with weeks of intense pressure from Weinstein’s team to sign a non-disclosure agreement:

The negotiations were conducted under conditions of extreme duress: We were once kept at the office overnight, from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m., escorted to the bathroom, provided with the barest minimum of food and drink and not permitted pen and paper to keep notes. We were not even allowed to keep a copy of this most egregious of agreements: We had signed our lives away in a complex 30-page document that we could not refer to.

Chiu accepted a settlement of around $213,000, and she and Perkins were told to never speak about the incident again. After not being able to find work elsewhere in London, she ended up employed by Miramax again, but in Hong Kong, which she suspected was a way for Weinstein to still keep tabs on her. The trauma from the assault and its aftermath led Chiu to attempt suicide twice before she finally quit. “I lived in constant fear of Harvey’s abuse, control and power; that the story would come back to haunt me; that I would inadvertently slip up on my promise to never speak of this,” she wrote.

Over the years, Chiu had remained quiet about her assault, and continued to do so, even as the allegations against Weinstein came to light and the #MeToo movement picked up speed. “I had been so completely silenced that although I was central to a story that had ignited a global movement, I did not participate,” she explained. “Remaining silent had become integral to my identity, both as a woman and a person of color.”

But when Christine Blasey Ford came out with her allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Chiu was inspired to share her story, and met with Ford and other survivors during an interview that was organized by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. “Meeting others who’d had similar experiences created a seismic shift within me,” Chiu wrote. Later, she agreed to participate in Kantor and Twohey’s book, She Said, and talked about her assault on the Today show. Weinstein denied the accusations, claiming that he and Chiu had a consensual “six-month physical relationship.”

Chiu pointed out how, while many women have come out with their own allegations about Weinstein, the stories of assistants and women of color have gotten “relatively little attention” in comparison. “It is important to me now that I speak up, that I allow my voice, an Asian voice, an assistant’s voice, to join the array of voices in the #MeToo movement,” she added.

He is a rapey asshole..

Bit what does .. I never had a Chinese girl have to with an attempted rape..

Sounds like click bait..

I'm curious but nit enough to read the whole article

I just want to see if he get Cosby time

 

[playahaitian]

Farrow Book Alleges That Weinstein Used Matt Lauer As Leverage to Kill NBC Story
By Benjamin Hart@realaxelfoley

Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images

Ronan Farrow’s new book, Catch and Kill, details Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to kill a damning story about him at NBC by threatening to divulge Matt Lauer’s history of alleged sexual harassment at the network.

“Weinstein made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer’s behavior and capable of revealing it,” Farrow writes in the book, new details of which were published in The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. Weinstein reportedly huddled with Dylan Howard, chief content officer of publisher American Media, Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, at a New York hotel in September 2017, just days before the New York Times published its initial story on the disgraced producer. Howard reportedly produced several manila envelopes, which contained information about Lauer that could be used as leverage.

In a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC denied the claim: “NBC News was never contacted by AMI, or made aware in any way of any threats from them, or from anyone else, for that matter. And the idea of NBC News taking a threat seriously from a tabloid company about Matt Lauer is especially preposterous, since they already covered him with great regularity.”

In the end, NBC did not broadcast Farrow’s story, for reasons that Farrow says had more to do with Weinstein’s financial and personal coziness with top network executives than it did with journalistic standards.

Farrow instead took his scoop to The New Yorker, which published it days after a competing investigation in the New York Times went live. NBC maintains that the New Yorker version of the story was markedly different than the version it had seen, which it claims was not sufficiently reported

Lauer was accused of sexual harassment by multiple NBC employees, and fired by the network in November 2017. Farrow’s book includes details of seven workplace-harassment allegations against Lauer in the years before his firing, as well as seven nondisclosure agreements signed by alleged Lauer accusers — painting a picture of a network that knew about Lauer’s behavior, despite its claim to the contrary two years ago.

It also includes details of the allegation that ended Lauer’s career at NBC: a former employee, Brooke Nevils, claims the anchor raped her in a hotel room while at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. In a letter published Wednesday, Lauer denied that charge, and any claims of impropriety beyond extramarital affairs.

 

[playahaitian]

Rose McGowan Is Suing Harvey Weinstein for Racketeering
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax
Photo: Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images

More than two years after publicly alleging that Harvey Weinstein raped her at the start of her career, Rose McGowan is now suing Weinstein, as well as his former lawyers Lisa Bloom and David Boies, for racketeering. Per filings obtained by Vulture, the lawsuit alleges that Weinstein conspired with the two attorneys, as well as spy agency Black Cube, to “suppress and discredit” McGowan’s rape claim. “This case is about a diabolical and illegal effort by one of America’s most powerful men and his representatives to silence sexual-assault victims. And it is about the courageous women and journalists who persisted to reveal the truth,” the suit states. “McGowan has suffered tremendously from the defendant’s conspiracy and lies. Her book sales suffered; her expenses mounted; her job opportunities vanished; and her emotional health cratered. She has experienced trauma and depression from the defendants’ actions, and the deep betrayal will have life-long effects.”

In the lawsuit, McGowan claims that when Weinstein got wind of her plans to detail the alleged 1997 rape in her memoir, he, among other actions, tried to buy her silence, steal the manuscript, and hire someone from the Black Cube agency to infiltrate her inner circle to record their conversations. (Which the operative successfully did.) In response to the suit, Weinstein’s lawyer said McGowan is a “publicity seeker looking for money.”
In September, an excerpt from Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book, She Said, revealed that Bloom, a prominent victims’-rights attorney, was hired by Weinstein to discredit McGowan’s story. “I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them,” Bloom wrote in a particularly damning memo. “We can place an article re: her becoming increasingly unglued so that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she’s discredited.” Bloom later confirmed that the memos featured in She Said were legitimate. She also apologized, “especially to the women,” for her short stint as a Weinstein employee.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Harvey Weinstein Jokes Draw Boos, Woman Calls Him 'F***ing Rapist'

Harvey Weinstein was confronted by a woman at an NYC event, calling him a "f*cking rapist."

www.tmz.com

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Homepage

All the best exclusive & breaking news in the world of celebrity entertainment. We are first, accurate & always bringing you the real story.

theblast.com

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Rose McGowan Sues Harvey Weinstein and His Ex Lawyers

Rose McGowan is now suing Harvey Weinstein and his former lawyers for allegedly trying to smear her.

www.tmz.com

Rose McGowan

www.tmz.com

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Another Blow For James Franco: More Accusers To Come Forward In Class Action Lawsuit

James Franco is potentially facing a slew of new accusers in what is now a class action lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination, harassment and other claims.

radaronline.com

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Journalists claim Harvey Weinstein employed spy to prevent publishing

New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor have claimed that Harvey Weinstein went to extraordinary lengths to prevent them publishing the story that sparked the global MeToo movement..

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Harvey Weinstein - Vulture

See an archive of all harvey weinstein stories published on Vulture

www.vulture.com

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Harvey Weinstein Allegedly Told Assistant ‘He’d Never Had a Chinese Girl’ Before Rape Attempt
By Marie Lodi

Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Harvey Weinstein’s former assistant, Rowena Chiu, shared details of the alleged sexual assault she endured at the hands of her former employer, as well as the harrowing experience of being pressured by Weinstein’s lawyers to sign an NDA.

Chiu, who was hired by Weinstein in 1998 after graduating from the University of Oxford, described how her ethnic background, which is Chinese, first marked her as “different and inferior” to Weinstein. She alleges that Weinstein told her colleague and fellow assistant, Zelda Perkins, that he wouldn’t harass Chiu because he didn’t “do Chinese or Jewish girls.” Chiu then wrote that later, “he turned around and defined me in terms of sexual exoticism, telling me, just before he tried to rape me, that he’d never had a Chinese girl.”

Chiu also described how, during the evening of the attempted rape, which happened at a late meeting during the Venice Film Festival, she tried to protect herself from Weinstein by wearing two pairs of tights:

I had expected to discuss potential film productions and scripts, and we did. But after hours of fending off his chitchat, flattery, requests for massages and a bath, ultimately I found myself pushed back against the bed. I’d worn two pairs of tights for protection, and tried to appease him by taking one of them off and letting him massage me, but it hadn’t worked. He’d taken off the other pair and I was terrified my underwear would be next. Harvey moved in: Please, he told me, just one thrust, and it will all be over.
Chiu managed to get out of the situation, and told Perkins about it the next day. The two women tried reporting Weinstein to higher-ups, but were “shut down” and laughed at. “The message was always the same: Who would ever believe us over the most powerful man in Hollywood?” she wrote. When Chiu and Perkins were finally able to obtain legal representation, they were faced with weeks of intense pressure from Weinstein’s team to sign a non-disclosure agreement:

The negotiations were conducted under conditions of extreme duress: We were once kept at the office overnight, from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m., escorted to the bathroom, provided with the barest minimum of food and drink and not permitted pen and paper to keep notes. We were not even allowed to keep a copy of this most egregious of agreements: We had signed our lives away in a complex 30-page document that we could not refer to.

Chiu accepted a settlement of around $213,000, and she and Perkins were told to never speak about the incident again. After not being able to find work elsewhere in London, she ended up employed by Miramax again, but in Hong Kong, which she suspected was a way for Weinstein to still keep tabs on her. The trauma from the assault and its aftermath led Chiu to attempt suicide twice before she finally quit. “I lived in constant fear of Harvey’s abuse, control and power; that the story would come back to haunt me; that I would inadvertently slip up on my promise to never speak of this,” she wrote.

Over the years, Chiu had remained quiet about her assault, and continued to do so, even as the allegations against Weinstein came to light and the #MeToo movement picked up speed. “I had been so completely silenced that although I was central to a story that had ignited a global movement, I did not participate,” she explained. “Remaining silent had become integral to my identity, both as a woman and a person of color.”

But when Christine Blasey Ford came out with her allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Chiu was inspired to share her story, and met with Ford and other survivors during an interview that was organized by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. “Meeting others who’d had similar experiences created a seismic shift within me,” Chiu wrote. Later, she agreed to participate in Kantor and Twohey’s book, She Said, and talked about her assault on the Today show. Weinstein denied the accusations, claiming that he and Chiu had a consensual “six-month physical relationship.”

Chiu pointed out how, while many women have come out with their own allegations about Weinstein, the stories of assistants and women of color have gotten “relatively little attention” in comparison. “It is important to me now that I speak up, that I allow my voice, an Asian voice, an assistant’s voice, to join the array of voices in the #MeToo movement,” she added.

Opinion | ‘Harvey Weinstein Told Me He Liked Chinese Girls’ (Published 2019)

Why it took me more than 20 years to tell my #MeToo story.

www.nytimes.com

Chanel Miller, Rowena Chiu And Defying Stereotypes As Asian Sexual Assault Survivors

Both women have pointed to their Asian identity and the insidiousness of the "model minority" stereotype in deciding to speak out about sexual assault.

www.huffingtonpost.ca

Ex-Weinstein Assistant Opens Up About Alleged Attempted Rape, 20-Year Silence

Former Miramax assistant Rowena Chiu has opened up about why it took her almost two decades to speak out about Harvey Weinstein allegedly trying to rape her in an op-ed for The New York Times.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Weinstein’s Former Assistant Rowena Chiu Details How She Broke Two Decades of Silence

From NDAs to settlements and a support group with Christine Blasey Ford, Chiu opened up about her decision to come forward.

www.vanityfair.com

 

[playahaitian]

Opinion | ‘Harvey Weinstein Told Me He Liked Chinese Girls’ (Published 2019)

Why it took me more than 20 years to tell my #MeToo story.

www.nytimes.com

Chanel Miller, Rowena Chiu And Defying Stereotypes As Asian Sexual Assault Survivors

Both women have pointed to their Asian identity and the insidiousness of the "model minority" stereotype in deciding to speak out about sexual assault.

www.huffingtonpost.ca

Ex-Weinstein Assistant Opens Up About Alleged Attempted Rape, 20-Year Silence

Former Miramax assistant Rowena Chiu has opened up about why it took her almost two decades to speak out about Harvey Weinstein allegedly trying to rape her in an op-ed for The New York Times.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Weinstein’s Former Assistant Rowena Chiu Details How She Broke Two Decades of Silence

From NDAs to settlements and a support group with Christine Blasey Ford, Chiu opened up about her decision to come forward.

www.vanityfair.com

Oh this white man about to done.

Cause if he is not "Cosby-ied" after aLL this?

#metoo is done.

 

[ViCiouS]

Oh this white man about to done.

 

[playahaitian]

let me dream damn it cuz!

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Harvey Weinstein spends his days Googling himself, planning comeback

Harvey Weinstein is two months out from his criminal trial, and according to a new report he is busy spending his days tracking his mentions online by Googling himself.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[playahaitian]

Annabella Sciorra Will Be Allowed to Testify in the Harvey Weinstein Trial
By Victoria Bekiempis
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s sexual-assault case rejected his lawyers’ latest efforts to exclude actress Annabella Sciorra from the upcoming trial, upholding her ability to testify.
Justice James Burke issued a decision Tuesday denying Weinstein’s attempts to dismiss the two predatory-sexual-assault counts.
Weinstein also faces one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree as well as one count each of rape in the first and third degrees.
Weinstein faces charges for alleged nonconsensual sexual activity with two accusers, Mimi Haleyi and a still-unnamed woman. The disgraced movie producer has not been charged in connection with Sciorra’s allegation that he raped her around late 1993.
However, a new indictment against Weinstein in August enabled prosecutors to use Sciorra’s allegation to boost their claims of longstanding predatory behavior. (Before this August indictment, Sciorra wasn’t permitted to take the stand in this case.)
Weinstein’s lawyers subsequently asked Justice Burke to throw out the counts that enable Sciorra to testify.
They argued that Weinstein’s alleged attack on Sciorra would have been before New York’s predatory-sexual-assault law was even enacted. In their view, this would make including her legally problematic.
They also claimed the timeline Sciorra gave for the alleged rape — sometime in the winter of 1993–1994 — wasn’t specific enough.
Burke didn’t buy either argument.
He said the “aggravating factors that enhance the punishment,” in this case the alleged rape of Sciorra, “can occur before the effective date of the law.”
Plus, Weinstein is charged with alleged misdeeds said to have taken place after the law was enacted, meaning he was “on notice … that if he committed those crimes as well as other enumerated crimes … he would be subject to the enhanced penalties of that statute, precisely the legislature’s intentions when it enacted that law,” Burke wrote.

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Burke said prosecutors did their best to solidify the date of Sciorra’s alleged rape.
“The Court finds that the People have shown that they have made diligent efforts to narrow down the date that this complainant alleges she was sexually assaulted by the defendant,” Burke wrote.
The prosecutors’ investigation included “contacting building management and attempting to locate former employees, seeking video recordings (which were no longer available), contacting people the complainant went to dinner with prior to the incident and other friends she spoke with after the incident, contacting the leaseholder of the apartment and searching for the sublease agreement, going to a New Jersey storage unit to look for the records and other items that had been in the complainant’s apartment at the time, and having the complainant look through photographs and records of performances and trips she had taken during that time period, all in an effort to determine the specific date of the sexual assault,” Burke noted.
Burke also cited prosecutors’ claims that Weinstein’s “own actions … led to the delayed disclosure by the complainant, thereby making it difficult to pinpoint an exact date of the alleged assault.”
Burke noted that prosecutors had pointed out how “fear of reprisal by the defendant caused her not to report it to law enforcement, and that the complainant was well aware of defendant’s tactics of intimidating people.”
Weinstein’s trial is scheduled to begin the week of January 6. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. He has maintained his innocence.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Spy admits to befriending Harvey Weinstein's alleged rape victim

Stella Penn Pechanac befriended Scream actress Rose McGowan after claiming that she worked for a London asset management firm which wanted to invite her to speak at a gala dinner.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Kaffeine]