A new book by reporters from The New York Times that uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein reveals the identities of some of the whistleblowers who assisted in his investigation and includes new details about the attempts of the magnate of the film to convince the newspaper not to publish the story.” Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s She Said details how Weinstein and a team of lawyers, including an unlikely ally, feminist lawyer Lisa Bloom, tried to convince reporters that the accusers, including actresses Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan, did not were trustworthy or mentally unstable. .
The book, which hits the bookstore shelves on Penguin Press Tuesday, includes a copy of a confidential memo Bloom wrote to Weinstein in December 2016, in which he said he was “equipped to help him against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them.”
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“They begin as impressive, bold women, but the pressures for evidence, weaknesses and lies are revealed,” wrote Bloom, who has portrayed the women who accused comedian Bill Cosby, former Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly and the President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. Bloom also suggested planting articles that describe McGowan as “unstuck.” Bloom later told Kantor and Twohey that he “deeply regretted” representing Weinstein and called the effort a “colossal mistake.” In another example of removing the curtain from their reports, Kantor and Twohey reveal in the book that Weinstein’s accountant, Irwin Reiter, had secretly provided them with information about women who had complained that Weinstein and the company had harassed them or Assaulted. Do nothing about repeated complaints. That included giving reporters an internal memo in which a film studio employee described Weinstein’s harassment of female employees and actresses.
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“She Said” also includes a previously unreported indictment of Rowena Chiu, a former assistant at Weinstein’s Miramax studio, who says Weinstein pushed her against a bed and tried to rape her two decades ago. Weinstein’s attorney, Donna Rotunno, said those allegations and others in the book are false.” This book contains unilateral accusations without having adequately investigated the facts of each situation,” he wrote, adding that there is a “very different side to each story.” Rotunno said Weinstein and Chiu had “a six-month physical relationship” that was consensed. He added that Weinstein was “studying to take legal action” against Chiu for breaking a confidentiality agreement.” As for Mr Reiter, we know that he has his own dark motives for sabotaging Mr. Weinstein and the company,” Rotunno added.
Weinstein, 67, will go on trial in January for cartoons alleging that he raped an unidentified woman in his Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and that he performed a forced sex act with another woman in 2006.Among other things, “She Said” details how the brother and so Weinstein’s commercial, Bob Weinstein, tried to convince him to seek help two years before the fire storm engulfed him. It includes a previously unreported letter Bob Weinstein wrote in 2015 in which he told his brother that he had “embarrassed the family.”
“Once again, your reaction was to blame the victims or minimize bad behavior in a number of ways. If you think there’s nothing wrong with your bad behavior in this area, then let your wife and family know,” Bob Weinstein wrote in the memo.
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