Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

And she remembered her costar in Phantoms, Ben Affleck, seeing her visibly distraught immediately after the incident, and hearing where she’d just come from, and replying, “God damn it, I told him to stop doing this.”

She hummed along, luminous and buoyant, asking who it was I was reporting on. I told her Harvey Weinstein. Streep gasped. “But he supports such good causes,” she said. Weinstein had always behaved around her. She’d watched and sometimes joined in his Democratic fund-raising and philanthropy. She knew him to be a bully in the edit room. But that was it. “I believe her,” I told Jonathan later. “But you would either way, right?” he replied, considering it a thought exercise. “Yeah, I get it.” “Because she’s Meryl—” “Because she’s Meryl Streep. I get it.”

Bourdain said Weinstein’s predation was sickening, that “everyone” had known about it for too long. “I am not a religious man,” he wrote. “But I pray you have the strength to run this story.

the actress Jessica Barth, who had appeared in the Ted films with Seth MacFarlane, reached out to tell me that Weinstein had sexually harassed her during a hotel-room meeting—

I remember Seth MacFarlane made a reference to this event during the Oscars as host.

Weinstein laughed. “You couldn’t save someone you love, and now you think you can save everyone.” He really said this. You’d think he was pointing a detonator at Aquaman.