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July 16 - July 23, 2021
Weinstein’s brother, Bob, cut the check to the women’s law firm, obscuring the transaction from Disney and distancing it from Harvey.
More absolute grossness
The agreement mandated the appointment of three “handlers,” one an attorney, to respond to sexual harassment allegations at Miramax. The company was obligated to provide proof that Weinstein was receiving counseling for three years or “as long as his therapist deems necessary.” The agreement also required Miramax to report Weinstein’s behavior to Disney and fire him if a subsequent sexual harassment settlement was reached in the following two years.
WOW. BRAV-O, Zelda!!
In the end, she moved to Central America.
Jesus. He's a life-ruiner. I hate this repugnant, entitled POS.
“Money and power enabled, and the legal system has enabled,”
ALWAYS
“Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture that’s our fault.”
GIRL, YES. PREACH!
As I finished both our script for television and a 6,000-word written story for the NBC News website,
So much work! So much time, effort, energy expended.
“White Whale,” McHugh texted later that day. “Great
frickin’ title.”
Totally
“Well, Harvey,” Masters recalled telling him. “I hear you rape women.”
YES, KIM, YES. 👏
“One of these days,” Masters told me wearily, “the dam is gonna have to break.”
Fuck, it has too.
“If NBC, which has the evidence, doesn’t go forward with this story, it’s a scandal.”
And then she came to the point: “I was thinking about Ronan Farrow,
How gross.
a litigious Korean doomsday cult.
OK, wut?
elements list.
What even is this?
get rid of a girl
like that.”
WTF is THIS??
Neither of us could make sense of the reaction.
Really? HW got to him obvi.
the tilted cube at Astor Place,
like I’d proposed an orgy with his grandparents or something.
😂😂😂
I wondered what logic we could have for keeping our own
Good point
lawyers at “arm’s length,”
a ‘predator,’ to use your term—”
No, he IS in fact the textbook definition of a predator.
“I am a lawyer, Noah.
BOOM 🎤
“I think threatening us is exactly what Ken Auletta was doing.
Ah, SMART.
doubleplusungood
Wut??
The Insider?”
“She always sounded a little—well, you know.”
You know, WHAT exactly??
I’d broken rank to contact Harris and she hadn’t added anyone to our emails.
👏👌👍
But Greenberg arrived a few minutes later, followed by Weiner.
👎😬😟
we’re open to
a tortious interference argument.”
🙄
“Keep going.”
❤
BioShock.
❓
not the sort of thing that wins Wisconsin.
😂 but 😭
Literally in Wisconsin reading this being forced to listen to cracker music.
“By the way, we know about the big story you’re on.”
How many degrees of smarm is this?
Over the ensuing weeks, every attempt to lock a date for the interview yielded another terse note that she’d become suddenly unavailable.
Shame on you, Hillary.
Greenberg had never shown any interest in my book.
🚩 Perhaps he's the mole??
I called Greenberg again.
I adore his tenacity.
another message from Diana Filip
Awful eager for a meeting about something that does not sound urgent.
“I don’t pick the names,” Tye said, all serious.
😂
“Funny,” he said. “’Cause he’s here.”
What a liar. Didn't realize his cover would be blown or didn't care?
She assembled this sentence like she was reading characters off of a newly unearthed cuneiform tablet.
Bahaha 😂
“It’s been scheduled.”
Yeah for like 2 days. 😂
“You and Rich McHugh need to start writing each other
memos. Detailed descriptions of all of this, sent in real time. They’re saying incriminating shit.”
Yes 💯
No one on these calls wants to own any of this, because it’s so obviously bad!
It’s like a reverse Murder on the Orient Express. Everyone wants it dead, nobody wants to stab it!”
Harvey Weinstein, for his “contributions to public discourse and the cultural enlightenment of society,” would be receiving the LA Press Club’s inaugural Truthteller Award.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. This lying sack of shit, swearing on his kids' lives. And they ALL know. 😠
Once, as she’d worked up the nerve to raise the matter with a therapist, “I saw her at a premier for a Weinstein movie,” Canosa told me. “I found out she was a producer on one of Harvey’s movies.”
OMFG 😲
When she was “creeped out” and didn’t respond, he forced her hand, demanding a formal meeting through Soho House, ostensibly to discuss another event.
He is terrifying.
