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

by Ronan Farrow

“Sorry. I tried.”

You absolutely did not.

The description was off, strangely vague.

Then he offered to connect me with another high-profile source if I could tell him more about my work.

Just wow. Could this guy be any more transparent in his motives?

It

was one of several similar calls Freedman made that month, based on instructions he received via email and WhatsApp, from a project manager at Black Cube.

Unbelievable. There goes your journalistic integrity.

I hoped to continue that work, in the context of whatever small, piece-by-piece deal he could offer.

Did he tho? This just sounds a little too earnest.

Weinstein showed up at the agent’s office in Los Angeles and ranted for more than an hour.

Just NO. Like next level entitlement

It was not an invitation to attend Hogwarts.

😂

we demand that you provide my client, in care of this office, a list of every single statement that you intend to publish or disseminate

Yeah right.

“Ronan,” she replied. “I am his people.”

Well, she's gross.

David

David who?

“Lisa, this is not appropriate,” I said.

He is not wrong.

dangling clients, enticing me to meet about Blac Chyna.

So unethical

“I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them,” she wrote in her first memo to Weinstein.

Ew. Female monsters are the worst.

Mimic.

against her religion to date married men.

OMFG, what religion?? I mean most I guess.

diner, but he said he was coming over to her apartment and hung up.

Fuck no

She called a friend and asked him to come over and pose as her boyfriend.

So smart

“Harvey had managed to bypass my doorman,”

Oh man, how? Doorman should be fired.

When she told Weinstein that her new boyfriend was on his way, he seemed dejected and left.

Thank God.

“was shock and horror

that I had mentioned it.”

Wow. What a work culture.

“I recall Miramax telling us they were a nightmare to work with and we should avoid them at all costs,”

JFC

Sorvino was formidable. She’d graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

I remember her being brilliant.

working with Woody.”

Super awkward. Can't swing a dead cat w/o hitting some asshole in Hollywood who abuses women or girls.

that it was my sister’s issue, not mine,

Not cool, Ro.

then wondered what precautions I was actually taking, other than glancing over my shoulder a lot.

Weinstein grabbed it again and pulled it toward his penis, which was visible and erect.

First, blerggghhh. Secomd, it's all about the conquest with this guy.

“This is the big boys’ club, the Hollywood mafia,” she said. “They protect each other.”

McGowan told Filip that there was no one else in the world she could trust.

Oh fuck

But I had followed Argento on social media and we’d begun “liking” each other’s photos.

Clever boy!

his title was a thin cover for his actual role, as Weinstein’s “pimp” in Europe.

It’s twisted. A big, fat man wanting to eat you. It’s a scary fairy tale.”

It's not at all funny, but OMG, her description!!

she didn’t physically fight him off, something that prompted years of guilt. “The thing with being a victim is I felt responsible,” she said. “Because if I were a strong woman, I would have kicked him in the balls and run away. But I didn’t. And so I felt responsible.”

No, no, NO

“I felt I had to,” she said. “Because I had the movie coming out and I didn’t want to anger him.”

She believed that Weinstein would ruin her career if she didn’t comply.

she reached a financial settlement with an actor, Jimmy Bennett, who alleged she had sex with him when he was seventeen.

I remember this. Yikes.

The later settlement had no bearing on an undeniable truth: Argento’s story about Harvey Weinstein checked out,

Exactly

Perpetrators of sexual abuse can also be survivors of it.

Anthony Bourdain, interceded repeatedly. He told her to keep going, that it was worth it, that it would make a difference.

❤

The Advocate

then opened the door to find Weinstein masturbating on the other side of it.

Gross, gross, GROSS. His sexual appetite is out-of-control!

people she had told, in detail, at the time.

She was probably incredulous & not aware of his pattern.

Tarantino, would later join the ranks of men in the industry who publicly apologized for hearing without really listening.

Oh Colin. 😟

Rachel Weisz

❤

“I was like, What the fuck, is he taking a shower?”

Seriously

because I could feel that the more I was freaking out, the more he was excited.”

Oh I'll bet that was part of his fetish, disgusting man.

‘I’ve always hated Walt Disney movies.’

Niiiiice

“I know that everybody—I mean everybody—in Hollywood knows that it’s happening,”

😠

“He’s not even really hiding.