Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein An Alleged Sexual Predator
The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are pouring in and the more we hear, the more disgusted we are. This sort of predatory action by men in power can’t exist, and any self respecting man should shout that out loud and mean it.
This may be a surprise to many of you reading this, but neither Jim nor I are Hollywood insiders. We’ve both been to Hollywood, but oddly enough neither of us received any leading man roles. All that to say we don’t have a reason to give this guy the benefit of the doubt.
Once substantiated he needs to be prosecuted and judged by his “peers”. His money may ultimately keep him out of jail, but at least he’ll have to live with the fact that the court of public opinion finds him guilty of being one of the type of man that women and men alike should protest in the streets and want shamed into hiding.
As allegations about sexual abuses committed by Harvey Weinstein grow, the board of The Weinstein Co. distanced itself further from the ousted co-chairman on Tuesday and promised to fully assist “in all criminal or other investigations.”
Its statement read: “The Weinstein Company’s Board of Representatives — Bob Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar — are shocked and dismayed by the recently emerged allegations of extreme sexual misconduct and sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein. These alleged actions are antithetical to human decency. These allegations come as an utter surprise to the Board. Any suggestion that the Board had knowledge of this conduct is false.”
It concluded: “We are committed to assisting with our full energies in all criminal or other investigations of these alleged acts, while pursuing justice for the victims and a full and independent investigation of our own.”
Nearly 48 hours after the company’s board terminated Harvey from his role at the company, The New Yorker published its on-the-record report by NBC’s Ronan Farrow alleging that the film mogul had sexually assaulted women, including actress Asia Argento and model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez. The report included audio of Weinstein admitting to groping Gutierrez.
Weinstein had defended himself to the magazine in a statement from his spokesperson: “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.”
Also on Tuesday, Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow went on the record to The New York Times claiming harassment by Weinstein in a new story by Jodi Kantor and Rachel Abrams. “I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again,” Jolie told the paper.
The story followed last Thursday’s bombshell investigation by the Times which claimed, citing two sources, that Weinstein had “reached at least eight settlements with women” over the course of several decades. In that report, actress Ashley Judd spoke out and said she was harassed by Weinstein.
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