"Yes, there was a power imbalance. I know I can be scary and difficult. But that’s still a long way from sexual assault. Over-flirtation, ridiculous situations. Bad and stupid behavior. Yes. But I didn’t push anybody. I didn’t physically move anybody.... I think it was trying to be seductive, and I went too far. It was embarrassing and pathetic.... I think endlessly about what I would do differently if I had another chance.... I would have respected those women more. I would never have been with them in the first place. I would’ve kept faithful in my marriage. I would’ve said, 'I have a family. I will protect it.' I was a fool. I admit that...."
Says Harvey Weinstein, in a Hollywood Reporter interview, "Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview/In his first major sit-down from behind bars, the disgraced mogul fumes about life at Rikers ('I’m dying here'), his wrecked legacy and his delusions about the future ('I will be proven innocent. That I promise you')."

८७ टिप्पण्या:
Everyone in jail or the pen is innocent.
Every entitled rich guy in an industry that has zero moral standards is prone to imagining that the world is his oyster. Or clam. He'd still be in Hollywood today if not for Trump.
"I think endlessly about what I would do differently if I had another chance."
Still working on his technique, I see. Not resting on his laurels. I admire that.
Fat old guy trying to be seductive? A camel can pass through the eye of a needle before a fat old guy is seductive. Well, maybe if a clone of 80 year old Helen Thomas is in the room.
Harvey, name all the ingenues who said "yes" and are now wealthy and famous thanks to you. And have your victims condemn them for whoring their way to success, while more talented actors were passed over.
I'm not a rapist, just legally rapey with two helpings of quid pro quo on the side, say may lawyers...
If he had no money or influence he would still be a virgin. C'mon women, we know why you did it. It wasn't his seductive allure.
So there's no such thing as rape after hours if you've got her on your own turf... she should know what s/he's getting herself into...?
It's like something ann wrote here years ago, =There's no such thing as groping/unconsensual touching/harassment in a bar; that's what happens at bars with alcohol... everybody knows that going in and presumably wants that. lol Boomers! lol Wisconsin.
bagoh20 said...
If he had no money or influence he would still be a virgin. C'mon women, we know why you did it. It wasn't his seductive allure.
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the meadehouse dawgs are all going to show us who they are on this thread... Believe Them!
Quite a collection of "men" you've assembled here. I wonder how many sexual assaults your old man readers have committed over the years or... if it's just wishful thinking of old guys reliving their glory days... USA USA! lol
@baghdad bob: And have your victims condemn them for whoring their way to success
This is what gets under the skin of Hollywood: Those who suceeded were 'outed' for getting their careers by going...through...Harvey...
As with Lady Macbeth, they just can't wash away the guilt.
And have your victims condemn them for whoring their way to success, while more talented actors were passed over.
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Same as it ever was...
Living independently is its own reward in the end. If you have to fuck your way to the top, it's likely not worth being there, you'll discover in the end... Always someone younger/prettier/more fuckable than you. A lot of older ladies still struggle with admitting that... *cough cough* looking at you, ann.
"claims he was 'hurt really badly' by another inmate"
Good.
The problem is that actors who do not acquiesce are labeled difficult to work with. This happened to Björk on Dancer in the Dark. So when Weinstein says he was “trying to be seductive” and went too far. That’s not the problem.
He shouldn’t have treated his future employees as a personal hunting ground. Producers, directors, agents. I don’t know how to stop that.
The Alexander brothers say "hold my beer".
"I will say, though, when a guy invites you to his hotel room in the middle of the night, you know what’s on the agenda...."
Damned right.
Oh, please!!!!
Years before his downfall, Harvey was notoriously a miserable human being, cold, cruel, manipulative, insulting, indifferent to people's dislike of him. The ultimate independent producer.
It depends on what the definition of "is" is. Also, whether it's rape or rape-rape. And what difference, at this point, does superior exploitation make? Grooming, perhaps. Here's to social progress. All's fair in lust and abortion.
Transactional sex. Actresses are interchangeable. Go along to get ahead, or not. Your choice.
Respecting actresses, I don't see it as possible.
Thinking of women I respect - comes up blank. Vicki Hearne would sort of qualify except it's more that she always has something interesting to say so it worth reading.
She specializes in being interested in what men are thinking and following it carefully and then putting in slight but devastating corrections where men make a mistake.
Fuck Harvey and the rest of those Hollyweird lefties.
“Transactional sex. Actresses are interchangeable. Go along to get ahead, or not. Your choice.”
That’s only because the “difficult” ones are filtered out at the very beginning of the process.
If progress is not soon aborted, we will be denied our right to perform human... reproductive rites to sequester the "burden" of evidence. The slippery slope, indeed.
As for the feminine gender, according to Diversity Theory (i.e. bloc ideologies), keep women reusable, affordable, available, and taxable (RAAT) is a milestone in Democratic principled consensus.
Transactional sex. Sure, why not. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #LoveWins
Ya gotta really, really want that part in his movie,
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"I will be proven innocent. That I promise you."
Okay, Harv, I believe ya. Just placed my bets with my favorite Vegas bookie.
If there is one thing that I am almost 100% certain of, Harvey is not innocent and hasn't been for a least 25 years or so. Sorry, Harvey: You're going to pay your debt to society, and serve as an object lesson to others like you, of which there are plenty.
I suspect that, if you had told him at the time that he would come to regret his behavior, he would have laughed and assumed you were envious of either him or the actresses who were getting a career boost through him.
I want to know if he only had a hotel room or if he usually had a suite. Did he ever invite actors to his room/suite to actually discuss business? Did he ask actresses back to his room, with no further comment on the activity, or did he say it was to discuss business? These are all variables that would determine whether it was as obviously transactional and straight forward as he wants to say it now was.
Sinatra started Reprise Records so there'd be a label that respected the singers and musicians. All these woman actors, directors, etc, could start a studio that not only avoids physical exploitation of the talent, but also actively seeks to put their truth on screens. Someone like Emerald Fennell could lead the charge.
Another group of artists and investors should be free to start a studio where you openly compete for roles both in front of the camera and under the desk. As a libertarian, I believe they have the right to do that. The only thing that should be a crime is defrauding the talent, shareholders, viewers, etc, by pretending that sort of thing is not happening.
Some people will go for the chaste studio, others for the debauched one. Some will work in both. America! CC, JSM
@Eva Marie: That’s only because the “difficult” ones are filtered out at the very beginning of the process.
You are saying that literally every female who made it to the screen in a Weinstein film was a prostitute. With the exception of the famously "difficult" Rose McGowan of Tarantino's "Grindhouse," you may be correct.
Social liberal club is equivocal and inclusive until it's not.
I gather I'm supposed to hate this guy for getting more and better pussy than he deserved . . .
I was misunderstood. I didn't mean no harm. And then when they went after me for absolutely no reason, I had to fight back with Private Investigators, Smear Campaigns, and destroying their reputations.
And were they really "victims"? They knew the score. Oh well, people will admit I was wronged. Maybe not now, but eventually.
BTW, when anyone plays the "Sure, I'm an asshole, but..." defense. Look out!
"I gather I'm supposed to hate this guy for getting more and better pussy than he deserved . . ."
Yes, us weaklings can't help but dislike a man who committs sexual assault and sexual harrassment on an industrial scale. Good you're made of sterner stuff.
Eva Marie said...The problem is that actors who do not acquiesce are labeled difficult to work with. This happened to Björk on Dancer in the Dark.
Minnie Driver should have had a breakout role in Goodwill Hunting, until Harvey Weinstein spread the word that she was difficult to work with.
Is there a more despicable person on Earth than Harvey Weinstein?
Well power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Here ya go, Narr!
https://youtu.be/AJ0gqmlmLZY
Maybe I don't read enough, but what did he do that was so terrible? I understand that he used his influence to seduce women, which is pretty normal. I didn't hear of force or drugs being used. Those who refused had a harder time in the business, and those who agreed to the terms did very well. It all sounds voluntary, and it seems that people should be angry at the women who made this transaction a part of the business and thus made it less profitable to be "difficult". They used the "difficult" women's' virtue to get ahead of them in line and made principle a weakness.
It seems to me that Weinstein was hardly the worst in Hollywood, on the matter of depravity. The entire system and pretty much all the people there are a low lot, of which no-one can expect much.
George Costanza - Was that wrong?
Nearly every man who is wealthy or powerful gets women far above his innate level of attractiveness. It's as old as mankind, and is a basic function of most animal biology. Women choose them. By the same function attractive women get benefits far above what their intelligence and skill can garner on it's own. Competition for mates has no referees, even if modern society tries to impose them after the fact.
The animus against men by women is from the nagging instinct.
Mel Gibson laughs
Whether grooming by trans males, indulgence by pedo females, not rape-rape by infamous neighbors, and sexual relations with charismatic precedents, all's fair in lust and abortion. Forward!
Friendship with "benefits" et cetera.
Other then breaking the law, committing sexual assault and committing sexual harrassment that would get him fired in every Corporation in the USA, Harvey Weinstein did nothing wrong. I think like Polanski, he was a Saint. Well a Jewish Saint.
Lets talk about Roman. Sure he skipped bail and fled the country, after promising not too. whats so wrong about that? Wouldn't you do that?
And sure he had a naked 13 y/o in his hot tub, gave her pills and booze, and had sex with her. But later, 20-30 years later, she said it was OK. No harm no foul.
We shouldn't be uptight, puritans. If some Hollywood Director/Producer wants to commit rape, well, they asked for it, didnt they?
The way people carry on about Harvey Weinstein or Polanski you'd think they said the "N-word". Lighten up guys!
When I write women I just write a man and then take away responsibility and accountability.
I'd be a bit more sympathetic if he'd not retaliated against the women who chose not to accept the invitation. No need to give them the role if they chose not to give tit for tat, but also no need to blackball them. Just move on to the next one.
But then Weinstein was so repellant that too many actresses would likely have skipped his movies to avoid the memory of him on them if they could just choose to be in other movies.
Imagine working for a company where the CEO wouldn't give you a job unless you agreed to watch him beat off into a potted plant while you watched. And everyone went "Well, those sluts knew what they were getting into. Thats what you do to get a job at a Fedex."
Weinstein after all wasnt an "Artist" he was money-grubbing movie maker. But, he gave us "Pulp fiction". I guess all is forgiven then. And Polanski gave us "Chinatown". God thats worth a child-rape. Its almost like Sistine Chapel or Beethoven's 5th.
John mosby said...
Sinatra started Reprise Records so there'd be a label that respected the singers and musicians. All these woman actors, directors, etc, could start a studio that not only avoids physical exploitation of the talent, but also actively seeks to put their truth on screens. Someone like Emerald Fennell could lead the charge.
Except women hate each other.
Films that start with A Weinstein Company are pretty good films. So there's that.
"a label that respected the singers and musicians. All these woman actors, directors, etc, could start a studio"
Wasn't that what United Artists was supposed to be?
Weinstein did nothing that the Clintons and their rich friends weren’t doing using political power as the young girl bait. He just got prosecuted for it.
Casting couch wasn't a sin until MeToo. It was expected. PC lives on for some reason.
“The most serious conduct he is currently imprisoned for is the 2013 rape and related sexual assaults of a woman (known in court as “Jane Doe 1”) in a Beverly Hills hotel, for which he received a 16‑year sentence in Los Angeles, on top of his New York term.”
“Los Angeles (2022 conviction, still in force): rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object against Jane Doe 1 in February 2013 at a Beverly Hills hotel.” (Same person as above)
“In both New York and Los Angeles, the prosecutions relied mainly on testimony from the women involved plus corroborating witnesses and records, not things like DNA or video.”
“Supporting evidence such as messages, travel and hotel records, and witnesses who corroborated timelines or immediate outcries, used to show opportunity and credibility.”
Perplexity)
RCOCEAN II @6:04
Exactly! I don't get why Hollywood gets a pass on sexual harassment laws that apply to every other industry, just because a certain segment of the population get excited what Hollywood gets to do. Everyone else has to sit through sexual harassment prevention training, so should Hollywood leaders.
And beyond the moral abhorrence of it all, it also has led to something other than good acting or looks getting actresses parts that would have gone to a better actress or at least better looking one.
"Casting couch wasn't a sin until MeToo"
Well it was always a sin, based on any common definition of sin. And it was even quite illegal since the employment sexual harassment laws came into force in the late 1970s. But Hollywood got a pass because of reasons.
Weinstein made (actually financed) some pretty good movies. And the crucial ingredient? Not direction. Not writing. Not acting. No, it was the sexual assault. And the sperm in the potted plant.
That was the secret sauce.
It made Pulp fiction what it is today.
“women involved”
additional testimony from:
“Miriam Haley, who said Weinstein forced her onto a bed at his Manhattan apartment in 2006, removed her tampon despite protests, and performed forced oral sex while she could not get away.”
“Jessica Mann, who described a coercive “relationship” that culminated in him forcing intercourse on her in a New York hotel room in 2013.”
Plus more from other women. (Perplexity)
Sounds like a bad hombre.
Somebody should do something.
Too many people confuse power of position with some personal quality. On both sides of the equation.
Yes, thanks Paddy. Imagine the CEO of Exxon requiring every female petroleum engineer to have sex with him before getting a Job!
You'd get better looking female petroleum engineers.
You’d get better looking females who called themselves petroleum engineers.
Here is what he meant to say.
‘I was a bid deal movie producer. If my dick Needed sucking, all I had to do was dangle a promised role in a big movie. Yeah sometimes I didn’t take no for an answer. ‘
Big” deal
Wonder how Meryl steep handled it
The Sessions (2012) Helen Hunt won all sorts of awards but was the last of its kind owing to pussy shots. Not even erotic. More like just your wife with no clothes on. MeToo arrived and henceforth women were to be taken as serious people apart from sex.
Did the awarders not notice the pussy? It was part of the award. Okay in those days.
Everyone pretended that weinstein lauer and rose were talented (odd only one was prosecuted)
Lauer got the ladies because he was Mildly good looking. He never raped them . Hillary was pissed at his less that friendly disobedient interview…
Happy coincidence soon after , his career tanked.
They gave Roman Polanski a standing ovation at the 2003 Academy Awards when he won an Oscar for "The Pianist."
Actress Meryl Streep, Director Martin Scorsese, and disgraced producer and convicted sexual predator Harvey Weinstein all visibly gave Polanski a standing ovation. Actors Jack Nicholson and Nicolas Cage are also seen on video cheering.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/13/academy-awards-standing-ovation-convicted-child-predator-roman-polanski/
A large percentage of those who succeeded in Hollywood eagerly sold their souls for fame. Many knew that -- if they skipped the casting couch -- one of 1,000 others with equal appearance and talent would get the part.
Hollywood people are not unlike the do-or-die attitude of those climbing Mount Everest: "Good luck on the climb, but if you struggle you are on your own. If you die, I'll step over your body and you'll be the next Green Boots."
Are there any non-delusional writers published in the Hollywood Reporter? It seems doubtful given the timbre of that magazine's history (e.g. its slavish TDS). Can the intro's assertion of Weinstein's delusional state be taken at face value? If delusional Mr. A says Mr. B is delusional, is that trustworthy? No one is ever proven innocent. It may be jailhouse rhetoric. According to most jailbirds, no guilty person is ever sent to prison. Or it could be Weinstein's sincere conviction. Maybe Maer Roshan has been watching too many doctor shows.
"I will be proven innocent. That I promise you," said Weinstein. That not a delusion, it's a mistake. The law doesn't demand it, and it's a practical impossibility.
In the eyes of the law he's guilty, but on the strength of what evidence? The testimony of the alleged victims. There was a time when people were burned alive on the strength of such testimony. Four hundred years ago it was blighted crops and dried up milk cows. Today, people get burned for sexual assault. Yes, it happens, but not as often as it is alleged. If a woman is sexually assaulted, she should report the crime immediately. If a woman's car is stolen, she'll file a police report, but if her sexual integrity is criminally affronted, she might not. We're told to disregard her reticence. If she waits twenty years, give or take a decade, it seems we are obliged to treat the accusation as if the assault took place last night. If the prosecution brings no corroborative testimony or forensic evidence, we're obliged to treat those shortcomings as irrelevant. From the standpoint of evidence, Matthew Hopkins persecution of English witches were more rigorous than the L.A. County D.A.'s prosecution of Harvey Weinstein.
I would expect Oprah, Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton to be taking seats in the courtroom to support their friend Harvey through this difficult time. Memories of better times sitting at Harvey's table during the Oscar's after parties, cashing those sizable donation checks, mugging for the camera. Those were the days. My friends. We thought they'd never end.
I notice there is no compassion for the potted plant, which surely suffered shame among the house plants forced to live there. I'm assuming "potted plant" isn't a nickname for someone, right?
@Quaestor: Does this satisfy your threshold for evidence?
(Perplexity)
Ambra Gutierrez reported that Weinstein groped her in his Tribeca office in 2015, gave a detailed statement to NYPD Special Victims detectives, and then, at their direction, wore a wire that captured him apologizing for touching her breast and pressing her to come into his hotel room, which police believed gave them strong corroborating evidence.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office nevertheless declined to file charges, saying their sex‑crimes prosecutors had decided it was “not going to be a provable case,” emphasizing doubts about securing a conviction despite the tape and stating they were following the law and evidence.
In the months around that decision, Weinstein and his team worked to undermine Gutierrez’s credibility: he retained powerful lawyers and connected them into the DA’s office, while tabloids like the New York Post’s Page Six and the Daily Mail ran stories that sexualized her, highlighted old legal or personal issues, suggested she was chasing fame or perks, and misrepresented the police‑directed follow‑up meeting as her voluntarily seeking more tickets and attention.
This combination—compelling taped evidence, the DA’s refusal to indict, high‑level access to prosecutors through figures such as Linda Fairstein, and a coordinated tabloid smear that portrayed Gutierrez as untrustworthy—has since been widely cited as a textbook example of how Weinstein leveraged power, media connections, and institutional deference to avoid accountability in 2015.
We’re in a new Victorian Age, but with the burden of sexual morality entirely on men, not women. Men are exploiters, creeps, rapists, and women are never to be called sluts or whores, only victims. Or all women are sluts and whores who ought to revel in their freedom, and be celebrated for their sluttery, but men need to be punished for their oppressive heterosexuality
And this is where clever male-to-female transgendered people found an opening. Anti-male morality left a massive loophole and let the foxes into the henhouse.
"I think it was trying to be seductive, and I went too far." Quote of the decade.
Much of the disgust with Harvey had to do with the fact that he was a disgusting slob and not seductive in the least, but he's gaslighting here. There was more to the charges than that.
"The casting couch" was something people didn't have exact, detailed, and reliable knowledge about. Nobody came forward to talk about it. There was also no means of countering it. It was never acceptable, but there was nothing anyone did or could do against it.
Not anti-male morality, you moron. It's anti-pervert morality.
Point 1:
They ALL knew and those photos of starlets being passed along to HW should be (at least a faint) echo of Epstein. With public disgrace to follow.
Point 2:
Of course the women did NOT have the ability to say, "No." Because..... because ... well they just HAD to become famous actresses. Just had to. And no one ever became a famous actress w/o satisfying Harv.
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