More revelations, developments and newly emboldened accusers in the Harvey Weinstein story: In the New Yorker, Ronan Farrow reports that three women accuse the movie mogul of rape. The magazine presents audio from a police sting against Weinstein, in which he appears to admit to groping women in the past. The Huffington Post says Farrow's story “was in NBC's hands as recently as August" but the network passed on it. In the New York Times, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, and others say Weinstein made unwanted advances toward them too. Weinstein's wife said she's leaving him, as he reportedly flew on a private jet to Europe for treatment.
From the New York Times:
Read Full Article »Several days ago, additional actresses began sharing with The Times on-the-record stories of casting-couch abuses. Their accounts hint at the sweep of Mr. Weinstein's alleged harassment, targeting women on the way to stardom, those who had barely acted and others in between. Fantasies that the public eagerly watched onscreen, the women recounted, sometimes masked the dark experiences of those performing in them.
The encounters they recalled followed a similar narrative: First, they said, Mr. Weinstein lured them to a private place to discuss films, scripts or even Oscar campaigns. Then, the women contend, he variously tried to initiate massages, touched them inappropriately, took off his clothes or offered them explicit work-for-sex deals.
