Other Weinstein Was an Abusive Boss

Other Weinstein Was an Abusive Boss
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Bob Weinstein, right, hasn't been accused of the kind of severe sexual misconduct that led to the ouster of his brother, Harvey, from their film and television studio. Instead, he was a volatile executive whose behavior wouldn't be tolerated in most American corporations. People who worked for him said he belittled and bullied employees, shoved an executive's spouse and pressured a subordinate to date him.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ran Walt Disney Co.'s movie studio for some of the time it owned the brothers' former studio Miramax, said it was Bob Weinstein who caused problems for Disney executives. “Bob Weinstein was genuinely abusive to people in my company,” Mr. Katzenberg recalled in an interview Monday at The Wall Street Journal's WSJ D.Live technology conference. “The one person who revealed himself in a way that was unacceptable to me was, in fact, Bob.”

Last year, Bob Weinstein, then recently divorced from his second wife, pressed television producer Amanda Segel to join what he said were work-related dinners in which he seemed to be pressuring her to date him, Ms. Segel said. At the time she was working on a show for the studio Weinstein Co. At one point, Bob Weinstein asked Ms. Segel's immediate boss before a work dinner if she had a boyfriend, she said. Ms. Segel said she invented one.

Ms. Segel later told Mr. Weinstein in an email she wasn't interested in him romantically. Soon after, on a conference call with several people discussing a coming episode of the show, he was highly critical of the series and her work, she said. She told a top network executive, in an email seen by the Journal, that Mr. Weinstein was a “disgusting predator.”

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