The Hollywood mogul has enlisted a team of attorneys to fight New York Times coverage said to be in the works about his personal behavior. NBC News correspondent Ronan Farrow also has been digging into the mogul's past for approximately a year, and Farrow is now said to be working with the New Yorker magazine on a "lengthy" piece.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Weinstein, 65, is a polarizing figure in Hollywood. A master movie producer and marketer and a regular at the Oscars, he also is famously brash and controlling. Down and Dirty Pictures, a 2004 book on Weinstein by author Peter Biskind, described Weinstein's behavior toward employees and others in his orbit as bullying and called him an artist of "anger.”
Weinstein, who runs the New York-based Weinstein Co., is no stranger to litigation, but in this case he has lawyered up in an unusually significant way.
In addition to his usual attorney David Boies, Weinstein also has engaged Lisa Bloom, a Woodland Hills, California-based lawyer and television personality specializing in sexual harassment cases (and the daughter of Gloria Allred), as well as Charles Harder, the Beverly Hills-based litigator who represented Hulk Hogan in the invasion of privacy trial that brought down the Gawker website. Other lawyers also are said to be advising the mogul. "Harvey Weinstein is obviously excellent at assembling a legal team," said Bloom in a statement.
Several crisis PR consultants also are involved, according to sources.
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