Harvey Weinstein’s ex-colleague on monster’s ‘largest crime’ whereas working together with her
Former magazine editor Tina Brown has revealed the “worst thing” Weinstein did during his time as her media partner and branded his actions as “an evil crime”
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein would assign stories to journalists he feared were going to write stories about his sex life before he was exposed as a sexual predator, his former media partner claimed.
Former Talk Magazine editor Tina Brown said Weinstein – whose company Miramax was behind the publication – was a “nightmare in every way” when they worked together.
She said: “The worst thing he did – and it really was an evil crime – he would roar around town as he did, assigning things all over town. Assigning them to people he thought were about to write a piece about his sex life.
“So that meant he would assign every flea-bitten gossip columnist to write a piece I didn’t want. And then those flea-bitten gossip columnist would call me about the piece and I would kill it and they would hate me a lot for doing that.
“I got worse and worse press because all the time I was killing these pieces. So people ask ‘did he sexually harass you?’ No, actually it was much worse than that. He went around assigning all these Goddamn pieces that I would have to kill.”
Speaking to Breaker Media founder Lachlan Cartwright, she revealed that random people call her and say they had a book deal with the publishing arm of the company, Talk Books.
On one occasion when she investigated further, she was told one of the would-be authors was an air stewardess. She added: “She’d obviously seen so much that she had to be given a book deal. Those were the kind of agonies and it really put me off my stride.”
Film producer Weinstein was branded a “seasoned” sexual predator by prosecutors who accused him of rape and sexual assault.
He was found guilty of sexual assault in New York in June, after his previously sex crimes conviction in the state was overturned last year.
A panel of seven female and five male jurors deliberated for five days in the six-week trial before unanimously voting to convict the disgraced film mogul on one of three counts.
The jury found him not guilty of an additional sexual assault charge, and has yet to return a verdict on a charge of rape. The conviction is in addition to a 16-year sentence that Weinstein has yet to serve after being convicted of sex crimes in Los Angeles.
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