http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...r-harvery-weinstein/

The New York Times dismissed the firm of famed Democratic lawyer David Boies after Ronan Farrow’s explosive report for the New Yorker put Boies at the center of Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to stamp out the Times’ reporting on his sexual misconduct.

“We never contemplated that the law firm would contract with an intelligence firm to conduct a secret spying operation aimed at our reporting and our reporters,” the Times wrote in a Tuesday statement announcing they would no longer work with Boies’s firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner. “Such an operation is reprehensible.”

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, represented the Times in a number of matters over the years and was, in fact, working for the newspaper in 2016 when, according to Farrow, as one of disgraced Hollywood exec Harvey Weinstein’s personal lawyers, Boies assisted in plans to prevent the Times reporting on allegations against Weinstein.

Harvey Weinstein had secret hitlist of names to quash sex scandal

Producer hired team to investigate 91 film industry figures in attempt to stop harassment claims going public

The Observer has gained access to a secret hitlist of almost 100 prominent individuals targeted by Harvey Weinstein in an extraordinary attempt to discover what they knew about sexual misconduct claims against him and whether they were intending to go public.

The previously undisclosed list contains a total of 91 actors, publicists, producers, financiers and others working in the film industry, all of whom Weinstein allegedly identified as part of a strategy to prevent accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him.

The names, apparently drawn up by Weinstein himself, were distributed to a team hired by the film producer to suppress claims that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women.

The document was compiled in early 2017, around nine months before the storm that blew up on 5 October when the New York Times published a series of sexual harassment allegations against Weinstein.

Individuals named on the list were to be targeted by investigators who would covertly extract and accumulate information from those who might know of claims or who might come forward with allegations against the film producer. Feedback was then to be relayed to Weinstein and his lawyers.

The size of the list – 85 names appear on one document, with an addendum identifying another six individuals – appears to corroborate claims that sexual misconduct allegations against the 65-year-old were an open secret throughout Hollywood.

Prominent stars were among the first tranche of individuals on the list to testify publicly against Weinstein. Among those named were the actress Rose McGowan, who days after speaking out accused the producer of raping her. Another was Laura Madden, who told how Weinstein pestered her for massages at hotels in Dublin and London, beginning in 1991. McGowan and Madden were among the first to speak out against Weinstein last month.

Another name is Zelda Perkins, a London-based production assistant for Weinstein’s Miramax film company, who left the firm’s London offices on Brewer Street in Soho in 1998 after, she says, enduring years of sexual harassment by her boss. Last month Perkins revealed that she had broken a confidentiality agreement to describe alleged sexual harassment by the Hollywood producer.

Also on the list is the English actress Sophie Dix, who has described how her career trajectory was “massively cut down” after an alleged sexual assault by Weinstein in a London hotel and who was among the first to come forward.

Although at least 10 individuals are based in London, the majority live in New York, with others from Los Angeles. They include individuals working in acquisitions, marketing and distribution, along with producers, publicists and human resources staff, as well as actors. Forty-three men are named and 48 women.

Weinstein, the list confirms, was aware that the New York Times was gathering testimony from his victims long before it first ran the story. A public relations professional is named alongside a note stating that “HW [Harvey Weinstein] in contact w/him. Friends w/Jodi Kantor”. Kantor is the New York Times journalist who broke the story that immediately engulfed the producer and the film production company he co-founded with his brother.

Following an initial list of 85 names, another six individuals were identified during August 2017, including the actress Annabella Sciorra, who two months later publicly alleged she was raped by Weinstein after he barged into her apartment in the 1990s.

Also named on the later list is the US actress Katherine Kendall. Weeks later she revealed how a naked Weinstein “literally chased” her around his New York apartment in 1993.

Another is a former Weinstein employee, Lauren O’Connor, who documented several allegations against the producer in a 2015 memo in which she described a “toxic environment for women” at Miramax.

Interestingly, the document includes the filmmaker Brett Ratner, who has been accused of sexual harassment or misconduct by six women in the wake of the Weinstein allegations.

It is unclear whether Weinstein intended subsequently to approach any of the individuals on the list with a non-disclosure agreement. Evidence has emerged which shows that over the past three decades Weinstein reached at least eight settlements with women, according to two company officials speaking on condition of anonymity, after he was confronted with allegations including sexual harassment and unwanted physical contact.

Not surprisingly, considering the psychological abuse and bullying allegations emerging from his former film studio Miramax, more of the film studio employees are also named. Among them is Kathy DeClesis, former assistant to Weinstein’s brother Bob, who has revealed that she told him about Harvey sexually harassing women over a period of 25 years.

So far, more than 50 women have come forward with allegations of rape, harassment and inappropriate behaviour, prompting police investigations in the US and UK.

Weinstein “unequivocally denies” all claims of non-consensual sex, a spokesman for the producer has said. The spokesman dismissed reports that the producer hired spies to stop claims, saying: “It is a fiction to suggest that any individuals were targeted or suppressed at any time.”

The producer’s alleged targets were often young, aspiring actresses. Among the high-profile names who have spoken out against Weinstein are Angelina Jolie, Cara Delevingne and Kate Beckinsale.

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...-hitlist-sex-scandal

I can't tell you how happy I am about this:

http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...-in-los-angeles.html

Have a great day, you loudmouthed, posturing bitch.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAH.

The leftist cannibalistic rituals are a sight to behold!

Oh, but wait- she's so fucking brave because she stood in front of a bunch of pampered multimillionaires at a completely meaningless award show, dressed in a 20,000 dollar gown, and talked about how she was "resisting" the POTUS. Don't you understand that she's heroic??? So fucking very brave, up there in her ivory tower, looking down on the little people.

OH MY GOD!!

Petition for Matt Damon's removal from 'Ocean's 8' gains traction

This is horrible!!

No, wait. I meant to say this is hilarious. Being locked out of what is sure to be a shitty and pointless film- that's funny.

Apologies toMatt Damon, we've run out of time...

How Hollywood's Conservative "Street Artists" Troll the Industry



Two of the three behind the "She Knew" posters claim they are financed by unnamed wealthy conservatives who pay them $5,000-$20,000 per "mission."

In a booth on the Westside of Los Angeles sit a trio of conservative provocateurs plotting their next "street art" prank on a liberal celebrity destined to be thrust into the limelight for reasons beyond their control. The restaurant has become a watering hole for conservatives who work in Hollywood and don’t usually share their political opinions with their liberal colleagues for fear of retribution.

Friends of Abe, the private group of Hollywood conservatives, used to meet at the same place. The three artists, in fact were often spotted at FOA gatherings, where actors like Tom Selleck, Gary Sinise, Robert Duvall, Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton generously hobnobbed with others in the entertainment industry who lacked their fame and fortune.

One of the street artists usually works independent of the others, but recently they’ve banded together to focus their efforts on Harvey Weinstein and all those who, they claim, allegedly enabled his predatory behavior for decades. Their aim is to call out Hollywood for its “hypocrisy,” they say. Two of them have careers in the industry to protect so they remain anonymous, and their anonymity is fodder for detractors who take to social media to call them out for cowardice and slander.

One justifies his secrecy by noting he’d surely be fired for his very public artwork — which sometimes amounts to attacks on actors, movies and TV shows he is associated with through his full-time job. Another is a freelancer in the industry who used to design interactive media for Steven Spielberg.

These three are the artists who were responsible for the latest images targeting Meryl Streep, where posters were peppered throughout town featuring her image next to Weinstein’s with the text, “She knew,” across her face, a reference to allegations made by actress Rose McGowan that Streep did not speak out sooner against the disgraced mogul. Streep next appears in Spielberg’s The Post, a movie about the Pentagon Papers that 20th Century Fox is opening today.

“They’ve injected themselves into politics so audiences can no longer suspend belief. They’re ruining Hollywood,” says one artist. “I love Streep, but she’s a weapon on the left, and we have to take out the left,” says another.

The Streep posters made global news, including TV outlets across the country and in Europe running stories about them. It was one of the rare collaborations of the three artists: one pitched the concept with “I knew” written in black and white across Streep’s face and only a hint of an image of Weinstein; another added more Weinstein; another changed the text to “she knew” and made the strip across her face red, a nod to artist Barbara Kruger, who pioneered the look.

Streep didn’t respond to a request for comment but previously issued a statement denying McGowan’s claims. “I want to let her know I did not know about Weinstein’s crimes, not in the ‘90s when he attacked her, or through the subsequent decade when he proceeded to attack others,” she said.


Sabo
On Friday morning, one of the artists, Sabo, hit Streep, Weinstein and The Post again, and this time added Tom Hanks. On bus benches near Los Angeles, he has Weinstein, arms stretched as if he’s Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments, with the word, “God” across his image. Other benches have Streep and Hanks, backs turned, with word bubbles: “I knew,” Streep says. “We all knew,” says Hanks.

These anonymous street artists feel that conservatives are less outspoken on social issues and apparently want to even the score. “You can count them on one hand, and they’re not grabbing microphones and pontificating. Jon Voight only gives his opinion when he’s asked,” one says. (Though they acknowledge exceptions, like when Clint Eastwood and Scott Baio spoke at different Republican National Conventions.)

Two of the artists often work as a team and claim they are financed by wealthy conservatives who pay them $5,000-$20,000 per mission, each one set up through intermediaries so that most of the time they’re not sure who is paying them. Sometimes they’re left alone to create, sometimes the financier needs to grant approval before the work is posted for all to see. “For $20,000, they’ll get $200,000 in impressions,” says one.

After a terrorist killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando last year, the artists created a combination Gadsden flag, with the don't-tread-on-me snake, over the rainbow flag with the text: #ShootBack, and posted them all over West Hollywood. "The mayor spent the rest of the day saying things like, 'The poster doesn't represent our values,' but in all the comments of the news stories that were generated, gay men and women were saying they agreed with us and that they were planning to buy a gun," one artist claims.


Another piece that got a lot of attention consisted of a photo of President Barack Obama next to the American flag, but the image was ripped in half to separate Obama from Old Glory and the text read: “Conscious Uncoupling,” a phrase made popular by Gwyneth Paltrow when she split from husband Chris Martin. The posters appeared all over Paltrow’s neighborhood in 2014 on the day she hosted a fund raiser for Obama at her home.

The third artist in the booth is a semi-exception to the unwritten rule of anonymity. He finances his own efforts then sells versions of the street art at his website, and he goes by the pseudonym, Sabo. Since he earns a living as a freelance artist he doesn’t fear workplace retribution, or even visits from law enforcement. Such was the case in 2014.

In that instance, Sabo, too, hung posters near the Paltrow fund raiser — his calling the actress an “Obama Drone.” Afterwards, he tweeted: “It really would be a crying shame if someone called to report a man with a rifle in the area on this night,” then he tweeted again, “Dear God! I hope you make zombies real and the first one I hope reanimates is Oswald.” When he was alerted he would be paid a visit by two Secret Service agents, he prepared by wallpapering his apartment with the word “Oswald” over and over, then he videotaped the encounter and posted it on YouTube.

At this particular gathering of artists, the attendees are talking strategy. Sabo’s idea is to create faux milk cartons with Matt Damon’s photo on them as a missing person, a reference to the actor skipping the premiere of Downsizing. Damon said it was because he was dealing with a family matter, but conservative media reported that it was because he was facing backlash from a Business Insider interview where he defended men in Hollywood who are innocent of sexual harassment. Damon did not respond to a request for comment, which is often the case when a celebrity is featured in street art.

An exception was when Sabo attacked Jimmy Kimmel by calling him a “cry baby” on bus-stop benches all over L.A. In that case, Kimmel responded by photographing himself sitting on one of the benches giving Sabo the finger, then he sent a photo to THR. Posters attached to bus-stop benches are also carefully manipulated to appear like real ads, and their work is usually done at around 3 a.m., after bars in Los Angeles have closed and would-be witnesses are no longer roaming the streets.

In rare cases, Sabo has hijacked entire billboards, like when he added an image of Al Franken to one advertising The Greatest Showman to make it look like the senator was groping Zendaya, who stars in the movie that Fox opened on Wednesday. Franken has since resigned amid allegations he groped women.

Sabo is a former tank commander who took his pseudonym from the word “sabot," a certain kind of projectile fired from a tank gun. He also has fans in conservative political circles, claiming that he knew in advance when a U.S. Army vet was about to accuse Franken of sexual misconduct so he timed his billboard to the event.

Sabo says he hires others to help him post his artwork all over town in the wee hours of the morning before the sun rises, and two of them helped him with the Franken billboard mission, using a 28-foot ladder purchased for Sabo by his friend, Milo Yiannopoulos. "I have a crazy person who works for me who didn't need a harness, and the other didn't know where to hook on with his harness," he recalls.

Sabo stood outside, gazing at his handiwork for several hours that day, watching the reactions to the billboard, so he was conveniently there when a TV news crew showed up and obliged them with an interview, and when workers showed up to restore the billboard, he filmed them doing so. The conservative is planning another takeover of a billboard, and all three of the artists are mulling pranks for the January 7 Golden Globe and March 4 Oscar telecasts.

Perfect. Harvey Weinstein is now the Boogey Man.

Rumored Harvey Weinstein sighting in Los Angeles freaks out celebrities

I heard that Antoine Dodson saw him.

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I heard that Antoine Dodson saw him.

We better hide our kids and wives, then.

This started back in October. There was lots of talk about criminal rape charges. It's now January. No indictment's have been announced.

Thanks Para for KC and the gang. I love the "Boogie (Boogey) Man".

That absolutely made my night.

Ol' Harv needs a 55 gallon drum of sex lube.

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Harvey Weinstein's sentencing based on 'broader history of abuse' and 'no remorse,' says legal expert

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault on Wednesday in a New York City courtroom.

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Weinstein also faces a trial in Los Angeles. He was charged in California with raping a woman at a Los Angeles hotel on Feb. 18, 2013, after pushing his way inside her room, and sexually assaulting a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel suite the next night.

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"The Los Angeles case will go forward and will be not be stayed while Weinstein serves his sentence. He will face a jury in Los Angeles and answer for his actions in the State of California," she said.
Celebrities react to Harvey Weinstein's guilty verdictVideo

"The people of the State of California have a right to see Harvey Weinstein brought to justice in their state and answer for actions he committed there. No doubt, the New York conviction and this sentence is very, very good news for the LA matter," Stanley added.

Weinstein could get up to 28 years in prison on charges of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery in the California case. Authorities have not said when he would go there to face those charges.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN WROTE JENNIFER ANISTON 'SHOULD BE KILLED' IN EMAIL, UNSEALED COURT DOCS SHOW

Stanley believes that Weinstein "will certainly continue pursuing his appeal for the convictions, and now for the sentence," but "arguing that other non charged, even non-criminal acts should not have been considered in this sentencing is to commence a losing battle. New York law is very clear that in making a sentencing decision a judge can consider all aspects of a defendant's life, characteristics, and history of misconduct in all arenas."

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"I think he's going to appeal his conviction, making some arguments about the jury being tainted or that they had a bias or that they were not instructed properly," he said.

"His team may also add that the 23-year sentence is disproportionate to others who have been convicted on two counts [and] because of the two more serious counts he was found not guilty of. But it's an uphill hurdle," the attorney added.

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On the criminal sex act count, Weinstein faced a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 25 years in prison, while the third-degree rape count carried a maximum penalty of four years in prison.

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The onetime Hollywood mogul maintains that any sexual activity was consensual with the women.

His name and business name appears in the opening credits of dozens of movies.

When will they begin to remove his name and his business name from these movies?

no doubt

Hollywood and the libtard leftists have a long history of revising history so it would make sense that everyone is scrambling to erase Harvey from their products...



good for them

I've been waiting to post this, so here goes. Let's start off with the following. Weinstein is a pig, and absolutely deserves what's coming his way. That said, why are we not looking with disgust and contempt on 'some' of the women who accused him of sexual harassment? From what I've read, most of these women were never attacked and held down by Weinstein, but rather, coerced into sex. The ultimate quid pro quo. In my view, these women threw their morals, ethics, and character out the window for a shot at fame, fortune, and adoration. They didn't have to, but they voluntarily did. Then they came back years later, after reaping the benefits of their sordid arrangement with Weinstein, to attack the man. Again, Weinstein is garbage, and I am most assuredly not defending him in 'any' way for what he did. But in my book, many of these women are not victims, but rather, partners in a deal they made with the devil. Ultimately, they all disgust me.

He's been sentenced to 23yrs in New York.

Will be 80ish before even being eligible for Parole, not counting the impending LA case.

He will likely die in prison, or nearly so.

Good riddance. The tax burden is an unfortunate consequence.

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I agree with you bigdeal.
I hate women who have "compromised" their way to stardom only to come out years later to accuse the one they benefited from. What about the legitimate women who did NOT "compromise" themselves therefore lost their opportunity to the ones who did? The sluts should have to pay restitution to them.

Dear Harvey............welcome to the end of your life. Was it worth it?

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From what I've read, most of these women were never attacked and held down by Weinstein, but rather, coerced into sex.

Coerced: to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition.

I've said similar things in similar threads. I believe better words would be: Volunteered, Proffered, Offered, Engaged In A Business Transaction etc.

I have seen lines of women, LINES, form for the opportunity to bed a celebrity, and have seen plenty of others throw themselves at those who they feel can help them out in some other way. Forcing is one thing, but trading is another thing entirely. That's not "emotional abuse", that's a "trade that you made that you no longer like".

All of those women aside, he deserves what he got for what he did to those who do not fit into that category.