Now the HuffPost (I won't post a link) is reporting an ex-TV anchor from N.Y is now claiming Weinstein trapped her in a restaurant hallway, told her to "stand there and shut up", and proceeded to masturbate in front her, ejaculating into a nearby potted plant.

That is some weird shit. Rivals Bill's disappearing cigar trick. And I'm still looking for the dozens of Hollywood tweets denouncing their man.

Bill is envious.

getting hot in the kitchen

today
Lisa Bloom:

I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein.

My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement.

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/0...tein-ndas/index.html

Facing the specter of a lawsuit, the New York Times is calling on Harvey Weinstein to release the women who have accused him of inappropriate behavior from their non-disclosure agreements

"Mr. Weinstein should publicly waive the NDAs in the women's agreements so they can tell their stories,"

" As a supporter of women , he must support their right to speak openly about these issues of gender and power."

Lisa Bloom, one of the attorneys representing Weinstein, was not available to comment on the Times' request, her office told CNNMoney.

guess not, since she dropped Weinstein

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Originally posted by sdy:
getting hot in the kitchen

today
Lisa Bloom:

I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein.

I bet her Mom's (Gloria Allred) statement yesterday (previous page on this thread) had an effect. She pretty much said she was willing to represent any of the women who were molested by this creep even though her daughter was representing him.

The DNC is ridiculous.

And of course all of the A-list actresses who have worked a Weinstein film, most have harangued Trump with their tweets, are too busy shopping right now.

One of the actresses he paid off years ago.

Hillary Clinton Nov 2015:

"Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported"

so, Hillary ???

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Originally posted by sdy:
Hillary Clinton Nov 2015:

"Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported"

so, Hillary ???

Well, the complete quote might be "Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported, unless the perp pays me money in which case I will overlook the deed. After all, I have overlooked Billy-boy's sexcapades, even ran damage control for such for many years"

https://www.thewrap.com/harvey...d-weinstein-company/

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced cofounder and CEO of The Weinstein Company, has been fired effective immediately, his board of directors said on Sunday.

The statement said:

“In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company – Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar – have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately.”

Weinstein voluntarily took a leave of absence on Thursday, but that did not suffice to stem the tide of rejection of the once-powerful mogul by members of his own board, politicians he supported for years and industry colleagues.

In the last few days since the publication of the story, four board members – Marc Lasry, Paul Tudor Jones, Dirk Ziff and Tim Sarnoff – resigned, and advisors including lawyers Lisa Bloom and Lanny Davis stepped away from the toxic situation

reports continued to leak out of the company internally that the CEO was determined to dictate the terms of his leave of absence and treatment.

The board became increasingly concerned about the company’s survival and were in the midst of negotiating a deal on Saturday and Sunday for Weinstein to resign. That deal apparently fell apart on Sunday and the board issued the termination notice, an extraordinary end to the career of one of Hollywood’s most powerful moguls.

Getting terminated from your own company. That has to smart a bit.

And still, the usual suspects in Hollywood are silent on all of this. An "open secret" that has been known for decades.

Fired from your own company. Loser.

Former reporter for the NY Times writes about how she had the story in 2004 but due to pressure from Weinstein, Matt Damon and Russell Crowe, the Times spiked the story (sound like Newsweak spiking the Clinton/Monica story and it only leaking due to Drudge)

https://www.thewrap.com/media-...-new-york-times/amp/

‘Harvey Weinstein’s Media Enablers’? The New York Times Is One of Them

A whole lot of fur has been flying since last Thursday, when The New York Times published a game-changing investigative story about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct that in lightning speed brought the mogul to his knees.

He apologized and took an immediate leave of absence from the company he co-founded, but that wasn’t enough. His board members and legal advisers have been resigning en masse. And as new, ugly details emerge of three decades of settlements for sex-related offenses, he’s quickly becoming a national pariah.

I applaud The New York Times and writers Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey for getting the story in print. I’m sure it was a long and difficult road.

But I simply gagged when I read Jim Rutenberg’s sanctimonious piece on Saturday about the “media enablers” who kept this story from the public for decades.

“Until now,” he puffed, “no journalistic outfit had been able, or perhaps willing, to nail the details and hit publish.”

That’s right, Jim. No one — including The New York Times.

In 2004, I was still a fairly new reporter at The New York Times when I got the green light to look into oft-repeated allegations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein. It was believed that many occurred in Europe during festivals and other business trips there.

I traveled to Rome and tracked down the man who held the plum position of running Miramax Italy. According to multiple accounts, he had no film experience and his real job was to take care of Weinstein’s women needs, among other things.

As head of Miramax Italy in 2003 and 2004, Fabrizio Lombardo was paid $400,000 for less than a year of employment. He was on the payroll of Miramax and thus the Walt Disney Company, which had bought the indie studio in 1993.

I had people on the record telling me Lombardo knew nothing about film, and others citing evenings he organized with Russian escorts.

At the time, he denied that he was on the payroll to help Weinstein with favors. From the story: “Reached in Italy, Mr. Lombardo declined to comment on the circumstances of his leaving Miramax or Ricucci, saying they were legal matters being handled by lawyers. ‘I am very proud of what we achieved at Miramax here in Italy,’ he said of his work for the film company. ‘It cannot be that they hired me because I’m a friend.'”

I also tracked down a woman in London who had been paid off after an unwanted sexual encounter with Weinstein. She was terrified to speak because of her non-disclosure agreement, but at least we had evidence of a pay-off.

The story I reported never ran.

After intense pressure from Weinstein, which included having Matt Damon and Russell Crowe call me directly to vouch for Lombardo and unknown discussions well above my head at the Times, the story was gutted.
I was told at the time that Weinstein had visited the newsroom in person to make his displeasure known. I knew he was a major advertiser in the Times, and that he was a powerful person overall.

But I had the facts, and this was the Times. Right?

Wrong. The story was stripped of any reference to sexual favors or coercion and buried on the inside of the Culture section, an obscure story about Miramax firing an Italian executive. Who cared?

The Times’ then-culture editor Jon Landman, now an editor-at-large for Bloomberg, thought the story was unimportant, asking me why it mattered.

“He’s not a publicly elected official,” he told me. I explained, to no avail, that a public company would certainly have a problem with a procurer on the payroll for hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time, Disney told me they had no idea Lombardo existed.

A spokeswoman for the Times had no comment on Sunday.

I was devastated after traveling to two countries and overcoming immense challenges to confirm at least part of the story that wound up running last week, more than a decade later. I had met in person with a woman who said she’d been paid off for an unwanted sexual encounter and thus proved she existed.

Today I wonder: If this story had come to light at the time, would Weinstein have continued his behavior for another decade, evidenced by the scathing 2015 memo by former staffer Lauren O’Connor unearthed by Kantor and Twohey.

Writes Rutenberg: “Mr. Weinstein had his own enablers. He built his empire on a pile of positive press clippings that, before the internet era, could have reached the moon.”

The New York Times was one of those enablers. So pardon me for having a deeply ambivalent response about the current heroism of the Times.

Editors note: A previous version of this story stated that Jon Landman was a deputy managing editor at the Times. He left that position in 2013 to become an editor at large at Bloomberg View. TheWrap regrets the error.

There was no heroism about the Times publishing the story. Harvey and the Times had a deal. The only reason the Times released the story how and when they did is because another local publication was going to beat them to the punch. The Times had to run it when they did and with the info published. Weinstein was dumped to save a last sliver of credibility.

Donna Brazille tweets:

"The Weinstein Company has taken the lead against sexual harassment and assault."

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For 30 years they had the lead for sexual harassment and assault

another NYT article indicates Lisa Bloom was asked to "resign" by the Board members of the company.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...nstein-attorney.html

Among those upset with her were two members of the board of Mr. Weinstein’s company: his brother, Bob Weinstein, and Lance Maerov, who had both exchanged confrontational emails with Ms. Bloom

In one of the emails, Mr. Maerov scolded Ms. Bloom for “fanning the flames and compounding the problem” and asked that she step away from the company. He pointed to a business deal she had previously reached to have Mr. Weinstein turn a book she had written into a television series.

Lanny Davis, another adviser to Mr. Weinstein, is also no longer representing him

Lisa Bloom had a book about Trayvon Martin that Harvey Weinstein and the rapper Jay Z were going to make into a miniseries.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Donna Brazille tweets:

"The Weinstein Company has taken the lead against sexual harassment and assault."

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For 30 years they had the lead for sexual harassment and assault

I wonder, can a persons blood/kool-aid level exceed 100%? That is the only way people would fall for Brazille's tweet. But I am sure there are a lot of such out there.

"Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has seemingly admitted the show chose not to roast Harvey Weinstein because the embattled film heavyweight is from New York.
When Michaels was asked as he was leaving SNL's after-party at 4am why the show avoided the Weinstein controversy, the producer smiled and responded: 'It's a New York thing.'"

Lying POS. Trump is a New Yorker, Lorne. And I'm guessing Alec Baldwin will not imitate Weinstein.
Just like when Slick Willie was caught.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...roast-Weinstein.html

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Originally posted by oddball:
"Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has seemingly admitted the show chose not to roast Harvey Weinstein because the embattled film heavyweight is from New York.
When Michaels was asked as he was leaving SNL's after-party at 4am why the show avoided the Weinstein controversy, the producer smiled and responded: 'It's a New York thing.'"

Lying POS. Trump is a New Yorker, Lorne. And I'm guessing Alec Baldwin will not imitate Weinstein.
Just like when Slick Willie was caught.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...roast-Weinstein.html

Yep.

All the late night guys like Kimmel and Fallon are "strangely" silent on this matter too. Goddamn bunch of hypocrites covering for one of their own.

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Yep.

All the late night guys like Kimmel and Fallon are "strangely" silent on this matter too. Goddamn bunch of hypocrites covering for one of their own.

When Donald Trump Jr. tweets Kimmel's silence on this he simply tweets back the Trump Access Hollywood bus video, just like ALL of the MSM outlets.

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Weinstein's response:

"I am going to need a place to channel the anger so I've decided that I'm going to give the NRA my full attention"

Um, yes, Sexual Predators don't like armed women, it makes it more difficult to rape them.

Therefore, like most other scumbags who prey on women, he is anti-gun, and hates the NRA, who has done more to arm women than any other organization.

typical.