NEW YORK HAS FILED AGAINST THE WEINSTEIN AND THE WEINSTEIN
COMPANY, THIS HAPPENED AS THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY WAS EXPECTING
A SALE TO THE TUNE OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, BUT WHAT IS
INTERESTING ABOUT THIS CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT IS THAT WE NOW HAVE
EVEN MORE GRUESOME DETAILS REGARDING THE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND NOTABLY HIS STAFF, WHO ACCORDING
TO THE SUIT ENABLED HIM AND ALLOWED THIS PREDATORY BEHAVIOR
TO CONTINUE --
>>I WILL GO THROUGH SOME OF THE ALLEGATIONS NOTED IN THIS
SUIT, THEY ARE OF COURSE NOT ALL OF THE ALLEGATIONS, BUT SOME OF
THE MORE NOTABLE ONES, SOME OF WHICH WE HAVEN'T HEARD BEFORE --
>>APPARENTLY HE ALSO BRAGGED
ABOUT HIS POLITICAL
CONNECTIONS AND HOW HE HAD FRIENDS IN THE SECRET SERVICE,
AND HOW THEY CAN BASICALLY TAKE CARE OF HIM ON ANY ISSUE.
>>I WANT TO PAUSE FOR TWO REASONS.
ONE IS ON THE FIRST
QUOTE, CALLING PEOPLE AN EXPLETIVES ONE THING, AND IN THE
CONTEXT OF THE WORK ENVIRONMENT BAD ENOUGH, BUT TO USE IT AS
THEIR NAME, TO USE THE "C" WORD AS THE NAME OF WOMEN WHO
WORK FOR HIM, THAT SENT A CHILL DOWN MY SPINE.
ITS NEW LAYERS OF THE MONSTROUS BEHAVIOR EVERY DAY.
>>AND IT GETS WORSE.
>>IT WILL GET WAY WORSE IN THE SECOND BUT ON THE ALLEGATIONS OF
HIM SAYING I WILL HAVE YOU KILLED OR YOUR FAMILY KILLED,
YOU SAY THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS, OVER THE TOP, A MOVIE PRODUCER
WON'T HAVE YOU KILLED -- BUT REMEMBER THIS CONTEXT, WEINSTEIN
WOULD GET THINGS DONE THAT DIDN'T SEEM POSSIBLE, HE WOULD
GET MOVIES TO WIN OSCARS THAT HAD NO BUSINESS WINNING OSCARS.
HE WOULD MANIPULATE AND CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF HOLLYWOOD OVER
AND OVER.
IF HE SAID YOU WERE GOING TO GET A ROLE YOU WOULD
GET IT, IF HE SAID YOU WEREN'T THEN YOUR CAREER WAS OVER.
IN THAT CONTEXT TO THOSE THREATS BECOME MORE CREDIBLE.
>>AND REMEMBER, RONAN FARROW ALSO PUBLISHED THIS PIECE ABOUT
HOW WEINSTEIN WOULD DO OPPOSITION RESEARCH ABOUT THE
WOMEN HE ALREADY INTIMIDATED SO THEY WOULDN'T COME FORWARD, AND
IF THEY DID HE WOULD SLANDER THEM SO NO ONE WOULD TAKE THEM
SERIOUSLY.
IF SOMEONE LIKE THAT SAID TO ME I WILL KILL YOU AND
YOUR FAMILY, YES, I WOULD BE TERRIFIED, AND A LOT OF HIS
EMPLOYEES WERE.
NOW, THE SUIT ALSO ALLEGES THAT --
>>THE REASON THAT IS MENTIONED IN THE SUIT IS BECAUSE PART OF
HIS COMPANY IS ALSO DEALING WITH THIS BECAUSE THEY FEEL THAT THE
SUIT ALLEGES THAT THEY DIDN'T DO ENOUGH TO PROTECT THESE
EMPLOYEES, THEY ESSENTIALLY ENABLED THIS PREDATORY BEHAVIOR.
ALSO --
>>THESE THREATS ARE TERRIFYING.
LET'S GO TO THE NEXT ONE --
>>BY THE WAY, THERE WERE APPARENTLY THREE GROUPS OF
FEMALE EMPLOYEES HE HAD, ALL THREE OF WHICH WERE GIVEN THE
JOB OF FACILITATING PREDATORY BEHAVIOR.
ACCORDING TO THIS
SUIT, BY THE
WAY --
>>I DON'T KNOW WHICH PART OF THAT IS WORSE.
>>ALL OF IT --
>>BECAUSE REMEMBER, ONE WAY HE WOULD LURE WOMEN INTO HIS HOTEL
ROOMS OR ON DATES WAS BY PROMISING TO FURTHER THEIR
CAREERS.
WAX AND BY THE WAY, ALSO TO CRUSH THEIR CAREERS IF
THEY DIDN'T ABIDE BY IT.
FIRST OF ALL, ON THE CUT HER LOINS
COMMENT, REMEMBER, THIS IS A GUY WHO IS ACCUSED OF PHYSICAL
ASSAULT AND RAPE.
SOMETIMES HE WOULD JUST BARGE INTO A ROOM,
EVEN WHEN THE WOMAN WAS TRYING TO CLOSE THE DOOR, AND THEN RAPE
THE WOMAN INVOLVED.
AND THERE ARE OVER 50 ALLEGATIONS OF
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT ALL THE
WAY UP TO RAPE.
SO IF HE THREATENED PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
AGAINST YOU, SOMETIMES THAT THREAT WAS CARRIED OUT.
AND THEN
IN TERMS OF THE WOMEN WHO WORKED FOR HIM, ONE, YOU SHOULDN'T MAKE
BLANKET ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ANYONE WHO WORKS FOR THOSE COMPANIES
BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE INVOLVED OR NOT, AND NUMBER
TWO KEEP IN MIND THAT HE THREATENED EVERYONE ELSE WHO
WORKED THERE, SO YOU DON'T KNOW HOW HE THREATENED THOSE WOMEN TO
BE THE QUOTE UNQUOTE WING WOMEN.
IT WASN'T JUST THE WOMEN,
DRIVERS WERE TOLD TO KEEP CONDOMS AND ALSO KEEP THE
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION SHOTS IN THE CAR IF HE NEEDED THEM.
NOT
SURPRISING THAT HE ACTED OUT IN THESE WAYS DUE TO SOME
INSECURITIES, LIKELY.
ANYWAY -- JUST WHEN YOU THINK HARVEY
WEINSTEIN CAN'T GET ANY WORSE, THE IDEA THAT HE WOULD ASSIGN
WOMEN THE JOB OF GIVING THE ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION SHOT BEFORE
HE WENT TO HARASS OR ASSAULT WOMEN, THEN HE WOULD HAVE OTHER
WOMEN ASSIGNED TO EITHER FURTHER OR KILL THE CAREER OF THE WOMEN
WHO WOULDN'T SLEEP WITH HIM, AND THEN FINALLY THE CLEANUP ROLE
-- JESUS, IT'S HEARTBREAKING.
>>HE SAW ALL OF THESE PEOPLE AS DISPOSABLE, AS HIS PLAYTHINGS.
WOMEN WERE THERE FOR HIS PLEASURE AND HIS PLEASURE ONLY.
HE IS AS DISGUSTING AS CAN BE.
AND HIS LAWYER RELEASED A
STATEMENT IN REGARD TO THIS LAWSUIT, SAYING THAT WHILE SOME
OF HIS BEHAVIOR WAS UNCALLED FOR HE DENIES THE ACCUSATIONS
THAT HAVE BEEN LISTED IN THIS SUIT.
>>BY THE WAY THIS ISN'T A RANDOM PERSON TRYING TO GET RICH, THIS
IS THE NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL, HE'S A SERIOUS GUY AND
HE IS FOLLOWING UP ON SOME OF THE WORST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
I'VE EVER HEARD OF AT A COMPANY, AS WELL HE SHOULD, THAT'S HIS
JOB.
I DON'T KNOW THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON SOME OF THESE
ALLEGED CRIMES BUT I HOPE SOMEONE IS LOOKING INTO THAT, IF
HE HASN'T RUN INTO THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS THERE IS PLENTY
OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY HERE AS WELL.