Harvey Weinstein Secrets Revealed

It’s hard to believe there are more terrible untold stories about Harvey Weinstein, whose career has been destroyed in the five months since information about his alleged sexual misconduct, including rape, was published in a series of blistering exposes.

The revelations by more than 80 women, including Rose McGowan, Mira Sorvino, Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Asia Argento, Uma Thurman, Angelina Jolie and Kate Beckinsale, incited a massive cultural movement, culminating in #MeToo and Time’s Up.

• But a Frontline investigation revealed yet more about the manner in which Weinstein allegedly abused and manipulated women in Hollywood for decades. The program included accounts from six of his accusers, including Suza Maher-Wilson, who spoke out for the first time.
• She said that while working on 1981’s The Burning when she was 23 years old, he asked her up to his hotel room, and when he emerged from the bathroom naked with a towel, “I just said, ‘I’m sorry, this isn’t what I signed on for,’” Wilson recalled. “And I left the room immediately.”
• Former executives at The Weinstein Company also spoke out. Tom Prince, a former VP of physical production said: “Those of us that heard about it and read it looked at each other. I don’t think anybody was too surprised.”
• Paul Webster, Miramax‘s former president of production, concurred. It was common knowledge, everybody knew, what a brutal regime it was,” Webster said.
• “I knew I was making a deal with the devil,” he said. “But I knew also that he was at the epicenter of where I wanted to be.”
• He added: “I think, looking back, I did know and I chose to suppress it. I think we were all enablers. I think we were all complicit.”
• On Friday, a group of investors led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, who ran the Small Business Administration under President Obama, reached a deal to buy The Weinstein Company.
• In a statement, the investors said that the deal will ensure that “victims will be adequately compensated, employees will be protected moving forward, and those who were responsible for misconduct at [the Weinstein Company] will not be unjustly rewarded.”