Posted on 10/10/2017 11:16:28 AM PDT by bryan999
When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation “Emma.” Before shooting began, he summoned her to his suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for a work meeting that began uneventfully.
It ended with Mr. Weinstein placing his hands on her and suggesting they head to the bedroom for massages, she said.
“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she said in an interview, publicly disclosing that she was sexually harassed by the man who ignited her career and later helped her win an Academy Award.
She refused his advances, she said, and confided in Brad Pitt, her boyfriend at the time. Mr. Pitt confronted Mr. Weinstein, and soon after, the producer warned her not to tell anyone else about his come-on. “I thought he was going to fire me,” she said.
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The problem is there is a fine line between “propositioning” and “harassing”. Harassing generally involves an ongoing pattern.
I have been propositioned before and you politely turn them away.
The left’s women. Weinstein bad. Islam gooood.
have at it...before miramax adioses this list
https://www.miramax.com/subscript/favorite-things-2-the-miramax-women/
Isn’t it so shocking to hear that these women all of a sudden remember being abused long after the alleged abuser got them the “position” that the “worked so HARD for”. Pahleeeease.
Notice how brave she was not waiting to complain about this until years later and making sure her career was established first? She’s fighting for women...
“This way of treating women
ends now, Ms. Paltrow said...”
Yeah? Well why didn’t it end when it happened, POS?
Hey Gals.....Silence Equals Complicity in Workplace Sexism according to an article headline in your paper of record.
Are leftist actresses women or really just producer meat?
Begs the question, why now? Why now was he thrown to the wolves?
And how many of them campaigned/prostrated themselves for BOTH Clintons, knowing all the molestation accusations and dirt about Bubba? How many interviews/lectures did they give telling the rest of us “how wonderful” these two cretins were for “helping women”? Maybe what they meant was “helping women.... kill the evidence of any molestation.”
Spielberg is her godfather.
this is true, continually harassing is a bit different than propositioning a good looking young woman once.
However, when you’re the boss it’s inappropriate, period.
when you get older your definition of kid gets older Gwyneth Paltrow is 45 so it is a stretch but I will not criticize because I my self at 51 see a 22 year old as just a kid.
Amazing since both of them are the children of successful movie stars. I would have thought that would have protected them, guess not.
She’s talking big now that Harvey is out of power. I wonder what other powerful producers, directors, studio chiefs, et al. behave like Harvey, but are still too powerful to be denounced by Gwyneth and the Hollyweirdo gang?
Generaly agree, but I would put Angela Jolie in a different category if, as she says below, she separated herself from him and thus would not have had direct knowledge of other offensive actions by him:
“I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,” Ms. Jolie said in an email. “This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.”
Absolutely.
There is a paper trail to her claims, though.
Brad Pitt was her boyfriend at the time and his representative confirmed he approached Weinstein and told him to not touch her again.
Yep.
Hollywood is nothing more than an industry promoting and enabling perversion and pedophilia. These immoral hacks should have blown the cover on this decades ago...but like you noted, it’s pile on (just for those they feel comfortable doing now). Pathetic.
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