Posted on 10/09/2017 12:36:50 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
A former New York Times reporter who investigated allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein as far back as 2004 has revealed that actors including Matt Damon and Russell Crowe lobbied the Times to kill the story.
In a column for The Wrap, the entertainment industry trade outlet she founded, former reporter Sharon Waxman claimed that while investigating the then-recently appointed head of Miramax Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo, sources claimed he was installed in the position solely to arrange escorts for Weinstein, and had no prior filmmaking experience.
To shield Weinstein from a potentially damaging story, both Damon and Crowe then allegedly called Waxman to “vouch” for Lombardo’s credentials.
“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,” Laxman wrote. “I was told at the time that Weinstein had visited the newsroom in person to make his displeasure known.”
Waxman also spoke to a British woman who claimed she had been paid off by Weinstein after an “unwanted sexual encounter” but was bound by a non-disclosure agreement.
However, the story was eventually killed by The New York Times, after Waxman said the Times’ then-culture editor Jon Landman found it unimportant.
“‘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,” Waxman wrote.
Waxman added that she was “devastated” that her story was finally published over a decade after she corroborated the evidence.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Dumb question, who is this Weinstein we keep hearing about?
Perverts working in a perverted industry—protecting their fellow perverts.
Well, we know Damon is a libtard scumbag and it’s not a stretch he would do this crap.
Master puppeteer and money man
That means it was BUSH'S FAULT!!!
Liberal on Liberal Crime!!
Betcha there’s 10000% more going on than reported.
Matt Damon and Russell Crowe have a lot of explaining to do.
I clicked on this article solely to make fun of Mawt Day-muhn.
This will not endear these hacks to independents and conservatives.
She was “devastated”.
Good God, Lady. What are you getting your panties in a snit for?
Really?
Because you work for the New York Times...sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas.
The only reason you are having a fit is because your ox is the one that got gored. If it had been some other dumb sheep of a reporter at the NYT who got their story spiked, you wouldn’t have given it a second thought.
They do it all the time. What a putz.
The next time they speak on supporting women’s issues, they should be laughed at then tarred and feathered. Talk about a war on women. Sounds like the libs are the bad guys not the conservatives the left would like everyone to believe.
I hope this is the beginning of the end for the Hollywood cesspool. Take their wealth, take their power, take their reputation. Jail the pervs and predators. Clean out the scum.
I liked Russell Crowe in Gladiator. I generally try to catch all his films. This news story is just one person’s side of this messy situation and I’m not going to rush to condemn Russell Crowe. People have to do each other favors in any business and if someone asked Russell Crowe to make a phone call in a friend’s favor, then Russell would have to do it to stay in the business. In general, Russell has kept quiet politically. He’s not come out and spewed out politics like Meryl Streep and her ilk. He talks about his favorite New Zealand rugby team and he’s trying to raise his two sons right.
Russell Crowe is a known serialsexual harasser/groper, especially when he’s drinking. Interesting that he would go so far out of his way to defend a perv like Weinstein.
Matt Damon is a big advocate of the national teachers’ union and public schools. Of course, he doesn’t practice what he so loudly preaches as his own four children attend expensive private schools. It appears its the same thing with women’s rights to be free from harassing old pigs, at least when those old pigs agree with Mr. Damon and employ him in their trashy movies.
Damon really turned out to be a total and complete girlie man loser.
Damon and Crowe are just as much whores as the escorts Lombardo provided.
So, exactly what did WeinSTEEN have on Damon and Crowe? They were already famous so he couldn’t help them. But he may have been able to hurt them. People that sex crazed usually go both ways. Or maybe WeinSTEEN got some escorts for them. I guarantee there are lots of people in Hollywood who are sweating right now.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.