Maria Schrader's 2022 film "She Said" is a terse and damning look into the depths of Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes. The film's main characters are the real-life New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohy (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) who struggle endlessly trying to get some of Weinstein's many, many victims on the record with stories of their abuse and assault at his hands. In her film, Schrader plays an actual audio recording of Weinstein's crimes, and visits the hotel rooms where they took place. One of Weinstein's victims, Ashley Judd, even appears as herself. "She Said" not only relates Weinstein's mob-like intimidation tactics -- he threatens violence and legal action to keep victims from coming forward -- but exposes a complex structure of non-disclosure agreements and legal doublespeak to prevent any mention of his crimes. It's an intense drama, and one that will spark outrage for...
- 1/13/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Harvey Weinstein, by all accounts, will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. But even with a second conviction, survivors of sexual assault are wary of celebrating the split verdict where a jury found Weinstein guilty of three charges, acquitted him another and were deadlocked on three more.
“I have very mixed feelings about the verdict,” says Rowena Chiu, a former assistant of Weinstein who accused him of attempted rape when she was a Miramax employee in 1998. Chiu was on the witness list for the trial, but was ultimately not called to testify. Weinstein being a “convicted sex offender in two jurisdictions vindicates the bravery of his many victims in speaking out,” Chiu says. At the same time, “I feel deep hurt and frustration for those victims and supporting witnesses who went through the humiliation and trauma of testifying, only for the jury to acquit or be hung on some counts,...
“I have very mixed feelings about the verdict,” says Rowena Chiu, a former assistant of Weinstein who accused him of attempted rape when she was a Miramax employee in 1998. Chiu was on the witness list for the trial, but was ultimately not called to testify. Weinstein being a “convicted sex offender in two jurisdictions vindicates the bravery of his many victims in speaking out,” Chiu says. At the same time, “I feel deep hurt and frustration for those victims and supporting witnesses who went through the humiliation and trauma of testifying, only for the jury to acquit or be hung on some counts,...
- 12/21/2022
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
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Following Harvey Weinstein’s conviction of rape by an L.A. jury on Monday, some of his accusers, other actresses and activists took to social media to react to the verdict.
Lauren O’Connor, who wrote the leaked 2015 memo addressed to her colleagues that described Weinstein’s toxic behavior and eventually helped take him down, told The Hollywood Reporter: “The women who came forward and took the stand are immeasurably brave, and while it is disappointing he was not convicted on all counts, I am grateful for the verdict — he cannot hurt people anymore.
“But I think it is important to remember, the larger issues around understanding rape and consent are not solved because one bad man went to jail. There is still work to be done, and yesterday’s verdict demonstrates that,” O’Connor added.
The trial was focused on testimony from...
Following Harvey Weinstein’s conviction of rape by an L.A. jury on Monday, some of his accusers, other actresses and activists took to social media to react to the verdict.
Lauren O’Connor, who wrote the leaked 2015 memo addressed to her colleagues that described Weinstein’s toxic behavior and eventually helped take him down, told The Hollywood Reporter: “The women who came forward and took the stand are immeasurably brave, and while it is disappointing he was not convicted on all counts, I am grateful for the verdict — he cannot hurt people anymore.
“But I think it is important to remember, the larger issues around understanding rape and consent are not solved because one bad man went to jail. There is still work to be done, and yesterday’s verdict demonstrates that,” O’Connor added.
The trial was focused on testimony from...
- 12/20/2022
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In “She Said,” New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) wonder if their tireless work in reporting Harvey Weinstein‘s decades of sexual abuse and harassment will change anything — if anyone will care. Maria Schrader had a similar thought when she read their article on Oct. 5, 2017. “It was shocking. It was at the same time not really surprising. I was wondering what would follow, if there would be something following,” the director tells Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And then it did.”
The exposé sparked the #MeToo movement and led to the downfall of the now imprisoned mogul as more and more survivors of his systemic abuse spoke out. Kantor and Twohey won the Pulitzer Prize and wrote a book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” about their investigation, which was being adapted into a...
The exposé sparked the #MeToo movement and led to the downfall of the now imprisoned mogul as more and more survivors of his systemic abuse spoke out. Kantor and Twohey won the Pulitzer Prize and wrote a book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” about their investigation, which was being adapted into a...
- 12/6/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Halfway through the film She Said, the New York Times journalist Megan Twohey, played by Carey Mulligan, screams in a man’s face. She is in a bar with her reporting partner, Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan), and editor, Rebecca Corbett (Patricia Clarkson); the trio have congregated to discuss their investigation into Harvey Weinstein. The confrontation happens after the man, who is drunk, hits on Megan.
“I have never done that,” says Twohey, smiling. “But I have had outbursts of that kind over the years, stretching back to when I was a kid and beat up a neighborhood bully for taunting me and my friends.” She pauses. “It would be naive for people to think that we, as journalists, could immerse ourselves in the outrageous prevalence of sexual abuse and not feel anger. I just don’t think that’s realistic.”
By now, the story of Twohey and Kantor’s reporting is well known.
“I have never done that,” says Twohey, smiling. “But I have had outbursts of that kind over the years, stretching back to when I was a kid and beat up a neighborhood bully for taunting me and my friends.” She pauses. “It would be naive for people to think that we, as journalists, could immerse ourselves in the outrageous prevalence of sexual abuse and not feel anger. I just don’t think that’s realistic.”
By now, the story of Twohey and Kantor’s reporting is well known.
- 11/24/2022
- by Olivia Petter
- The Independent - Film
For director Maria Schrader, “She Said” was more than a truthful and thrilling recreation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, #MeToo-bolstering New York Times report that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse and harassment. It was also about the personal stories of New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan). This made it a more complex and emotionally resonant film about female empowerment and the “crucible of motherhood,” which Schrader’s go-to editor, Hansjörg Weißbrich, leaned into.
“This was an investigative thriller and a more important aspect — their private life and how they got to know each other as a result of the collaboration,” Weißbrich told IndieWire. “This was an additional storyline that wasn’t in the book.”
But that first required Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz to gain the trust of Kantor and Twohey, to let them include their struggle with parenting along with...
“This was an investigative thriller and a more important aspect — their private life and how they got to know each other as a result of the collaboration,” Weißbrich told IndieWire. “This was an additional storyline that wasn’t in the book.”
But that first required Schrader and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz to gain the trust of Kantor and Twohey, to let them include their struggle with parenting along with...
- 11/23/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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There’s a photo of the moment right before The New York Times published its very first story about Harvey Weinstein’s systemic sexual harassment. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor are there, along with their editors at the newspaper. They’re gathered around a computer, giving the story one last read and waiting to press the button that would change not just Hollywood, but the world, sparking a movement that would leap from country to country. The second that She Said screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz saw the picture, with a composition that’s sort of Washington Crossing the Delaware meets The Last Supper, she knew it had to be a pivotal moment in the movie. “It became this iconic image to me,” she says. The film that she would go on to write, about the now-famous journalists whose Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation kicked off the...
There’s a photo of the moment right before The New York Times published its very first story about Harvey Weinstein’s systemic sexual harassment. Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor are there, along with their editors at the newspaper. They’re gathered around a computer, giving the story one last read and waiting to press the button that would change not just Hollywood, but the world, sparking a movement that would leap from country to country. The second that She Said screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz saw the picture, with a composition that’s sort of Washington Crossing the Delaware meets The Last Supper, she knew it had to be a pivotal moment in the movie. “It became this iconic image to me,” she says. The film that she would go on to write, about the now-famous journalists whose Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation kicked off the...
- 11/18/2022
- by Seija Rankin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Five years after allegations surfaced against Harvey Weinstein, the bombshell investigation that exposed the movie titan to be a serial sexual abuser is getting the Hollywood treatment — and his victims are helping filmmakers tell the story. “She Said,” based on the book by New York Times investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who first reported on Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment and assault in depth, hits theaters this weekend. The film doesn’t just center on the two reporters. It’s also about the women who came forward to expose Weinstein’s abuse across decades, igniting the hashtag #MeToo, blazing a cultural and societal fire of truth-telling and knocking down systemic abuses of power in the workplace. The Universal-distributed movie includes an unprecedented level of participation from these same women, many of whom advised the filmmakers and some of whom act on-screen.
When “She Said” premieres Nov.
When “She Said” premieres Nov.
- 11/17/2022
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
The judge in Harvey Weinstein’s case is allowing one additional woman to testify in the former Hollywood producer’s rape trial: one of Weinstein’s former assistants, Rowena Chiu. Chiu will be a supporting, uncharged witness in the trial – meaning that the charges Weinstein faces in the case do not stem from her account. But, the trial will see supporting witness (known casually as “#MeToo witnesses”) take the stand to testify about their allegations, in order to establish a pattern of behaviour over the years, reports Variety.
Chiu previously came forward with allegations against Weinstein after the #MeToo movement. She worked as an assistant at Miramax in the ’90s and had only met Weinstein two times before she claims he attempted to rape her on a business trip in 1998 at the Venice Film Festival.
She has said that during a late-night meeting to discuss scripts, Weinstein asked her to...
Chiu previously came forward with allegations against Weinstein after the #MeToo movement. She worked as an assistant at Miramax in the ’90s and had only met Weinstein two times before she claims he attempted to rape her on a business trip in 1998 at the Venice Film Festival.
She has said that during a late-night meeting to discuss scripts, Weinstein asked her to...
- 10/26/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
The judge in Harvey Weinstein’s case is allowing one additional woman to testify in the former Hollywood producer’s rape trial: one of Weinstein’s former assistants, Rowena Chiu.
Chiu will be a supporting, uncharged witness in the trial — meaning that the charges Weinstein faces in the case do not stem from her account. But, the trial will see supporting witness (known casually as “#MeToo witnesses”) take the stand to testify about their allegations, in order to establish a pattern of behavior over the years.
In the case, Chiu will be known simply as “Rowena C.,” but since she has spoken publicly about her allegations in various media interviews throughout the years, including with Variety in a lengthy 2020 conversation, Variety is referring to her by her full name.
Chiu previously came forward with allegations against Weinstein after the #MeToo movement. She worked as an assistant at Miramax in the...
Chiu will be a supporting, uncharged witness in the trial — meaning that the charges Weinstein faces in the case do not stem from her account. But, the trial will see supporting witness (known casually as “#MeToo witnesses”) take the stand to testify about their allegations, in order to establish a pattern of behavior over the years.
In the case, Chiu will be known simply as “Rowena C.,” but since she has spoken publicly about her allegations in various media interviews throughout the years, including with Variety in a lengthy 2020 conversation, Variety is referring to her by her full name.
Chiu previously came forward with allegations against Weinstein after the #MeToo movement. She worked as an assistant at Miramax in the...
- 10/25/2022
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Last week’s world premiere for She Said in New York has afforded Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan an opportunity to reflect on the task they just undertook, to tell the story behind the story of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s 2017 reporting for the New York Times that first exposed the harrowing abuses of Harvey Weinstein. It was a monumental journalistic achievement, and the impact of their reporting, as well as that of the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow published just a few days later, brought about a seismic shift in industry attitudes to abuse, cracking open a door that survivors of Weinstein and the many other abusers exposed since have been able to step through. Kantor, Twohey and Farrow would go on to share the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting.
Directed by Maria Schrader from Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s script, and produced by Plan B’s Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner,...
Directed by Maria Schrader from Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s script, and produced by Plan B’s Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner,...
- 10/17/2022
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Former alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein speak out in the trailer for Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes, an expansion on Ronan Farrow’s bestselling book and hit podcast of the same name. The six-part documentary series premieres July 12th on HBO Max.
Catch and Kill features on-camera interviews between Farrow and some of the interviewees featured in his investigations against Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, including former employees of the Hollywood producer as well as Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, the woman who wore a wire that caught audio evidence of his misconduct.
Catch and Kill features on-camera interviews between Farrow and some of the interviewees featured in his investigations against Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, including former employees of the Hollywood producer as well as Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, the woman who wore a wire that caught audio evidence of his misconduct.
- 6/14/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” is being adapted into a six-part HBO docuseries, the premium cable channel announced Monday.
The series, titled “Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes,” builds on the reporting featured in Farrow’s book and podcast of the same name, featuring “intimate, revealing interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and other sources” connected to the allegations of misconduct against media figures including Harvey Weinstein.
The series will premiere on Monday, July 12 with two episodes airing back-to-back each week. Read full episode descriptions below and check out a trailer for the series above.
Fenton Baily and Randy Barbato (“Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking”) are directors and producers on the docuseries via World of Wonder. Farrow also serves as an executive producer.
The series is produced by Mona Card, produced and edited by Francy Kachler and produced by Unjin Lee. For HBO, Tina Nguyen is senior producer, and Nancy Abraham...
The series, titled “Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes,” builds on the reporting featured in Farrow’s book and podcast of the same name, featuring “intimate, revealing interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and other sources” connected to the allegations of misconduct against media figures including Harvey Weinstein.
The series will premiere on Monday, July 12 with two episodes airing back-to-back each week. Read full episode descriptions below and check out a trailer for the series above.
Fenton Baily and Randy Barbato (“Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking”) are directors and producers on the docuseries via World of Wonder. Farrow also serves as an executive producer.
The series is produced by Mona Card, produced and edited by Francy Kachler and produced by Unjin Lee. For HBO, Tina Nguyen is senior producer, and Nancy Abraham...
- 6/14/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Once thought blocked, the long road to a global settlement for victims of Harvey Weinstein got a green light of sorts today in federal court.
A Delaware judge Wednesday allowed attorneys for debtors to start contacting potential Weinstein victims who might want to file claims in the more than two-year-old bankruptcy case of the imprisoned mogul.
The move at a hearing by Judge Mary Walrath in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware unlocked a step in the process. It didn’t address a controversial revised settlement that emerged overnight Tuesday, which was excoriated by attorneys of some victims. That settlement shrank the pot of cash available to victims but also eliminated a payout to reimburse Weinstein’s legal costs.
On the legal costs, “Judge Hellerstein called that obnoxious, and we heard that,” said Paul Zumbro of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, speaking for debtors at the hearing, referring to U.S.
A Delaware judge Wednesday allowed attorneys for debtors to start contacting potential Weinstein victims who might want to file claims in the more than two-year-old bankruptcy case of the imprisoned mogul.
The move at a hearing by Judge Mary Walrath in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware unlocked a step in the process. It didn’t address a controversial revised settlement that emerged overnight Tuesday, which was excoriated by attorneys of some victims. That settlement shrank the pot of cash available to victims but also eliminated a payout to reimburse Weinstein’s legal costs.
On the legal costs, “Judge Hellerstein called that obnoxious, and we heard that,” said Paul Zumbro of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, speaking for debtors at the hearing, referring to U.S.
- 9/2/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
(Updated with Weinstein lawyer statement) A new proposal to settle sex crimes claims against Harvey Weinstein should be Doa, lawyers representing several of the now incarcerated producer’s victims say.
“Filed in the middle of the night to avoid attention, the latest Weinstein settlement plan is more offensive than the version that was rejected by Judge Hellerstein,” attorneys Douglas Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer said this morning (read the plan here). “Under the new plan, which is approximately $10 million less than the plan rejected by Judge Hellerstein, more than half of the settlement funds are paid to Robert Weinstein and the other ultra-wealthy former directors of The Weinstein Company, as well as TWC creditors including huge media companies and famous actors.”
“We continue to be perplexed by the Attorney General of New York’s endorsement of a resolution that is a complete and utter sellout of Harvey Weinstein’s victims,” NYC-based...
“Filed in the middle of the night to avoid attention, the latest Weinstein settlement plan is more offensive than the version that was rejected by Judge Hellerstein,” attorneys Douglas Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer said this morning (read the plan here). “Under the new plan, which is approximately $10 million less than the plan rejected by Judge Hellerstein, more than half of the settlement funds are paid to Robert Weinstein and the other ultra-wealthy former directors of The Weinstein Company, as well as TWC creditors including huge media companies and famous actors.”
“We continue to be perplexed by the Attorney General of New York’s endorsement of a resolution that is a complete and utter sellout of Harvey Weinstein’s victims,” NYC-based...
- 9/1/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
A new settlement proposal to close out the bankruptcy of The Weinstein Company includes a reduction in payouts to accusers compared to a previous plan.
The revised $35.2 million proposal designed to close out TWC’s financial obligations includes a $17 million victims’ fund — a decrease from a settlement proposal filed and rejected in July, which included an $18.9 million victims’ fund that would allow women from both the TWC and Miramax era to make claims, as well as a $5.4 million settlement for 14 individual victims as part of the liquidation of TWC.
The Tuesday filing, reviewed by TheWrap, said that the $35,214,882.30 proposed settlement, to be paid out by insurance companies, would be divided as such: “(i) the aggregate Cash amount of the Sexual Misconduct Claims Fund; (ii) the aggregate Cash amount to the Estates in the amount of the Liquidation Trust Settlement Payment; (iii) the aggregate Cash amount of the Former Representatives Defense Costs.
The revised $35.2 million proposal designed to close out TWC’s financial obligations includes a $17 million victims’ fund — a decrease from a settlement proposal filed and rejected in July, which included an $18.9 million victims’ fund that would allow women from both the TWC and Miramax era to make claims, as well as a $5.4 million settlement for 14 individual victims as part of the liquidation of TWC.
The Tuesday filing, reviewed by TheWrap, said that the $35,214,882.30 proposed settlement, to be paid out by insurance companies, would be divided as such: “(i) the aggregate Cash amount of the Sexual Misconduct Claims Fund; (ii) the aggregate Cash amount to the Estates in the amount of the Liquidation Trust Settlement Payment; (iii) the aggregate Cash amount of the Former Representatives Defense Costs.
- 9/1/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Two weeks after a federal judge decimated a proposed $19 million class action settlement for victims of the currently incarcerated Harvey Weinstein, lawyers for several women involved want the New York Attorney General to put the brakes on an emerging sleight of hand legal move.
“It appears that Harvey and Robert Weinstein, their insurers and corporate enablers are so desperate to secure the deal that Judge Hellerstein immediately rejected as “obnoxious” that they are now going to ask the bankruptcy court to approve what Judge Hellerstein would not,” said Douglas Wignor and Kevin Mintzer after a filing in Bankruptcy court on Tuesday by the estate of the Weinstein Co.
“This conduct is downright offensive and the New York Attorney General should immediately make it clear that she will refuse to endorse this end-around scheme,” the long objecting counsel for Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins, and Tarale Wulff...
“It appears that Harvey and Robert Weinstein, their insurers and corporate enablers are so desperate to secure the deal that Judge Hellerstein immediately rejected as “obnoxious” that they are now going to ask the bankruptcy court to approve what Judge Hellerstein would not,” said Douglas Wignor and Kevin Mintzer after a filing in Bankruptcy court on Tuesday by the estate of the Weinstein Co.
“This conduct is downright offensive and the New York Attorney General should immediately make it clear that she will refuse to endorse this end-around scheme,” the long objecting counsel for Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins, and Tarale Wulff...
- 7/28/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein Tuesday rejected the proposed settlement of the misconduct cases against Harvey Weinstein. The settlement includes a $18.9 million victims’ fund.
“This is not a class action,” Hellerstein said. “I will not give preliminary approval to the settlement.”
Hellerstein also rejected the notion Weinstein, his brother Bob, and board members of the Weinstein Co. would benefit financially, stating, “The idea that Harvey Weinstein can get a defense fund ahead of the claimants is obnoxious.”
Also Read: Weinstein Accusers File Opposition to Insurance Settlement, Call It 'Cruel Hoax'
The decision came one day after attorneys for Weinstein accusers Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins and Tarale Wulff filed an opposition document to the proposed settlement.
The attorneys, Douglas H. Wigdor, Kevin Mintzer and Bryan Arbeit, said the settlement was a “cruel hoax” in the document, reviewed by TheWrap.
The lawyers said that with the settlement,...
“This is not a class action,” Hellerstein said. “I will not give preliminary approval to the settlement.”
Hellerstein also rejected the notion Weinstein, his brother Bob, and board members of the Weinstein Co. would benefit financially, stating, “The idea that Harvey Weinstein can get a defense fund ahead of the claimants is obnoxious.”
Also Read: Weinstein Accusers File Opposition to Insurance Settlement, Call It 'Cruel Hoax'
The decision came one day after attorneys for Weinstein accusers Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins and Tarale Wulff filed an opposition document to the proposed settlement.
The attorneys, Douglas H. Wigdor, Kevin Mintzer and Bryan Arbeit, said the settlement was a “cruel hoax” in the document, reviewed by TheWrap.
The lawyers said that with the settlement,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Amidst a growing chorus of objections, a federal judge this morning just killed the proposed $19 million settlement for victims of Harvey Weinstein.
“Based on my studies of the papers, based on my study of the objection papers, and based on the flaws that I have already noted, I will not give preliminary approval to the settlement,” declared Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Tuesday.
With repeated questioning, the US District Court judge pulled apart the terms of the June 30 unveiled multi-million-dollar deal in the short telephone conference this morning after listening to plaintiffs’ chief lawyer Elizabeth Fagan lay out the case for the settlement. “The idea that Harvey Weinstein can get a defense fund ahead of the claimants is obnoxious,” Judge Hallerstein who oversaw the 9/11 settlement case years ago, said. “The idea you can regulate the claims of people not in the settlement — I can’t subscribe to that,” he added, sweeping...
“Based on my studies of the papers, based on my study of the objection papers, and based on the flaws that I have already noted, I will not give preliminary approval to the settlement,” declared Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Tuesday.
With repeated questioning, the US District Court judge pulled apart the terms of the June 30 unveiled multi-million-dollar deal in the short telephone conference this morning after listening to plaintiffs’ chief lawyer Elizabeth Fagan lay out the case for the settlement. “The idea that Harvey Weinstein can get a defense fund ahead of the claimants is obnoxious,” Judge Hallerstein who oversaw the 9/11 settlement case years ago, said. “The idea you can regulate the claims of people not in the settlement — I can’t subscribe to that,” he added, sweeping...
- 7/14/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Attorneys for Harvey Weinstein accusers Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins and Tarale Wulff filed an opposition document to the proposed settlement Monday.
They said the settlement was a “cruel hoax” in the document, reviewed by TheWrap.
The lawyers said that with the settlement, Weinstein will not accept responsibility for his actions. The settlement, they said, is one-sided and unfair.
Also Read: Harvey Weinstein Accusers Finalize $24 Million Settlement With The Weinstein Company
They argued that Weinstein, Robert Weinstein and the former directors of The Weinstein Company would not only contribute nothing and be absolved from liability, but would likely collectively take in about $15 million from the proposed settlement agreement. That amount, they argued, would likely be more than the accusers would divide among each other.
Lawyers Douglas H. Wigdor, Kevin Mintzer and Bryan Arbeit said in a joint Monday statement, “As our opposition papers make clear,...
They said the settlement was a “cruel hoax” in the document, reviewed by TheWrap.
The lawyers said that with the settlement, Weinstein will not accept responsibility for his actions. The settlement, they said, is one-sided and unfair.
Also Read: Harvey Weinstein Accusers Finalize $24 Million Settlement With The Weinstein Company
They argued that Weinstein, Robert Weinstein and the former directors of The Weinstein Company would not only contribute nothing and be absolved from liability, but would likely collectively take in about $15 million from the proposed settlement agreement. That amount, they argued, would likely be more than the accusers would divide among each other.
Lawyers Douglas H. Wigdor, Kevin Mintzer and Bryan Arbeit said in a joint Monday statement, “As our opposition papers make clear,...
- 7/13/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Expected to soon launch his long-anticipated appeal over being sentenced earlier this year to 23 years behind bars for a plethora of sex crimes, Harvey Weinstein now will also be facing confrontation over a proposed multi-million-dollar settlement for more women the producer sexually assaulted.
“The class settlement, filed in the name of class representatives who deserve better, will
provide little relief for most of Harvey Weinstein’s victims,” says an opposition filed today in federal court to the proposed $19 million dollar deal, made public on June 30 “Although the deal speaks about individual awards up to $750,000 and the New York State Attorney General has bragged about a ‘win’ for victims, that is all a cruel hoax,” the objection from attorneys for Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins, and Tarale Wulff states (Read It Here).
“The truth is that the average award to class members under this proposal is...
“The class settlement, filed in the name of class representatives who deserve better, will
provide little relief for most of Harvey Weinstein’s victims,” says an opposition filed today in federal court to the proposed $19 million dollar deal, made public on June 30 “Although the deal speaks about individual awards up to $750,000 and the New York State Attorney General has bragged about a ‘win’ for victims, that is all a cruel hoax,” the objection from attorneys for Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins, and Tarale Wulff states (Read It Here).
“The truth is that the average award to class members under this proposal is...
- 7/13/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Rowena Chiu is no longer afraid of Harvey Weinstein and his minions. His former assistant is once again breaking her ironclad non-disclosure agreement to discuss the disgraced producer's alleged sexual harassment. From her home in Northern California she told Variety that she doesn't care about breaking the Nda as Weinstein has "bigger problems," namely his current incarceration in New York. Nonetheless, the stay-at-home mom said that she knows there is a "risk" she can be sued every time speaks about the day that Weinstein allegedly pushed her onto a bed and ripped off her tights. That's why she is now working towards changing the legislation regarding NDAs in the...
- 5/21/2020
- E! Online
Rowena Chiu claims Harvey Weinstein attempted to rape her on a business trip in 1998. She had only met Weinstein two times and had begun working as a new assistant at Miramax, just one month prior to the Venice Film Festival when the alleged incident occurred. During a late-night meeting to discuss film productions and scripts, Chiu says she declined Weinstein’s request for massages, before the producer pushed her up against the bed and took off her tights. Chiu managed to escape the room, but the lasting effects of the incident never went away.
More than 20 years later, Weinstein — who is serving a 23-year sentence in New York state prison after being convicted on two charges of rape in the third degree and a criminal sex act — still denies the attack ever happened.
“I’m breaking my Nda right now,” Chiu tells Variety in an exclusive interview, conducted over the...
More than 20 years later, Weinstein — who is serving a 23-year sentence in New York state prison after being convicted on two charges of rape in the third degree and a criminal sex act — still denies the attack ever happened.
“I’m breaking my Nda right now,” Chiu tells Variety in an exclusive interview, conducted over the...
- 5/21/2020
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
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