According to her story, Weinstein told her that if she wanted to act, she should come to his office-at which point he proposed a threesome between the two of them and Olivia Wilde. A New York-based tabloid journalist told me recently that a model friend of his encountered Weinstein at a North American film festival a few years ago. Senior and Podhoretz aren't the only people to have heard stories of despicable behavior from Weinstein. Jennifer Senior March 30, It's a despicable open secret. New York magazine writer Jennifer Senior and conservative commenter John Podhoretz, to name two, took to Twitter to briefly discuss what Senior called the "despicable open secret" of Weinstein's behavior with women:Īt some pt, all the women who've been afraid to speak out abt Harvey Weinstein are gonna have to hold hands and jump:
After supremely powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was questioned by the NYPD this week about whether he groped the breasts and crotch of a 22-year-old model, the attitude among journalists and film industry insiders seemed to be that accusations that once existed only as loud whispers were finally being dragged into the light.