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[ distant voices chatter ]

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ERIKA ROSENBAUM: I went with no plan,
no agent, very little money.

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I went on a hope and a dream, um,
from small‐town Quebec,

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to, um, to Hollywood.

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When you're a young actor,
you hear stories all the time

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about people just sort of
putting it all on the line

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and taking the big chance
and going out to Hollywood

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and, and then it happening.

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KEN AULETTA: Oh my God, how many people
know the story of Lana Turner

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working in a drugstore,

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or Ava Gardner coming up from the South,

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you know, being spotted
and suddenly they're stars?

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If you're Harvey and you're a fat kid
from Queens,

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suddenly with power,

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I don't have to imagine looking up
at Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.

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Maybe I could... have sex with them.

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RONAN FARROW: He was able to use
his power to exploit women's dreams,

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and that's a powerful thing.

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ROSENBAUM:
When this powerhouse came into my life,

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I believed that I was seeing
the star maker.

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I thought, maybe this is it,
maybe this is my moment,

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maybe this is my "in."

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♪

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You hear that this happens, right?
So I thought it was happening for me.

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[ cars whooshing ]

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NEWSMAN [ over radio ]:
The Hollywood powerhouse

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behind some of
the world's most famous films,

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now Harvey Weinstein is apologizing.

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NEWSWOMAN:
It comes as The New York Times

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details numerous accusations
going back three decades.

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NEWSWOMAN 2: The report details
allegations of sexual harassment

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by a number of women, including employees
and some very high‐profile actresses.

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NEWSWOMAN 3:
Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie,

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uh, the list of accusers
continues to grow.

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NEWSWOMAN:
This just in and it's quite disturbing,

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another bombshell
in the Harvey Weinstein story.

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NEWSMAN: Three more women are now
accusing Harvey Weinstein of raping them.

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NEWSWOMAN: ...who are among nearly 80
who have accused Weinstein of misconduct.

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[ indistinct police radio chatter ]

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[ helicopter whirring overhead ]

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NEWSWOMAN: Well, as you can see
behind me, Harvey Weinstein

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won't be able to escape the spotlight
when he turns himself in

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not far from his Tribeca office
where he ran his media empire.

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NEWSMAN:
These accusations span over his career.

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How did he get away with it for so long?

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MAN:
Right here, right here. Good, good, good.

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NEWSMAN: What took you so long
to surrender, Harvey?

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[ reporters shouting questions ]

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NEWSMAN 2: Mr. Weinstein,
this must be very humiliating for you.

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NEWSWOMAN: It was not the type of
paparazzi Harvey Weinstein is used to.

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Weinstein has repeatedly
denied the charges against him.

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MAN:
Down in front!

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[ crowd shouting indistinctly ]

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‐ Mr. Weinstein intends to enter
a plea of not guilty.

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We intend to move very quickly
to dismiss, uh, these charges.

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We believe that they are
constitutionally flawed.

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We believe that they are not
factually supported by the evidence,

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and we believe that,
at the end of the process,

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Mr. Weinstein will be exonerated.

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NEWSMAN: Does he maintain that
these relationships were consensual?

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‐ Mr. Weinstein has always maintained

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that any sexual activity
he engaged in was consensual.

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Thank you very much.
[ reporters shouting questions ]

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HOPE D'AMORE:
He really thinks he's telling the truth

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when he says he hasn't had
unconsensual sex.

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If he gets what he wanted...

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no matter what it is,

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it doesn't take‐‐ matter what it takes
to get there, it doesn't matter.

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"If I get what I want, it was consensual."

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I think he believed that.

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D'AMORE: I was a student
at the University of Buffalo.

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I was studying psychology and philosophy.

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Someone I knew from college called me

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and said, "Fleetwood Mac
is going to be here,"

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you know, about the... this concert,

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and, uh, "How would you
like to work backstage?"

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[ bell clanging ]

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Buffalo was a huge stop on concert tours.

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Harvey was the biggest promoter in town,
so, you had an album, uh,

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you were going to deal with Harvey.

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MICKEY OSTERREICHER: I first met him
at the University of Buffalo.

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I was working as a photo editor
of the school newspaper.

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And then as I started
to shoot pictures for them,

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I realized that they were really doing
very well and going places.

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[ distant audience applauding ]

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DEBORAH SLATER: Harvey was the talent,
Corky was the business.

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Harvey wanted to be known by everybody,
to have the control and the fame.

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It was just that persona
of "never take no for an answer."

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And that was absolutely his way,
it was "never take no for an answer."

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D'AMORE: The first time I met Harvey
was at the concert backstage.

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Everyone was very busy
doing different things on phones.

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I remember him looking at me.

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Um, I smiled at him, I'm sure.

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Right from the beginning,
he was a very charming guy.

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You know, he would look at you
when he spoke to you with great sincerity.

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Not someone I‐‐ I would ever
have found attractive physically,

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but very attractive in the sense
that he was a charming person.

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[ distant audience applauding ]

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He said, "What do you like doing?"
I said, "I love the movies."

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And he said, "Well, you know,
my brother Bob and I

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"are getting in that business
and we're just starting,

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but if you come to work here,
it might be interesting for you."

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He told me about Miramax. Uh...

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He told me that they were going
to form a company.

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He was naming it for his parents,
Miriam and Max Weinstein,

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and that was what he wanted to do,
not concert promotion.

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His interest was genuine,
and his knowledge was genuine.

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I love it when I meet people
who just love what they do.

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And to get paid to do something
you're interested in?

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SLATER: Harvey always had aspirations
of moving along.

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You knew that his aspirations

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for success for the films

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that he really dreamed of making

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weren't going to keep him in Buffalo.

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[ distant sirens wailing ]

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[ horns honk ]

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D'AMORE:
He was going to go to New York

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to talk to someone about a film
they were trying to distribute.

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He said, "Why don't you come?"

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I said, "Sure." I mean, I jumped at it.

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We stayed at a hotel by Central Park.

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I was standing in the lobby.

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It was, you know, kind of, "You wait
with the bags, I'll go and check us in."

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He said, "Well, there was a mistake.
There's only one room."

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And I just, you know,
gave him a look and I said,

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"Well, then you're going
to have to sleep on the chair."

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It didn't seem so‐‐

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I mean, that seemed like
a real move, um, on his part,

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but, you know, the worst I might
have thought he would do

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would, would be to claim that
he slept with me when he hadn't.

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I could live with that.

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Um...

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I put on a T‐shirt and some shorts
or something to sleep in,

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and I went to bed.

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Suddenly, Harvey gets into bed naked,
next to me.

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And I said, you know, something,
you know, just, "Harvey..."

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and I just pushed him away.

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You know he...
he tries to cajole at first.

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"Do you really want to make me an enemy,

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for five minutes of your time?"

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I mean...

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He just, um...

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He just pushed and pushed and...

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And then he just, you know, he's huge.

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I weigh about a hundred pounds,
probably weighed about 110 then.

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Maybe...

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I don't know how to explain it.
I just, I just...

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thought, if I just shut up...

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it will be over in a few minutes.

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I didn't want anything from him.

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I didn't hit him.

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I didn't try to scratch his eyes out.

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[ voice breaking ]:
But I said no, and I pushed him away...

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more than once.

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And then I just stopped.

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[ sobs softly ]

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I was so frightened.

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I went back to Buffalo.

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I didn't tell anybody.

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I knew, he used to say
he owned the cops in Buffalo,

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because they worked concerts,

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they worked security
when they were off duty.

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You know, he had influence.
He had a lot of money.

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Um, he did a lot of advertising
in newspapers.

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Nobody would have believed
anything I said.

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I wasn't going to go to anybody
and complain about that.

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[ sobs softly ]

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I mean, it's the,
it's the collateral damage

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that, you know,
what it does to relationships,

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with friends, people you love.

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And they don't know why.

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That's...

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I, you know, it...

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It just, he‐‐

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It steals something.

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HARVEY WEINSTEIN:
I never liked the music industry.

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I never liked promoting concerts
or any of that.

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But I always talked about film
from the beginning.

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Throughout the course of my career,
and the early beginnings of it,

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people would always say
to abandon your dream.

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[ siren wailing ]

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Not to do it, it's not going to happen,
it's impossible.

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You have to believe in yourself.

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You have to be somewhat tenacious,

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and you really have to have a conviction.

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JACK LECHNER:
I remember meeting him and thinking,

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this person can't exist.

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He's just such a caricature
of a Hollywood mogul

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that hasn't been around for decades.

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I remember as a kid reading about moguls
like Harry Cohn and Louis B. Mayer

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and thinking it would have been so amazing
to work for one of those people.

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And then, as it happens, I found myself
working for one of those people.

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JOHN SCHMIDT: I went over to Miramax
for the job interview

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to be the chief financial officer.

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I spent 30 minutes with Bob.

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And then all of a sudden the door
swings open and Harvey walks in,

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and he goes, "Who's this?"

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And Bob goes, "This is Schmidt.
We're interviewing for the CFO job."

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And he looks at me
and he goes, "You're hired."

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‐ I liked the fact that,
both with Bob and Harvey,

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you could literally just walk
into their office with an idea.

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And if either of them thought
it was a good idea,

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you would find yourself doing it.

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"Go figure it out, make it happen."

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That was exciting.

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[ indistinct chatter ]

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BOB WEINSTEIN: To get a film either
financed here or acquired at Miramax,

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it's really a case of me and my brother
being the final decision maker.

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We've picked up so many films
and, you know, financed so many pictures

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based on his approval,
my approval, and that was it.

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There was no three weeks,
"Hold on, we've got to go

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up through the corporate board meeting."

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That's what we like.

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HARVEY: At Miramax, we're not under
that corporate pressure to say,

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"Jesus, we've got to go up each year,"

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so we can do what we think is good,

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and if our profits are lower next year
than they were the year before, so what?

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So what, as long as we did good work?

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LECHNER: His sense of marketing
and promotion was just phenomenal.

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He was able to do things
that no one else was able to do

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because he was working
with extraordinary people

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on extraordinary projects.

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He was brilliant.

242
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MARK GILL:
The movies were extraordinary,

243
00:18:15,768 --> 00:18:17,970
the opportunities to make them
were extraordinary,

244
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and for a time there, Miramax
was one of the very few doing it.

245
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And changing the way one thought
about independent cinema

246
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and the stories it could tell
and how many people they could reach.

247
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And that was an extraordinary thing
to be a part of.

248
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‐ We were the shit then.

249
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Excuse my French. [ chuckles ]

250
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I mean, we were.

251
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And it was great.

252
00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,295
One evening...

253
00:18:43,295 --> 00:18:45,698
it must have been
one of Harvey's assistants said,

254
00:18:45,698 --> 00:18:50,703
"On your way into work in the morning,
come to the screening room."

255
00:18:50,703 --> 00:18:52,204
[ tone beeping ]

256
00:18:52,204 --> 00:18:55,808
Lights go down, it's Cinema Paradiso.

257
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The end of the film when the little boy
becomes the old man

258
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and he's sitting in the theater, watching
these old black‐and‐white films...

259
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♪

260
00:19:13,258 --> 00:19:15,160
that really moved all of us.

261
00:19:19,598 --> 00:19:22,334
Lights go up, there wasn't a dry eye.

262
00:19:24,303 --> 00:19:28,074
Harvey came down one aisle,
Bob came down another,

263
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and they both looked at us
and said, "What do you think?"

264
00:19:31,209 --> 00:19:35,047
"What do you mean
what do we think, look at our faces.

265
00:19:35,047 --> 00:19:36,214
You have to have this movie."

266
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And they acquired it.

267
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Huge turning point,

268
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because it came around the same time

269
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as Sex, Lies, and Videotape,
My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso.

270
00:19:46,659 --> 00:19:51,730
Those were the three that really
changed everything for us.

271
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SCHMIDT: In a way, all three films
demonstrate the brashness,

272
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the confidence, the risk‐taking, um,

273
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many of the things that,
that distinguishes Miramax

274
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and distinguished Harvey and Bob
at the beginning.

275
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[ cars whooshing ]

276
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♪

277
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HARVEY: I could do what the studios do
all day long in my sleep,

278
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and my staff could too.

279
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The Miramax charter was always
to make something new and different,

280
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almost like Star Trek , to boldly go
where no one had gone before.

281
00:20:36,408 --> 00:20:39,011
I'm gonna tell you the secret of Miramax.

282
00:20:39,011 --> 00:20:42,548
It's not marketing,
not corporate politics,

283
00:20:42,548 --> 00:20:44,349
it's the written word.

284
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♪

285
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NEWSWOMAN:
It seems an odd coupling.

286
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Disney‐‐ the makers of Aladdin,
Huck Finn, and Beauty and the Beast ‐‐

287
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has bought Miramax.

288
00:20:54,493 --> 00:20:58,931
‐ There's no question that Miramax
has been on an extraordinary roll.

289
00:20:58,931 --> 00:21:02,601
‐ It's having, you know, the autonomy
to make our kind of movies

290
00:21:02,601 --> 00:21:04,937
and to have their kind of resources.

291
00:21:07,272 --> 00:21:10,143
LECHNER: The success
caused Disney to buy Miramax.

292
00:21:11,410 --> 00:21:14,180
Disney was just about invisible.

293
00:21:14,180 --> 00:21:17,416
‐ The amount of freedom that Harvey
and Bob had was unparalleled.

294
00:21:17,416 --> 00:21:20,052
And the theory about that was,
"They know how to do something

295
00:21:20,052 --> 00:21:21,954
we don't know how to do,
we should just let them do it."

296
00:21:21,954 --> 00:21:24,490
‐ In some ways that was the best time
for Harvey and Bob creatively

297
00:21:24,490 --> 00:21:27,260
because they could gamble
with someone else's money,

298
00:21:27,260 --> 00:21:29,228
and gambling was what they were good at.

299
00:21:31,597 --> 00:21:34,267
Harvey at his best was charming,

300
00:21:34,267 --> 00:21:37,670
funny and amazing at what he did.

301
00:21:37,670 --> 00:21:42,675
Harvey at his worst was a monster
that you wouldn't want to cross.

302
00:21:42,675 --> 00:21:46,846
‐ You had an overlord who lived
by the most vicious methods possible

303
00:21:46,846 --> 00:21:48,181
in order to instill fear.

304
00:21:48,181 --> 00:21:52,285
‐ I mean, we've all had tough bosses,
right, in the business from time to time,

305
00:21:52,285 --> 00:21:55,288
but over time, this became
something worse than that.

306
00:21:55,288 --> 00:21:58,124
‐ In a lot of ways,
he was tougher on the guys.

307
00:21:58,124 --> 00:22:00,092
‐ I've ducked from a couple of ashtrays
being thrown at me,

308
00:22:00,092 --> 00:22:02,295
one of them that probably weighed
five pounds, made out of marble.

309
00:22:02,295 --> 00:22:05,698
‐ If you were, uh, in his way,
uh, it didn't matter,

310
00:22:05,698 --> 00:22:08,100
he was, you know,
an equal opportunity abuser.

311
00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:10,569
‐ Miramax broke a ton of people.
Harvey broke a ton of people.

312
00:22:10,569 --> 00:22:12,805
‐ It's just how it was.

313
00:22:12,805 --> 00:22:15,841
You either dealt with it or you left.

314
00:22:16,909 --> 00:22:21,113
‐ Miramax was built on its energy
and its, you know,

315
00:22:21,113 --> 00:22:24,650
its, um...
you know, its breaking of the rules.

316
00:22:24,650 --> 00:22:28,954
And, you know, that's okay
when you're doing it

317
00:22:28,954 --> 00:22:31,490
in a professional
and respectful manner‐‐

318
00:22:31,490 --> 00:22:35,928
you're breaking the rules in an industry
or, you know, disrupting an industry‐‐

319
00:22:35,928 --> 00:22:40,833
but it's not okay when it's, you know,
when it's, uh, harassment,

320
00:22:40,833 --> 00:22:45,304
and harassment was, uh,
was all over the place.

321
00:22:47,740 --> 00:22:51,643
DECLESIS: We sort of knew
that Harvey was cheating on his wife,

322
00:22:51,643 --> 00:22:56,949
but I think we thought
that that was all that was going on,

323
00:22:56,949 --> 00:22:59,618
until a little time went past.

324
00:22:59,618 --> 00:23:01,921
‐ A young woman,
who was a friend of mine,

325
00:23:01,921 --> 00:23:04,757
who I had introduced to the company,

326
00:23:04,757 --> 00:23:07,059
very smart, very capable,

327
00:23:07,059 --> 00:23:10,763
uh, against quite a bit of competition,
she landed a job.

328
00:23:10,763 --> 00:23:16,235
‐ One day this particular assistant
just stopped coming to work.

329
00:23:16,235 --> 00:23:17,703
And I didn't know why.

330
00:23:17,703 --> 00:23:22,641
So I went and talked to the people
that I shared her with,

331
00:23:22,641 --> 00:23:25,144
the other department.

332
00:23:25,144 --> 00:23:28,314
And they kind of gave me

333
00:23:28,314 --> 00:23:32,417
this very whispered story

334
00:23:32,417 --> 00:23:35,554
of what sort of kind of
might have happened.

335
00:23:35,554 --> 00:23:37,689
‐ She had been delivering
a script to Harvey

336
00:23:37,689 --> 00:23:41,627
at his, uh, his apartment, I guess,
in New York,

337
00:23:41,627 --> 00:23:44,397
and there was, um, you know,

338
00:23:44,397 --> 00:23:48,000
there was a very, um, um, you know,

339
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,835
a very bad, uh, incident.

340
00:23:49,835 --> 00:23:51,837
♪

341
00:23:55,408 --> 00:23:57,810
DECLESIS: One of the many things I did
for Bob on a daily basis

342
00:23:57,810 --> 00:23:59,511
was open his mail,

343
00:23:59,511 --> 00:24:04,150
and it was not unusual for us
to get letters from law firms.

344
00:24:04,150 --> 00:24:06,051
We got letters from law firms
all the time.

345
00:24:07,086 --> 00:24:10,555
This particular letter
was not one of those letters.

346
00:24:12,291 --> 00:24:17,196
This was a letter stating that

347
00:24:17,196 --> 00:24:21,500
"We intend to file suit against Harvey

348
00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:23,669
for sexual assault."

349
00:24:24,870 --> 00:24:27,039
And I sat there and read it,
the whole thing,

350
00:24:27,039 --> 00:24:29,175
over and over, three or four times,

351
00:24:29,175 --> 00:24:30,843
until I really...

352
00:24:33,179 --> 00:24:34,780
I got good and angry.

353
00:24:40,652 --> 00:24:44,457
You have a choice to make, I guess.
I had a choice to make.

354
00:24:44,457 --> 00:24:46,825
You either swallow it, ignore it.

355
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,529
I'm not that person, I can't do that.

356
00:24:50,529 --> 00:24:53,632
So I walked in and I gave him mail,

357
00:24:53,632 --> 00:24:57,569
other mail that he had
to have dealt with,

358
00:24:57,569 --> 00:25:00,139
it was mail that he had to deal with.

359
00:25:00,139 --> 00:25:04,576
And at the end, I handed him the envelope
from the attorney's office and said,

360
00:25:04,576 --> 00:25:06,045
"And this came too."

361
00:25:06,045 --> 00:25:07,679
♪

362
00:25:09,348 --> 00:25:12,051
SCHMIDT: The young woman signed
a nondisclosure agreement.

363
00:25:12,051 --> 00:25:13,953
There was a cash settlement.

364
00:25:13,953 --> 00:25:17,189
It had all happened quickly,
in a matter of two or three days.

365
00:25:19,691 --> 00:25:23,362
DECLESIS:
I left very shortly thereafter.

366
00:25:23,362 --> 00:25:28,434
As I walked out of Bob's office,
I pointed my finger at him and I said,

367
00:25:28,434 --> 00:25:31,337
"I quit, and your brother is
a fucking pig."

368
00:25:31,337 --> 00:25:37,776
‐ You know, as I look back, I, you know,
I can't quite reconcile, you know, myself

369
00:25:37,776 --> 00:25:44,116
to just not up and quitting
when my friend was abused by him.

370
00:25:44,116 --> 00:25:47,019
You know, um, sexually abused.

371
00:25:47,019 --> 00:25:50,589
Um, so I live with that, for sure.

372
00:25:55,861 --> 00:25:59,965
ZELDA PERKINS: This is me
at my first Cannes Film Festival,

373
00:25:59,965 --> 00:26:02,034
looking slightly bemused.

374
00:26:03,536 --> 00:26:06,205
Harvey and I on a yacht.

375
00:26:07,473 --> 00:26:11,877
Me in the office looking about 12.

376
00:26:11,877 --> 00:26:14,280
That's quite shortly before I left.

377
00:26:15,714 --> 00:26:17,649
When Harvey came to the UK,

378
00:26:17,649 --> 00:26:21,887
you'd be with him at the Savoy,
where he conducted all his business.

379
00:26:21,887 --> 00:26:24,457
As an assistant, you had to go
and get him up in the morning,

380
00:26:24,457 --> 00:26:27,626
which meant there'd usually be
a tussle at the bedside.

381
00:26:27,626 --> 00:26:29,195
Um, you know, he showered.

382
00:26:29,195 --> 00:26:32,798
He expected you to go...
be around when he was naked.

383
00:26:32,798 --> 00:26:35,968
He very quickly tried to normalize
the situation

384
00:26:35,968 --> 00:26:38,670
and just told me I had to get with it
and not be such a prissy,

385
00:26:38,670 --> 00:26:43,376
and that he didn't have time to worry
about my delicate feelings.

386
00:26:43,376 --> 00:26:47,313
And, you know, at 23 and your first job,
you believe what they tell you.

387
00:26:47,313 --> 00:26:50,149
So I was like, okay, well, I'm now
in the big league and, yeah, of course.

388
00:26:50,149 --> 00:26:54,353
He's... He's really important,
he doesn't have time to sort of, you know,

389
00:26:54,353 --> 00:26:57,756
do things like wear trousers
when he's tired.

390
00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:02,661
The first time that he asked
for a massage, I was very robust,

391
00:27:02,661 --> 00:27:04,930
and, and I was always pretty cheeky
and rude back to him,

392
00:27:04,930 --> 00:27:06,098
which would make him laugh.

393
00:27:07,166 --> 00:27:11,404
And so I didn't feel frightened,
but it was exhausting.

394
00:27:11,404 --> 00:27:14,773
It was mentally exhausting because
you were always slightly fighting,

395
00:27:14,773 --> 00:27:15,841
you were always nearly‐‐

396
00:27:15,841 --> 00:27:18,544
It felt like you were always
just keeping your head above water.

397
00:27:18,544 --> 00:27:20,546
♪

398
00:27:23,416 --> 00:27:26,051
But it was a very exciting environment
to be in.

399
00:27:26,051 --> 00:27:29,288
When you were with Harvey,
you were going out to dinner

400
00:27:29,288 --> 00:27:32,958
with Sean Connery
and Leonardo DiCaprio

401
00:27:32,958 --> 00:27:34,659
and flying around in private jets.

402
00:27:34,659 --> 00:27:36,762
He created an energy around him

403
00:27:36,762 --> 00:27:40,132
that made it feel like you were
in the center of the universe.

404
00:27:40,132 --> 00:27:42,001
♪

405
00:27:54,013 --> 00:27:58,083
I had recently employed an assistant
to help me with Harvey.

406
00:27:58,083 --> 00:28:00,786
When I was interviewing people,
I very clearly said to people,

407
00:28:00,786 --> 00:28:02,921
"He will behave inappropriately.

408
00:28:02,921 --> 00:28:04,823
If you deal with him robustly
you'll be fine,"

409
00:28:04,823 --> 00:28:06,359
because that was my experience.

410
00:28:10,196 --> 00:28:14,233
That evening, my colleague
did the night shift.

411
00:28:14,233 --> 00:28:15,968
It was her first time with him alone,

412
00:28:15,968 --> 00:28:20,473
and he assaulted her
and attempted to rape her.

413
00:28:20,473 --> 00:28:24,176
Which she told me, uh, the next day.

414
00:28:24,176 --> 00:28:27,946
And I think probably was
one of the most shattering bits of news

415
00:28:27,946 --> 00:28:29,281
I had ever had.

416
00:28:29,281 --> 00:28:32,885
Um, so I immediately went
and confronted Harvey.

417
00:28:34,053 --> 00:28:36,755
He told me nothing,

418
00:28:36,755 --> 00:28:40,092
and he then swore on his wife,
who was Eve at the time,

419
00:28:40,092 --> 00:28:41,694
and his children's life,

420
00:28:41,694 --> 00:28:45,531
which to me, I'm afraid,
was an absolute admission of guilt

421
00:28:45,531 --> 00:28:48,167
because I had heard him only do that

422
00:28:48,167 --> 00:28:50,736
as a sort of proper
"get out of jail" card,

423
00:28:50,736 --> 00:28:56,642
that was his really
"I'm in trouble," um, lie.

424
00:28:56,642 --> 00:28:58,777
♪

425
00:29:00,913 --> 00:29:04,684
I was pretty panicked because
I didn't really know what to do.

426
00:29:04,684 --> 00:29:07,687
We had no physical evidence.

427
00:29:07,687 --> 00:29:10,723
By the time we were all back in England,

428
00:29:10,723 --> 00:29:12,725
she just still didn't want
to go to the police,

429
00:29:12,725 --> 00:29:15,160
which I completely understand
and had to respect.

430
00:29:17,663 --> 00:29:20,600
So the day that I resigned,

431
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,335
I was bombarded
with telephone calls from him

432
00:29:23,335 --> 00:29:28,641
and, um, a lot of execs
from the New York office.

433
00:29:28,641 --> 00:29:30,909
Um, and...

434
00:29:32,177 --> 00:29:36,582
I think I had a total of about
17 or 18 messages that night,

435
00:29:36,582 --> 00:29:38,183
that went pretty much through the night.

436
00:29:39,719 --> 00:29:42,555
I genuinely felt that I might be in danger

437
00:29:42,555 --> 00:29:46,858
and I felt that I may need evidence
in court.

438
00:29:46,858 --> 00:29:50,129
Um, anyway, I'll just let you hear.

439
00:30:43,386 --> 00:30:44,426
[ recorder beeps ]

440
00:30:45,618 --> 00:30:47,620
♪

441
00:30:55,861 --> 00:31:00,165
AULETTA: I write about the media
and communications for The New Yorker.

442
00:31:00,165 --> 00:31:02,401
So I try and tell a story
through an individual.

443
00:31:02,401 --> 00:31:05,971
Uh, in this case,
it was a Hollywood story.

444
00:31:05,971 --> 00:31:08,307
We decided to profile Harvey Weinstein.

445
00:31:08,307 --> 00:31:10,309
♪

446
00:31:12,211 --> 00:31:15,314
I was interested in power, he had power.

447
00:31:15,314 --> 00:31:21,086
I was interested in abusive power,
and I'd heard tales of his abusive power.

448
00:31:21,086 --> 00:31:23,389
I'm just talking about bullying of people,

449
00:31:23,389 --> 00:31:25,357
and obviously I'd heard about

450
00:31:25,357 --> 00:31:28,527
and witnessed, by watching his movies,
some real talent.

451
00:31:29,328 --> 00:31:31,497
[ Harvey mouthing "Thank you" ]
[ indistinct shouting in distance ]

452
00:31:34,099 --> 00:31:37,369
AULETTA: I spent an enormous amount
of one‐on‐one time with him,

453
00:31:37,369 --> 00:31:40,740
as well as time watching him
just being a fly on the wall.

454
00:31:42,608 --> 00:31:45,978
In the course of reporting,
I came across an incident

455
00:31:45,978 --> 00:31:51,383
where a female employee of Miramax,
he attempted to rape her.

456
00:31:51,383 --> 00:31:54,320
And, um, it was violent.

457
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:55,721
She was frightened.

458
00:31:55,721 --> 00:31:58,924
She talked to Zelda Perkins,
who was an assistant to Harvey,

459
00:31:58,924 --> 00:32:03,128
and Harvey agreed to pay
just under $250,000

460
00:32:03,128 --> 00:32:05,130
if they would sign
a non‐disclosure agreement.

461
00:32:09,268 --> 00:32:11,937
PERKINS:
At this point, I was trying to work out

462
00:32:11,937 --> 00:32:13,439
how to make this okay.

463
00:32:13,439 --> 00:32:17,009
And the only way
I could make it okay in my mind

464
00:32:17,009 --> 00:32:18,711
was, okay, well, we will ask

465
00:32:18,711 --> 00:32:23,783
for an enormous amount of money
that is indicative of the crime.

466
00:32:23,783 --> 00:32:27,553
This payment is going to show
how guilty he is.

467
00:32:30,790 --> 00:32:33,659
"Dear Zelda, I am writing to set out
the agreement

468
00:32:33,659 --> 00:32:37,563
relating to the termination of
your employment with Miramax Film Corp."

469
00:32:38,698 --> 00:32:41,233
What they wanted was pretty simple.

470
00:32:42,635 --> 00:32:45,971
They wanted us to never speak
about anything to do

471
00:32:45,971 --> 00:32:50,209
with Miramax or Harvey or Bob,
um, obviously the incident,

472
00:32:50,209 --> 00:32:53,011
anything, ever again.

473
00:32:53,011 --> 00:32:57,616
But it became pretty sinister
when we weren't allowed

474
00:32:57,616 --> 00:33:01,253
to discuss this with a therapist.

475
00:33:01,253 --> 00:33:03,322
If we spoke to a therapist,

476
00:33:03,322 --> 00:33:05,858
the therapist had to sign
a confidentiality agreement.

477
00:33:07,226 --> 00:33:11,831
If the therapist then broke
that confidentiality agreement,

478
00:33:11,831 --> 00:33:13,332
we would be held responsible,

479
00:33:13,332 --> 00:33:16,134
we would be considered
in breach of our contract.

480
00:33:16,134 --> 00:33:18,871
It also very clearly stipulates

481
00:33:18,871 --> 00:33:22,708
that if there is a civil
or criminal case brought,

482
00:33:22,708 --> 00:33:27,179
that we have to provide
reasonable assistance to help Miramax.

483
00:33:29,582 --> 00:33:32,451
You know, we had guns
pointing at us from every direction.

484
00:33:33,218 --> 00:33:35,654
[ church bell ringing in distance ]

485
00:33:37,723 --> 00:33:40,158
Ken Auletta found me in Guatemala.

486
00:33:41,527 --> 00:33:44,764
And I remember he called me
on my mobile and I was terrified

487
00:33:44,764 --> 00:33:46,766
and couldn't speak to him.

488
00:33:47,733 --> 00:33:51,236
I genuinely thought I'd end up in jail
if I broke my agreement.

489
00:33:52,972 --> 00:33:56,108
AULETTA: I believed he had done
this terrible thing,

490
00:33:56,108 --> 00:33:58,945
and yet I didn't have anyone
on the record saying it.

491
00:33:58,945 --> 00:34:03,816
I was hearing stories which essentially
you could dismiss as rumor,

492
00:34:03,816 --> 00:34:06,318
because you didn't have names attached.

493
00:34:06,318 --> 00:34:08,053
You need to be able to prove things,

494
00:34:08,053 --> 00:34:11,657
and so we had to publish the piece
without including Zelda's story.

495
00:34:12,758 --> 00:34:15,995
It was very frustrating for me
because I knew he was a predator.

496
00:34:15,995 --> 00:34:17,596
I knew he was pathological,

497
00:34:17,596 --> 00:34:20,033
and I wanted to stop him
because I knew he would do it again.

498
00:34:27,006 --> 00:34:29,074
♪

499
00:34:44,122 --> 00:34:47,660
ROSENBAUM: I had been connected
with this lovely model,

500
00:34:47,660 --> 00:34:50,362
and she sort of took me under her wing.

501
00:34:50,362 --> 00:34:53,566
She had invited me, uh,
to come along to this party,

502
00:34:53,566 --> 00:34:58,170
where, um, I sat down to dinner
next to Harvey Weinstein,

503
00:34:58,170 --> 00:35:00,573
and I did not know
who he was at the time.

504
00:35:00,573 --> 00:35:02,575
[ indistinct chatter ]
[ silverware clinking ]

505
00:35:06,612 --> 00:35:11,383
He was very at ease,
casually chatting about, uh,

506
00:35:11,383 --> 00:35:13,151
family and life in a small town,

507
00:35:13,151 --> 00:35:16,889
and he talked passionately
about our industry.

508
00:35:16,889 --> 00:35:20,292
He talked about it like some,
like a film nerd,

509
00:35:20,292 --> 00:35:23,096
like somebody who just loved storytelling

510
00:35:23,096 --> 00:35:25,098
and who was so proud to be able to do it.

511
00:35:27,466 --> 00:35:31,704
By the end of it, he was quite sure
that I was going to do very well,

512
00:35:31,704 --> 00:35:33,205
he could help me out.

513
00:35:33,205 --> 00:35:35,541
[ indistinct chatter ]

514
00:35:35,541 --> 00:35:40,079
I really believed
that I was seeing this genius

515
00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:43,282
who could just spot a Gwyneth Paltrow.

516
00:35:45,217 --> 00:35:48,687
We were both leaving
and he beckoned me over and said, uh,

517
00:35:48,687 --> 00:35:52,725
you know, "I'm not done talking to you.
We gotta talk about what comes next."

518
00:35:52,725 --> 00:35:56,595
And, uh, he said, "Can you give me
a lift back to my hotel?"

519
00:35:56,595 --> 00:35:58,597
♪

520
00:36:06,806 --> 00:36:10,643
He asked if I would continue
talking upstairs.

521
00:36:10,643 --> 00:36:13,445
Uh, he had an office suite.

522
00:36:13,445 --> 00:36:18,216
And although it was late, I thought,

523
00:36:18,216 --> 00:36:22,822
well, I either say "no thanks" and go home

524
00:36:22,822 --> 00:36:24,757
or I take the meeting.

525
00:36:24,757 --> 00:36:29,996
So, although I knew there was a risk,
I also knew that you take risks

526
00:36:29,996 --> 00:36:31,797
when you're young and hopeful

527
00:36:31,797 --> 00:36:35,601
and trying to make it
in a seemingly impossible industry.

528
00:36:35,601 --> 00:36:37,036
You say yes.

529
00:36:37,036 --> 00:36:39,038
♪

530
00:36:46,244 --> 00:36:49,615
He no longer seemed to want
to talk about work,

531
00:36:51,249 --> 00:36:55,220
and he slid, uh, his arm around my waist,

532
00:36:55,220 --> 00:36:57,690
as though we were old friends.

533
00:36:57,690 --> 00:37:03,062
And he said, "We're cool right?
We're friends, right?"

534
00:37:04,096 --> 00:37:07,499
And he took his shirt off
and suggested I do the same.

535
00:37:11,204 --> 00:37:15,941
I told him that I had
a boyfriend at home and...

536
00:37:15,941 --> 00:37:19,979
and, and he said, you know,
"I'm married, it's not a big deal.

537
00:37:19,979 --> 00:37:21,680
Everybody does this."

538
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,851
And he, you know, he rattled off the names
of a few young actresses

539
00:37:25,851 --> 00:37:29,088
that had been in recent films of his,

540
00:37:29,088 --> 00:37:32,391
as though we were all just friends

541
00:37:32,391 --> 00:37:36,294
and this was just part of Hollywood.

542
00:37:36,294 --> 00:37:39,932
And it seemed so unlikely
that all of these women

543
00:37:39,932 --> 00:37:43,736
would have crossed that line
to get the jobs that they had.

544
00:37:43,736 --> 00:37:45,004
I didn't want to believe that.

545
00:37:46,806 --> 00:37:50,576
And so we had a weird... [ sighs ]
sort of negotiation

546
00:37:50,576 --> 00:37:54,379
about what I was willing to do,

547
00:37:54,379 --> 00:37:57,449
and I wanted to just get out.

548
00:37:57,449 --> 00:38:00,186
But I was afraid to upset him.

549
00:38:02,054 --> 00:38:05,891
And so he laid down on the bed,

550
00:38:05,891 --> 00:38:09,762
and I stood on either side of him...

551
00:38:11,063 --> 00:38:16,735
and bent down and, and feigned interest
in the art of massage.

552
00:38:16,735 --> 00:38:18,938
Then I told him I had to go.

553
00:38:18,938 --> 00:38:22,307
I had... people waiting for me
or something.

554
00:38:22,307 --> 00:38:26,245
I made some excuse,
and he walked me to the door

555
00:38:26,245 --> 00:38:28,881
and acted as though, um...

556
00:38:30,716 --> 00:38:33,052
I'd passed some sort of test,

557
00:38:33,052 --> 00:38:37,556
and... and he would see
what comes up for me.

558
00:38:39,591 --> 00:38:41,127
[ sighs ]

559
00:38:41,127 --> 00:38:43,129
♪

560
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:56,209
I was revved up on adrenaline.

561
00:38:56,209 --> 00:38:59,212
I felt like I had just escaped

562
00:38:59,212 --> 00:39:03,482
a narrow encounter.

563
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,256
I should have kept away from him
at that point.

564
00:39:13,226 --> 00:39:16,795
But I also still
really believed in my future.

565
00:39:17,830 --> 00:39:19,631
And I had turned him down once.

566
00:39:19,631 --> 00:39:23,736
He knew I was not going to sleep with him.

567
00:39:23,736 --> 00:39:28,640
And I had every reason to hope

568
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,178
that he was just going to help me.

569
00:39:32,178 --> 00:39:34,180
♪

570
00:39:36,782 --> 00:39:38,650
I wanted desperately to believe that.

571
00:39:50,596 --> 00:39:53,299
KEVIN SPACEY:
Juliette Binoche in The English Patient.

572
00:39:55,034 --> 00:39:57,103
MEL GIBSON:
Anthony Minghella for The English Patient.

573
00:39:57,103 --> 00:39:58,837
AL PACINO:
And the Oscar goes...

574
00:39:59,671 --> 00:40:01,506
to The English Patient.

575
00:40:04,310 --> 00:40:07,479
ANN CURRY: Box office prognosis
is very good for The English Patient.

576
00:40:07,479 --> 00:40:09,882
The film was the runaway winner
at the Academy Awards,

577
00:40:09,882 --> 00:40:11,416
picking up nine Oscars.

578
00:40:11,416 --> 00:40:13,452
‐ Roberto!

579
00:40:15,654 --> 00:40:17,456
NEWSMAN: Those Weinstein brothers
have done it again,

580
00:40:17,456 --> 00:40:19,992
with more wins
at the 71st Academy Awards.

581
00:40:19,992 --> 00:40:22,895
LECHNER:
Harvey was laser‐focused on the Oscars.

582
00:40:22,895 --> 00:40:25,697
He understood the value
of the Oscars, monetarily,

583
00:40:25,697 --> 00:40:27,699
to every movie that got an award.

584
00:40:27,699 --> 00:40:32,305
Harvey was the first person to marshal
a whole team of Oscar specialists.

585
00:40:33,538 --> 00:40:36,242
GILL: Five movies a year nominated
for best picture out of 600.

586
00:40:36,242 --> 00:40:39,678
We had one every year for ten years
in a row, not an accident.

587
00:40:39,678 --> 00:40:42,248
‐ Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein,
God bless 'em.

588
00:40:42,248 --> 00:40:44,549
‐ Harvey Weinstein, who believed
in us and made this movie...

589
00:40:44,549 --> 00:40:46,919
GILL: And so Harvey ended up
being thanked more than God.

590
00:40:46,919 --> 00:40:48,087
‐ Thank you, Harvey Weinstein.

591
00:40:48,087 --> 00:40:49,288
‐ Especially Harvey.

592
00:40:49,288 --> 00:40:53,225
SCHMIDT: The throwing of parties,
giving gifts to Academy members,

593
00:40:53,225 --> 00:40:57,629
the private screenings with the filmmaker
or the actor and the actress,

594
00:40:57,629 --> 00:40:59,531
a lavish dinner to follow.

595
00:41:00,299 --> 00:41:02,601
That was really created by Harvey.

596
00:41:02,601 --> 00:41:04,570
♪

597
00:41:06,406 --> 00:41:07,806
GILL:
Some people would call it gluttony.

598
00:41:07,806 --> 00:41:09,608
You'd see it
in Harvey's physique, obviously,

599
00:41:09,608 --> 00:41:11,844
but you'd see it also
in just everything he did.

600
00:41:12,945 --> 00:41:14,813
There was always wanting more.

601
00:41:14,813 --> 00:41:18,251
More press, more sales, more good reviews,

602
00:41:18,251 --> 00:41:20,719
more movies, more movie stars,

603
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,922
more parties,
just more, more, more, more, more.

604
00:41:22,922 --> 00:41:25,791
‐ I would like to thank Harvey Weinstein.

605
00:41:25,791 --> 00:41:28,327
‐ First of all, it's exhausting,
and second of all, it tells you something

606
00:41:28,327 --> 00:41:31,264
about a hole that is trying to be filled,
right, which is it's never good enough.

607
00:41:32,164 --> 00:41:33,366
‐ Shakespeare in Love.

608
00:41:33,366 --> 00:41:34,499
[ crowd applauding ]

609
00:41:34,499 --> 00:41:36,469
SCHMIDT:
I think it's very much about power.

610
00:41:36,469 --> 00:41:39,405
I think that the sort of arc
of Harvey's career

611
00:41:39,405 --> 00:41:42,641
is all about the accumulation
of influence and power.

612
00:41:42,641 --> 00:41:45,445
He thought of himself
as the sheriff in town.

613
00:41:45,445 --> 00:41:47,046
I mean, he literally called himself that.

614
00:41:48,481 --> 00:41:52,351
GILL: The anger and the impulsiveness
and the abuse of power

615
00:41:52,351 --> 00:41:54,553
are inseparable from the genius.

616
00:41:54,553 --> 00:41:55,988
That's the tragedy.

617
00:41:55,988 --> 00:41:59,058
HARVEY: I wanna thank Mark Gill
and Marcy Granata,

618
00:41:59,058 --> 00:42:02,895
who are the, one in two,
most dynamite marketing team.

619
00:42:02,895 --> 00:42:06,332
And nobody inspires me more
than my brother Bob,

620
00:42:06,332 --> 00:42:08,801
who is my partner
and best friend every day.

621
00:42:13,538 --> 00:42:15,441
GILL: If you think about the way
the Weinsteins work,

622
00:42:15,441 --> 00:42:17,376
it was very much the mafia axiom

623
00:42:17,376 --> 00:42:20,012
of "dote on the family
and kill everybody else."

624
00:42:24,183 --> 00:42:26,051
The most ironic part of all this is that

625
00:42:26,051 --> 00:42:29,322
the nastiest fights of all
were between Harvey and Bob.

626
00:42:29,322 --> 00:42:32,891
LECHNER: The first rule of Miramax is,
never get between the brothers.

627
00:42:32,891 --> 00:42:35,495
Because they were fiercely loyal
to each other,

628
00:42:35,495 --> 00:42:38,364
at the same time that they were
threatening to kill each other.

629
00:42:39,665 --> 00:42:42,601
Harvey was volcanic.

630
00:42:42,601 --> 00:42:45,604
We all knew what Harvey was thinking
because he would tell you.

631
00:42:45,604 --> 00:42:48,707
With Bob, you often never knew
what he was thinking.

632
00:42:48,707 --> 00:42:52,678
DECLESIS:
Bob was more of a simmering soul.

633
00:42:52,678 --> 00:42:54,213
[ laughs ]

634
00:42:54,213 --> 00:42:57,517
His was more under his breath.

635
00:42:58,650 --> 00:43:01,320
Like... [ softly ]:
"Don't ask me that question."

636
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:06,158
LECHNER: Bob is much more shy,
sometimes socially awkward.

637
00:43:06,158 --> 00:43:10,662
At the same time, Bob was more
of a real person than Harvey.

638
00:43:10,662 --> 00:43:13,232
You know, Bob has actual friends.

639
00:43:13,232 --> 00:43:16,202
Bob can just go to a ball game
and have fun.

640
00:43:16,202 --> 00:43:22,174
Um, Harvey doesn't really have that
kind of relationship with anybody.

641
00:43:22,174 --> 00:43:24,443
You know, Harvey is always working.

642
00:43:24,443 --> 00:43:29,248
He's always, at the very least, working
at the job of being Harvey Weinstein.

643
00:43:29,248 --> 00:43:33,519
[ train rattling ]

644
00:43:38,924 --> 00:43:40,926
♪

645
00:43:49,535 --> 00:43:52,438
HARVEY: I was born in Brooklyn
and then I moved to Queens.

646
00:43:55,274 --> 00:43:59,678
We went to the rent‐controlled
apartment complex called Electchester.

647
00:43:59,678 --> 00:44:03,648
And, um, we had a really good childhood
and a really good time.

648
00:44:07,152 --> 00:44:08,474
DAVE CHANNON:
This is Harvey,

649
00:44:08,474 --> 00:44:12,558
with the bow tie and the protuberant ears.

650
00:44:12,558 --> 00:44:15,327
He looks happy, everybody looks happy.

651
00:44:15,327 --> 00:44:17,396
I guess we didn't have
the Cuban missile crisis

652
00:44:17,396 --> 00:44:18,997
until a few years later.

653
00:44:22,067 --> 00:44:24,069
He wasn't very sociable.

654
00:44:24,069 --> 00:44:28,007
He was a sort of an outsider and he was
never in any of the school plays,

655
00:44:28,007 --> 00:44:29,642
or get into sports or anything.

656
00:44:29,642 --> 00:44:32,744
He just didn't stand out at all.

657
00:44:32,744 --> 00:44:37,283
It really wasn't until sometime
in the beginning of college

658
00:44:37,283 --> 00:44:40,786
when he got a reputation as obnoxious.

659
00:44:40,786 --> 00:44:43,255
The main thing he did
that really got on people's nerves

660
00:44:43,255 --> 00:44:46,992
was he would go around
acting like the Godfather.

661
00:44:46,992 --> 00:44:50,829
AULETTA: He was insecure about his looks,
about his physical appearance.

662
00:44:50,829 --> 00:44:54,833
He thought he was ugly,
he thought he was unattractive.

663
00:44:54,833 --> 00:44:58,337
Harvey was a guy who,
with a chip on his shoulder, who,

664
00:44:58,337 --> 00:45:02,141
who felt he was fighting
the establishment always.

665
00:45:02,141 --> 00:45:04,143
♪

666
00:45:10,916 --> 00:45:12,818
HARVEY:
To me, I'm still the underdog.

667
00:45:14,253 --> 00:45:16,222
I felt that way when I was young.

668
00:45:16,222 --> 00:45:17,923
And sometimes I still feel that way.

669
00:45:19,425 --> 00:45:21,594
That's why I like making movies
about underdogs.

670
00:45:24,430 --> 00:45:26,832
AJ BENZA: He cut a big figure,
he made things happen.

671
00:45:26,832 --> 00:45:29,935
He scared people,
in the same way a gangster would.

672
00:45:32,071 --> 00:45:35,040
He wasn't phony, he said what he said.

673
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:36,975
He meant what he meant, like Popeye.

674
00:45:36,975 --> 00:45:41,146
GILL: He was trying to prove
that he was king of the world,

675
00:45:41,146 --> 00:45:43,215
that he wanted to show everybody.

676
00:45:43,215 --> 00:45:45,084
And, you know, for a while there,
he, at least for,

677
00:45:45,084 --> 00:45:47,052
in the independent film world,
he was the king of the world.

678
00:45:47,819 --> 00:45:50,089
[ band playing "Wheel of Fortune" ]

679
00:45:51,390 --> 00:45:53,492
KAY STARR:
♪ The wheel ♪

680
00:45:53,492 --> 00:45:58,297
♪ Of fortune ♪

681
00:45:58,297 --> 00:46:01,934
♪ Goes spinning around... ♪

682
00:46:01,934 --> 00:46:03,936
REBECCA TRAISTER:
At that period in New York City,

683
00:46:03,936 --> 00:46:05,170
there were parties every night.

684
00:46:05,170 --> 00:46:07,740
There were parties for perfume launches,
there were parties for books,

685
00:46:07,740 --> 00:46:10,576
there were movie premieres,
there were TV premieres everywhere.

686
00:46:10,576 --> 00:46:12,478
The cast of Sex and the City
would show up.

687
00:46:12,478 --> 00:46:16,048
There were red carpets everywhere,
it was a very sort of high party time.

688
00:46:18,150 --> 00:46:23,255
KAY STARR:
♪ Oh, wheel of fortune... ♪

689
00:46:23,255 --> 00:46:26,258
BENZA: The people who run that city,
I saw them almost every night.

690
00:46:26,258 --> 00:46:29,528
It was not uncommon to see Donald Trump
and Harvey Weinstein

691
00:46:29,528 --> 00:46:30,730
on the same night, at the same event.

692
00:46:32,465 --> 00:46:35,635
Back then, Miramax
was a vibrant company

693
00:46:35,635 --> 00:46:40,038
with a lot of great projects,
a lot of cool celebrities.

694
00:46:40,038 --> 00:46:41,507
Everybody wanted to be around it.

695
00:46:41,507 --> 00:46:43,509
♪

696
00:46:48,514 --> 00:46:49,881
[ gasps ]

697
00:46:49,881 --> 00:46:51,617
[ screaming ]

698
00:46:56,555 --> 00:46:58,290
ROSANNA ARQUETTE:
That needle‐to‐the‐heart scene

699
00:46:58,290 --> 00:47:02,394
in Pulp Fiction: genius.

700
00:47:02,394 --> 00:47:05,230
You could say this about Harvey Weinstein,
he had really good taste.

701
00:47:05,230 --> 00:47:06,532
He made good films.

702
00:47:07,266 --> 00:47:08,967
‐ That was fuckin' trippy.

703
00:47:08,967 --> 00:47:11,270
[ giggles ]
[ Mia gasps ]

704
00:47:11,270 --> 00:47:14,039
VINCENT:
[ sighing ] Oh, man.

705
00:47:14,039 --> 00:47:18,511
‐ He really understood... good material.

706
00:47:19,612 --> 00:47:23,015
TRAISTER: What Harvey was doing
in the 1990s in New York City is,

707
00:47:23,015 --> 00:47:26,218
he was recreating some of the romance
of the studio era.

708
00:47:26,218 --> 00:47:30,989
It offered the fairy tale that's
very connected in the American mythology

709
00:47:30,989 --> 00:47:35,194
of how you become a star,
how you become an artist.

710
00:47:35,194 --> 00:47:37,296
[ fans shouting, cheering ]

711
00:47:40,399 --> 00:47:43,669
Many people who have gone
to work in the movie industry

712
00:47:43,669 --> 00:47:46,238
are drawn there by this kind of fantasy.

713
00:47:49,542 --> 00:47:52,945
And Harvey was, like, the path to that.

714
00:47:52,945 --> 00:47:55,815
CAITLIN DULANY: Miramax was sort of "it"
and Harvey was the guy

715
00:47:55,815 --> 00:47:57,717
that was kind of making things happen.

716
00:47:57,717 --> 00:48:02,921
The opportunities for actors to do
great roles, big or small, were there.

717
00:48:02,921 --> 00:48:07,059
What could be more exciting
as a young actor?

718
00:48:07,059 --> 00:48:09,228
It was an exciting time, yeah.

719
00:48:10,797 --> 00:48:12,799
♪

720
00:48:17,369 --> 00:48:21,273
‐ Hi. Paz. Nice to meet you.

721
00:48:24,577 --> 00:48:28,781
BENZA: I always imagined,
like plenty of people in this industry,

722
00:48:28,781 --> 00:48:33,218
that actresses slept with Harvey
because it was good for their career,

723
00:48:33,218 --> 00:48:35,354
not because they wanted
to jump in bed with him

724
00:48:35,354 --> 00:48:38,023
because they were in love with him.

725
00:48:38,023 --> 00:48:41,293
I just assumed many actresses did that.

726
00:48:44,396 --> 00:48:47,966
I don't know, uh, it's just not odd to me.

727
00:48:50,670 --> 00:48:53,272
There's no question that Harvey
exuded a certain power.

728
00:48:53,272 --> 00:48:59,411
Any powerful man in any city,
yeah, women were just part of the thing.

729
00:48:59,411 --> 00:49:04,183
They come along with the power,
they're attracted to the power.

730
00:49:04,183 --> 00:49:06,719
It's like putting a light on your porch,
you're gonna get a lot of moths.

731
00:49:10,790 --> 00:49:13,793
NANNETTE KLATT:
I was born with a hereditary eye disease.

732
00:49:13,793 --> 00:49:17,296
I don't see anything up, down
or to the sides,

733
00:49:17,296 --> 00:49:19,465
and it comes with total night blindness.

734
00:49:19,465 --> 00:49:23,703
So I've worked really hard
not to ever look blind or act blind.

735
00:49:26,038 --> 00:49:30,576
I had gotten an audition,
was going in to read for a part.

736
00:49:31,610 --> 00:49:33,145
He handed me the script and he said,

737
00:49:33,145 --> 00:49:35,113
"Do you think you can read
those four pages for me?"

738
00:49:35,113 --> 00:49:37,516
And I said,
"Yes, yes, I would be happy to."

739
00:49:38,551 --> 00:49:40,573
LOUISE GODBOLD:
Here was I, meeting one of

740
00:49:40,573 --> 00:49:42,922
the most powerful men in Hollywood.

741
00:49:42,922 --> 00:49:45,224
I felt very flattered,

742
00:49:45,224 --> 00:49:48,694
understanding that this was a privilege.

743
00:49:49,595 --> 00:49:54,333
‐ I was intimidated by him and his power.

744
00:49:54,333 --> 00:49:58,136
I mean, he's a repulsive man, physically,

745
00:49:58,136 --> 00:50:02,708
but I saw all these other actresses
hanging around him,

746
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:06,545
so I felt like it was something you did.

747
00:50:07,713 --> 00:50:10,249
He asked me if I wanted a ride home,

748
00:50:11,250 --> 00:50:14,119
and I said okay.

749
00:50:17,022 --> 00:50:18,524
DULANY:
Harvey invited me out to dinner.

750
00:50:20,292 --> 00:50:21,861
It was a wonderful night.

751
00:50:24,697 --> 00:50:27,633
Leonardo DiCaprio was at our table.
He was lovely.

752
00:50:28,667 --> 00:50:33,272
The after‐party would continue
at the hotel where Harvey was staying.

753
00:50:35,942 --> 00:50:37,643
And then I was...

754
00:50:38,844 --> 00:50:41,647
It was just me in the car and that's
when I started to feel a little weird,

755
00:50:41,647 --> 00:50:45,785
like why... wouldn't I be carpooling
with somebody?

756
00:50:47,052 --> 00:50:49,989
ARQUETTE: I was going to have dinner
with him at the Beverly Hills Hotel

757
00:50:49,989 --> 00:50:53,793
and I arrived, front desk,
"I'm here to see Harvey Weinstein,

758
00:50:53,793 --> 00:50:55,728
and, um, tell him I'll be
in the restaurant."

759
00:50:55,728 --> 00:51:00,766
"No, Mr. Weinstein said would you go
upstairs, he'll meet you upstairs."

760
00:51:00,766 --> 00:51:07,139
He said, "Can... I want‐‐
Can we have a drink upstairs at yours?"

761
00:51:07,139 --> 00:51:12,311
And I was too afraid to say no.

762
00:51:12,311 --> 00:51:14,380
We went up to my place

763
00:51:14,380 --> 00:51:20,319
and things got
very uncomfortable, very fast.

764
00:51:20,319 --> 00:51:24,957
‐ I was so happy because this,
all I could think of is, yes,

765
00:51:24,957 --> 00:51:26,993
this is the launching of my career.

766
00:51:26,993 --> 00:51:31,163
I am going to be working
for a huge major studio,

767
00:51:31,163 --> 00:51:34,967
a huge person in the industry,
thank you, God.

768
00:51:37,937 --> 00:51:40,673
‐ So obviously this is the part
that's very hard to talk about,

769
00:51:40,673 --> 00:51:42,341
that I haven't talked about
that much before.

770
00:51:42,341 --> 00:51:44,710
So I'll try, um...

771
00:51:44,710 --> 00:51:49,415
I felt, um, maybe like
in shock a little bit.

772
00:51:51,017 --> 00:51:56,756
Um... and then I was in a situation
that I couldn't get out of.

773
00:51:56,756 --> 00:51:58,724
‐ "Wait a minute, wait a minute,"
and he stood up.

774
00:51:58,724 --> 00:52:00,860
He said, "One‐‐ One minute, one minute.

775
00:52:00,860 --> 00:52:02,327
I need one more thing from you."

776
00:52:02,327 --> 00:52:07,066
He said, "I want to see your breasts,"

777
00:52:07,066 --> 00:52:10,036
and I said, "I'm sorry, I don't do that."

778
00:52:10,036 --> 00:52:13,205
‐ "Oh, I have a stiff neck.

779
00:52:13,205 --> 00:52:16,809
Um, would you give me
a shoulder massage?"

780
00:52:16,809 --> 00:52:20,178
‐ "I can't move my neck,"
and I said, "Oh, God, that's terrible.

781
00:52:20,178 --> 00:52:23,482
"I should get you a masseuse.

782
00:52:23,482 --> 00:52:25,350
I have a great masseuse
and I'm gonna call them."

783
00:52:25,350 --> 00:52:27,987
‐ He disappears into the bedroom.

784
00:52:27,987 --> 00:52:31,023
‐ He goes, "No, no, no, no, Rosanna."

785
00:52:31,023 --> 00:52:35,461
And he took my hand,
and‐and like he grabbed my hand,

786
00:52:35,461 --> 00:52:39,465
and he had an erection, and I went "fuck."

787
00:52:39,465 --> 00:52:41,067
Um... backed up

788
00:52:41,067 --> 00:52:45,370
and... and he goes, "Rosanna,
you're making a very big mistake."

789
00:52:45,370 --> 00:52:50,242
‐ "It's your breasts.
Do you know who I am?"

790
00:52:50,242 --> 00:52:53,012
And I said, "Yeah."

791
00:52:53,012 --> 00:52:55,614
And he said, "Do you know who I am?"

792
00:52:55,614 --> 00:52:58,751
‐ I did the worst massage ever,

793
00:52:58,751 --> 00:53:03,355
and I could see that my massage

794
00:53:03,355 --> 00:53:07,459
had actually had more effect
than I would have expected.

795
00:53:07,459 --> 00:53:11,959
That was when my
survival instincts kicked in

796
00:53:11,959 --> 00:53:13,499
and I got the heck out of there.

797
00:53:13,499 --> 00:53:17,736
‐ He said, "You know, I can make
your career or I can break your career.

798
00:53:17,736 --> 00:53:21,607
I can make it where you will never work
in this business again."

799
00:53:21,607 --> 00:53:25,210
And he said, "So show me your breasts."

800
00:53:25,210 --> 00:53:27,346
And I said, "No, I don't do that."

801
00:53:27,346 --> 00:53:29,982
And then he says, "The building's locked.

802
00:53:29,982 --> 00:53:32,118
"You can't get out that way.

803
00:53:32,118 --> 00:53:34,987
You can't get out at all
unless you go down there."

804
00:53:34,987 --> 00:53:39,291
And he pointed past him
at the end of the hall,

805
00:53:39,291 --> 00:53:42,195
which was a door, a stairwell door.

806
00:53:42,195 --> 00:53:43,863
♪

807
00:53:46,398 --> 00:53:48,701
I don't know if anybody
is going to answer the door.

808
00:53:48,701 --> 00:53:52,404
I don't know if he's
gonna come in looking for me.

809
00:53:52,404 --> 00:53:55,340
He knows that I have
total night blindness.

810
00:53:55,340 --> 00:53:58,044
So he knew when I went down
that stair,

811
00:53:58,044 --> 00:54:01,214
it was totally black, totally, totally,
totally black.

812
00:54:02,648 --> 00:54:06,219
DE LA HUERTA:
He... He pulled my dress up,

813
00:54:06,219 --> 00:54:09,521
and I was just terrified.

814
00:54:12,591 --> 00:54:14,894
I didn't kick and scream.

815
00:54:16,195 --> 00:54:20,499
DULANY: The freeze thing kicks in,
like you just want it to be over,

816
00:54:20,499 --> 00:54:22,902
and you don't want to be...

817
00:54:26,872 --> 00:54:30,176
You're‐‐ You're worried
you're gonna get hurt, you know?

818
00:54:32,277 --> 00:54:36,348
‐ When you read about rape,
you read, "Okay, well,

819
00:54:36,348 --> 00:54:42,721
the girl says‐‐ screams 'No!'
and she kicks and screams and..."

820
00:54:42,721 --> 00:54:44,957
But that's not exactly right.

821
00:54:44,957 --> 00:54:50,429
The way in which he overpowered me

822
00:54:51,597 --> 00:54:54,066
left me no way out.

823
00:54:56,301 --> 00:54:58,938
Um, so...

824
00:54:58,938 --> 00:55:02,641
So Harvey performed oral sex on me,

825
00:55:02,641 --> 00:55:06,512
um... forcibly...

826
00:55:09,182 --> 00:55:10,208
um...

827
00:55:12,384 --> 00:55:14,987
or... without my consent,

828
00:55:14,987 --> 00:55:17,589
um, and I didn't really know what to do,

829
00:55:17,589 --> 00:55:22,828
and I was terrified
that he was going to rape me.

830
00:55:22,828 --> 00:55:25,364
I was really scared of being penetrated,

831
00:55:25,364 --> 00:55:26,632
of being... being raped,

832
00:55:26,632 --> 00:55:28,701
of having him on top of me,

833
00:55:28,701 --> 00:55:30,536
so I just froze.

834
00:55:32,437 --> 00:55:34,874
I definitely went somewhere else.

835
00:55:34,874 --> 00:55:38,911
DE LA HUERTA: It's almost like
I was hovering over my body,

836
00:55:38,911 --> 00:55:40,813
and this thing was happening to me.

837
00:55:40,813 --> 00:55:43,415
‐ This is happening
and then it's going to be over,

838
00:55:43,415 --> 00:55:45,551
and then it's...

839
00:55:45,551 --> 00:55:47,586
I'm, I'll never, never think of‐‐

840
00:55:47,586 --> 00:55:50,355
It's just, I'll cut it out of me somehow.

841
00:55:54,060 --> 00:55:58,564
KLATT: And there was like
a little Hispanic maintenance man,

842
00:55:58,564 --> 00:56:03,602
and first thing he asked me,
"Are you coming from the fourth floor?"

843
00:56:05,404 --> 00:56:07,940
‐ Just, you know, he‐‐
then he masturbated and...

844
00:56:10,609 --> 00:56:11,877
finished.

845
00:56:11,877 --> 00:56:17,683
‐ I knew I was going to be in trouble
because I didn't participate, I knew it.

846
00:56:17,683 --> 00:56:19,818
And then when I tried to tell people,

847
00:56:19,818 --> 00:56:21,520
they said, "You better keep
your mouth shut."

848
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:25,224
‐ I didn't go to the police
because I was terrified

849
00:56:25,224 --> 00:56:30,429
he would destroy me,
and he would say it was consensual,

850
00:56:30,429 --> 00:56:33,599
and he would say that I was a whore
and I was lying.

851
00:56:35,634 --> 00:56:38,237
DULANY:
What I remember is leaving,

852
00:56:38,237 --> 00:56:41,573
and at the bottom of the staircase
were people that worked for him

853
00:56:43,109 --> 00:56:45,344
waiting to go in to see him.

854
00:56:47,813 --> 00:56:49,615
I don't know, I don't know
what they thought.

855
00:56:49,615 --> 00:56:51,016
I don't know what they knew.

856
00:56:51,016 --> 00:56:53,018
♪

857
00:57:02,527 --> 00:57:04,930
LAUREN O'CONNOR: I travelled
with Harvey quite frequently.

858
00:57:04,930 --> 00:57:10,970
And there was this one time
where I made a mistake.

859
00:57:10,970 --> 00:57:16,409
He said, "You're smart enough to be me
and if you don't want to be me,

860
00:57:16,409 --> 00:57:18,043
"you're wasting your time.

861
00:57:18,043 --> 00:57:21,147
"Why don't you just go marry
some fat rich Jewish fuck

862
00:57:21,147 --> 00:57:23,882
'cause maybe all you're good for
is making babies."

863
00:57:29,155 --> 00:57:32,091
You're an employee,
you're not in a position

864
00:57:32,091 --> 00:57:37,562
to question your boss's intentions.

865
00:57:42,568 --> 00:57:44,503
You know, I would have been fired.

866
00:57:44,503 --> 00:57:47,139
‐ When Harvey was meeting with
these women, he would send us all away,

867
00:57:47,139 --> 00:57:50,076
and we would get summoned back
long after these women were gone.

868
00:57:50,076 --> 00:57:53,812
My take on these relationships was
some sort of agreement had happened.

869
00:57:55,114 --> 00:57:57,417
O'CONNOR: There's this knocking
on my hotel room door.

870
00:57:59,285 --> 00:58:03,689
There's this woman standing there
and she's shaking and she's crying.

871
00:58:03,689 --> 00:58:08,894
And, you know, so I invite her in
and I ask her what's wrong,

872
00:58:08,894 --> 00:58:12,564
and it took her a while to start talking,

873
00:58:12,564 --> 00:58:16,735
and she tells me, you know,

874
00:58:16,735 --> 00:58:21,140
that he had coerced her
into giving him a massage,

875
00:58:21,140 --> 00:58:23,542
and he didn't listen to her say no.

876
00:58:23,542 --> 00:58:25,378
You have to do something.

877
00:58:29,949 --> 00:58:33,886
So I filed a complaint that would later
be referred to as "the memo."

878
00:58:35,955 --> 00:58:39,358
And I hoped that by putting this,
putting...

879
00:58:41,394 --> 00:58:44,529
the experiences I and others had
in writing,

880
00:58:44,529 --> 00:58:47,933
the person reading the memo
wouldn't be able to look away,

881
00:58:47,933 --> 00:58:50,869
that they couldn't unsee or unknow.

882
00:58:59,111 --> 00:59:03,182
ABBY EX: I started in publicity, so I saw
a lot about how the machine works

883
00:59:03,182 --> 00:59:05,184
in terms of burying scandals.

884
00:59:05,184 --> 00:59:08,553
The people higher up, closer to Harvey,
in a business capacity,

885
00:59:08,553 --> 00:59:12,492
were the ones who dealt with
the outside lawyers and, um, settlements.

886
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,863
DECLESIS:
Being complicit doesn't necessarily mean

887
00:59:17,863 --> 00:59:20,166
you have to take part in it.

888
00:59:20,166 --> 00:59:23,869
By keeping quiet,
I believe you're also complicit.

889
00:59:23,869 --> 00:59:27,173
Why would you do that?

890
00:59:27,173 --> 00:59:29,908
Money.

891
00:59:29,908 --> 00:59:31,243
Money power.

892
00:59:32,611 --> 00:59:35,714
It's much easier to just go with the flow.

893
00:59:35,714 --> 00:59:38,284
You know, keep everything the way it is.

894
00:59:38,284 --> 00:59:41,287
Don't rock the boat because
everybody's getting a piece of it.

895
00:59:41,287 --> 00:59:42,721
♪

896
00:59:42,721 --> 00:59:46,758
AULETTA: When you think about
the complicity of the Hollywood community,

897
00:59:46,758 --> 00:59:49,428
agents were guilty of that,

898
00:59:49,428 --> 00:59:52,131
as were some studio heads,
as were some producers,

899
00:59:52,131 --> 00:59:56,569
as were some directors and actors
and actresses and staffers.

900
00:59:59,438 --> 01:00:00,540
[ sighs ]

901
01:00:05,610 --> 01:00:11,517
‐ I feel so conflicted
about my experience with Harvey.

902
01:00:14,619 --> 01:00:19,658
My life is better for having worked
with Harvey Weinstein.

903
01:00:19,658 --> 01:00:22,161
Those of us who were on the Harvey train

904
01:00:22,161 --> 01:00:23,795
got a lot out of it.

905
01:00:23,795 --> 01:00:27,866
We were taken to all kinds
of amazing places

906
01:00:27,866 --> 01:00:30,169
and allowed to do all kinds
of amazing things,

907
01:00:30,169 --> 01:00:36,108
and now we all feel this survivor guilt

908
01:00:36,108 --> 01:00:39,512
for having experienced positive things

909
01:00:39,512 --> 01:00:41,581
and now realizing all the negative things

910
01:00:41,581 --> 01:00:45,184
that other people were experiencing
at the same time.

911
01:00:47,686 --> 01:00:53,426
I never experienced Harvey being
inappropriate with an actress,

912
01:00:53,426 --> 01:00:57,696
but I certainly heard rumors

913
01:00:57,696 --> 01:01:01,967
that there were actresses who were
sleeping with Harvey to get better roles.

914
01:01:01,967 --> 01:01:03,936
♪

915
01:01:08,174 --> 01:01:10,610
‐ There was always
a kind of list of people

916
01:01:10,610 --> 01:01:13,946
who'd just gotten big roles
who got gossiped about.

917
01:01:16,015 --> 01:01:21,053
The way the gossip was communicated was,
"She slept with Harvey to get that part."

918
01:01:21,053 --> 01:01:22,622
It was never communicated as,

919
01:01:22,622 --> 01:01:24,690
"Oh yeah, you heard he slept with her."

920
01:01:24,690 --> 01:01:30,129
It was always the woman as the person
who had done the action.

921
01:01:30,129 --> 01:01:34,534
"She blew Harvey, she fucked Harvey,
she slept with Harvey to get that part."

922
01:01:34,534 --> 01:01:36,536
♪

923
01:01:38,538 --> 01:01:41,255
ROSENBAUM:
So a few years went by.

924
01:01:41,255 --> 01:01:45,545
I had, I thought, made my peace
with what had happened

925
01:01:45,545 --> 01:01:47,246
and with how I'd handled myself.

926
01:01:47,246 --> 01:01:52,585
And I called every six months,

927
01:01:52,585 --> 01:01:56,455
or a year, just to say,
"Hello, this is Erika Rosenbaum.

928
01:01:56,455 --> 01:01:58,824
"I just wanted to let you know
I got a part,

929
01:01:58,824 --> 01:02:01,460
"um, and it went really well.

930
01:02:01,460 --> 01:02:04,196
Um, you asked me to keep
in touch, so here I am."

931
01:02:07,733 --> 01:02:09,602
At one point, he was going to be

932
01:02:09,602 --> 01:02:15,040
at the Toronto International
Film Festival,

933
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:19,193
and he suggested
that I take the time to stop in.

934
01:02:20,212 --> 01:02:23,849
I had been dealing
with a very lovely assistant of his

935
01:02:23,849 --> 01:02:27,620
who eventually asked that I meet them,

936
01:02:27,620 --> 01:02:31,357
uh, in his room before dinner,
because he had to go to a dinner

937
01:02:31,357 --> 01:02:34,360
or a screening or something,

938
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:37,263
and, uh, and I would have to be
squeezed in.

939
01:02:37,263 --> 01:02:41,734
That seemed reasonable to me,
despite what had happened.

940
01:02:41,734 --> 01:02:44,270
Um, I guess because I had made clear

941
01:02:44,270 --> 01:02:48,507
that I was not that kind of actress,

942
01:02:48,507 --> 01:02:50,008
whatever that means.

943
01:02:50,008 --> 01:02:52,010
♪

944
01:02:54,046 --> 01:02:56,682
The young assistant opened the door.

945
01:02:56,682 --> 01:02:59,385
She looked a little flustered.

946
01:02:59,385 --> 01:03:02,321
Um, and she left,

947
01:03:02,321 --> 01:03:04,256
and she closed the door behind her.

948
01:03:13,031 --> 01:03:18,003
He came out of the bathroom
and he wasn't wearing any pants.

949
01:03:18,003 --> 01:03:21,106
He was wearing a shirt
that just covered his hips.

950
01:03:23,008 --> 01:03:24,644
And I was very...

951
01:03:27,212 --> 01:03:29,982
put off, as you can imagine.

952
01:03:31,049 --> 01:03:34,320
Uh, and also just nervous

953
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:36,622
because he was clearly distraught
about something

954
01:03:36,622 --> 01:03:39,358
that had nothing to do
with my presence there.

955
01:03:41,694 --> 01:03:46,499
Um, so right away I said,
"It's a bad time.

956
01:03:46,499 --> 01:03:49,435
"I can see you're on your way out.

957
01:03:50,803 --> 01:03:53,305
Let's do this another day."

958
01:03:53,305 --> 01:03:58,678
And I backed towards the door,
and he got quite annoyed

959
01:03:58,678 --> 01:04:02,748
and said, "You're here.

960
01:04:02,748 --> 01:04:07,986
Take‐take the five minutes and...
and let's talk for a second."

961
01:04:07,986 --> 01:04:09,522
And he was like, he said, "Come with me,"

962
01:04:09,522 --> 01:04:11,290
and he asked me to follow him
to the bathroom,

963
01:04:11,290 --> 01:04:17,229
and I said, "No, no, no, I mean, please,
this is not a good time, I'll come back."

964
01:04:18,330 --> 01:04:20,232
Um...

965
01:04:20,232 --> 01:04:22,201
And he insisted that I stay.

966
01:04:24,069 --> 01:04:29,041
And so, although my heart
was pounding and...

967
01:04:30,376 --> 01:04:36,148
I felt like I was
in a dangerous place, I stayed.

968
01:04:36,148 --> 01:04:38,150
Because I thought leaving would be worse.

969
01:04:42,555 --> 01:04:44,657
I followed him into the washroom.

970
01:04:52,598 --> 01:04:55,100
The toilet seat had been broken,

971
01:04:55,100 --> 01:04:56,803
like it had been smashed.

972
01:04:56,803 --> 01:05:00,606
It was a... a solid toilet seat

973
01:05:00,606 --> 01:05:03,743
that had been broken into three pieces,

974
01:05:03,743 --> 01:05:05,678
and there was blood on the seat.

975
01:05:08,247 --> 01:05:12,885
He asked me to face the mirror and said,
"I just want to look at you."

976
01:05:13,919 --> 01:05:18,658
And he put his hand on the back of my neck

977
01:05:18,658 --> 01:05:20,459
and sort of held me in place,

978
01:05:20,459 --> 01:05:23,629
staring at my own face in the mirror,

979
01:05:23,629 --> 01:05:28,434
and he started to touch himself
under his shirt behind me.

980
01:05:32,705 --> 01:05:37,209
And I remember that...

981
01:05:37,209 --> 01:05:41,146
like it's a scene from a bad movie.

982
01:05:41,146 --> 01:05:44,082
Because it's hard to believe
that that was me.

983
01:05:45,918 --> 01:05:48,020
But I remember looking
at myself in the mirror

984
01:05:48,020 --> 01:05:51,357
and seeing him over my right shoulder

985
01:05:54,293 --> 01:05:57,029
and I remember staring at him
and thinking,

986
01:05:57,029 --> 01:06:00,966
if I can just stand still

987
01:06:02,568 --> 01:06:04,603
that maybe it would all go away

988
01:06:04,603 --> 01:06:09,074
or maybe I would disappear or something.

989
01:06:10,342 --> 01:06:13,312
I guess I was just too shocked to move.

990
01:06:16,348 --> 01:06:20,519
And I noticed that he had blood
on his hand.

991
01:06:24,523 --> 01:06:28,828
And I found a way

992
01:06:28,828 --> 01:06:32,998
to say that I had to go,

993
01:06:32,998 --> 01:06:35,334
and I don't think he finished.

994
01:06:35,334 --> 01:06:37,336
♪

995
01:06:53,185 --> 01:06:55,821
[ noisy chatter ]

996
01:06:58,056 --> 01:06:59,825
REPORTER:
Give us the five seconds!

997
01:07:02,027 --> 01:07:04,530
TRAISTER : I was a reporter
at a weekly newspaper in New York

998
01:07:04,530 --> 01:07:05,998
called the New York Observer.

999
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:12,170
I was interested in the cultural changes
happening within Manhattan,

1000
01:07:12,170 --> 01:07:15,942
and Miramax was at the very center
of those cultural changes.

1001
01:07:22,281 --> 01:07:24,984
HUGO:
You've been everything to me, O.

1002
01:07:24,984 --> 01:07:28,353
To me, you're not my friend, man,
you're my brother.

1003
01:07:28,353 --> 01:07:30,422
And when a brother is wronged, so am I.

1004
01:07:30,422 --> 01:07:34,994
TRAISTER: Harvey's company,
Miramax's brother company Dimension,

1005
01:07:34,994 --> 01:07:37,730
had made a movie that was
an update on Othello.

1006
01:07:37,730 --> 01:07:39,031
It was called O,

1007
01:07:39,031 --> 01:07:42,768
and it had a terrific cast of stars
that were very popular at the moment,

1008
01:07:42,768 --> 01:07:46,806
including Mekhi Phifer and Josh Hartnett.

1009
01:07:46,806 --> 01:07:50,142
‐ I've spent the last few days going over
every possible detail, every angle.

1010
01:07:50,142 --> 01:07:53,713
‐ It had everything about it that should
have been released to a great fanfare,

1011
01:07:53,713 --> 01:07:56,515
but the company was holding it
and they were holding it

1012
01:07:56,515 --> 01:08:00,185
during the presidential campaign
of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.

1013
01:08:02,287 --> 01:08:05,725
They were running this campaign
that had this weird reactionary streak

1014
01:08:05,725 --> 01:08:08,227
of disapproving of violence in the media.

1015
01:08:09,461 --> 01:08:13,666
O was a very violent high school drama.

1016
01:08:13,666 --> 01:08:15,133
HUGO:
He soars above us.

1017
01:08:15,133 --> 01:08:18,437
TRAISTER: The makers of the movie
believed that it was being held back

1018
01:08:18,437 --> 01:08:21,507
because Harvey was so involved
in the Gore‐Lieberman campaign.

1019
01:08:21,507 --> 01:08:24,543
He was hoping that the amount
of money that he was giving

1020
01:08:24,543 --> 01:08:27,914
was going to result
in some kind of political payoff.

1021
01:08:27,914 --> 01:08:29,782
I needed to get a comment from Harvey.

1022
01:08:29,782 --> 01:08:32,919
So my editor sent me to a party
he was hosting

1023
01:08:32,919 --> 01:08:36,221
to accompany a repor‐‐ a fellow reporter

1024
01:08:36,221 --> 01:08:38,624
who was working
as a gossip columnist that night.

1025
01:08:38,624 --> 01:08:41,094
He also happened to be somebody
I was dating at the time.

1026
01:08:41,094 --> 01:08:42,661
[ distant siren wailing ]

1027
01:08:42,661 --> 01:08:44,396
[ muffled party music playing ]

1028
01:08:48,133 --> 01:08:50,263
ALEXANDER GOLDMAN:
Harvey was throwing a party

1029
01:08:50,263 --> 01:08:53,205
for a former MTV VJ

1030
01:08:53,205 --> 01:08:56,408
named Karen Duffy, who went by "Duff."

1031
01:08:56,408 --> 01:09:00,379
And I remember walking in
behind Harvey and his entourage

1032
01:09:00,379 --> 01:09:03,382
and then going and saying,
"Rebecca, you go do your thing."

1033
01:09:03,382 --> 01:09:05,384
[ lively chatter ]

1034
01:09:07,586 --> 01:09:10,790
TRAISTER: I walked right up to Harvey
with my tape recorder out and said,

1035
01:09:10,790 --> 01:09:13,325
"I have a question about the movie O ."

1036
01:09:14,794 --> 01:09:17,496
And he said to me,
"Oh, that's my brother's movie,

1037
01:09:17,496 --> 01:09:20,733
I don't have anything to do with that,"
and then he walked away.

1038
01:09:20,733 --> 01:09:23,736
And I thought to myself,
"Well, that's a nothing comment,

1039
01:09:23,736 --> 01:09:26,238
and I don't believe it,"
but I got the comment,

1040
01:09:26,238 --> 01:09:29,108
which is what I knew I needed to do
in order to be able to publish my story.

1041
01:09:31,944 --> 01:09:34,279
I was sort of putting
my tape recorder away.

1042
01:09:34,279 --> 01:09:36,983
I'd done the one job
I had there that night,

1043
01:09:36,983 --> 01:09:39,752
at which point suddenly
Harvey came back to me,

1044
01:09:39,752 --> 01:09:43,089
and he said, "You can't use that."

1045
01:09:43,089 --> 01:09:46,391
I said, "What do you mean?"
And he said, "That was off the record."

1046
01:09:50,429 --> 01:09:52,937
He started to grab for my tape recorder.

1047
01:09:52,937 --> 01:09:57,603
I just pressed "record"
and held it up to his face,

1048
01:09:57,603 --> 01:09:59,471
and that enraged him more.

1049
01:09:59,471 --> 01:10:03,176
‐ And then the temperature
in the room turns,

1050
01:10:03,176 --> 01:10:05,511
and all of a sudden
I see something go off in Harvey,

1051
01:10:05,511 --> 01:10:09,015
and I see like, you know,
initially some maybe gesticulating,

1052
01:10:09,015 --> 01:10:13,786
and then I hear him yelling
at the top of his lungs,

1053
01:10:14,787 --> 01:10:17,589
"Who let this fucking cunt
into this party?"

1054
01:10:17,589 --> 01:10:19,558
‐ And then he was sort of
half screaming at me

1055
01:10:19,558 --> 01:10:20,826
and half screaming at the rest
of the room,

1056
01:10:20,826 --> 01:10:23,595
"Get this cunt out of here,
this cunt shouldn't be here!

1057
01:10:23,595 --> 01:10:26,532
This‐‐ What is this bitch doing here?
Who let this bitch in?"

1058
01:10:26,532 --> 01:10:30,235
‐ This man is screaming
at the top of his lungs

1059
01:10:30,235 --> 01:10:32,270
at a 23‐year‐old woman who's asking

1060
01:10:32,270 --> 01:10:33,973
a very reasonable question
about his movie,

1061
01:10:33,973 --> 01:10:35,507
and he's calling her a "cunt."

1062
01:10:35,507 --> 01:10:38,510
‐ The thing that scared me was that
it felt like anything was possible.

1063
01:10:38,510 --> 01:10:41,214
Like there was no norm and no rule

1064
01:10:41,214 --> 01:10:43,649
that was gonna say
this is gonna end okay.

1065
01:10:44,050 --> 01:10:47,753
And my colleague and boyfriend,
Andrew, came over

1066
01:10:47,753 --> 01:10:49,922
and said, "Harvey, Harvey,
I'm here to talk to you.

1067
01:10:49,922 --> 01:10:51,224
"I'm, I‐‐ She came with me.

1068
01:10:51,224 --> 01:10:53,492
"I'm the reporter who's assigned
to talk about this party.

1069
01:10:53,492 --> 01:10:55,494
I want to hear about Karen Duffy."

1070
01:10:55,494 --> 01:10:58,797
And I kind of went... [ pants ]

1071
01:10:58,797 --> 01:11:02,601
I... remember I got our bags,

1072
01:11:02,601 --> 01:11:05,171
put my bags, put the bags
over the shoulder [ laughs ],

1073
01:11:05,171 --> 01:11:07,306
and I looked at Andrew and I was like,

1074
01:11:07,306 --> 01:11:09,341
"Wrap it up, we're gonna go, time to go."

1075
01:11:09,341 --> 01:11:12,478
‐ And then I stopped,
and I was like, this is absurd.

1076
01:11:12,478 --> 01:11:15,181
I said, "Harvey, we have treated you well.

1077
01:11:15,181 --> 01:11:19,485
"You have no right to call
somebody like that that name

1078
01:11:19,485 --> 01:11:23,022
in front of these people.
You can't do that."

1079
01:11:23,022 --> 01:11:28,661
‐ [ whispering ]: No, I don't need
an apology, we need to leave.

1080
01:11:28,661 --> 01:11:32,098
[ normal voice ] And what happened
was, as soon as Andrew said,

1081
01:11:32,098 --> 01:11:36,368
"You owe her an apology," he went‐‐
it's like the switch flipped back.

1082
01:11:36,368 --> 01:11:38,104
‐ He said...

1083
01:11:38,104 --> 01:11:39,471
[ tape player clicks on ]

1084
01:11:41,274 --> 01:11:42,608
[ Harvey speaking ]

1085
01:11:46,912 --> 01:11:48,447
[ tape player clicks off ]

1086
01:11:49,248 --> 01:11:52,351
‐ And it's at that moment he looks down

1087
01:11:52,351 --> 01:11:54,153
and I think he sees
that my recorder is going,

1088
01:11:54,153 --> 01:11:57,056
and he realizes that I've just got
like the money quote of all time.

1089
01:11:57,056 --> 01:11:59,058
♪

1090
01:12:02,995 --> 01:12:05,064
TRAISTER:
He started screaming.

1091
01:12:05,064 --> 01:12:08,201
He pushes him down the couple of steps
and Andrew falls backwards.

1092
01:12:08,201 --> 01:12:11,204
‐ And everybody I think is aghast,
looking like, what the hell is‐‐

1093
01:12:11,204 --> 01:12:15,674
The host of the party is like wrestling
with some junior reporter

1094
01:12:15,674 --> 01:12:17,576
over a tape recorder,
and we go back and forth,

1095
01:12:17,576 --> 01:12:19,078
and he's intent that he's gonna
get this thing,

1096
01:12:19,078 --> 01:12:22,014
and I'm like, I'm not going
to let him get this tape recorder

1097
01:12:22,014 --> 01:12:23,716
'cause it has the best quote ever.

1098
01:12:23,716 --> 01:12:26,252
‐ He grabs Andrew and pulls him
through the party,

1099
01:12:26,252 --> 01:12:29,655
out the glass door,
onto Sixth Avenue in Manhattan,

1100
01:12:29,655 --> 01:12:34,126
and puts him in a headlock
and starts pounding the top of his head.

1101
01:12:34,126 --> 01:12:37,730
‐ A crowd has gathered around us

1102
01:12:37,730 --> 01:12:40,399
and it's like, you know,
this schoolyard fight or something,

1103
01:12:40,399 --> 01:12:43,736
and I just remember how surreal it was.

1104
01:12:43,736 --> 01:12:46,705
I was thinking to myself,
can this possibly be re‐‐

1105
01:12:46,705 --> 01:12:50,042
Does Harvey Weinstein
really have me in a headlock?

1106
01:12:50,042 --> 01:12:53,846
‐ The flashes are going off, and there
are a million pictures being taken.

1107
01:12:53,846 --> 01:12:56,815
‐ How can this not be the cover
of, you know, the New York Post,

1108
01:12:56,815 --> 01:12:58,184
the New York Daily News?

1109
01:12:58,184 --> 01:12:59,451
I mean, it was like the money sh‐‐

1110
01:12:59,451 --> 01:13:03,289
It's the shot that any tabloid editor
would be dreaming of.

1111
01:13:03,289 --> 01:13:05,524
Think about it,
who wouldn't put that on the cover?

1112
01:13:06,425 --> 01:13:07,927
[ door squeaking ]

1113
01:13:11,130 --> 01:13:13,799
TRAISTER: I never saw a photograph
from that night.

1114
01:13:14,867 --> 01:13:16,568
I've never to this day.

1115
01:13:16,568 --> 01:13:20,672
I haven't seen a photograph,
and I know there were hundreds taken.

1116
01:13:20,672 --> 01:13:23,075
‐ This is like... magic.

1117
01:13:23,075 --> 01:13:26,946
This is like, you know, Tinseltown magic.

1118
01:13:26,946 --> 01:13:29,448
‐ My editor in chief,

1119
01:13:29,448 --> 01:13:32,184
a man I deeply respected,

1120
01:13:33,452 --> 01:13:36,122
said, "Do not offer comment
on this, Rebecca.

1121
01:13:36,122 --> 01:13:41,927
Harvey's never going anywhere," he said.
"Harvey's Russia, don't write about it."

1122
01:13:41,927 --> 01:13:45,697
‐ The lesson I learned was...

1123
01:13:45,697 --> 01:13:47,766
as great as a line as,

1124
01:13:47,766 --> 01:13:52,537
"I'm glad I'm the fucking sheriff
of this shit ass fucking town" is,

1125
01:13:53,572 --> 01:13:55,674
it doesn't work unless
you really are the sheriff,

1126
01:13:55,674 --> 01:13:56,942
and he was at that point.

1127
01:13:56,942 --> 01:13:59,544
He... He could do anything.

1128
01:13:59,544 --> 01:14:02,181
‐ And no‐‐ and no cars, no nothing.

1129
01:14:02,181 --> 01:14:05,284
Otherwise, never any of my shit ever.

1130
01:14:05,284 --> 01:14:08,620
Okay? Or I'll fucking be
all over your asses. Get outta here. Go.

1131
01:14:08,620 --> 01:14:10,222
PHOTOGRAPHER:
All right, have a good night, man.

1132
01:14:10,222 --> 01:14:14,193
‐ If I see one car, me and Bob De Niro
will take care of it but good.

1133
01:14:14,193 --> 01:14:16,262
PHOTOGRAPHER: Have a good night, man.
‐ You'll never work in this town.

1134
01:14:16,262 --> 01:14:18,063
You'll never sell
a fucking photograph anywhere.

1135
01:14:18,063 --> 01:14:19,064
PHOTOGRAPHER:
All right, man.

1136
01:14:19,731 --> 01:14:21,734
♪

1137
01:14:26,339 --> 01:14:29,175
NEWSWOMAN: Mickey Mouse
divorcing a long‐time partner.

1138
01:14:29,175 --> 01:14:30,609
Disney parting ways

1139
01:14:30,609 --> 01:14:34,080
with Miramax co‐founders
Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

1140
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:37,383
While the Weinsteins are walking away
with $140 million

1141
01:14:37,383 --> 01:14:41,354
and the Dimension Films label,
they'll have to give up Miramax.

1142
01:14:44,590 --> 01:14:47,492
KIM MASTERS: They lost that name,
which meant something to them:

1143
01:14:47,492 --> 01:14:49,561
"Miramax," Miriam and Max.

1144
01:14:49,561 --> 01:14:51,030
It was a huge loss.

1145
01:14:51,030 --> 01:14:53,599
They lost that library of films
that they had created.

1146
01:14:54,867 --> 01:14:56,402
That's their legacy.

1147
01:14:58,537 --> 01:15:00,473
When you sell, you know,
you lose your power.

1148
01:15:00,473 --> 01:15:04,143
They're not the first ones to sell
in Hollywood and live to regret.

1149
01:15:04,143 --> 01:15:06,145
♪

1150
01:15:10,616 --> 01:15:14,287
HARVEY: So this begins the path
to our new exciting venture

1151
01:15:14,287 --> 01:15:16,755
without mom and dad's name.

1152
01:15:16,755 --> 01:15:18,624
We still own the name "Dimension"

1153
01:15:18,624 --> 01:15:21,327
and, and if anybody can come up
with a better name

1154
01:15:21,327 --> 01:15:23,629
than the Weinstein Company,
we're all ears.

1155
01:15:23,629 --> 01:15:25,465
[ chuckles ]

1156
01:15:25,465 --> 01:15:27,633
‐ Nothing's better than
the Weinstein brothers,

1157
01:15:27,633 --> 01:15:29,368
so the name is great.

1158
01:15:29,368 --> 01:15:32,138
‐ I mean, that company,
they were much diminished

1159
01:15:32,138 --> 01:15:35,540
and they were trying
to sort of commit more to television.

1160
01:15:35,540 --> 01:15:37,709
They were in trouble
and everybody knew it.

1161
01:15:37,709 --> 01:15:39,711
♪

1162
01:15:42,781 --> 01:15:45,518
SCHMIDT: After they left Disney,
they went through something like

1163
01:15:45,518 --> 01:15:49,955
1.2 billion dollars that was bank money
and bonds and investments

1164
01:15:49,955 --> 01:15:54,660
from investment banks in New York,
and, uh, that writing was on the wall.

1165
01:15:58,464 --> 01:16:00,466
♪

1166
01:16:11,877 --> 01:16:15,147
FARROW: I was working on a story
about the dark side of Hollywood.

1167
01:16:16,115 --> 01:16:18,117
It was gonna be an anthology
of different issues,

1168
01:16:18,117 --> 01:16:21,053
from race to sexual harassment.

1169
01:16:21,053 --> 01:16:22,888
In the course of my reporting,

1170
01:16:22,888 --> 01:16:28,827
I began to find the stories came back
over and over again to one guy.

1171
01:16:28,827 --> 01:16:31,730
Harvey Weinstein was known to be a bully,

1172
01:16:31,730 --> 01:16:36,435
but very quickly when you scratched
the surface of those bullying charges,

1173
01:16:36,435 --> 01:16:39,872
you started to hear stories
about sexual misconduct as well.

1174
01:16:39,872 --> 01:16:45,044
And I realized,
wow, this is a huge, huge story.

1175
01:16:45,044 --> 01:16:48,214
‐ So it's my incredible honor
to present this award,

1176
01:16:48,214 --> 01:16:50,916
uh, to Planned Parenthood's
Champion of the Century,

1177
01:16:50,916 --> 01:16:53,986
my friend, my heroine,
Hillary Rodham Clinton.

1178
01:16:53,986 --> 01:16:55,754
[ loud cheering ]

1179
01:17:02,127 --> 01:17:03,962
TRAISTER:
I was writing about Hillary Clinton

1180
01:17:03,962 --> 01:17:07,766
after the 2016 presidential loss
in the spring of 2017.

1181
01:17:10,069 --> 01:17:11,036
And...

1182
01:17:11,770 --> 01:17:14,574
I saw Harvey for the first time in years.

1183
01:17:17,743 --> 01:17:22,881
I almost couldn't believe,
this guy who had been so familiar to me.

1184
01:17:22,881 --> 01:17:27,386
And I thought, your power is waning.

1185
01:17:27,386 --> 01:17:30,590
Like, your power is on the downswing,

1186
01:17:30,590 --> 01:17:34,659
but you're still... working it.

1187
01:17:35,961 --> 01:17:39,731
You're still wielding it,
whatever power you have, you're here.

1188
01:17:39,731 --> 01:17:41,233
What are you doing here?

1189
01:17:43,802 --> 01:17:46,872
But then I was looking at him
with all these powerful women,

1190
01:17:46,872 --> 01:17:47,973
feminist women.

1191
01:17:49,509 --> 01:17:54,213
You're putting your money
toward protecting yourself,

1192
01:17:54,213 --> 01:17:56,382
positioning yourself as a feminist,

1193
01:17:56,382 --> 01:18:01,153
positioning yourself
as an ally to powerful women.

1194
01:18:01,153 --> 01:18:03,088
This is all part of what your deal is

1195
01:18:03,088 --> 01:18:05,691
and how you've managed
to suppress all this.

1196
01:18:06,859 --> 01:18:10,996
I just stopped thinking that my story

1197
01:18:10,996 --> 01:18:14,033
or the evidence from it was ever going
to be important to anybody

1198
01:18:14,033 --> 01:18:16,854
because nobody was ever gonna
win against this guy.

1199
01:18:16,854 --> 01:18:18,937
♪

1200
01:18:21,974 --> 01:18:26,212
FARROW: When I first started,
women thought it would never emerge,

1201
01:18:26,212 --> 01:18:28,414
let alone emerge and have an impact.

1202
01:18:31,551 --> 01:18:33,619
One of the striking reoccurring themes

1203
01:18:33,619 --> 01:18:36,222
in my conversations with sources
in this story

1204
01:18:36,222 --> 01:18:40,192
was just how terrified they were
of things that sounded like movie plots.

1205
01:18:42,395 --> 01:18:44,230
Spies following them,

1206
01:18:44,230 --> 01:18:46,632
infiltrating their ways
into people's lives.

1207
01:18:46,632 --> 01:18:51,370
And, as I myself started
getting strange and threatening calls,

1208
01:18:51,370 --> 01:18:53,406
this was the absolute truth.

1209
01:18:57,776 --> 01:19:02,114
SOURCE: I think for years Harvey Weinstein
had heard that certain actresses

1210
01:19:02,114 --> 01:19:04,149
and certain people in the industry
might go on record

1211
01:19:04,149 --> 01:19:07,286
and try and accuse him of anything
from sexual assault

1212
01:19:07,286 --> 01:19:08,621
to harassment and bullying,

1213
01:19:08,621 --> 01:19:12,224
and it was a kind of fire fighting
exercise in, on a low level,

1214
01:19:12,224 --> 01:19:14,760
go after one person
and get them to sign an NDA.

1215
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:16,762
[ wind whistling ]

1216
01:19:20,966 --> 01:19:25,705
But in 2016, he'd obviously got wind
of something much bigger.

1217
01:19:25,705 --> 01:19:28,774
There was now a coalition
of people coming together,

1218
01:19:28,774 --> 01:19:31,544
willing to go en masse on record.

1219
01:19:31,544 --> 01:19:34,380
That's why he enlisted
a whole army of people,

1220
01:19:34,380 --> 01:19:36,382
whether journalists, whether lawyers

1221
01:19:36,382 --> 01:19:38,684
or intelligence firms,
'cause he knew this was the big one.

1222
01:19:40,586 --> 01:19:42,388
FARROW:
Harvey was indeed using

1223
01:19:42,388 --> 01:19:46,158
an array of high‐powered
private investigation firms,

1224
01:19:46,158 --> 01:19:51,664
most exotically, uh, a firm predominantly
run by former members of the Massad,

1225
01:19:51,664 --> 01:19:53,132
called Black Cube.

1226
01:19:53,132 --> 01:19:55,134
[ papers rustling ]

1227
01:19:58,771 --> 01:20:01,340
SOURCE: This is the original contract
between Black Cube

1228
01:20:01,340 --> 01:20:03,643
and Harvey Weinstein's law firm.

1229
01:20:04,510 --> 01:20:07,913
And "The primary objective of the project
is to identify the entities

1230
01:20:07,913 --> 01:20:10,516
"behind the negative campaign
against the Client

1231
01:20:10,516 --> 01:20:13,185
and support the Client's efforts
to put a stop to it."

1232
01:20:16,322 --> 01:20:18,824
This is the list of targets
drawn up by Harvey Weinstein

1233
01:20:18,824 --> 01:20:24,029
of people he suspects might be cooperating
with the negative stories about him,

1234
01:20:24,029 --> 01:20:26,932
and this is a profile drawn up
by Black Cube,

1235
01:20:26,932 --> 01:20:29,268
uh, profiling Rosanna Arquette.

1236
01:20:29,268 --> 01:20:31,970
"The Client suspects that Rosanna
is involved in the campaign

1237
01:20:31,970 --> 01:20:35,240
"being waged against him
by disseminating fictitious allegations

1238
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:37,843
about him to media sources."

1239
01:20:37,843 --> 01:20:41,246
FARROW: This was
an extraordinarily expensive operation.

1240
01:20:41,246 --> 01:20:44,149
You're talking about lawyer after lawyer

1241
01:20:44,149 --> 01:20:47,085
at the highest‐paid echelon
of the legal profession,

1242
01:20:47,085 --> 01:20:49,021
and they're hiring, in turn,

1243
01:20:49,021 --> 01:20:52,525
the priciest private investigation firms
in the world.

1244
01:20:52,525 --> 01:20:56,562
The Black Cube contracts alone
ate up hundreds of thousands of dollars.

1245
01:20:56,562 --> 01:21:01,400
Harvey Weinstein was placing
all of his resources

1246
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:04,437
into stopping these women
and the reporters looking at the story.

1247
01:21:04,437 --> 01:21:06,439
♪

1248
01:21:10,476 --> 01:21:14,046
Harvey and his private investigators
and lawyers expended a lot of energy

1249
01:21:14,046 --> 01:21:17,784
digging up photos of him looking friendly
with women after alleged assaults.

1250
01:21:20,519 --> 01:21:25,758
This is a particularly nasty tactic
to try to discredit women,

1251
01:21:25,758 --> 01:21:31,397
when the fact is, it is a very typical
feature of sexual assault

1252
01:21:31,397 --> 01:21:34,700
that women are photographed
in a friendly context

1253
01:21:34,700 --> 01:21:37,603
with their alleged attacker afterwards.

1254
01:21:37,603 --> 01:21:41,173
Very often people bury their trauma
and they keep working

1255
01:21:41,173 --> 01:21:43,643
and they keep on walking
those red carpets.

1256
01:21:43,643 --> 01:21:47,045
[ reporters shouting questions to Paz ]

1257
01:21:48,614 --> 01:21:51,450
DE LA HUERTA:
You put on a happy face,

1258
01:21:51,450 --> 01:21:53,118
but inside you're dying.

1259
01:21:54,386 --> 01:21:59,525
It made me feel like I had to reclaim
my sexuality all over again.

1260
01:21:59,525 --> 01:22:06,365
So I wanted to do photo shoots
where I could feel beautiful

1261
01:22:06,365 --> 01:22:09,301
and take it back,

1262
01:22:09,301 --> 01:22:12,070
take back what I believe he stole from me.

1263
01:22:18,344 --> 01:22:21,313
Some of the other women
might look at me and think,

1264
01:22:21,313 --> 01:22:24,082
"Something's wrong with her."

1265
01:22:24,082 --> 01:22:28,921
Like, "Harvey could use
that against her," or something.

1266
01:22:32,725 --> 01:22:37,056
I wanted to feel desirable again.

1267
01:22:37,056 --> 01:22:40,232
People knowing that this pig
had violated me,

1268
01:22:42,668 --> 01:22:47,807
that this monster had been inside me.

1269
01:22:48,875 --> 01:22:50,877
[ distant siren chirping ]

1270
01:22:57,516 --> 01:23:00,419
FARROW: I was being told,
"You still need more women,

1271
01:23:00,419 --> 01:23:03,823
these women are crazy,
you need more credible women,"

1272
01:23:03,823 --> 01:23:06,893
over and over and over again,
no matter how many women were saying

1273
01:23:06,893 --> 01:23:08,394
this had happened to them.

1274
01:23:09,729 --> 01:23:12,197
REPORTER: Harvey Weinstein.
[ Harvey speaking indistinctly ]

1275
01:23:12,197 --> 01:23:13,215
FARROW:
I had to move out of my home.

1276
01:23:13,215 --> 01:23:14,533
I was being followed.

1277
01:23:14,533 --> 01:23:17,469
I had many of the same agents
that went after these women

1278
01:23:17,469 --> 01:23:20,005
coming after me.

1279
01:23:20,005 --> 01:23:25,411
Harvey Weinstein was inundating
my representatives with legal threats.

1280
01:23:25,411 --> 01:23:28,313
I wondered whether I would be able
to get it over the finish line

1281
01:23:28,313 --> 01:23:30,649
or whether I would let down
all of those women who had done

1282
01:23:30,649 --> 01:23:33,619
this incredibly brave thing
trying to expose this.

1283
01:23:34,854 --> 01:23:38,490
So, it was a tremendous
breakthrough moment

1284
01:23:38,490 --> 01:23:42,396
to hear Harvey Weinstein
on that NYPD recording.

1285
01:23:42,396 --> 01:23:45,061
[ tape player clicks on ]
[ Harvey and Ambra Gutierrez speaking ]

1286
01:24:23,836 --> 01:24:25,038
[ tape player clicks off ]

1287
01:24:30,242 --> 01:24:33,078
FARROW:
Once I had that recording in hand,

1288
01:24:33,078 --> 01:24:35,614
it was clear to me that I couldn't stop.

1289
01:24:37,249 --> 01:24:39,284
There was a smoking gun here.

1290
01:24:40,953 --> 01:24:45,391
So I went to Ken Auletta,
a wonderful writer at The New Yorker.

1291
01:24:45,391 --> 01:24:48,293
AULETTA:
Ronan Farrow, who I did not know,

1292
01:24:48,293 --> 01:24:51,630
called me up in the spring of 2017,

1293
01:24:51,630 --> 01:24:55,935
and he said, "I've read
your 2002 profile on Harvey.

1294
01:24:55,935 --> 01:24:58,704
Let me tell you what I'm doing."

1295
01:24:58,704 --> 01:25:01,347
He said to me
that he had eight witnesses,

1296
01:25:01,347 --> 01:25:04,176
people who were willing
to go on the record.

1297
01:25:04,176 --> 01:25:06,478
That's great.
I mean, I could not do that.

1298
01:25:06,478 --> 01:25:09,248
And he had the police tape from Ambra.

1299
01:25:09,248 --> 01:25:12,618
HARVEY [ on tape ]: Please come in.
I'm a very‐‐ I'm a famous guy.

1300
01:25:12,618 --> 01:25:15,721
GUTIERREZ: I'm feeling
very uncomfortable right now.
HARVEY: Please come in now.

1301
01:25:15,721 --> 01:25:18,657
HARVEY: And in one minute.
And if you wanna leave when the guy
comes with my jacket‐‐

1302
01:25:18,657 --> 01:25:20,927
GUTIERREZ:
Why yesterday you touch my breast?

1303
01:25:20,927 --> 01:25:23,195
HARVEY: Oh, please, I'm sorry,
just come on in, I'm used to that.

1304
01:25:23,195 --> 01:25:27,033
FARROW: I think the moment
the New Yorker team heard that audio

1305
01:25:27,033 --> 01:25:31,003
and understood the number
of testimonials that we had about this,

1306
01:25:31,003 --> 01:25:33,205
they said, "Okay, let's go to the mat.

1307
01:25:33,205 --> 01:25:35,808
Let's get as much as we can together
as fast as we can."

1308
01:25:38,077 --> 01:25:40,412
AULETTA:
I would call Ronan or e‐mail him,

1309
01:25:40,412 --> 01:25:43,783
I'd say, "What are you doing?
Wh‐Why isn't this story out?"

1310
01:25:43,783 --> 01:25:45,551
And he said, "Well, we're still working
on the story,"

1311
01:25:45,551 --> 01:25:50,689
and then I hear that
The New York Times is doing a story.

1312
01:25:56,829 --> 01:26:00,800
MEGAN TWOHEY: We had been working
around the clock for days and weeks

1313
01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:03,201
and had barely slept.

1314
01:26:04,436 --> 01:26:08,774
You know, when you are so thick deep
in a, an investigation

1315
01:26:08,774 --> 01:26:11,710
and you're right about
to finally publish the story,

1316
01:26:11,710 --> 01:26:14,413
you can really lose sight
of what you've got

1317
01:26:14,413 --> 01:26:16,149
and what the reaction is gonna be to it.

1318
01:26:19,718 --> 01:26:21,821
JODI KANTOR:
Our biggest fear over the summer

1319
01:26:21,821 --> 01:26:23,555
was not of Harvey Weinstein

1320
01:26:23,555 --> 01:26:27,059
or of the paid spies he used on us

1321
01:26:27,059 --> 01:26:29,829
or about the efforts at intimidation.

1322
01:26:29,829 --> 01:26:31,497
It was the fear of failure

1323
01:26:31,497 --> 01:26:34,266
and the fear that we were going
to fail to get the story,

1324
01:26:34,266 --> 01:26:36,502
and we were going to have to live
with this knowledge

1325
01:26:36,502 --> 01:26:38,971
off the record for the rest of our lives.

1326
01:26:47,013 --> 01:26:49,448
People were really scared to talk.

1327
01:26:49,448 --> 01:26:52,618
Instead there was this kind
of miasma of rumors.

1328
01:26:52,618 --> 01:26:55,554
There were public jokes in pop culture.

1329
01:26:55,554 --> 01:26:56,622
‐ Congratulations.

1330
01:26:56,622 --> 01:27:00,126
You five ladies no longer have to pretend
to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.

1331
01:27:00,126 --> 01:27:01,560
[ laughter ]

1332
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:04,663
‐ Oh please, I'm not afraid
of anyone in show business.

1333
01:27:04,663 --> 01:27:07,666
I turned down intercourse
with Harvey Weinstein

1334
01:27:07,666 --> 01:27:10,335
on no less than three occasions‐‐
out of five.

1335
01:27:10,335 --> 01:27:12,805
REPORTER: Do you have any advice
for a young girl moving to Hollywood?

1336
01:27:37,730 --> 01:27:39,732
♪

1337
01:27:50,542 --> 01:27:55,614
O'CONNOR: I am a 28‐year‐old woman
trying to make a living and a career.

1338
01:27:55,614 --> 01:27:59,518
Harvey Weinstein is
a 64‐year‐old world‐famous man

1339
01:27:59,518 --> 01:28:01,854
and this is his company.

1340
01:28:01,854 --> 01:28:05,124
The balance of power is me: zero,

1341
01:28:05,124 --> 01:28:08,094
Harvey Weinstein: 10.

1342
01:28:13,599 --> 01:28:16,135
When I wrote my memo,

1343
01:28:16,135 --> 01:28:19,304
it was because I didn't feel
as if I had a choice.

1344
01:28:22,975 --> 01:28:24,476
You know, when the memo was leaked

1345
01:28:24,476 --> 01:28:27,713
and subsequently published
in The New York Times,

1346
01:28:29,282 --> 01:28:33,719
what I couldn't imagine
or have conceived of

1347
01:28:33,719 --> 01:28:35,988
was the impact it had.

1348
01:28:39,091 --> 01:28:41,060
♪

1349
01:29:23,002 --> 01:29:25,071
ROSENBAUM:
I read it...

1350
01:29:25,071 --> 01:29:27,773
I think with my jaw on the floor.

1351
01:29:30,943 --> 01:29:33,779
They were outlining
the experiences of these women

1352
01:29:35,647 --> 01:29:38,017
as though they were writing about me.

1353
01:29:39,051 --> 01:29:41,787
And I couldn't believe that they were
telling the story.

1354
01:29:44,523 --> 01:29:48,794
The fact that these women had the guts

1355
01:29:48,794 --> 01:29:51,364
to tell the story after all this time,

1356
01:29:51,364 --> 01:29:54,700
and for sure they weren't
the first to try,

1357
01:29:54,700 --> 01:29:58,070
and the machine had squashed the story.

1358
01:30:02,375 --> 01:30:06,411
I can't tell you what it means to me
to see it coming into the light.

1359
01:30:06,411 --> 01:30:08,914
[ radio stations changing ]

1360
01:30:08,914 --> 01:30:10,149
NEWSMAN:
Producer Harvey Weinstein

1361
01:30:10,149 --> 01:30:12,584
is facing multiple
sexual harassment accusations

1362
01:30:12,584 --> 01:30:15,321
that span 30 years
according to The New York Times.

1363
01:30:15,321 --> 01:30:17,156
The Times reporting
that the Miramax co‐founder

1364
01:30:17,156 --> 01:30:20,326
has reached eight settlements
with various accusers.

1365
01:30:20,326 --> 01:30:21,760
NEWSWOMAN:
In a statement, Weinstein says

1366
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:24,130
he came of age when rules
about behavior were different.

1367
01:30:24,130 --> 01:30:28,634
He says he knows he's caused a lot
of pain and sincerely apologizes.

1368
01:30:32,138 --> 01:30:33,595
D'AMORE:
I don't think he'll ever get it.

1369
01:30:33,595 --> 01:30:35,174
I don't think people like that change.

1370
01:30:37,843 --> 01:30:41,513
They say that about child molesters,
they say it about rapists.

1371
01:30:41,513 --> 01:30:44,583
They don't change,
he just got better at it.

1372
01:30:44,583 --> 01:30:47,452
He just got bolder

1373
01:30:47,452 --> 01:30:51,190
and because he was more powerful
was able to get away with it

1374
01:30:51,190 --> 01:30:55,992
with more women and in...
in more obvious ways.

1375
01:30:55,992 --> 01:30:58,463
MAN: Hold on, hold on.
What are you doing here?

1376
01:30:58,463 --> 01:30:59,498
REPORTER: I'm media.

1377
01:30:59,498 --> 01:31:02,835
NEWSMAN: One of the most powerful men
in Hollywood has been fired,

1378
01:31:02,835 --> 01:31:07,440
effective immediately, by the board
of the studio he co‐founded.

1379
01:31:07,440 --> 01:31:09,608
‐ I'm hanging in there.
I'm trying my best.

1380
01:31:09,608 --> 01:31:11,010
REPORTER: Thank you, man.

1381
01:31:11,010 --> 01:31:13,145
NEWSMAN:
Weinstein's wife announced last night

1382
01:31:13,145 --> 01:31:16,082
she was leaving him
in the light of the allegations.

1383
01:31:16,082 --> 01:31:18,184
REPORTER: We're glad to see
you're doing okay.

1384
01:31:18,184 --> 01:31:20,019
‐ Guys, I'm not doing okay.

1385
01:31:20,019 --> 01:31:23,655
REPORTER: You're not?
‐ But I'm trying. I gotta get help, guys.

1386
01:31:23,655 --> 01:31:26,025
You know what, we all make mistakes.

1387
01:31:26,025 --> 01:31:28,294
Second chance I hope, okay?

1388
01:31:28,294 --> 01:31:30,896
REPORTER: No problem.
HARVEY: Thanks, guys.

1389
01:31:30,896 --> 01:31:33,232
You know what, I've always
been loyal to you guys.

1390
01:31:33,232 --> 01:31:36,269
Not like those fucking pricks
that treat you like shit.

1391
01:31:36,269 --> 01:31:38,570
I've been the good guy.
REPORTER: Have a good one.

1392
01:31:38,570 --> 01:31:40,239
HARVEY: Thank you.
REPORTER: Hope you feel better.

1393
01:31:40,239 --> 01:31:41,340
HARVEY:
Thank you.

1394
01:31:41,340 --> 01:31:43,276
REPORTER: Get some help, man.
HARVEY: Thank you.

1395
01:31:46,678 --> 01:31:48,914
PROSECUTOR: We're happy with
where the investigation is right now.

1396
01:31:48,914 --> 01:31:50,383
We have an actual case here.

1397
01:31:50,383 --> 01:31:52,339
NEWSWOMAN:
The former movie mogul

1398
01:31:52,339 --> 01:31:54,320
surrendering to police in New York City

1399
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:56,389
amid a throng of reporters and cameras.

1400
01:31:56,389 --> 01:31:58,312
TWOHEY:
There were so many things

1401
01:31:58,312 --> 01:32:00,059
that had helped protect him for so long,

1402
01:32:00,059 --> 01:32:01,894
and today in the court room
it really felt

1403
01:32:01,894 --> 01:32:04,063
like those layers of protection fell away.

1404
01:32:04,063 --> 01:32:06,332
KANTOR:
These are not individual experiences,

1405
01:32:06,332 --> 01:32:08,962
they're collective experiences.

1406
01:32:08,962 --> 01:32:12,271
There's a pattern here and starting today,

1407
01:32:12,271 --> 01:32:15,141
he answers to the same system of justice
as the rest of us.

1408
01:32:24,517 --> 01:32:27,052
ROSENBAUM: I watched Wonder Woman
on the flight over here...

1409
01:32:28,587 --> 01:32:34,126
to try to feel heroic [ laughs ]
even when I didn't.

1410
01:32:37,696 --> 01:32:41,900
Chris Pine has this great quote
and he says, um...

1411
01:32:41,900 --> 01:32:44,003
‐ If you see something wrong
happening in the world,

1412
01:32:44,003 --> 01:32:46,172
you can either do nothing
or you can do something...

1413
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:50,343
and I already tried nothing.

1414
01:32:55,181 --> 01:32:59,385
‐ And I went, "Oh yeah, that's perfect."

1415
01:33:03,222 --> 01:33:05,525
[ chanting ]

1416
01:33:07,293 --> 01:33:10,262
NEWSWOMAN: In the midst of a scandal,
two powerful words

1417
01:33:10,262 --> 01:33:11,763
are flooding social media.

1418
01:33:14,133 --> 01:33:16,869
Women across the country
are identifying themselves

1419
01:33:16,869 --> 01:33:18,637
as victims of sexual harassment

1420
01:33:18,637 --> 01:33:21,907
in the wake of Hollywood mogul
Harvey Weinstein's downfall.

1421
01:33:23,709 --> 01:33:26,512
‐ The Harvey Weinstein story
has helped people understand

1422
01:33:26,512 --> 01:33:30,216
that there's a really powerful argument
for speaking up.

1423
01:33:32,617 --> 01:33:35,620
SCHMIDT:
I don't think anyone could have foreseen

1424
01:33:35,620 --> 01:33:39,846
that this would spawn
a worldwide movement.

1425
01:33:39,846 --> 01:33:42,061
It's a different world.

1426
01:33:42,061 --> 01:33:43,662
It's a better world.

1427
01:33:43,662 --> 01:33:46,131
♪

1428
01:33:49,868 --> 01:33:53,772
EX: What's relatable is how
power structures like this exist

1429
01:33:53,772 --> 01:33:57,677
so other people watching can relate
into their lives,

1430
01:33:57,677 --> 01:34:01,113
because if we could do it in Hollywood,
you know, people can do it anywhere.

1431
01:34:06,485 --> 01:34:08,554
It's the David and Goliath story.

1432
01:34:08,554 --> 01:34:12,291
The little guy can take down the big guy,
that is totally possible.

1433
01:34:12,291 --> 01:34:14,560
♪

1434
01:34:14,560 --> 01:34:16,929
ARQUETTE:
This is a revolution,

1435
01:34:16,929 --> 01:34:19,331
so go fuck yourselves.

1436
01:34:19,331 --> 01:34:20,533
You know, how dare you.

1437
01:34:20,533 --> 01:34:24,036
And we are not going to be silenced.
we will not be silenced.

1438
01:34:24,036 --> 01:34:25,904
‐ There's no question, no question

1439
01:34:25,904 --> 01:34:28,007
that Harvey's behavior was monstrous

1440
01:34:28,007 --> 01:34:30,843
and that he, of course,
should be facing legal repercussion.

1441
01:34:32,311 --> 01:34:37,683
But there is a way,
when you pick out the most grotesque

1442
01:34:37,683 --> 01:34:40,819
and then you fire them,

1443
01:34:40,819 --> 01:34:42,888
maybe you send them to jail,

1444
01:34:42,888 --> 01:34:45,658
maybe you banish them from their industry,

1445
01:34:45,658 --> 01:34:48,760
and then there's the sense that,
"Okay, we've taken care of the problem."

1446
01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:52,264
‐ Just, you know, locking up an individual
isn't going to solve the problem,

1447
01:34:52,264 --> 01:34:54,266
and the most sinister aspect
of all of this

1448
01:34:54,266 --> 01:34:59,980
is that the system enabled it,
you know, um, and still enables it.

1449
01:34:59,980 --> 01:35:02,007
‐ There are going to be hundreds
of these cases

1450
01:35:02,007 --> 01:35:04,544
happening around the country
in lots of different industries.

1451
01:35:06,312 --> 01:35:08,414
And these women are
going to be attacked.

1452
01:35:10,383 --> 01:35:11,750
Undermined, discredited.

1453
01:35:13,386 --> 01:35:14,987
That's absolutely going to happen.

1454
01:35:17,690 --> 01:35:22,261
FARROW: It's easy to forget just
how recently it seemed impossible

1455
01:35:22,261 --> 01:35:24,463
to talk about Harvey Weinstein.

1456
01:35:24,463 --> 01:35:27,366
There is a Harvey Weinstein
in every industry,

1457
01:35:27,366 --> 01:35:30,869
and there are people
who are still vastly powerful

1458
01:35:30,869 --> 01:35:35,274
and around whom people
are still terrified to tell the truth.

1459
01:35:37,577 --> 01:35:42,682
So after this interview, I'll go back
to struggling with brave sources

1460
01:35:42,682 --> 01:35:44,750
to see if they're willing
to take that risk

1461
01:35:44,750 --> 01:35:47,353
of putting their name on tough stories.

1462
01:35:47,353 --> 01:35:49,888
That challenge still goes on every day

1463
01:35:49,888 --> 01:35:52,725
for people facing abuse
all over the world.

1464
01:36:13,045 --> 01:36:14,714
DE LA HUERTA:
It's not over.

1465
01:36:17,683 --> 01:36:19,051
It continues.

1466
01:36:19,051 --> 01:36:21,186
♪

1467
01:37:01,427 --> 01:37:03,429
♪

1468
01:37:31,691 --> 01:37:33,693
♪

1469
01:38:28,347 --> 01:38:30,349
♪