Harvey Weinstein dismissed his accusers and insisted on his innocence in a brand new jailhouse interview, calling his previous habits “immoral” however not unlawful.
Talking with right-wing commentator Candace Owens in a dialog she partially launched on YouTube Tuesday, the disgraced producer, who’s at the moment being retried for rape in New York, repeated his declare that he was “wrongfully convicted,” whereas admitting to creating “mistakes” in his transactional relationships with ladies within the movie trade.
Addressing Gwyneth Paltrow’s accusations that he got here on to her after casting her in 1996’s “Emma,” Weinstein stated, “It’s a complete fabrication, you know, about my relationship with Gwyneth. I didn’t put my hands on her. I didn’t touch her.”
Paltrow advised The New York Occasions in 2017 that, 20 years earlier, Weinstein invited her to his room on the Peninsula Beverly Hills, touched her, and advised she let him give her a therapeutic massage.
Weinstein acknowledged he “made a pass” at her throughout what started as a enterprise assembly.
“As I was walking out the door, I said, ‘I’d love you to give me a massage.’ And that was it. I didn’t put my hand on her. I didn’t touch her. I definitely made a pass… but that was the sum total of that situation.”
Weinstein confirmed that Brad Pitt, who was courting Paltrow on the time, confronted him afterward. “She did have Brad call me, and Brad, very manly, very cool, just said, ‘Don’t do that again.’ And that was that.”
Representatives for Paltrow didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
Weinstein additionally took concern with Paltrow portraying herself as a susceptible younger star, describing the daughter of producer Bruce Paltrow and actor Blythe Danner as somebody who didn’t want his assist to achieve Hollywood.
“She’s the daughter of a wealthy TV producer, a great man, and Blythe Danner, a great actress, with Steven Spielberg as her godfather,” he stated. “She didn’t need me to succeed. She could have just said, ‘Harvey asked me for a massage. I’m never working with him again.’”
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Calling their 11-movie run collectively a “great partnership,” he denied Paltrow’s claims that the dynamic was “abusive.”
“Anybody who was there, who witnessed that relationship, it just turned into total friends,” Weinstein stated. “There’s pictures of her hugging me when I was sick and in the hospital and didn’t think I was gonna make it in 1999.”
“Gwyneth, at the Golden Globes, said, ‘Bomber, we miss you.’ She got up and made a speech about me,” he stated. “Nobody asked her to do that. In her Academy speech, she thanks me.”
Weinstein additionally addressed rape allegations from actor Rose McGowan, claiming their 1997 encounter on the Sundance Movie Pageant was consensual and that he solely paid her $100,000 to cover his infidelity from his spouse.
“I settled with Rose McGowan,” he advised Owens. “I gave her $100,000, you know, to say…just don’t tell my wife, don’t get me in trouble.”
