The stench of the “Weinstein Impact” continues to be lingering Monday, 5 years after mainstream studies of Harvey Weinstein’s darkish sexual reign of terror first got here to mild.
Writer Ken Auletta’s bombshell new guide, “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Tradition of Silence,” dives deep into the ugly fact of the disgraced movie producer’s downfall.
“[He] had some notion in his head that his physique was engaging,” the writer, 80, informed Fox Information, regardless of witness testimony that he smelled of feces, had genitals scarred to the purpose they “seemed like a vagina” and a again filled with “uncomfortable” blackheads.
Nonetheless, “he actually thought he was God’s present, a Don Juan,” added Auletta, who spoke to a number of former Miramax movie studio workers, Weinstein accusers and even the previous movie producer’s enterprise associate and brother, Bob Weinstein, for the exposé.
In a single chapter, the famed media critic for New Yorker journal recounts how Jessica Mann — an ex-actress who claimed Weinstein, 70, raped her — testified on the stand that he smelled like “poop” and his non-public components seemed “deformed.”
“I keep in mind the district legal professional handed round photos [at his 2020 trial] … and the jurors barely checked out them. They simply confirmed them to the following particular person. They have been that disgusted. They'd little interest in taking a look at these photos. I keep in mind I stored taking a look at Harvey. He would simply sit in his chair with out expression. Typically he fell asleep,” Auletta continued.
The Oscar-winning “Shakespeare in Love” producer is serving 23 years in jail following a rape and sexual assault conviction and a failed try to overturn his sentence.
Auletta additionally informed Fox Information how Weinstein’s victims have been afraid of exposing him on account of concern of his revenge.
“They have been afraid of difficult him and being referred to as liars,” Auletta mentioned. “They knew he would assault or castigate them. He had huge energy among the many press.”
He added that Weinstein was “keen to pay these girls a sum of cash to maintain quiet. And so long as they signed a nondisclosure settlement, they couldn’t inform anybody.”
“Finally, he had no compassion. He had no capability to grasp what he was doing to girls,” Auletta added.
Mann testified at Weinstein’s trial in 2020 how he had raped her in 2013 on the Midtown Manhattan DoubleTree lodge. She famous how his genitalia was so “deformed” and that he shot his penis with an erection drug moments earlier than their encounter.
“The primary time I noticed him absolutely bare, I felt, I believed he was deformed and intersex,” Mann mentioned through the court docket case.
“He has an excessive scarring that I didn’t know if perhaps he was a burn sufferer however it didn’t make sense. He doesn't have testicles and it seems like he has a vagina.”
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