1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000 REPORTERS: Harvey! 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,800 Harvey! Harvey! 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:10,960 This Sunday the 90th Academy Awards will take place. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,320 For the first time in many years, one power figure 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,600 will not be welcome. 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,080 More than 100 women have now come forward with stories 7 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:24,280 of sexual harassment, assault and rape going back decades. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,200 I just remember feeling so small. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,400 And so inconsequential, and so powerless. 10 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:41,280 Had me groped. 11 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Very tired. 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I was trying to resist and say no. 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,560 You know in that moment that you may not make it. 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:49,640 It's not about sex. 15 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,800 It's not about sex, it's always about power. 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,160 It's part and parcel of doing business in Hollywood. 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,520 This is a filthy stables and Harvey is merely the guy who has taken 18 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:08,680 the biggest dump in it. 19 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,160 This is the inside story of how one of Hollywood's most powerful men 20 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,160 suppressed allegations of sexual abuse for decades. 21 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,560 Harvey Weinstein had an incredibly complex machine designed to maintain 22 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,880 silence around this. 23 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,560 We got very angry and said, I've investigated you, 24 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:29,760 and you're not so clean, so be careful. 25 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:34,840 It saddens me that everyone woke up because of Harvey Weinstein. 26 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,080 On the other hand, thank God we've woken up. 27 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,520 I was just out of acting school, going on auditions 28 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,480 and pounding the pavement. 29 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,080 The first time I met him was in his office. 30 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:05,240 It was at a meeting set up by my agents. 31 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:11,040 The first moments of that meeting were very easy, breezy, casual. 32 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,280 And I felt very much like he was going to take care of me. 33 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,520 It was 1994. 34 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:22,000 Actress Katherine Kendall thought she was about to get her big break. 35 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,760 She'd been invited by Harvey Weinstein to a movie screening. 36 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,680 He sent his driver to collect her. 37 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,320 Once I got there, I realised it wasn't a special screening 38 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,160 with cast and crew. 39 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,800 It was just a movie. 40 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,520 I knew I'd been had. I mean, I knew I'd been tricked. 41 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,560 I wanted to leave. 42 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,840 He said, I'll take you home. 43 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:59,720 We ended up stopping at his house. 44 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:06,040 And then I ended up going up, probably against my better judgment. 45 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:10,360 Once I was in there, we had an hour-long conversation 46 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,920 about movies and film and books. 47 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:16,400 It was almost like he had my playlist. 48 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,000 And he knew exactly what book to talk about. 49 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,280 And he knew that book, the way I knew that book. 50 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,520 And he knew who to quote and what passage to quote. 51 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,560 And he knew the author, and he had the rights 52 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:29,000 to that book, actually. 53 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,200 He was going to make a movie of that book. 54 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,320 I kind of got up to leave, or get my stuff. 55 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:44,600 And he went into the other room and he came back with a robe on. 56 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,640 And the robe was just an open robe. 57 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,520 I didn't even look to see, you know... 58 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:56,760 I was just so stunned. 59 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,600 There was no, like, suave moves or anything. 60 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,600 There was just a really weird, awkward, "Will 61 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,200 you give me a massage?" 62 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,240 I had to say, just no. 63 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,600 He said, well, a lot of other people do it. 64 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,280 I mean, so-and-so does it all the time, and she's one 65 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:18,440 of my really good friends. 66 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:19,880 I said no, I'm not comfortable. 67 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,600 At one point he said... 68 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,080 If you won't let me kiss you or touch you or something, God, 69 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,800 I don't know, will you at least lift up your shirt and show me your tits? 70 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,200 He left the room and he came back. 71 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,240 And this time when he came back, he was just fully naked. 72 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,320 I thought, he's coming after me. 73 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:46,560 You know in that moment that you may not make it. 74 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,840 I said, you know, I can't believe you're doing this to me. 75 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,320 You are undermining me in a way that is so painful, you know? 76 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,200 And he... 77 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,080 I mean... 78 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:11,920 I don't know if he heard me, but he may have. 79 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:17,200 I was able to finally get a way out. 80 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,320 I knew that if I went up against Harvey Weinstein, 81 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,320 just instinctually, I would be squashed. 82 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,960 So, I was scared. 83 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,880 So, I didn't say anything. 84 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,960 To the people that might have been able to help me. 85 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:58,880 It began in Buffalo. 86 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:03,560 It all began in Buffalo. 87 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:08,000 It was a brash young fellow from Flushing, Queens, 88 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,080 who arrived here as an 18-year-old freshman at the 89 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,680 University of Buffalo. 90 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,760 I believe he only put in a year before he was just kind 91 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,360 of mesmerised by all of the opportunities 92 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:24,440 that awaited him here. 93 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,120 In Buffalo, Harvey Weinstein built up a successful career 94 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:32,000 in the music business. 95 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,680 Then, in 1980, he made his first film. 96 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,720 24-year-old Paula Wachowiak applied to be an intern. 97 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,680 And he said, how would you like to work on a movie I'm making? 98 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,600 So, I was excited. 99 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,840 I thought, yeah. 100 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:56,480 It was a gory film about a guy that comes back for revenge 101 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,240 and murders people. 102 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,720 During filming, Paula says she was asked to take some cheques 103 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,120 to Harvey Weinstein's hotel room for him to sign. 104 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,040 I opened the door. 105 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,200 He was standing there, and he had a hand towel around his waist. 106 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,240 So, all these things started flying through my head, how calm 107 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,560 he was without his clothes on. 108 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,880 Which to me seemed unusual. 109 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,040 I handed him the folder, and he dropped the hand towel. 110 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:35,960 And all the while he's asking me questions about cheques. 111 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,520 And he sat down on the bed. 112 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,520 And he plopped the folder on his lap. 113 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,720 And then he started saying, what about this one? 114 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:46,720 And he's pointing. 115 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,360 And I'm not going to look down. 116 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,880 So I say, which one is that, Harvey? 117 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,320 Then he said, I have a crick in my shoulder. 118 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,480 He said, could you give me a massage, could 119 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,960 you rub it out for me? 120 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,840 And at that point I looked at him and I said, Harvey, 121 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,080 I don't think that's in my job description. 122 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,520 At the end of the shoot, he said to me, just in this tone... 123 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,440 IN A SMUG AND FLIRTATIOUS TONE: So, was it the high point 124 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,960 of your internship to see me naked? 125 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,560 And I looked at him and I was like, Harvey, no, you disgust me. 126 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:36,520 And he laughed. 127 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:49,280 Harvey Weinstein soon left Buffalo for New York City. 128 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,160 Here, with his brother Bob, he grew the company that 129 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,560 would make them famous - Miramax. 130 00:08:57,560 --> 00:08:59,480 They saw themselves as artists. 131 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,360 Outsiders to the Hollywood system. 132 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,200 At Miramax we are not under that corporate pressure to say, Jesus, 133 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,320 we've got to go up each year. 134 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,880 We can do what we think is good, and if our profits are lower next 135 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,120 year than they were the year before, so what. 136 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,960 So what, as long as we did good work. 137 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:23,840 I first met Harvey when he started to come over to the UK. 138 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,240 What made Harvey so successful is there is nobody around 139 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,520 who works harder than him. 140 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,160 Seemed to be able to speed read, could consume books, 141 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,480 articles, films, scripts, at a phenomenal rate. 142 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:40,680 Seems to have a photographic memory. 143 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,080 And he used that to power this kind of insatiable lust for success. 144 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,440 Miramax's niche became making the kind of movies that mainstream 145 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,280 Hollywood studios had ignored. 146 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,200 With a script or a book, I try to do what would appeal to me. 147 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,400 And I'm not here to do the mainstream movies. 148 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,760 I want to take the audience on an incredible journey. 149 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,800 He became, basically, the quality judge for a lot 150 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,440 of independent cinema for many, many years. 151 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,480 At least two decades. 152 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,920 And it was because he had an instinct for intense emotions. 153 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,000 And he could understand the basic nature of drama in ways that many 154 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,720 business people wouldn't. 155 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,640 Come on, we got 'em. 156 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,920 Miramax was working with some of Hollywood's top talent. 157 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,200 In 1992, Sean Young starred in their new film, Love Crimes. 158 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,240 Who are you? 159 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,800 District attorney, asshole. 160 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,800 It was about a man who poses as a photographer so he 161 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,400 could prey on women. 162 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,640 I play a character who discovers this sexual predator 163 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,080 and then tracks them down. 164 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,920 The wire went out, I wanted to get him on a felony 165 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,200 and I needed him on tape. 166 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,840 I was sitting in Harvey's office after the picture. 167 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,240 And this is the only time this has ever happened 168 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,520 to me, he pulled his... 169 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:17,760 Thing out, and my response was, you know, Harvey. 170 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,520 I really wouldn't be pulling that thing out, 171 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,920 because it's really not pretty. 172 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,720 And I got up and I left. 173 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,240 Actresses are expected to be obedient, talented, and, 174 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:36,520 depending on the person, available. 175 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,360 But I upset a few important men. 176 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,600 And the trajectory of my career went wooo... 177 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,160 The reason I didn't get another movie with Harvey Weinstein was that 178 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,880 I made him feel foolish. 179 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,960 In 1993, Harvey Weinstein cut a deal that gave Miramax 180 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:18,320 massive financial clout. 181 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:23,600 They were now being bankrolled by the Disney company. 182 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:24,000 Miramax was one of the hottest production companies in the world. 183 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:32,000 And Harvey Weinstein was its leading man. 184 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:35,160 Working at Miramax was like being in a cult. 185 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,640 The cult of Harvey. 186 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,680 I took the job in 1995 as president of production for Miramax. 187 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,600 It was a long process of seduction from Harvey. 188 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,400 I knew I was making a deal with the devil. 189 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,000 I knew he was a bully. 190 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:00,200 I knew he was a dangerous character. 191 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,040 But I knew also that he was at the epicentre 192 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,480 of where I wanted to be. 193 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:12,600 Once the deal was done, everything changed. 194 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,920 In one of my first production meetings at Miramax, 195 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,240 Harvey was getting angrier and angrier, as he often did. 196 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:25,440 He turned to me, his president of production and said, 197 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,360 "Well, what do you think, Mr President of production?!" 198 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,080 So, immediately shrinking me to kind of micro size. 199 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,000 And then he proceeded to say something else. 200 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,280 I said, Harvey, that's not true. 201 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,880 And that was a cue for a tirade of abuse, basically. 202 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:45,840 Which, you know... 203 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:50,360 I still remember with horror. 204 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:55,600 People that I knew within the company were afraid. 205 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:03,000 They all knew that they had the potential to work 206 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:03,640 on great movies, OK? 207 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,600 And the question was always, is that worth it? 208 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:07,640 Oh, my love. 209 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:09,680 I thought you were dead. 210 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:12,680 A part in a Miramax film could mean artistic 211 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:17,800 credibility, fame and awards. 212 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:23,440 In 1998, 26-year-old Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in Shakespeare In Love. 213 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,600 The movie propelled her to international stardom 214 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,600 and won both Paltrow and Harvey Weinstein an Oscar. 215 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,920 This is a movie about life and art. 216 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,360 And art and life combining is called Magic. 217 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,200 However, an ugly story had begun to circulate around Hollywood. 218 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,080 We had heard that Gwyneth Paltrow had been assaulted. 219 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:55,320 We heard it from a director who was very upset about it. 220 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,480 And we thought, well, yeah, we've got to try and do this. 221 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,400 Kim Masters was a journalist working in Hollywood 222 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,040 with contacts inside Miramax. 223 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,560 Intermittently we would call someone we knew who worked 224 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,920 there, someone who left. 225 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,280 But it was just, there was no path forward at that point at all. 226 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,040 If you called their publicist and said I want to talk 227 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,640 to Gwyneth Paltrow because I heard she was attacked by Harvey 228 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,960 Weinstein, you can imagine how that phone call would go. 229 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,240 It would be short. 230 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:30,440 Last year, Gwyneth Paltrow went on the record about the rumours. 231 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,400 She didn't accuse Harvey Weinstein of assault but told reporters that 232 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,240 when she was 22 years old he had sexually harassed her. 233 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,200 He'd suggested a massage in his hotel bedroom, 234 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:46,360 which she'd refused. 235 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,200 I remember one executive saying that there are people 236 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,760 who are famous, and there are people who are not famous. 237 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:57,360 And I was, like, OK the famous people are not going to want to go 238 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,560 there, but what about those who are not famous. 239 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,760 So, the question was who were they, and we never got a name. 240 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,720 I mean, we never got a single name. 241 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,680 Harvey Weinstein had a small army of assistants, 242 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,760 usually young women. 243 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,720 Bright and ambitious, but with little experience 244 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:19,040 in the world of work. 245 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:24,160 For four years, Zelda Perkins was employed in Miramax's London office. 246 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,840 He had a repertoire that included constant requests of massage, 247 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,760 constantly appearing in the room undressed. 248 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,120 His first meeting would usually be 8:30 in the morning, 249 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,560 and generally when you turned up he would still be in bed. 250 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,800 So, he would have a habit of trying to grab you from the bed 251 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,400 and say come on, you know, come and have a cuddle, 252 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,480 come and lie down. 253 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,880 The first time that I travelled alone abroad with him, 254 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,760 he insisted that I went into the bathroom while he had a 255 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:01,040 sauna because he needed to do work. 256 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:06,480 And he was reeling off names of all the actresses that he had had 257 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,800 some sort of sexual relations with, or had given him 258 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,200 massages, or whatever. 259 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,320 And I remember looking round at him and saying, 260 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,480 how do you look at yourself in the mirror? 261 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:21,600 How do you do that? 262 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,640 I can remember him looking back at me utterly nonplussed, 263 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:29,920 and saying I have no problem at all. 264 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:42,720 The Venice Film Festival in 1998 was when things 265 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,280 really came to a head. 266 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:51,520 I had a new colleague with me who was there to assist with Harvey. 267 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:59,560 She came to me in a very distressed state, and told me 268 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:07,840 that he had assaulted her, that he had attempted to rape her. 269 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,960 I was completely sideswiped by this, because I honestly never 270 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:16,160 believed that Harvey would physically overpower anybody. 271 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,920 I went straight to Harvey and confronted him, and he swore 272 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,240 on the life of his wife and children that absolutely 273 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,800 nothing had happened. 274 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,360 I was very aware of his tactics, and swearing on the life of his wife 275 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:38,560 and children was a very familiar get out of jail card. 276 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,640 Back in the UK, Zelda and her colleague quit Miramax 277 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:46,880 and took legal advice. 278 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,920 There didn't seem to be any recourse in terms 279 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:57,120 of bringing Harvey to justice. 280 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,960 We had no physical proof, we hadn't gone to the police in Venice. 281 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:08,200 Really the only option that we were given was to request damages. 282 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,560 During the negotiations, Zelda and her colleague agreed 283 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,000 a payment of £125,000 each. 284 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,400 They were asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement, 285 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,880 common in many media organisations. 286 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,960 But her agreement went further than most. 287 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:33,200 This wasn't a normal confidentiality agreement. 288 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,920 This wasn't us saying that we weren't going to give 289 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,000 away corporate secrets. 290 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,200 This was a deeply personally binding agreement. 291 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,160 Harvey Weinstein has admitted that over the last 30 years he's 292 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,120 settled up to nine claims of harassment against him. 293 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:56,360 When he settled with Zelda Perkins, it was his brother and Miramax 294 00:19:56,360 --> 00:20:01,560 co-founder Bob Weinstein who provided the money. 295 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:07,120 He has said that he believed it was to conceal affairs. 296 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:12,400 The use of NDAs on behalf of Weinstein was an enabling factor. 297 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,280 It allowed him to silence complaining victims and just see it 298 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:20,520 as a cost of doing business. 299 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 And learning that he could successfully use NDAs to buy 300 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,960 silence, he also knew that he had nothing to fear from continuing 301 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,560 with the behaviour that led to the problem in the first place. 302 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,600 And again, and again, and again. 303 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:41,840 Zelda had been silenced, but she was determined to fight back. 304 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,960 She wanted better protection for women in the company 305 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,600 and a clause in the agreement that could see him fired 306 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,040 if he paid off anyone else. 307 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,640 And that wasn't all. 308 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,720 We insisted that he had to go to therapy, and I had to be present 309 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:02,000 in the first therapy session to make sure that he talked 310 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,280 about the issues, and that there had to be a big new HR policy that 311 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,640 informed all employees of their rights. 312 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,160 Zelda successfully pushed through most of her demands, 313 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:18,040 but when it came to the therapy sessions there was a stalemate. 314 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,840 They kept holding us off and holding us off, 315 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,560 and to be honest I was exhausted and pretty broken from 316 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:28,800 the whole experience. 317 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,640 And I gave up, I gave up pushing, and I actually... 318 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,880 I went abroad for a while. 319 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,560 And so I have no idea whether he complied 320 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:44,800 with the therapy or not. 321 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,960 So you take your cheque, and you try to deal 322 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,680 with it as best you can. 323 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,960 He got away with it for years just on the strength of that. 324 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,400 Only a small circle of people knew about the allegations being levelled 325 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:13,120 against Harvey Weinstein. 326 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:15,480 However, some of those who worked for him were beginning 327 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:20,400 to connect the dots. 328 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,480 I think we were all complicit because you were in there, 329 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,880 you are in the company, it was part of doing 330 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,600 business at Miramax. 331 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:35,240 My memory is that I was fully aware that Harvey was a serial womaniser, 332 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,080 that there would be times when you'd be kicked out of the suite 333 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:44,320 of the Savoy or the Peninsula Hotel in LA, and he would entertain. 334 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,960 But I think it didn't take too much brain power to put it together that 335 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,680 a man who was so abusive and bullying in every aspect 336 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,760 of his life would bring that abuse into the sexual arena. 337 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:04,120 I think, looking back, that I did know and I chose to suppress it. 338 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,760 I chose to hide from that fact. 339 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:13,200 Could I have done anything at the time? 340 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,640 Well, I know that I prevented my assistant being called 341 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,240 to the Savoy Hotel late at night. 342 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:22,520 I said no, you can't go. 343 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,800 So, obviously I was aware of that. 344 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,560 I didn't have the guts to do anything about it, 345 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:33,720 I think the deal I'd made with the devil was to my advantage. 346 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,760 Harvey Weinstein was now Hollywood's most powerful 347 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,960 independent film producer, and a regular at film festivals. 348 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:50,080 At Cannes, his films had won the top prize three times. 349 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,800 A number of women also say they were harassed or assaulted 350 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,520 by Harvey Weinstein here. 351 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,720 In 1998, I was 24, modelling around the world. 352 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,520 I thought I was tough. 353 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,720 Zoe Brock joined the head of her modelling agency 354 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,720 on a private trip to Cannes. 355 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,960 She hoped it would help her career. 356 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,280 I flew to the south of France, and we were taken into 357 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,720 the Majestic Hotel to have dinner. 358 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:30,000 That was where I was sat next to Harvey. 359 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,280 As the evening was drawing to a close, Zoe's friends got 360 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:38,520 into a taxi and she says Harvey Weinstein offered her a lift. 361 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,000 Then Harvey told us that he'd spoken to everybody 362 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,840 and that they were going to join us at the Du Cap, where he was staying, 363 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:51,080 which is 30 minutes out of Cannes and quite remote. 364 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:52,640 My friends were never coming. 365 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,000 That was a blatant lie. 366 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,800 When they arrived at the hotel, Harvey Weinstein's 367 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:04,120 entourage also melted away. 368 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:06,960 Zoe believes that he engineered the evening so that she would 369 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,560 end up alone with him. 370 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,680 I was in this crazy old hotel in the middle of nowhere, 371 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:19,240 and I remember sobering up, fast. 372 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:24,800 And then Harvey walked back in and he was naked. 373 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,720 And that's a sight. 374 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,560 And I think Harvey knows what a sight that is, 375 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,240 and that's part of it. 376 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,640 You know? 377 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,240 It's stunning, it's stunning and discombobulating, 378 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,120 because this person has been acting like a mentor, making you feel 379 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,880 like you're fabulous. 380 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:53,040 And all of a sudden there's a dick in your face, literally. 381 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,240 So he's negotiating, he's negotiating massage. 382 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,600 I want a massage, come on give me a massage. 383 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,600 You know, let me give you a massage. 384 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:05,840 And he's rapid-fire and he takes control of the situation. 385 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,160 I very cautiously and unwillingly let him manoeuvre me 386 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:17,440 into his bedroom, and he started to massage my shoulders. 387 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,960 Within seconds I knew that there was no way this 388 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,440 was happening, and I got up, and I bolted into the bathroom. 389 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,680 And he chased me. 390 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,320 I remember locking the door and him being on the other 391 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:39,160 side of it and banging. 392 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,080 That's when I strangely channelled this weird anger, 393 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,920 and I was fucking furious. 394 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:51,200 I screamed at him, put your fucking clothes on you naughty fucking boy! 395 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,440 And I meant it. 396 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,520 And it worked. 397 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,800 I came out of the bathroom and he was apologising, 398 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:07,080 and he started to cry. 399 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,760 He said something that I have never forgotten, 400 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,120 and I never will for the rest of my days, in between his tears, 401 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:23,280 "you don't like me because I'm fat." 402 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,520 Harvey Weinstein has not denied Zoe Brock's allegations, but says 403 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,800 she is publicising her lawsuit for damages against him. 404 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:35,920 The number of women allegedly harassed by Harvey Weinstein 405 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,680 was growing, but it was still only industry insiders who had 406 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,160 heard the stories. 407 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,440 And if journalists got too close, Harvey Weinstein had friends 408 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:51,680 who could help him out. 409 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,760 Harvey liked to have a good relationship with the media. 410 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,760 I guess because I'm a Brooklyn guy and he's a Queens guy, 411 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,280 and most gossip columnists tend to be gay or women or Brits, 412 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:06,120 and I was none of those things, he took to me. 413 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:08,600 We'd spend some time on the phone shooting the breeze 414 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,920 about what went on last night, where were the parties, 415 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,000 what did you do. 416 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,960 You know, just a couple of guys talking. 417 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,560 Benza says he'd heard nothing about sexual misconduct, 418 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,200 but he did pick up a tip about his friend having an affair. 419 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,880 I called him and he said it's not true, it's not true, it's not true. 420 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,680 And then he called back and said OK, there's something to it. 421 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,400 Let's try to work this out. 422 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,760 And he said look, I can't afford this bad publicity, 423 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,600 I can't afford it. 424 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,000 Benza says they cut a deal. 425 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,120 He was paid to supply celebrity gossip to Harvey Weinstein 426 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,400 so he could trade it with reporters who dug up dirt on him. 427 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,640 The gossip industry is run on the barter system. 428 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,120 If I've got a story about you and you don't 429 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,280 want to print it you say hold it, I'll get you something better. 430 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,000 And I'll say, you've got an hour. 431 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,640 And you'll come back in 15 minutes with a better story, 432 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,760 and I'll print the other story and save you. 433 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:07,840 That's done every day. 434 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,280 So what Harvey and I were doing, it's always done. 435 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:16,400 Harvey Weinstein denies there was any such deal. 436 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:24,920 TINA BROWN: The real Harvey was a very dark, very paranoid man. 437 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,520 He was just obsessed with knowing where the remote glimmer of a piece 438 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:34,720 of bad press came from. 439 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,320 And I mean really trivial. 440 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,520 In 1999, Harvey Weinstein had acquired a new way 441 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,280 to control his public image. 442 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,000 He set up his own magazine and a publishing house. 443 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,120 It was my idea to create a magazine that was a search engine 444 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,200 culturally for movies, documentaries that could be a place 445 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,400 as a centre of thought. 446 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,000 That's about the best thing that I ever came up with, 447 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,720 the rest of it is Tina Brown's. 448 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,920 When I went to work for him, I found that the creativity 449 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:10,600 was really completely a sidebar. 450 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,920 The fact is that he really just wanted to control me and it. 451 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,560 For him to have a magazine like Talk was a way for him surround himself 452 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:19,600 in press protection. 453 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,560 Tina Brown believed that he was commissioning articles 454 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,880 from journalists who had stories about him he didn't want published. 455 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,120 I would be continually getting calls from journalists who would say, 456 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,680 "I saw Harvey last night and he commissioned a piece 457 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,720 for me about whatever." 458 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,480 And I would think, I don't want you writing for this magazine. 459 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,400 I mean, it was usually some gossip columnist or some kind 460 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,560 of somewhat nefarious writer of tabloid journalism. 461 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,640 Over in the publishing division, Tina Brown discovered that 462 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,480 Harvey Weinstein was giving out book deals to people who 463 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,720 had never written before. 464 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,720 One of them was a stewardess on a Miramax plane. 465 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,520 So it was, what was that for? 466 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,640 Was it because she'd seen things he wanted to make sure didn't come 467 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,680 to the light of day? 468 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,120 Or was she somebody that he found attractive? 469 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,400 I had no idea, but there was this book advance with no due date. 470 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,200 That was the clue. 471 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,880 Despite Harvey Weinstein's control of parts of the press, 472 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:24,000 journalist Kim Masters was still pursuing her story. 473 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:30,280 I met him at the Peninsula Hotel for the first time face-to-face. 474 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,200 I had written something he didn't like, so he comes in very 475 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,680 aggressive, yelling and screaming. 476 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,600 "Why do you write this shit about me?! 477 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,040 What have you heard about me?" 478 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,280 And I sort of had this now or never think, and I said, 479 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,720 "I've heard you raped women." 480 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,120 He did not seem shocked or outraged. 481 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,000 You would expect a normal person to say, what, how dare you. 482 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,240 There was none of that at all. 483 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,920 Harvey Weinstein confirms this exchange took place. 484 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,120 He says he denied it and wasn't shocked because he was already aware 485 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,440 of a rape allegation, which he says was false. 486 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,560 He kind of believed, as he did with reason for years to come, 487 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,520 that he was going to be untouchable. 488 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,960 In 2002, four years after leaving Miramax, Harvey Weinstein's former 489 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:24,160 assistant Zelda Perkins got a call out of the blue. 490 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,960 I picked up the phone and this gentleman asked me directly 491 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,520 about whether I had an agreement with Harvey Weinstein. 492 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,120 She was frightened. 493 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,000 And when I got her on the phone, she was really terrified. 494 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,160 How did you find me? 495 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,080 I think I might have even said, yes, when he said, do 496 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,680 you have an agreement with Harvey, and then panicked and said, 497 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:47,760 no, no I haven't. 498 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,120 Yes I have! 499 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,120 No I haven't! 500 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,520 I can't talk to you. 501 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,440 I just knew that one thing I absolutely, on fear of death, 502 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,840 I wasn't allowed to talk to a journalist. 503 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,440 Zelda Perkins did not say any more to Ken Auletta. 504 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,680 But like Kim Masters before him, he confronted Harvey Weinstein. 505 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:13,680 I said, Harvey, tell me about Zelda Perkins. 506 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:18,920 He rose and he clenched his fists and he raised his shoulders 507 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,880 and he said, "This is a f..." 508 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,000 You can imagine "..an outrage," and he started screaming at me. 509 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,640 So I thought, he's going to throw a punch at me. 510 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:37,720 So I stood up. 511 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,680 And at that point, Harvey started to cry. 512 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,280 It was extraordinary. 513 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,120 And what he said was, Ken, you're going to ruin my marriage. 514 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,520 These were consensual relationships and if you publish this you're 515 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,040 going to destroy my family. 516 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,120 I wish I could have nailed the guy in 2002. 517 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,400 The problem I had was that I couldn't prove it. 518 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,520 Clearly, people knew or suspected that Harvey 519 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,240 was a predator, a sexual predator. 520 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,920 And they kept their mouths shut. 521 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,040 Three years later, Bob and Harvey Weinstein left Miramax 522 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,520 and started the Weinstein Company. 523 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:21,080 There followed an award winning run of commercial and critical hits. 524 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:23,920 Thank you, Harvey Weinstein. 525 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,080 And of course, Harvey. 526 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,440 Harvey, thank you for killing whoever you had to kill 527 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:30,880 to get me up here today. 528 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,680 LAUGHTER. 529 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,760 I just want to thank my agent, Kevin Huvane, 530 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:38,920 and God - Harvey Weinstein. 531 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,840 LAUGHTER. 532 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:46,040 APPLAUSE. 533 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,600 Feted by Hollywood's A-list, he was 534 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,200 still able to persuade young actresses to meet him in hotel 535 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,680 rooms. Often here in Beverly Hills. 536 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,080 The Peninsula Hotel served as not just an office 537 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,040 for Harvey Weinstein when he was in LA, outside 538 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,400 of the official office for his company, but also was kind 539 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:11,680 of ground zero for his predatory behaviour. 540 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,160 In 2011, he invited actress Jessica Barth 541 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,600 for a business meeting here. 542 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,800 He said that there was a role in Sarah Jessica Parker's new film. 543 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,880 And then it very quickly shifted to asking me to give him 544 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,120 a naked massage in the bed. 545 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:34,440 And I was like, I'm married. 546 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,920 I said, you are too, right? 547 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:44,120 And he said, yes, but we have an arrangement. 548 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,480 I said, you know what, Harvey, 549 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,160 I'm about done with this conversation right now. 550 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:55,320 So I left, I shut the door, and I burst into tears. 551 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,520 I told my mother, and she was devastated for me. 552 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,640 And then I told Seth MacFarlane. 553 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,400 He was a close friend of mine. 554 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,000 Good morning. 555 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,360 I'm Seth MacFarlane, the host of the Oscars. 556 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,360 The 2012 nominees for best performance by an actress 557 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:16,480 in a supporting role are... 558 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,760 When I first saw Seth say the joke at the Academy Awards I was shocked. 559 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,400 Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be 560 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,440 attracted to Harvey Weinstein. 561 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:32,600 LAUGHTER 562 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:36,640 I was like, good, I'm glad he just did that. 563 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:40,040 I don't think people knew the extent of what this man was capable of. 564 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,440 He definitely had a reputation in Hollywood, but I guess 565 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,760 they still wanted to make movies and collect their awards 566 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,360 and go on their merry way. 567 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:51,600 Harvey Weinstein has not denied Jessica Barth's account. 568 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,480 Stories about Harvey Weinstein's predatory behaviour were now 569 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,160 well known in Hollywood. 570 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,640 He commanded a movie empire and was also growing a TV division, 571 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,520 working with broadcasters around the world, including the BBC. 572 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,240 His longest running show is Project Runway. 573 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:12,120 Welcome to the runway. 574 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,240 As you know, in fashion, one day you're in, 575 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:19,440 and the next day, you're out. 576 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,320 Aspiring models and designers fought it out to launch their careers. 577 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,120 I mean, as a man, I can tell you that I like 578 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,600 girls to look like that. 579 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,400 It's my belief that Harvey has structured his professional life 580 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:36,720 in order to have access to women. 581 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,960 He's used the movie industry to have access to women. 582 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,000 And he's done exactly the same thing with the modelling industry. 583 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:49,880 In 2014, Kadian Noble was building a career as a model. 584 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,840 She first met Harvey Weinstein at a Bafta party in London. 585 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,480 There's Oprah Winfrey, there's Naomi Campbell. 586 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,080 The champagne is flowing. 587 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:09,280 There is everyone just gliding across the room. 588 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,920 I was stood by the bar when Harvey looked at me and he called me over, 589 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,160 is he talking to me! 590 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,240 He said to me, it's going to be good for you, I have 591 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:25,480 something in mind for you. 592 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,080 I was just thinking, oh my god, oh my god, 593 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,000 this is really happening. 594 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000 The next time I bumped into Harvey Weinstein was May 2014 595 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,080 at the Cannes Film Festival. 596 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,760 I was in the lobby at the Majestic Hotel. 597 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,400 And he approached me and again, I am, oh my God. 598 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,480 He said he hadn't had time to look at my showreel 599 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,320 but if I was willing to go up with him to have a look at it. 600 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:01,600 Of course I have it with me, why not. 601 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,840 We walked it up to his room, his suite. 602 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,160 He asked me to have a seat on the sofa. 603 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,800 He then looked at me and said, I want to know 604 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,000 that you really like me. 605 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,600 And I said to him, what do you mean? 606 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,240 I was really confused because I'm thinking, what do you mean? 607 00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:21,840 Genuinely, genuinely confused. 608 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:26,360 Then he gripped my arm in a forceful way. 609 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,880 Really holding onto my arm. 610 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:36,160 He led me into the bathroom. 611 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:41,040 Kadian says that Harvey Weinstein then sexually assaulted her. 612 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:45,520 He pulled my dress down and I wasn't wearing a bra. 613 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,440 He was rubbing my breast. 614 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,680 He had me gripped. 615 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,000 Very tight. 616 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,080 And I was trying to resist and say no. 617 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:58,880 I was saying, why. 618 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:04,160 He was telling me to relax, relax. 619 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,240 He was using his leg to stroke my vagina from behind. 620 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:13,480 Pressing his leg from behind me. 621 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:20,200 He turned me around whilst he unbuckled his trousers 622 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:26,600 and exposed his penis and said to me, "Don't worry, I'm not 623 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,800 going to ask you to suck it." 624 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,440 And he started to masturbate himself. 625 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:37,520 And he forced my hand and used my hand to help him with the process, 626 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,800 until he ejaculated all over the bathroom floor. 627 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,480 He just stepped over as if nothing had happened. 628 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:02,520 And that was our moment in the Majestic Hotel, May 2014. 629 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,080 It's not about sex. 630 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:18,520 It's not about sex, it's always about power. 631 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,640 There's something particularly violent about stories about Harvey. 632 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:34,440 There's like a ritualistic humiliation quality. 633 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:42,080 It's rage, and it's anger, and it's some form of deep-seated 634 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:52,040 power grab that goes way beyond the situation in the room. 635 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:57,800 For decades, Harvey Weinstein had managed to repress the stories 636 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,880 For decades, Harvey Weinstein had managed to suppress the stories 637 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,400 about his sexual misconduct. 638 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,040 In 2015, that changed. 639 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,680 Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's facing sexual assault 640 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,320 allegations this morning. 641 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,240 Police in New York confirmed they are investigating 642 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:16,480 an accusation against Weinstein. 643 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,680 The Daily Nnews broke the story initially, and it was... 644 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:24,320 You know, it was a fairly cut and dried story. 645 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,000 22-year-old Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez. 646 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:33,120 Was invited for a business meeting with Harvey Weinstein. 647 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,160 Ambra shows up at the offices in Tribeca of Harvey Weinstein. 648 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,680 The story that she told is that shortly after she came in, 649 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,280 Harvey Weinstein enquired about whether her breasts 650 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,840 were real or not. 651 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,720 He groped her breasts. 652 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:55,840 He reached up her skirt and he tried to kiss her. 653 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,480 Very quickly, it degenerates from her coming up 654 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,600 there to discuss her career, to her fighting this 655 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,520 guy off in his office. 656 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,280 Ambra went straight to the police. 657 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,240 Detectives put a plan in place. 658 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:11,360 Ambra would meet Harvey Weinstein at a New York hotel 659 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,480 the following evening. 660 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,360 This time she would secretly record the conversation. 661 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:24,160 After I left the hotel, I was with the police. 662 00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,240 They were super happy and saying, wow, now this person 663 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,280 is completely finished. 664 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:33,040 You saved a lot of women. 665 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,880 The NYPD arranges to speak with Harvey Weinstein. 666 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,360 He is denying that anything happened. 667 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:44,720 And they thought this was a prosecutable case, 668 00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:48,960 which leads us then to the Manhattan district attorney's office. 669 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:54,160 Before it got to the district attorney, Harvey Weinstein hired 670 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:57,120 a corporate intelligence firm called K2. 671 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:02,360 A former K2 employee agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. 672 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,440 Harvey Weinstein came to K2 initially with a matter 673 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:11,720 that they probably wouldn't take on if it was somebody else. 674 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,840 Nobody likes to develop information on somebody who is accusing a client 675 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,920 of sexual misconduct. 676 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,320 But Harvey Weinstein being Harvey Weinstein, 677 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,800 exceptions were made. 678 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:23,840 K2 says it won't comment on client matters. 679 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,720 Harvey Weinstein says he is entitled to defend himself 680 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:30,760 against allegations he knows to be false. 681 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:35,920 K2's brief was to find information that might undermine Ambra. 682 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:41,880 What they found was useful to Harvey Weinstein. 683 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,560 Stuff started leaking out of the Weinstein 684 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,080 camp about her past. 685 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,520 The New York Post then went after the Italian model 686 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,720 with a story, secret life of Harvey's shy accuser. 687 00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:54,400 The paper says that she once filed a sexual assault suit 688 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,760 against a 70-year-old, quote, sugar daddy. 689 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,280 It lasted for, like, a week. 690 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,520 Everything was about me being a blackmailer, 691 00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:09,800 me being a prostitute. 692 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:12,640 The press reports were based on evidence she had given 693 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,480 in an Italian court case. 694 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,720 She said she had been sexually exploited as 695 00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:21,680 a teenager by an older man. 696 00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:26,880 The district attorney asked her about the reports. 697 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,920 They were asking me questions like are these news real, like, 698 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,360 you're a prostitute. 699 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,680 I was asking them, did you hear the recording? 700 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,760 They were like, yes, I heard it, but you have 701 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,000 to explain this situation. 702 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,320 In Italy it's very confusing. 703 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,200 The district attorney needed to be sure she would be a credible 704 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:46,800 witness, but she had given conflicting accounts 705 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:51,080 of what had happened in Italy. 706 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,680 They were questioning me like I was a predator or something. 707 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,920 Like, guys, I mean, I'm the victim. 708 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,680 Journalists were briefed that Ambra would be a problematic witness 709 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,560 and that the tape didn't prove criminal intent. 710 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,680 There would be no charges. 711 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:14,000 Harvey Weinstein was off the hook. 712 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,880 You know, when I look back at that time, nobody seemed to take a really 713 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,120 hard look at Harvey Weinstein, but everybody just focused 714 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:24,160 on Ambra and nobody focused on the guy that she accused. 715 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,640 With no prospect of a prosecution, Ambra's lawyers thrashed 716 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,240 out a settlement. 717 00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:33,800 Harvey Weinstein would pay her $1 million. 718 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:38,360 It came with a nondisclosure agreement. 719 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,720 There is a list of different things I can't do, 720 00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:46,040 and first of all is silence. 721 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,200 Even today, Ambra feels she has to remain silent on what happened 722 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,760 in Harvey Weinstein's office and the hotel the following day. 723 00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,000 Step back, step back, step back. 724 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,640 Harvey Weinstein's reputation was intact. 725 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,600 Thank you, Harvey. 726 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,320 And he still had his powerful friends. 727 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:13,320 Harvey Weinstein was protected by the liberal political system. 728 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,280 He rallied a lot of money in that community and was known 729 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:21,200 for supporting good causes. 730 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,360 Over the years he had helped raise millions for Aids research. 731 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:29,560 I'd like to open the bidding at $50,000. 732 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,080 But in 2015, at the charity where he was a patron, 733 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:37,600 there was a problem. 734 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,560 A dispute over the proceeds of a fundraising auction. 735 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,640 The charity hired a lawyer to look into precisely 736 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,720 what happened to the money. 737 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,160 During the course of our investigation we had 738 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,880 to interview people. 739 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,280 We would say to them, why did it go here, 740 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,360 why did it go there? 741 00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,920 The response we would get would be, well, before we get into that, 742 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,880 do you know that Harvey Weinstein rapes women? 743 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,640 Do you know that Harvey Weinstein is a sexual predator? 744 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,200 Now, we had no proof of that, but this is what we were hearing. 745 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,400 It was very disturbing. 746 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,080 Word about this got back to Harvey Weinstein. 747 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:19,320 He asked Ajamie to meet. 748 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:25,600 He said to me, Tom, you're spreading rumours about me raping women. 749 00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,680 And my response was Harvey, I'm not saying that, 750 00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,320 the community is saying that about you. 751 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:35,040 And at some point he got very angry and said, 752 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,840 you'd better be careful, Tom, because I've investigated 753 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:43,000 you and you're not so clean, so be careful. 754 00:49:44,720 --> 00:49:47,880 When the meeting ended, he ran up to me and got very close 755 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,640 to my face and said please, please don't tell anyone. 756 00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,760 Man-to-man, don't tell anyone what you've learned about me. 757 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:58,960 And I said Harvey, I can't do that. 758 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:04,440 He walked out, he got into the elevator, and I saw a very 759 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:09,280 sad and desperate man who was now sticking his fingers in various 760 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:13,160 parts of the dyke and trying to prevent the water from leaking 761 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:18,320 out and the entire dam from falling and crashing down on him. 762 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,800 By now, the rumours had reached the ears of magazine 763 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,800 and newspaper editors. 764 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,440 They set their reporters to turn what had been Hollywood gossip 765 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:35,640 into publishable fact. 766 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:41,760 Harvey Weinstein was deploying extreme countermeasures. 767 00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:44,600 I encountered more fear really than I'd encountered 768 00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,480 with any other story. 769 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,160 I needed women who were willing to go on the record, 770 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,360 and I just couldn't get them to do that. 771 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:56,840 One woman, calling herself Anna, seemed unusually willing to talk. 772 00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,280 I was approached by a woman who claimed to be a victim 773 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,120 of Harvey Weinstein's, but it was very unusual 774 00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:07,280 because I didn't know her last name. 775 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,400 We met at a cafe, and the main dynamic of our conversation 776 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,480 was her pumping me for information and revealing almost 777 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:16,560 nothing about herself. 778 00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:21,800 Two weeks later she says she's going to be back in New York. 779 00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,280 I met with her, and she leaned forward the entire time. 780 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,680 I was immediately suspicious that she was 781 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,960 surreptitiously recording me. 782 00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,600 Months later we find out that she works for the Israeli 783 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,000 intelligence firm Black Cube, and her name is 784 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:41,320 Stella Penn Pechanac. 785 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,920 One of the firms behind those undercover agents was Black Cube, 786 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,560 an Israeli firm that on their website touts the fact 787 00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,720 that there are former Mossad agents in their chain of command. 788 00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:55,760 They really pride themselves on being the most elite 789 00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:00,000 at this kind of work. 790 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,240 False identities, front companies, really the most elaborate kind 791 00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:07,400 of human intelligence work in the world. 792 00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,760 Harvey Weinstein had hired Black Cube to stop negative stories 793 00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:15,680 about him being published. 794 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,040 They contacted former employees, journalists and an actress who had 795 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,880 accused Harvey Weinstein. 796 00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:25,000 Rose McGowan said he'd raped her. 797 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,440 A woman named Diana Filip reached out to Rose McGowan, 798 00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,280 and over the ensuing months infiltrated herself 799 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,960 into Rose McGowan's life, became her friend, they had ice 800 00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,600 cream together, and it was all completely fake. 801 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,320 This woman, Diana Filip, secretly recorded tens 802 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:45,520 of hours of audio of her, and routed back to Weinstein. 803 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,280 Diana Filip was in fact Stella Penn Pechanac, 804 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,160 the same Black Cube agent who had tried to find out what 805 00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,880 Ben Wallace was up to. 806 00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:01,760 Harvey Weinstein denies raping Rose McGowan, 807 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,600 and says hiring Black Cube wasn't an attempt to cover up abuse 808 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:10,880 but to investigate facts to show that no abuse occurred. 809 00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,120 Harvey Weinstein had now deployed all the weapons at his disposal, 810 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:33,240 but journalists were still coming for him. 811 00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:36,920 This was Harvey Weinstein's last stand. 812 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,800 In those frantic final days, a war room of sorts started to assemble. 813 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,320 Anyone who could be useful in forestalling 814 00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,880 publication was brought in. 815 00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:52,640 He used everything at his disposal. 816 00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:56,080 Every contact, money, relationship, favour that had been owed. 817 00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,840 He called in every chit. 818 00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:03,080 He was fighting like hell. 819 00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,680 Things were really amped up, and it seemed like it was coming 820 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:08,720 apart at the seams. 821 00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:13,960 And then it did. 822 00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,720 NEWSREADER: The New York Times is reporting bombshell allegations... 823 00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:19,560 A scorching expose detailing decades of rape, sexual assault... 824 00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,720 Nearly 60 women now accuse of misconduct ranging 825 00:54:21,720 --> 00:54:25,240 from sexual harassment to rape. 826 00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:28,520 I never thought there was ever going to be a day 827 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:32,320 where I would have ever had a voice. 828 00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,120 I felt this man had such high walls built up around him, 829 00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:40,320 I thought he was untouchable. 830 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,640 Realising that he was a serious predator, and he had been 831 00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:48,600 seriously abusing people, abusing them with total 832 00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,840 impunity for all this time. 833 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:54,920 And to have any part of your life linked 834 00:54:54,920 --> 00:55:00,160 with that is deeply upsetting. 835 00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,400 The New York Times published allegations of sexual misconduct 836 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:08,480 against Harvey Weinstein. 837 00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:08,920 More serious allegations would follow in the New Yorker magazine. 838 00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:18,160 In a statement he said listen, I'm going to take a leave of absence 839 00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,520 and go and work on myself. 840 00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,360 But simultaneously he was also threatening to sue 841 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:28,600 the New York Times for our story. 842 00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:43,640 In the full glare of the media spotlight, he was fired 843 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:48,840 from his own company. 844 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:53,880 Then, the Attorney General of New York launched legal action. 845 00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:58,240 Had there been a cover up inside the Weinstein Company? 846 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:01,400 There were lots of complaints, not one formal investigation 847 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:02,840 by human resources, by the corporation 848 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,160 into Harvey's conduct. 849 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,640 It's sort of unfathomable. 850 00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:11,880 It is very difficult for anyone who looks at the documents that 851 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:16,680 we've seen to believe that there wasn't at least some 852 00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,040 knowledge that he was engaged in sexual misconduct. 853 00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:25,280 We've never seen anything as despicable as this. 854 00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:42,360 Harvey Weinstein's PR people say he's in therapy. 855 00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,720 He's said he still hopes to make a comeback. 856 00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:47,200 I've got to get help, guys. 857 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:48,240 You know what? 858 00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:49,240 We all make mistakes. 859 00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:51,920 Second chance, I hope. 860 00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,240 OK? 861 00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:55,680 He doesn't sound sad and dejected. 862 00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,200 He sounds a little bit... 863 00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,280 ..A little bit humiliated, but I think he's gearing up for the fight. 864 00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,880 I would not bet against him, I really wouldn't. 865 00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:09,160 I think Hollywood is a toxic place. 866 00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:12,040 This is a filthy stables, and Harvey is merely the guy who's 867 00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,480 taken the biggest dump in it. 868 00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:16,880 I think Harvey's career is over. 869 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,920 But, you know, who knows? 870 00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,520 Anything can happen. 871 00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:25,640 HE CHUCKLES. 872 00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:30,880 Police in LA, New York and London are now investigating allegations 873 00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,120 made by 16 women of sexual assault, including rape, stretching 874 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:38,040 back to the 1980s. 875 00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:39,760 Harvey Weinstein has denied all claims of 876 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:45,000 nonconsensual sexual conduct. 877 00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,600 The concentric spreading circles from the stone dropped into the pond 878 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,720 are spreading into British politics, into American politics. 879 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,120 It's such an old story. 880 00:57:56,120 --> 00:58:00,920 Women have been putting up with this stuff for years. 881 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:06,000 Since I started speaking out about this, I actually have been 882 00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:10,120 so moved by how many people have come forward. 883 00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,960 Like, something's changing, and I think we all feel it, 884 00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,280 and the time is now. 885 00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:20,480 But it wasn't then. 886 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:25,640 It saddens me that everybody woke up because of Harvey Weinstein. 887 00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:30,800 On the other hand, thank God we've woken up.