For now we can only encourage more folks to speak truth to power. And, a growing list of famous white women are finally starting to name names, including Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Rosanna Arquette, Kate Beckinsale and others who admit they were sexually harassed by Weinstein when they were very young aspiring actresses. I think Rose Cowan is a badass survivor. I've seen powerful men steal a woman's fight too often. May Cowan always keep her fight. I like her and Kate Beckinsale's statements the most because they're the first I've heard say Weinstein is not the only such serial rapist and predator in Hollywood.
Other victims, like Italian film actress and director, Asia Argento, told the The New Yorker that Harvery Weinstein raped her. She too was smeared and ostracized.
One TV reporter said Weinstein lured her to a private corner in a restaurant, masturbated in front of her and forced her to be silent and watch him.
The allegations detail how the powerful predator used his high level Hollywood contacts, access, credibility and wealth to suppress his disgusting deviancy from public view with a slew of sexual abuse settlements, nondisclosure agreements, monetary payoffs, and legal threats. (See, Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades.)
Actress Rose Cowan said Weinstein raped her and then she was ostracized in the industry. She faced a smear campaign calling her a slut and a gold digger. She says she was humiliated and initially forced to remain silent because the Miramax founder was a big movie executive who purchased her ex-boyfriend's movie.
A pattern emerges.
The reports I've reviewed show how Weinstein used his employees and others in the industry, dependent on him for work, to facilitate liaisons. He was able to get away with his abuses because the culture of impunity and silence of other powerful men, women and businesses, covered up his deviancy. The staff at the luxury hotels? Perhaps distraught victims complained to the hotel management. If they didn't call the police, are they part of the networks of accomplices facilitating moguls luring vulnerable women on the pretext of considering them for movie roles? Also, the talent agencies that set up the appointments essentially procured the women for him.
If there's a Weinstein criminal prosecution, I hope the case won't be swept under the rug in the slap-on-the-wrist-manner of financier and convicted pedophile, Jeffrey "the Lolita Express" Epstein.
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Stop the Humanitarians
Privately a Sexual Predator, Publicly A Champion of Women
In public, Weinstein presented himself as a champion of women. He won tons of humanitarian awards. England nearly made him "Sir Weinstein" for his many Shakespearean-themed movies.
If you just look through YouTube, you'll see how the very same movie insiders who presented these awards and made the glowing speeches apparently knew the dirty secrets of the sexual predator. But went along for the money, for the fame, for fear of getting whitelisted.
While Weinstein was using the exclusive Savoy Hotel in London or the Beverly Hills hotel in Hollywood as his hunting ground for assignations - regularly demanding sex from aspiring actresses, models and even raping some according to the allegations - his company was also distributing "The Hunting Ground," a documentary about campus sexual assault.
He hosted fundraisers for former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, the self-described champion of woman and children causes and Barack Obama. Both are the supposed lion and lioness of American progressiveness. Yeah, right.
In fact, the New York Times also reported, Weinstein helped endow a faculty chair at Rutgers University in Gloria Steinem's name. Steinem is the white feminist guru (and a former CIA operative of course.) Apparently, Weinstein was also front in center, walking in a women empowerment parade during a Sundance Film Festival.
His profile as a humanitarian, like that of Bill Clinton and Paul Farmer - the UN Envoy and Deputy Envoy to Haiti, respectively, are long and often-repeated. The dirty realities, the hanging out with the convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, not so much.
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