Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
3 top movie makers ‘are sex fiends’
Blockbuster bosses Weinstein outrage ‘is are set to be implicated just tip of the iceberg’
and everybody in Hollywood is terrified of upsetting everybody else because they will lose their jobs and there’s a lot of money at stake. “I think that a lot of the women who are speaking now had to sign agreements. But nobody would dare sue a high-profile actress for breaking that agreement.” Yesterday the Manhattan district attorney’s office, working overtime sifting evidence on numerous sex assault allegations against Weinstein, was understood to be probing claims he used company cash to pay off some victims. A former Manhattan assistant district attorney told the Mirror. “If he used company funds to pay off these women he could be charged with a slew of finance offences.” Meanwhile, Scotland Yard said a child abuse and sexual offences unit will be looking into an alleged assault in the London area in the 1980s.
An executive at Amazon was also drawn into the scandal.
Actress Rose Mcgowan, one of the first women to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment, tweeted on Thursday: “HW raped me.”
The 44-year-old then made a series of claims in several tweets to Amazon chief executive and founder Jeff Bezos.
She wrote: “I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof.” The actress also claimed the studio had won a “dirty Oscar” and added: “I love @amazon but there is rot in Hollywood.” Yesterday Amazon said studio head Roy Price had been put on leave of absence “effective immediately” and it was “reviewing options for projects we have with The Weinstein Co”. Three women had previously accused Weinstein of rape, claims he denies. Actress Kate Beckinsale, 44, also told of an encounter with Weinstein when she was 17, claiming he came to a meeting in a bathrobe and offered her alcohol. Her revelation follows accusations from stars including Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Mira Sorvino and Cara Delevingne.