Weinstein has ‘paid ex-mossad

HARVEY Weinstein allegedly hired ex-mossad agents and an “army of spies” to dig into the lives of actresses and journalists he feared would expose sex abuse claims against him.

Invoices appear to show he agreed to pay $600,000 – £457,000 – for information that would stop the press publishing allegations of rape, abuse or harassment against him. The claims in an article by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker magazine were denied by a Weinstein representative.

Farrow alleges that among the security agencies Weinstein, 65, began hiring in 2016, was Black Cube, which is largely run by former officers of Israeli intelligence agencies, including Mossad. Farrow said: “The explicit goal of the investigations, laid out in one contract with Black Cube, signed in July, was to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against Weinstein.”

Weinstein is also alleged to have used the Kroll and PSOPS agencies.

The report claims that two Black Cube investigators met the actress Rose Mcgowan, 44, who later publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to get information. Farrow claims one of the investigators pretended to be a women’s rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with Mcgowan.

The same agent also spoke to reporters to try to find out their sources.

Weinstein or the agencies allegedly also hired their own journalists to interview alleged victims. One focused