PULP FRICTION
Wife of movie big seeks order of protection
A MANHATTAN judge didn’t rule Monday on a request for an order of protection sought by the estranged wife of Hollywood honcho Bob Weinstein.
Anna Weinstein, who claimed in divorce papers she feared “bodily harm,” studiously avoided looking at her soonto-be ex-husband as they sat on opposite ends of a nearly empty Manhattan courtroom.
While her lawyers and his met behind closed doors with Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ellen Gesmer, Weinstein kept his nose buried in a newspaper.
She busied herself with a manuscript.
Weinstein wore a black suit with a white shirt that he didn’t tuck in. Anna Weinstein wore black slacks with a flowy, copper-colored blouse.
Their lawyers emerged and said bupkus — Gesmer had imposed a gag order barring them from discussing the case.
Anna Weinstein donned oversized sunglasses and ducked across the street from the courthouse into the Odeon Restaurant for lunch with her lawyers.
“Thanks for the photographers,” Weinstein grumbled at reporters when he left the courtroom.
Weinstein and his lawyers also walked into the Odeon but beat a hasty retreat when they realized the producer’s wife’s team was there.
The warring Weinsteins married in 2000 and have two children.
After his wife filed for divorce and sought an emergency order of protection on Friday, Weinstein issued a statement from a Washington-based “interventionist,” who said Anna Weinstein was reacting to a family attempt to deal with her “drinking addiction.” Anna Weinstein’s law- yers called the statement “wholly false.”
Weinstein and his brother Harvey are the brains behind Miramax Films, best known for movies like “Good Will Hunting,” “Pulp Fiction” and the “Scary Movie” series.