New York Daily News

Lawyer: Harvey a big error

- BY NICOLE BITETTE

LISA BLOOM regrets ever signing on to represent disgraced Hollywood honcho Harvey Weinstein as more and more women have come forward accusing him of sexual misconduct.

The high-powered attorney — who became a champion for women’s rights by representi­ng clients like Janice Dickinson against Bill Cosby and Blac Chyna in her revenge porn case against Rob Kardashian — was skewered on social media when news broke she would be representi­ng Weinstein.

“I can see that my just being associated with this was a mistake,” Bloom said in an interview with BuzzFeed News posted Saturday morning.

“All I can say is, from my perspectiv­e, I thought, ‘Here is my chance to get to the root of the problem from the inside.’ I am usually on the outside throwing stones. Here is my chance to be in the inside and to get a guy to handle this thing in a different way,” she explained.

“I thought that would be a positive thing, but clearly it did not go over at all.”

Bloom (photo) dropped Weinstein as a client on Oct. 7 after more allegation­s of sexual harassment and abuse emerged. She suggested in an email to his team that “there will be more and different reporting” regarding more people coming forward.

Her emails came before the New Yorker published its own bombshell report, revealing three women accused the film producer of rape.

Just one day prior to dropping Weinstein as a client, Bloom said in an interview that he was an “old dinosaur learning new ways.”

Bloom’s own mother, Gloria Allred, even acknowledg­ed she wouldn’t have signed on for such a case.

“I would have declined, because I do not represent individual­s accused of sex harassment,” Allred said.

“There is definitely a rift with my mother now,” Bloom told BuzzFeed News.

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