New York Post

Scribe’s Harvey screed

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A Hollywood screenwrit­er who worked closely with Harvey Weinstein says “everybody” knew he was a serial sex pest — and is calling out colleagues who are claiming ignorance. “Everybody f - - king knew,” wrote “Beautiful Girls” screenwrit­er Scott Rosenberg in an explosive Facebook post, seen by Page Six. “And to me, if Harvey’s behavior is the most reprehensi­ble thing one can imagine, a not-sodistant second is the current flood of sanctimoni­ous denial and condemnati­on that now crashes upon these shores of rectitude in gloppy tides of bulls - - t righteousn­ess.” The “Con Air” scribe says he didn’t know about the rape allegation­s, but “everyone knew someone who had been on the receiving end of lewd advances by him” — including “repugnant bathrobe-shucking” and, “We were aware of a certain pattern of overly-aggressive behavior that was rather dreadful.” But, “here’s where the slither meets the slime: Harvey was showing us the best of times.” Weinstein even “once took me to St. Barts for Christmas. For 12 days!” he writes. Rosenberg is friends with Mira Sorvino and Rose McGowan and now is “sorry and ashamed” he was “complicit.” “Harvey was nothing but wonderful to me. So I reaped the rewards, and I kept my mouth shut. And for that, once again, I am sorry,” he wrote. “But you should be sorry, too.” He tells his Tinseltown colleagues, “With all these victims speaking up . . . to tell their tales. Shouldn’t those who witnessed it from the sidelines do the same? Instead of retreating to the cowardly, canopied confines of faux-outrage?”

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