Harvey Weinstein fired from his own company
Tales of 3 decades of sexual misconduct do in high-profile producer
Harvey Weinstein has officially been ousted from his own company.
In the wake of a blistering New York Times report that detailed nearly 30 years of his sexual misconduct, the embattled movie mogul has been “terminated, effective immediately” from The Weinstein Company.
Weinstein Company representative Nicole Quenqua sent a statement Sunday to USA TODAY from The Weinstein Company’s board of representatives: “In light of new in- formation about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company — Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar — have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately.”
Weinstein began his “indefinite” leave of absence last Friday as The Weinstein Company board ran a “thorough” investigation into the sexual allegations made against its co-founder.
On Saturday, civil-rights attorney Lisa Bloom resigned as Weinstein’s adviser.
Right up until the announcement of Weinstein’s firing, Hollywood was reacting to news of the Times report.
Whenever Weinstein “would come up in conversation, there was always this ‘ick’ or ‘ugh’ type of reaction,” American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy said Saturday at the New Yorker Festival, according to Vulture.
Murphy, who was in a conversation with New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum, said he didn’t know about any “personal abuse stories” about Weinstein.