Harvey Weinstein Kept Exposing Himself To Women. Then They Exposed Him.




Harvey Weinstein was Hollywood’s apex predator, the man at the top of a food chain that sparked the #MeToo movement. He ate young women alive, figuratively speaking: actresses, employees, and others unlucky enough to cross his path during his long career as a producer and studio head. All of it caught up with him after Ronan Farrow and other investigative reporters exposed an open secret in the film industry: Weinstein was a serial sex offender who had been buying off his accusers and silencing them with non-disclosure agreements. He has spent the past three years in prisons in New York and California after trials in both states led to sentences of a combined 39 years for crimes including rape, sexual assault, and “forced oral copulation.” Weinstein pleaded not guilty to all charges and is appealing his convictions.Not surprisingly, Weinstein hasn’t liked some of the terms of his incarceration. He has complained to a judge that his teeth are rotting and officials at one facility said he had to let them keep decaying or have them pulled by a prison dentist. He was unhappy because, he said, that the extractions would leave gaps between his teeth and he’d like a bridge. Could there be a more fitting affliction for a man convicted of “forced oral copulation”?You aren’t likely to feel too sorry for Weinstein after reading Catch and Kill, Farrow’s account of his Pulitzer-winning work on the story that helped to end the crime spree of the former head of Miramax Films. It’s a tale of two scandals: one in the film industry and the other in broadcast journalism. To all of it Farrow brings a unique perspective as the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen and as a reporter whose sister, Dylan, had accused Allen of…