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This is a terrible thing to say, but whenever I use this ^ photo, I imagine Bob and Harvey Weinstein toasting, “To rape!” Only this time, I think they’re probably toasting “to paying off all of the women Harvey raped!” Ronan Farrow published another exclusive with the New Yorker in the ongoing saga of Harvey Weinstein. This time, Bob Weinstein is in Farrow’s crosshairs. Apparently, Bob Weinstein was helping his brother pay settlements to Harvey’s victims. Which we sort of knew already, that the settlements were coming from The Weinstein Company, with Bob’s knowledge. Farrow says that Bob actually underwrote at least two settlements. You can read the full New Yorker piece here.

In April 20, 2015, the Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez sat in an office in midtown Manhattan with an eighteen-page legal agreement in front of her. She had been advised by her attorney that signing the agreement was the best thing for her and her family. In exchange for a million-dollar payment from Harvey Weinstein, Gutierrez would agree never to talk publicly about an incident during which Weinstein groped her breasts and tried to stick his hand up her skirt.

“I didn’t even understand almost what I was doing with all those papers,” she told me, in her first interview discussing her settlement. “I was really disoriented. My English was very bad. All of the words in that agreement were super difficult to understand. I guess even now I can’t really comprehend everything.” She recalled that, across the table, Weinstein’s attorney was trembling visibly as she picked up the pen. “I saw him shaking and I realized how big this was. But then I thought I needed to support my mom and brother and how my life was being destroyed, and I did it,” she told me. “The moment I did it, I really felt it was wrong.”

Weinstein used nondisclosure agreements like the one Gutierrez signed to evade accountability for claims of sexual harassment and assault for at least twenty years. He used these kinds of agreements with employees, business partners, and women who made allegations—women who were often much younger and far less powerful than Weinstein, and who signed under pressure from attorneys on both sides.

Weinstein also hid the payments underwriting some of these settlements. In one case, in the nineteen-nineties, Bob Weinstein, who co-founded the film studio Miramax with his brother, paid two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, roughly six hundred thousand dollars today, to be split between two female employees in England who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault. The funds came from Bob Weinstein’s personal bank account—a move that helped conceal the payment from executives at Miramax and its parent company, Disney, as well as from Harvey Weinstein’s spouse.

In an interview, Bob Weinstein acknowledged the personal payout but said that his brother had misled him about the reasons behind it. “Regarding that payment, I only know what Harvey told me, and basically what he said was he was fooling around with two women and they were asking for money,” Bob Weinstein told me. “And he didn’t want his wife to find out, so he asked me if I could write a check, and so I did, but there was nothing to indicate any kind of sexual harassment.” A former senior Miramax executive said that it was implausible that Bob Weinstein did not know about the nature of the allegations, which were reported to the company.

[From The New Yorker]

Ronan also got another woman to go on the record: Zelda Perkins, a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein, who says that her sexual harassment and assault claim was settled with money from Bob Weinstein. When Perkins settled, she demanded “requirements specifically intended to prevent Weinstein from continuing to victimize women. The settlement mandated that Weinstein receive treatment from a psychiatrist of Perkins’s choice and that Disney be notified of future harassment settlements made by him.” Except that didn’t happen, because Bob Weinstein and the men of TWC helped protect and insulate Harvey Weinstein from truly paying for his many crimes for years. They enabled him. Bob enabled him. And I don’t believe Bob was ever completely in the dark about what his brother did.

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