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Harvey Weinstein enlisted private security agencies staffed with operatives “Highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units” to collect information on women and journalists who tried to expose sexual harassment allegations against him, according to an explosive story by Ronan Farrow published in the New Yorker on Monday.
“Over the course of a year, Weinstein had the agencies ‘target,’ or collect information on, dozens of individuals and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories,” Farrow reports.
“Two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met with the actress Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her,” Farrow reports.
“One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan. The same operative, using a different false identity and implying that she had an allegation against Weinstein, met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press.”
The story, more than any I’ve read since The New York Times broke the Weinstein story last month, answers that pesky, perennial question: Why didn’t all these women come forward sooner?
“One report on McGowan that Ness sent to Weinstein last December ran for more than 100 pages and featured McGowan’s address and other personal information, along with sections labeled ‘Lies/Exaggerations/Contradictions,’ ‘Hypocrisy,’ and ‘Potential Negative Character Wits,’ an apparent abbreviation of ‘witnesses. One subhead read ‘Past Lovers.'”.
Harvey Weinstein hired private spies to silence accusers, journalists, report says .