Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein in trouble

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The Hollywood mogul has enlisted a team of attorneys to fight planned articles that are said to be about his personal behavior.
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In addition to his usual attorney David Boies, Weinstein also has engaged Lisa Bloom, a Woodland Hills, Calif.-based lawyer and television personality specializing in sexual harassment cases (and the daughter of Gloria Allred), as well as Charles Harder, the Beverly Hills-based litigator who represented Hulk Hogan in the invasion of privacy trial that brought down the Gawker website. Other lawyers also are said to be advising the mogul. "Harvey Weinstein is obviously excellent at assembling a legal team," said Bloom in a statement.

Several crisis PR consultants also are involved, according to sources.

The subject of the media outlets’ reporting is said to be Weinstein himself and not the business operation of the Weinstein Co. Whether either or both publications ultimately publish a story in the face of an onslaught of pushback from Weinstein's lawyers remains to be seen.
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Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Battling N.Y. Times, New Yorker Over Potentially Explosive Stories (Exclusive)

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Senior and Podhoretz aren't the only people to have heard stories of despicable behavior from Weinstein. A New York-based tabloid journalist told me recently that a model friend of his encountered Weinstein at a North American film festival a few years ago. According to her story, Weinstein told her that if she wanted to act, she should come to his office—at which point he proposed a threesome between the two of them and Olivia Wilde. (The model declined both the threesome and the meeting, and, fearing retribution from the famously vindictive Weinstein, has so far declined to go on the record with the story.)

Another journalist we spoke with had heard similar stories, all secondhand—an indie film producer had told her that stories of Weinstein's behavior will "make Bill Cosby look like a monk." People in the film industry, she said, understand Weinstein's M.O. to be the following: he holds "casting sessions" at his office on Friday evenings when he can be alone, and that he greets women in his bathrobe.

But while stories of Harvey's manipulative bullying and violent aggression are widespread (here's a quick bullet-pointed rundown), rumors of the powerful producer leveraging his industry power for sexual satisfaction—consensual or otherwise—have tended to remain unaired, confined to hushed conversation and seedier gossip-blog comment threads.
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Tell Us What You Know About Harvey Weinstein's "Open Secret"

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