I had no idea there was a Weinstein doc alongside MJ too at Sundance.

[Black Steph Curry]

@.the.bank.of.uptXwn. see it's bigger than defending a weirdo


You're falling for tha con

 

[MarcP]

Back in the early 2000s when Weinstein was first about to be exposed

Shortly after the news investigations of Mr. Weinstein’s alleged abuse were published, A. J. Benza, a former New York Daily News gossip columnist, received a two-word text from the producer: “Help me.”

Mr. Benza had been integral to the network of friendly journalists — gossip columnists, magazine writers, editors and authors — whom the producer relied on to promote his entertainment empire and sometimes punish rivals or deflect threats.

Over dinner in West Hollywood in late 2003 or early the next year, the men had discussed a plan to help Mr. Weinstein avoid embarrassment. While married to his first wife, he had become involved with someone else, Mr. Benza discovered. A clerk at a Los Angeles art studio where he commissioned a gift for Mr. Weinstein — a painting of a reimagined “Hollywood” sign reading “Harveywood” — volunteered to Mr. Benza that a friend, Georgina Chapman, was seeing the producer. Mr. Weinstein, who would later marry Ms. Chapman, was separated and wanted to keep the relationship confidential until he was divorced, according to his spokeswoman, Sallie Hofmeister.

Mr. Benza, then between jobs, had a suggestion. “I could supply your P.R. girls with a lot of gossip — a lot of stories — and if people come at them with the ‘Harvey’s having an affair story,’ they can barter,” Mr. Benza recalled telling Mr. Weinstein. “He said, ‘A. J., it’s got to be good stories,’ and I said, ‘Don’t you worry about it.’”


Collecting a monthly retainer, Mr. Benza said, he reported items on Roger Clemens, Michael Jackson and others and sent them to Mr. Weinstein’s communications team, though he didn’t know whether they were used to trade away stories about the producer. Mr. Weinstein’s spokeswoman said the payments to Mr. Benza were for public relations work during Miramax’s dispute with Disney.

After 10 months, Mr. Weinstein said, “I think the coast is clear; I think we beat this thing,” according to Mr. Benza, who recently had a brief stint as a writer for American Media and also runs his own gossip podcast, “Fame Is a bytch.”

Mr. Benza and Mr. Weinstein were exploiting a longstanding system of favor-trading between the press and the movie business. Gossip writers need a stream of insider scoops, industry beat reporters need exclusives on the next big deal and glossy magazines need celebrities who can drive newsstand sales. Mr. Weinstein, who wanted glowing coverage, could provide that and more.

The producer often held out business opportunities to those who covered him. He had book and movie deals with writers and editors at Fox News, The New York Post, Premiere magazine, Vanity Fair, Variety and elsewhere. In Mr. Benza’s case, a book contract came immediately after he left The Daily News. In interviews, several journalists who had business ties to him said the arrangements did not cause them to pull punches.

Weinstein’s Complicity Machine

 

[JackRoss]

They playin dirty out here broskis. Watch yourselves

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Y’all didn’t know this?

They ANNOUNCED the MJ doc at Sundance FOR this very reason - nobody even knew a documentary about Michael Jackson even existed until they got to Sundance

This is why that terrible movie had so much buzz around it

 

[HE_Pennypacker]

This is literally the first I’m hearing of this but where’s the Oprah special about this? Watch nothing serious happen to this guy

 

[010101]

@.the.bank.of.uptXwn. see it's bigger than defending a weirdo


You're falling for tha con

you are free to stand by who & whatever you choose*

 

[Black Steph Curry]

you are free to stand by who & whatever you choose*

Just tryna hip you to game being ran breh breh

 

[010101]

Just tryna hip you to game being ran breh breh

i don't play at all so who you telling¿*

 

[Cladyclad]

U can’t compare MJ to a dude nobody knows lol

This is the most famous man in the history of the world for Christ sake being accused of one of most evil acts.

 

[Complexion]

A comedian spoke on this a while back and said that every time something messed up in going on in the world they want to stop people looking at they'd drag MJ through the mud instead because they know he'd get bigger press.

Even in death the King remains the King.

 

[Black Steph Curry]

i don't play at all so who you telling¿*

Did you know about tha weinstein documentary? :goodshyt:

 

[010101]

Did you know about tha weinstein documentary? :goodshyt:

don't need the documentary to tell me that mj was living a weird lifestyle

nothing proven

but just off the fact no healthy normal grown ass man is surrounding himself with children in that manner

i only stand for myself the truth & what's righteous

it's every individuals job to move in a way that won't leave you vulnerable to defamation & mj was movingg all types of sus that's on him

*

 

[Knowledge]

interesting

 

[Black Steph Curry]

don't need the documentary to tell me that mj was living a weird lifestyle

nothing proven

but just off the fact no healthy normal grown ass man is surrounding himself with children in that manner

i only stand for myself the truth & what's righteous

it's every individuals job to move in a way that won't leave you vulnerable to defamation & mj was movingg all types of sus that's on him

*

Somebody can't read


Seeing what we want to see are we?

 

[010101]

Somebody can't read


Seeing what we want to see are we?

word to your mother i don't give a fukk about none of these fakkits or they life like that bro

smell that¿

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