The embattled movie mogul has been „terminated, effective immediately“ from The Weinstein Company.
Harvey Weinstein has officially been ousted from his own company.
In the wake of a blistering New York Times report that detailed nearly 30 years of his sexual misconduct, the embattled TV producer has been „terminated, effective immediately“ from The Weinstein Company.
Weinstein Company representative Nicole Quenqua sent a statement Sunday to USA TODAY from The Weinstein Company’s board of representatives: „In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company — Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar — have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately.“
Weinstein began his „indefinite“ leave of absence last Friday as The Weinstein Company board ran a „thorough“ investigation into the sexual allegations made against its co-founder.
Right before the official announcement of Weinstein’s firing, Hollywood was still reacting to news of the Times report.
Weinstein does know his “way around an Oscar-winning lady or two, and whenever he would come up in conversation, there was always this ‘ick’ or ‘ugh‘ type of reaction,“ American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy said Saturday at the New Yorker Festival, according to Vulture .
Murphy, who was in a conversation with New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum, said he didn’t know about any „personal abuse stories“ about Weinstein, but noted that the film industry has „changed radically just in the last two years.“
“I see it every day — how men in the business used to behave and now how quickly you are slapped to the ground if you try that in a corporate environment.”
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Director Rob Reiner said this about Weinstein’s film on campus assaults Saturday at the festival: “Harvey Weinstein funded the movie The Hunting Ground. How do you do that?“ Reiner added, as Deadline reports, “He’s one schmuck who did what he did. But there are a lot of great people in Hollywood who don’t do stuff like that.“ Reiner, who was there discussing his new film LBJ, said, „We have to create a safe atmosphere where women are able to tell their stories.”
There was also reaction to another part of the Weinstein scandal: The resignation of the Weinstein’s civil-rights attorney Lisa Bloom as the producer’s adviser. Model and women’s rights advocate Amber Rose took to Twitter to defend her „dear friend“ Bloom after that news was out..
In Rose’s words, Bloom „was trying to give Harvey Weinstein a platform to right his wrongs, to educate him on his faults … and in doing so teach other men to not do the same thing!“ she tweeted. „Let’s not only continue to teach and help our ladies but the gentleman as well… We can’t constantly scream from the rooftops that we want equality… and not be willing to help men be better people as well.“
Rose called Bloom „one of the most amazing“ people who has „a higher level of thinking these trolls will never understand.“
Most of the reaction to Rose’s tweets pointed out that Bloom was going after the women who made accusations about Weinstein.
These recent responses follow those already made by stars including Amber Tamblyn, Rose McGowan and America Ferrera.
