Mayor de Blasio offered a mild rebuke Friday to comedian and campaign fund-raiser Louis C. K.
Mayor de Blasio, after ripping into accused sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, offered a milder rebuke Friday to comedian and campaign fund-raiser Louis C. K.
The stand-up comic issued a wide-ranging apology Friday for his inappropriate sexual behavior with five women, eliciting a tepid City Hall response.
“These are obviously troubling reports,” declared a mayoral spokesman. “We don’t have anything to add beyond that.”
But as the sexual abuse charges against Tribeca-based moviemaker Weinstein piled up earlier this year, the mayor took a harder line.
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“I think there’s a problem in our society with powerful, well-connected men getting away with too much,” he said at a BuzzFeed forum.
He’d previously demanded all politicians return any Weinstein donations.
“Get the hell away from (the money),” he said. “No one in their right mind should be keeping contributions from Harvey Weinstein.”
In May 2016, Louis C. K. hosted a $250-a-ticket Brooklyn Bowl fund-raiser for the mayor’s birthday.
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A review of donations shows the comedian did not give any money to the mayor’s reelection campaign, and his appearance for de Blasio was unpaid.
A Daily News FOIA request turned up an email between Hizzoner and the comedian referring to Louis C. K.’s angry March 2016 rant comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
“Hey Bill: Your call really made my day so thank you,” C. K. wrote.
“It’s funny that I told you how apolitical I am and then yesterday stepped in the biggest political s— pile in history.”
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In addition to the fund-raiser, Louis C. K. also appeared in a skit with de Blasio at the annual Inner Circle charity show in 2015, and de Blasio appeared as himself on an episode of the comic’s show “Horace and Pete” last year.
