Oh, good God. Too many women have come forward about him for the case against him to be pure lies.
Sorry to disagree with you, as I do love your avatar and I think the wolf is a beautiful animal.
He went after his young employees, too. These women weren’t actresses. A lot of them came forward.
Actually he didn't go after his female employees Sci-Five. Weinstein was an expert manipulator - with a fearsome temper, and he needed these ladies to say nothing and work hard and support him, provide cover you could say, but it was more subtle than than that - also he needed skilled and sharp employees, not bimbos; Miramax was an incredible company in its heyday; extraordinarily successful - and Harvey Weinstein, was an extremely talented and shrewd producer. He did monstrous things, but he was a genius in his own way.
When it came to paying them, he paid these women top dollar; he is a horrible man, but he is not a stupid man. How do you think he got away with it for so long?
When these former employees came forward (some of whom had signed non discloser agreements when they went to work for him - and were later offered extremely generous settlements just to say no more), it was to tell their stories; the funniest are by the secretary / assistant who was responsible for picking up his vast Viagra prescriptions, and how they now realize they were virtually being complicit because they didn't say anything and didn't report what they saw.
You know Weinstein was married to an astonishingly beautiful young wife - a former model, for 10 years and had two children with her.
Not defending Weinstein, but this story is a complex one, a lot of things and people, inadvertently and advertently, enabled him and his foul behaviour.
It is always interesting to me how Ronan Farrow had to persuade Asia Argento that Weinstein sexually abused her and took advantage of her because of the power dynamic etc etc. Argento, BTW, is one tough cookie, with, shall we say, a very European attitude to sex.
When she was making a film for his company, Weinstein did come to her apartment and implore Argento ,and beg her, to have sex with him She said no. So he said "please let me go down on you and perform cunnilingus on you, that's all Ill do". She said he went on and on, begging her".
So she reckoned "oh well maybe if I just let him do it, he will stop bugging me". Which he did, she said he seemed pleased when he was finished. And he said goodbye to her fondly when he left soon after.
They didn't meet again, but two years later she finds herself in big financial trouble and pregnant, no one is helping, but Harvey without being asked sends her a cheque, a fucking big one, and he is happy to be able to do it, asking nothing in return or for his generosity to be made public.
So it took a while for young Ronan Farrow to convince Asia Argento she was victim, but convince her he did.
Argento , however, isn't mentioned much these days because she has been creditably accused of sexual assault - well she admitted to it - by a young actor she seduced when he was 17 and underage.
Not defending Harvey Weinstein, just saying not everything is black and white. Life is more nuanced.