“Miramax was absolutely a cult, the cult of Harvey, and that’s how he got away with his behaviour for so long,” said Webster.
Webster admitted that Weinstein’s predatory behaviour towards young women was common knowledge but that the culture of Miramax led them to “compartmentalise it”.
He would flatter people, get the best out of them and then dump on them really, really hard to destroy them.
Miramax was bought by the Walt Disney Co in 1993, and Weinstein left there in 2005, setting up the Weinstein Company thereafter.