In a statement published Thursday on the website of The New Yorker, “select members of the Weinstein Company staff” address the scandal.
Then there is the matter of those who worked directly for Weinstein, both at Miramax Films and later at the Weinstein Company.
The reporting on Weinstein, including by The New York Times and The New Yorker, has referred repeatedly to female assistants who conspired to leave Weinstein alone with various actresses, while the Weinstein Company itself reportedly had language in Weinstein’s contracts that essentially allowed him to commit sexual harassment without being fired.
The horrifying, seemingly never-ending revelations about alleged sexual abuses longtime Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein have raised a lot of troubling questions about who knew how much about Weinstein’s activities, and when.