Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

just jonesing for plaudits

pathetic

won't someone think of the rapist

Drudge had the best headline: "BEST ACTOR?"

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein set Elon Musk's brother up with a girlfriend in effort to get close to the Tesla founder, sources tell @beckpeterson and @johnjcook https://t.co/ha8w2gUqUU

— graham starr (@GrahamStarr) January 13, 2020

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets.

idgi tbqh

half-joke a) this sounds like a Perrin premise that is failing to keep up with the on-the-nose-ness of reality

half-joke b) there is a busy and very relevant Jeffrey Epstein thread that might have taken this up for discussion, and also a busy Elon Musk thread, both of which you have eschewed in favour of a less relevant thread, in the same quixotic manner that you dispatch Perrin into the churning sails of other threadmills

i can't keep up w/ all the sizzlin' threads

Epstein, Weinstein, Monet, Manet...

musk's bro looks like a cursed amalgam of musk and ted bundy

The Onion can still deliver from time to time:

Increasingly Unwell Harvey Weinstein Arrives To Court As Jar Of Ashes https://t.co/z3GpY27TCD pic.twitter.com/TOVe1rkkTs

— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 14, 2020

lol

pic is great

welp


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/arts/music/grammys-deborah-dugan-harassment.html


Ms. Dugan’s 44-page complaint details her clash with a number of powerful men at the academy during her tenure of just five months. But her accusations also represent an indictment of the academy itself, which has struggled to reform its reputation after coming under harsh criticism for its poor record recognizing women and people of color in the major categories.

The document, filed with the E.E.O.C.’s Los Angeles office and technically called a charge of discrimination, alleges that Ms. Dugan’s predecessor, Neil Portnow, had been accused of rape by an artist, and that the academy’s board had been asked to approve a bonus for him even though all of its members had not been told about the accusation. The complaint has little detail about the accusation, but said that a psychiatrist had said that the encounter was “likely not consensual.”

It also says that Ms. Dugan herself had received unwanted sexual advances from Joel Katz, a powerful industry lawyer who represents the Grammys.

wow. gonna get uglier still i imagine.

hfs @ this Annabella Sciorra testimony

there's more than what she has already come forward with?

well she testified in court about it today, I'm not sure how detailed her past comments were.

I just love her and feel so bad for her :(

her previous recounting of the details of her experience was graphic enough to have made an impression on me. i felt the same way -- total disgust and repulsion for the monster who would treat the exquisite goddess Annabella Sciorra with such contempt

Yeah exactly

i mean, treating serious people with contempt is the fetish, right?

That’s not a fetish that’s a major malfunction

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/jessica-mann-harvey-weinstein-trial-testimony.html

I qwish someone had told me not to read that.

typo

I quite wish someone had told me not to read that

welp, i won't then!

Jesus, yup.

you guys did and I still did and why did I

guilty on two counts: first degree sexual assault and third degree rape

YES!!!!
I was nervous about the verdict. GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-qJrhGnp3rCT9A-7VncF3jO0JWAbYRXyV4uk6XNS-xytZzEq53KydTDyWoSzPf9zEPZ4p2Zc25URijBwy88pahYQ0434YBB9DfNR1gTNXxAZEs8myQA

stoked for his entirely non-suspicious cell suicide in 3 weeks

Two not guilties and an acquittal though :(

whatever
he got some guilties

He is guilty!!!

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sex act in the first degree involving one woman and rape in the third degree involving another woman.

A New York jury acquitted the disgraced movie mogul on the more serious charges of predatory sexual assault involving the two women, Miriam Haley and Jessica Mann.

In doing so, jurors indicated that they did not find beyond a reasonable doubt that Weinstein had also raped Annabella Sciorra, another victim whose testimony prosecutors used in an attempt to establish Weinstein’s predatory behavior.

(from CNN). Two 'guilties' but still hardly anything to cheer about, if he gets away with the above. As long as he'll be locked away, I guess.

Very harsh on Sciorra, I mean.

Listen I will cheer for what I want to cheer for -- he was found guilty!
He escaped being labeled as a predator and that sucks but I was concerned that he would escape without any convictions and that is not the case.

Weinstein is now a convicted rapist. I'd count that as a win. And "criminal sex act in the first degree" is a class B felony in New York, which is a sentence of 5-25 years.

can he ditch the walker now?

Not at all berating anyone for cheering that he was found guilty. I'm glad he's found guilty too and will be behind barrs. But it sucks that he escaped 10-to-life, especially for the women involved.

xp lol

Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.

It sucks he had to rape so many women before he was found guilty as a rapist -- but Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.

Will this open the floodgates for more trials, or does it not work that way in the US?

very good news

I'm glad he's found guilty too and will be behind barrs. But it sucks that he escaped 10-to-life, especially for the women involved.

yes, this was my disappointment too - happy he has two convictions, very sorry that his bullshit and sociopathic lack of remorse and millions on lawyers and stupid walker optics managed to deflect so much. especially in the face of the bravery of the women who testified, for how much this validates the decades of fear from dozens or hundreds of women who have still never spoken out

any conviction is good. he could've walked on all these charges, it isn't unheard of

I was bracing myself for the worst so this is definitely good news.

does he still have other trials forthcoming?

My entire lifetime as a woman has been disappointment after disappointment about rapists not being held accountable -- cascades of endless disppointment -- a little relief from THAT disappointment, a real conviction for a BIG RAPIST, is really worth a lot to me personally.

this is good news tho

it could be worse i mean remember when they finally nailed OJ for the abhorrent crime of...briefly preventing a couple of men from leaving a hotel room?