Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyers Continue To Jump Ship
Another lawyer has left legal team, Weinstein, as the tone has changed in Harvey Weinstein’s inner circle. Defense attorney Charles Harder, who helped Hulk Hogan level Gawker and its founder, Nick Denton, has stepped down from Harvey Weinstein’s legal team. Insiders are saying that Weinstein is moving away from media attorneys and is making the move to criminal defense lawyers as the list of women who claim to have been harassed by Weinstein grows.
Early in the week, Harvey Weinstein’s focus was to start legal action against his former company, The Weinstein Company, for booting him, and the New York Times for running the initial story about Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment. But when Rowan Farrow ran his detailed piece in the New Yorker and the narrative started to change for the Weinstein legal team. Farrow wrote that Harvey Weinstein wasn’t just harassing women, but also raping some of his victims.
“Three women—among them Argento and a former aspiring actress named Lucia Evans—told me that Weinstein raped them, allegations that include Weinstein forcibly performing or receiving oral sex and forcing vaginal sex.”
Farrow also included an audio clip of an investigation that the NYPD to get Weinstein on tape apologizing for sexually assaulting one of his victims.
"Harvey was the Trump of the movie industry…" yet another harrowing story about Weinstein's abusive history. https://t.co/l8Wu9FXkbP
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid ? (@JoyAnnReid) October 15, 2017
Harvey Weinstein first hired Lisa Bloom, a lawyer with a reputation as a champion for civil rights and feminist issues to stop the hemorrhaging but after pushback from women’s groups, Bloom stepped down. Now Charles Harder has also left legal team Weinstein according to Janice Min.
“Charles Harder, sort of media’s Darth Vader of the past 2 years, is no longer working with Harvey Weinstein. It’s an interesting pivot we’re seeing these last few weeks, where he’s gone from media attorneys, and now with Blair Berk coming on, to the hiring of criminal defense attorneys.”
Weinstein’s initial strategy was to try and change the war of words, but at this time, he has no chance of swaying the media.
“He clearly sees he is not winning the media war and sees that with criminal investigations open in New York he has more to do on that end.”
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Another lawyer who has exited stage left is David Boies, perhaps best known as the leader of Al Gore’s team following the 2000 Presidential election. But before Boies left, he called foul on the assertion that the board of directors of The Weinstein Company knew nothing of the complaints leveled against Harvey Weinstein. The board of directors including Harvey Weinstein’s brother Bob have expressed “shock” at the stories shared in the New Yorker article. Bob Weinstein said that “any suggestion that the board had knowledge of this conduct is false.”
David Boies said that The Weinstein Company board of directors knew about at least three or four of the eight confidential settlements made with women over the years. In response, Lance Maerov, The Weinstein Company board member who oversaw contracts said that he knew of some settlements, but assumed “they were used to cover up consensual affairs,” as Weinstein “insinuated that he was a philanderer.”
Harvey Weinstein is said to be on his way to some type of rehab in Europe, leaving what is left of his legal team to deal with the fallout.
Are you surprised that three lawyers from the Weinstein legal team have already jumped ship?
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