Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday described the crimes committed by American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as “truly horrific” and “not at all” comparable to those for which he himself was convicted. TASR informs about it according to the report of the agencies DPA and PA Media.
- Harvey Weinstein called Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes “truly terrible and beyond compare”.
- Weinstein was sentenced to sixteen years in California for sex crimes.
- More than a hundred women have accused Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment.
- In a prison interview, Weinstein denied the allegations and accused the actresses of exaggeration.
- Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of child abuse and later committed suicide.
Seventy-three-year-old Weinstein still in 2023 in Californiaii was sentenced to 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. More than 100 women have accused him of sexual assault and harassment. In 2017, it launched a viral movement on social networks called #MeToo.
In his first interview from prison, the former Hollywood mogul denied the allegations and apologized to ex-wife Georgina Chapman for ‘cheating’. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter from Rikers Island prison Weinstein claimed he was not friends with pedophile financier Epstein and called his crimes “truly horrible”.
“I met him maybe once or twice … he wasn’t in my circles. We certainly weren’t friends. I only know what I read in the papers — I can’t say anything about that. I don’t have a lot of faith in the media. Not even in prosecutors. But the crimes he is accused of are truly horrific. They don’t look like mine at all,” Weinstein said.
The former producer admitted that he could be a “terrible bully” but claimed that some of the women who have come forward with allegations against him – including actresses Rosanna Arquette, Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow – are “just exaggerating”. “They wanted to be part of the club. And they destroyed me… (Paltrow) was a good friend of mine. I don’t know what made her do what she did. To make such a big deal out of nothing. I left a nice meeting with her and said, ‘How about a massage?’. And she just said, ‘No, I don’t think so.’ I understood what he meant. I never touched her,” Weinstein claimed in the interview, saying that actress Gwyneth Paltrow “stabbed him in the back” with her later accusations and that he would “never forgive her.”
The ex-producer has been in Rikers Prison for nearly two years and is awaiting a new trial in New York on rape charges, which is scheduled for April. Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sexual services from underage girls aged 14 and over. He died in prison in New York in 2019. He took his own life before he could be tried on sex-trafficking charges.
