Chapter 1072 The storm is coming
Actress Alyssa Milano has an academic background at Yale University and has performed on Broadway for many years. After the Harvey sex scandal broke out, Alyssa Milano said on fly that if you have ever encountered the same thing, please use "metoo" to reply to this tweet.
This message from Alyssa Milano was responded to by countless women, and hundreds of people responded to the message. Some people only wrote "metoo", and more people talked about their respective experiences of sexual assault or sexual harassment. Metoo has become a label of anti-sexual harassment, setting off a social movement against sexual harassment in the United States, and once silent victims have come forward to publicly accuse the perpetrators.
Over the past thirty years, Harvey has violated and harassed many women. These people are afraid of Harvey's power and can only swallow their anger. Because they offended him, they may not be able to survive in the film industry; now they have finally waited for the opportunity to uphold justice.
Zelda Perkins, former assistant to the London branch of Miramax, came forward to accuse Harvey of sexual harassment during her tenure. She also said that she publicly accused Harvey of violating the confidentiality agreement previously signed with Harvey.
Rose McGowan, who played the role of a cool girl from four sides after being cut off his right leg and was wiped with a machine gun, pointed out that at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, she was raped by Harvey in the room of Harvey's hotel. Afterwards, the two sides reached a settlement agreement, and she donated all the $100,000 she received to feminist organizations.
Mira Sorvino, who once won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie "Invincible Love", also said that during the filming of the movie invested by Harvey, the latter not only harassed her many times, but even tried to have sex with her.
As more and more victims stood up, Harvey felt something was wrong and issued another statement. This time, Harvey's tone was very gentle. He "accepted that the way he dealt with colleagues in the past caused a lot of pain, and apologized in this city"; at the same time, he announced that he had given himself a big vacation and was ready to undergo psychological treatment.
However, while bowing his head and admitting his mistake, Harvey issued a statement through a lawyer, accusing Zhang Ran of maliciously smearing him and deliberately retaliating. He said that he would sue Zhang Ran to court, and would ask Zhang Ran to compensate 100 million US dollars, and promised to donate all the money to feminist organizations.
At this moment, Johnny Cochran made a suggestion to Zhang Ran, destroying Harvey's lawyer team. He told Zhang Ran that Harvey's lawyer team had several women, and the chief consultant Lisa Bloom is a famous feminist lawyer in the United States and has always been regarded as a hero by feminist organizations. As long as the finger is pointed at Lisa Bloom and said that she defended the sexual assaulter, she is the accomplice of the sexual assaulter. Lisa Bloom will definitely withdraw from the defense under public pressure.
Zhang Ran felt it made sense, so he asked Liu Xiaoli to write an open letter in the name of a mother, pointing the finger at Lisa Bloom. Liu Xiaoli wrote in the letter: "You are a feminist fighter, a hero in the hearts of countless women. At the same time, you are also a mother and a daughter, but now you are on the side of a villain who harassed and violated women many times. This is so disappointing! Your daughter has always been proud of you. If she knew that her mother was defending a sexual assaulter, how sad they would be!"
After Liu Xiaoli's open letter was released, Lisa Bloom's fly account and Facebook were immediately swallowed up by netizens' insults and spits. Netizens accused her of being a fake feminist, accomplice and accomplice of the rapist.
As a female lawyer with a good reputation, Lisa Bloom knew what the consequences would be if she was identified by the public as a rapist. Lisa Bloom had no choice but to announce her withdrawal from Harvey's lawyer team. After Lisa Bloom withdrew, two other female lawyers in Harvey's lawyer team also announced their withdrawal and no longer defended Harvey.
The three female lawyers withdrew one after another and the vigorous development of the Metoo movement made Weinstein realize that Harvey was doomed this time, and began to survive by severing his tail, and announced that Harvey would be officially fired and effective immediately. The decision to fire Harvey was made after the board of directors voted, and the company's board of directors also decided that Harvey's position would be temporarily taken over by his younger brother Bob Weinstein and the company Coo David Glaser.
By this time, Harvey was already betrayal of his relatives. As long as he was not a blind man, he could see that Harvey was completely finished. Therefore, Hollywood stars who had been waiting and watching all made a comeback.
Angelina Jolie sent an email to Time magazine, saying that during the release of "Anything You" in 1998, Harvey sexually harassed her at the age of 23. Not only did Julie refuse on the spot, she never cooperated with her for decades, and also warned others who worked with him. Julie said that in any industry, such behavior is unacceptable to women.
Charlize Theron said on fly: "I regret to say that such an incident happened. I am not surprised by it. This situation is not only in Hollywood, but is popular all over the world. Those men with power have been doing whatever they want for too long."
Leonardo DiCaprio also spoke out against the Sex scandal of Harvey: "There is no excuse for sexual harassment and sexual assault, no matter who you are or what position you are. I applaud these women who have stood up and spoken out, and they are full of courage and strength. The collective silence of the people in the circle over the past 30 years is also thought-provoking."
After the full outbreak of Harvey's sex scandal, the most troublesome thing was the female stars who had worked with Harvey many times and were pushed to the peak of their careers by Harvey. They were condemned and abused by many netizens, and some even accused them of being Harvey's accomplices. Their silence is the root of acquiesce to condone Harvey, which is the problem.
Now that Harvey has completely lost power, they naturally can't sit still and come out to separate their relationship with Harvey.
The first thing that came out was that the actress Plaid Paltrow, who won the 1999 Oscar for the movie "Shapes Love History" invested by Harvey, claimed that before starring in Harvey's film "Emma", Weinstein invited her to a meeting at his hotel, when she was 22 years old. After arriving in his room, Harvey began to touch Paltrow and asked her to massage herself. She was frightened. Paltrow said that she told her boyfriend Brad Pitt about this, and Pitt warned Harvey not to harass herself. After that, Harvey yelled at Paltrow, warning her not to tell anyone about it.
Merrill Streep, who had worked with Harvey many times, also condemned Harvey and said: "This shameful thing surprised those of us who have worked with him and won the award. Those women who are willing to jump out and show off are our heroes." However, she insisted that not everyone knew about Harvey's evil deeds, and before that she knew nothing about Harvey's evil deeds.
Nicole Kee Deman expressed support to all women who stood up to resist: “I have great support to all women who stood up to resist all abuse and abuse of power, whether it is domestic violence or sexual harassment of women in the workplace, we need to eradicate this kind of behavior.”
Jennifer Lawrence, who has been popular with Harvey in the past two years, wrote in a statement: "In the three years I have worked with Harvey Weinstein, I have neither been subjected to any kind of sexual harassment nor heard of any accusations related to this. My heart is with these women who have suffered disgusting and terrifying experiences, and I want to thank them for their courage to stand up."
As the Harvey sex scandal fermented, the list of victims expanded from Hollywood to overseas, including Cara Devoy, known as the British Jingtian, French actor Eva Green, Italian actor Aisha Aquito, etc., and the entire list of victims expanded to 100 people.
At this time, Liu Xiaoli felt that the overall situation had been settled, and Liu Yifei had been detained for seven days. It was time for her to come out, so she discussed with Zhang Ran: "Teacher Zhang, we have won now. Can we bail Xixi now? I know she has a bad attitude towards you and you don't want to see her. But I believe that after this incident, she should know that she was wrong."
Zhang Ran waved his hand and said, "It's not what you think. If we bail her out, it seems that we are wrong. This is not right at all. We should let the police release people on their own initiative. Now Harvey should be finished. Next, we organize people to protest at the police station and let them release the buns. That's what I think. When she is released by the police, a large number of people will gather on the scene, as well as reporters from the TV station, and then let the buns give a speech. I'll ask someone to write a manuscript later, and you can take it in and give her to the buns and let her recite them. We will take this opportunity to make her a feminist fighter and make her a hero in the hearts of thousands of women!"
Nowadays, the American society is particularly popular in selling feminist personalities, especially Hollywood female celebrities, who always talk about feminism, making them seem like they are really feminists. If Liu Yifei can take this opportunity to build herself into a representative figure of the feminist movement, it will greatly increase her popularity, and then her development in Hollywood will be much smoother.
Only then did Liu Xiaoli understand what was going on. Zhang Ran saw the problem much further than himself, and said sincerely: "Teacher Zhang, I will follow your arrangement!"
At this moment, the head of the public relations team came in. He lowered his voice and said, "Mr. Zhang, Harvey is starting to ask for help! Harvey used his private email to several powerful executive leaders in Hollywood, begging them to help save his career and save his job. At the same time, he also sent a letter of help to some politicians to help him get rid of his current predicament."
Harvey asked for help from Hollywood executives and politicians, but Zhang Ran was not surprised at all. Harvey opened a ****** to make these people pull him up at critical moments. However, anti-sexual harassment has become a social movement. No Hollywood executive dares to stand up and support Harvey at this time, and that will definitely drag him into the water. However, those politicians who are held by Harvey may pull Harvey in secret.
Since Zhang Ran decided to defeat Harvey, he would not allow these people to come out and ruin her affairs. At noon that day, Zhang Ran spoke again on the Internet: "The matter has developed to this point, and I believe everyone understands what's going on. Harvey Weinstein tried to infringe on my student, but she was inspired to resist. During the fight, she kicked Weinstein. She was a brave girl and deserved everyone's applause for her. But when she rushed to the police station to call the police, she was arrested by the police because she kicked Weinstein. A girl kicked the perpetrator while resisting sexual assault. The girl was arrested, while the real criminal was free outside. Now I want to ask, why is this?"
Shortly after Zhang Ran spoke out, an article in the New York Times pointed out that Harvey has been an important donor and fundraiser for the Democratic Party for many years. Since 2000, Weinstein has provided nearly $1 million in donations to the Democratic Party in his personal name. One of Harvey's defense attorneys Elkan, whose clients include the governor of California, also worked as a partner in a company that hired Beverly Hills District Attorney Sellers Vance.
Chapter completed!