NEW YORK (NY)
New York Daily News
February 12, 2018
By Stephen Rex Brown and Leonard Greene
Accused sexual predator Harvey Weinstein hired “wing women” to facilitate his abusive conquests and bragged about having Secret Service contacts who could run interference, according to a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general.
Weinstein, his brother Robert, and their film company were all complicit in the “vicious and exploitative mistreatment of company employees,” said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who filed a civil rights lawsuit Sunday against the Weinstein Co. that derailed a $500 million deal to sell the agency, according to a report. Schneiderman had been concerned that the sale would go through without Weinstein’s victims having a chance to be properly compensated.
The suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, included an array of new allegations regarding Weinstein’s depraved behavior.
The disgraced movie mogul has been accused by nearly 100 women of sexual harassment, bullying or rape.
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