A new book exploring the allegations against Harvey Weinstein says attorney Lisa Bloom offered to help portray actor Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein’s accusers, as “increasingly unglued” in an effort to discredit her. Bloom also apparently attempted to smear other Weinstein accusers, including Ashley Judd.
exposé on Weinstein in October 2017. It sounds like there’s a lot in here—Kantor and Twohey report, for instance, that Weinstein’s brother, Bob Weinstein, attempted to convince Weinstein to get medical treatment to fix what he categorized as “misbehavior” that had “brought shame to the family and [Weinstein’s] company,”and that the first Weinstein whistleblower was Weinstein Company executive Irwin Reiter.
“I feel equipped to help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them,” Ms. Bloom wrote, before laying out a multistep playbook for how to intimidate accusers or paint them as liars. One of Ms. Bloom’s suggested tactics for undermining Ms. McGowan: “We can place an article re her becoming increasingly unglued, so that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she’s discredited.”as Weinstein’s attorney shortly after Kantor and Twohey’s first bombshell piece came out, claiming she was “over the hate” and touting her record as an attorney for victims of sexual assault. And yet:
Ms. Bloom accompanied Mr. Weinstein on a surprise visit to the Times the day before the initial article was published, to present the journalists with information intended to portray several accusers — including Ashley Judd, the first actress to go on the record — as unreliable and mentally unstable.Bloom later apologized for working with Weinstein, claiming she “deeply regretted” representing him.
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