COVER STORY: Harvey Weinstein is behind bars, but has the culture in Hollywood really changed?
’s company was on the brink of bankruptcy, his lawyer issued a statement blasting the New York attorney general, who had accused the beleaguered mogul of fostering a culture of systemic sexual harassment.
But this final act of banishment does not by itself end the culture that allowed Weinstein to wield so much power for so many decades. The trial did, however, provide the most comprehensive look to date at that culture. For six weeks in a Manhattan courtroom, jurors were introduced to Weinstein and to the characters that surrounded him — the assistants, the handlers, the flatterers, the procurers.
“For so long, those in Hollywood who have abused their power have stood to gain everything from perpetuating this fear in women,” says Larissa Gomes, a Canadian actor who also spoke out against Weinstein. “It’s just a long-held assumption that this is the way the Hollywood industry is, and women must be crazy to be in it, and if they do want to be in it, then they have to just deal with it.”
While such allegations have ended the careers of many of these alleged abusers, Weinstein is one of the few to face criminal charges. Some A-listers have lost everything, but many of those accused have enjoyed relatively soft landings even as they have suffered public opprobrium. Moonves, Ailes and others received multimillion-dollar severance packages, for instance, while John Lasseter joined SkyDance Animation after being forced out of Pixar in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.
The trial served as a forensic audit of the “casting couch.” It revealed not just heroes and villains but a full ensemble of bystanders and facilitators. In that respect, it was more revealing than the parallel actions in civil court. She said Weinstein did not seem interested in her idea, but he suggested she do “America’s Next Top Model.” He then invited both women to continue the conversation upstairs in his hotel suite. She said she followed Weinstein upstairs, and that before she realized what was going on, she had walked into the bathroom. Young said that when Salinas shut the door behind her, she was suddenly seized with fear.
The story fit a pattern that emerged over 15 days of testimony. Jessica Mann, the D.A.’s star witness, told the jury that Weinstein had asked her to act as a procurer shortly after violently raping her at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. Her eyes were still red and puffy when he said, “OK, now you can go have your relationship, and what you can do is bring me other girls,” according to her testimony. She would, in effect, be his “wingman.
Mann said that Schneeweiss called her in November 2016, after Weinstein’s mother died. “‘Harvey wants to see you,’” she said Schneeweiss told her. “I said, ‘What about his wife?’ And Barbara said, ‘You’re the only one he wants to see.’” Tarale Wulff also told a story of being ensnared by a web of Weinstein’s accomplices. She worked as a waitress at a members-only club, Cipriani Upstairs. Weinstein was a frequent guest and a close friend of the owner. Once, she said Weinstein led her up a stairway and then masturbated in front of her. She said the manager, Maurizio Ferrigno, saw Weinstein taking her upstairs and shut the door — as though not wanting to see what was happening. She said she never complained to anyone.
Marci Liroff, a veteran casting director, says that line of thinking is untrue, and is a smear against her profession. Liroff ran Jessica Mann’s audition for “Vampire Academy,” and was called to testify about it. She told the jury that Mann was not seriously considered for the role because she was too tall, too old and not a good actor. That was the end of it.in an interview. “I knew that I didn’t have any bombshell testimony corroborating a pattern that existed with Weinstein.
But one witness at the trial acknowledged that she accepted the terms of the deal. Her story is what Weinstein’s attorneys argued all the women’s stories were — consensual and transactional. Emanuela Postacchini, an Italian actor, was called to the stand to corroborate Mann’s allegation that Weinstein had coerced her into a threesome. Postacchini said that Weinstein was directing both of them, but that Mann began to cry and ended up in the fetal position on the bathroom floor.
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