Harvey Weinstein sat down for his first major interview since his arrest, and the disgraced movie mogul spoke about why Gwyneth Paltrow’s accusations against him bothered him the most.
“Because she was a good friend of mine,” Weinstein, 72, said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, March 10. “I don’t know what drove her to do what she did.”
In 2017, Paltrow was one of several women who accused Weinstein of sexual harassment. The Marty Supreme star, 53, said that Weinstein invited her up for a meeting in his room at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel. Before it was over, Paltrow claimed that Weinstein placed his hands on her and suggested they go to his bedroom for a massage.
“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” Paltrow told The New York Times in 2017.
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Weinstein, who is currently being held at Rikers Island, now claims that The Royal Tenenbaums actress made “a big deal over nothing.”
“I walked out of a nice meeting with her and said, ‘How about a massage?’ And she just went, ‘No, I don’t think so,” Weinstein told THR. “I got the message. I never put my hands on her.”
The former producer went on to say that Paltrow told Brad Pitt — her boyfriend at the time — about the incident and the actor, now 62, told him not to “do anything like that with [his] girl.” Weinstein said that he understood the message.
“But then Gwyneth goes on Howard Stern and The New York Times and makes a big deal about it all. She knows that nothing happened,” he continued. “But this person who was a friend, who owes her career to me, just stabs me in the back. She wanted to be part of the crowd. I won’t forgive her for that.”
Weinstein was convicted of sex crimes in New York and California, though his original 2020 New York conviction was later overturned on appeal.
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