“She didn’t need to make movies with Harvey Weinstein she wanted to, and she won top awards and was the top paid female actor for nearly a decade, with Weinstein.” “Her father was a top producer, her mother a famous actor, her godfather is Steven Spielberg,” Weinstein’s rep offered of Paltrow, who was one of the first Hollywood stars to go public with being harassed or assaulted by Weinstein after the initial NYT exposé broke on October 5, 2017. “Gwyneth Paltrow comes from Hollywood royalty,” a spokesperson for Weinstein told Deadline today after more details of the Shakespeare in Love star’s role in coming forward were unveiled by New York Times reporters and She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement authors Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor.
On the day that Harvey Weinstein’s trial for rape was supposed to have started in New York City before being postponed, the much accused producer’s team Monday tried to damn Gwyneth Paltrow in the court of public opinion for her role in his downfall.
