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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 12:35 AM Oct 2017

How Harvey Weinstein Used His Fashion Business As A Pipeline To Models

By DANIEL MILLER, MEG JAMES AND KIM CHRISTENSEN
OCT. 21, 2017

It was the kind of evening Zoë Brock was accustomed to, an intimate dinner party at an Art Deco hotel on a waterfront avenue in Cannes. The Australian model was ushered to an empty seat at a long table on a lush patio overlooking a swimming pool.

She didn’t recognize the man seated next to her, but would quickly find out he was Harvey Weinstein, a brusque American producer in town for the film festival.

That first encounter of champagne and small talk would end in a much less elegant fashion hours later in a hotel room, where Weinstein stood before Brock naked and solicited a massage. She said she locked herself in a bathroom to escape him.

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"Someone put me there next to him — that was on purpose. I am pretty sure that there are a lot of people that would like to sit next to Harvey Weinstein,” said Brock, 43, who was represented by a Milanese modeling agency at the time. “So why was it me?"

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http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-weinstein-fashion-models-20171021-htmlstory.html

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How Harvey Weinstein Used His Fashion Business As A Pipeline To Models (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2017 OP
Just like Trump get the red out Oct 2017 #1
Plus Trump ran his own modelling agency and owned beauty pageants. no_hypocrisy Oct 2017 #2
That was my first thought on seeing this malaise Oct 2017 #3
I don't see how his wife - the fashion designer - didn't know. Vinca Oct 2017 #4

no_hypocrisy

(46,130 posts)
2. Plus Trump ran his own modelling agency and owned beauty pageants.
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:16 AM
Oct 2017

Same bait, same trap.

He was telling the truth on that Access Hollywood video.

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