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Rosanna Arquette Responds to Harvey Weinstein Prison Interview

Rosanna Arquette Responds to Harvey Weinstein Prison Interview

Rosanna Arquette is pushing back against comments that Harvey Weinstein made in a recent jailhouse interview with The Hollywood Reporter. In a hard-hitting interview conducted last January at Rikers Island, THR editor-in-chief Maer Roshan pressed the 73-year-old disgraced mogul on claims that he had professionally blackballed women who resisted his advances. “You fancy yourself such a tough guy,” Roshan noted. “If any of these women had refused you, wouldn’t you have sought to punish them?” The twice-convicted rapist, who faces a retrial on a remaining assault charge next month in New York, firmly denied the charges. “I may be a tough guy, but I’m not deranged. Just the threat of Harvey was enough — maybe more than enough. But it didn’t go to the point of blackballing anybody. If the camera’s on, I’m just going to say Rosanna Arquette, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie — they just exaggerated. They wanted to be part of the club. And they destroyed me.” The interview, the first sit-down since the disgraced mogul’s arrest, was published in the March 11 …

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein says he still receives k pension from Disney

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein says he still receives $60k pension from Disney

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Harvey Weinstein claims he continues to receive a $60,000 pension check from Disney each year as he sits behind bars. The disgraced film producer, 73, complained in his first sit-down at Rikers Island that he is worried about his finances as he waits for his third trial for alleged sexual assault. Weinstein told The Hollywood Reporter in a rare interview published Tuesday that, after spending millions in legal fees, the thought of running out of money “keeps me up at night.” “I had property and other income, but it’s not limitless,” he told the outlet. “Disney cut off my insurance. You know how much I made for that company?” The Miramax co-founder went on to claim that he made $1 billion for the company by publishing the Percy Jackson book franchise, continuing: “I earned billions and billions for Disney and they …

Barry Diller Quips About David Ellison, Harvey Weinstein

Barry Diller Quips About David Ellison, Harvey Weinstein

While introducing Producers Guild of America Milestone Award nominee Jason Blum at the PGA Awards on Saturday night, Barry Diller made digs at David Ellison, as well as the guild itself, for giving the honor to people like Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves in previous years. “Samuel Goldwyn, Adolph Zukor, Jack Warner — What would Jack Warner do to know he’d been succeeded by a stunt pilot?” Diller, chairman of internet and media conglomerate IAC and an executive who led Paramount Pictures and Fox, said, which evoked audible gasps and laughs from the audience. Current Paramount chairman and CEO Ellison, who has been in the news in recent days for the mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is a licensed pilot for helicopter aviation, aerobatics and more. Warner, of course, was the founder and president of Warner Bros. Studios. Diller, a longtime friend of Blum’s, continued: “Cecil B. DeMille, Disney, and now Blum: Not the most obvious succession, but then you also gave this award to Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves. So there’s …

Harvey Weinstein Replaces Legal Team as New York Retrial Looms

Harvey Weinstein Replaces Legal Team as New York Retrial Looms

Harvey Weinstein has swapped in a new attorney as an upcoming retrial in his New York rape cases looms. The imprisoned former Hollywood mogul has jettisoned his powerhouse team for the next moment in court as his longtime attorneys carry out an appeal on his other verdict. Jacob Kaplan of Agnifilo Intrater has been tapped by the disgraced convicted rapist, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. A scheduled court appearance to iron out details of the upcoming trial was pushed on Wednesday to next week. Prosecutors and defense counsel are working toward resolving the remaining third-degree rape charge that ended in mistrial, but it may go to trial. Weinstein has been in prison for four years, initially serving a now-vacated 23-year New York sentence after his 2020 trial in New York ended with him found guilty. The 73-year-old former Hollywood kingmaker was originally convicted in New York of criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree. But the verdicts were overturned in April 2024 when, in a 4-3 decision, New York’s …

Former Disney CEO says hardest part of his career was working with ‘pig’ Harvey Weinstein

Former Disney CEO says hardest part of his career was working with ‘pig’ Harvey Weinstein

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Former Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner has reflected on his storied career, describing his time working with Harvey Weinstein as the “hardest” part of his tenure. In a newly published interview with Graham Bensinger on his In Depth podcast, Eisner — who ran Disney from 1984 to 2005 — recalled the difficulties of dealing with the now-disgraced movie mogul, 73. “He lied about everything,” the ex-CEO, 83, claimed of Weinstein, who has since been imprisoned for a series of sex crimes. “How do you deal with somebody who never tells the truth?” Eisner added: “He was just a pig. He was rude, but he was a closet intellectual. He looked like a truck driver. He acted like a truck driver. He had great independent film taste and nobody at Disney would deal with him but me. “He couldn’t tell the …