For the first time since his incarceration for sexual assault, disgraced movie producer, Harvey Weinstein, is speaking out. He was convicted of sexual misconduct by almost 100 women and is in New York’s Rikers Island prison.
He was convicted in New York in 2020 and Los Angeles in 2022. Although the New York conviction was overturned in 2024 on appeal, he is in jail awaiting a second retrial next month.
Harvey Weinstein “insists he’s no rapist”
A new The Hollywood Reporter profile published today includes an interview between journalist Maer Roshan and Harvey. “When pressed, he concedes that his behavior may have been loutish, pathetic and even abusive,” Maer notes. “But he insists he’s no rapist — just an oversexed schmuck who made some stupid moves and accidentally launched a global social movement.”
Harvey insists he’s innocent, but admits, “I could be a horrible bully. I used power in an arrogant way. I was pushy and insistent, and I feel terrible. I’m ashamed of that behavior, and I see it now in ways that I couldn’t before.”
He limits prison interactions with guards and nurses. “Other inmates get to go to the yard. But every time I’m out there, I feel like I’m under siege,” Harvey says in the interview. “I’m constantly threatened and derided. I wouldn’t last long out there.”
In one attack, after asking another inmate to use the phone, he was punched in the face. “I fell on the floor, bleeding everywhere. I was hurt really badly,” Harvey recalled. “The cops asked me who had done it, but I couldn’t say.”
Only three of his five children speak with him, he revealed. “I speak to three of my children every single day: my oldest daughter, who is 30 now, and my 12-year-old and my 15-year-old. My other two children haven’t talked to me for six years.”
Harvey says some accusers are lying as there’s “money involved. I apologized to them generally. You can’t call them when you’re in a trial with them,” he said. “But I’ll say it here today: I apologize to those women. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have been with them in the first place. I misled them.”
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