>> harvey! (cameras clicking) ...harvey! th narrator: this year at academy awards, one powerful figure will be missing. >> more than 60 women have come forward to accuse weinstein of sexual harassment, assault and rape. es, we wereid-nine aware of what the was alleged to be doing. >> weinsin has repeatedly denied allegations of non-consensual sex. >> he believed he was going to be untouchable. >> narrator: tonight, the story of how harvey weinstein silenced his accusers. >> harvey weinstein had an incredibly complex machine designed to maintain silence around this. >> i just remember feeling sorl pos and furious...

>> largeay-outs, nondisclosure r reements... >> absolutely in fof death, i was not allowed to talk to a journali. >> an array of private investigation firms.... >> they completely destroyed me and my image. >> he d one of the most powerful legal teams in the country. >> he got very angry and saidve "i'nvestigated you and you're not so clean so be careful." >> narrator: the insiders speaking out for the first time. >> it was the company that was completely and utterly ruled by tarvey. and harvey was ator. >> narrator: about what hollywood knew. >> i think looking back that i did know and i chose to suppress it. i chose to hide from that fact. >> narrator: tonight, a frontline special, "weinstein". >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

and by the corporati public broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, vdant and peaceful world. more information is available af nd.org. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation: committed to excellee in journalism. the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glessner family trust. supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. ♪ >> i was just starting my career, it was the early '90s.s i st out of acting school, going on auditions and poundingt the pave

♪ the first time i met him was in the miramax office, and it was a, you know, a legitimate meeting set by my agents. the first moments of that meeting were very easy, breezy, casual. you know, "welcome to the miramax family." and i felt very much like he was going to take care of . and then he said, "there's a screing this afternoon of on of our movies, you know, you should come. i'll have my car come pick you up." ♪ once i got there i realized it wasn't a special screening with cast and cw, it was just avi mo♪ ♪ i wanted to leave, he sort of said, "oh i'll take you home." we ended up stopping a house. and then i-i ended up going up

probably against my better judgment. once i was in there we had another hour-long conversati about movies and film. and he went into the other room and he came back with.... with a robe on, and the robe was just like an open robe. i didn't even look to see, you know. i was just so stunned. there was no suave moves or anything, like there was just a really weird, awkward, "will you give me a massage?" i had to say just "no, and i-- i'm not comfortable." he left the room and he came back and he was just fully naked. i thought, "he's coming after me." (sighs) um...em i justber sort of darting back and forth trying to get past him.

you know in that moment that you may not make it. i told him that i was furious, i said, you know, i sa, "i can't believe you're doing this to me i doow if he heard me, bute, he may he might have heard me, i don't know. (sniffle i mean, i do... i was able to finally get a... a way out. t i knt if i went up against harvey weinstein, i mean, just instinctually, i'd be squashed. so i was scared. and so i didn't say anything to the people that might have been able to help me. >> narrator: katherine kendall is one of over a hundred women whhave come forward with

allegations against harvey weinstein since october 2017. many of these women are now suing him. weinstein declined to be interviewed. but through his spokeswoman, he provided "frtline" with written responses to the allegations in this film. he denies any criminal conduct. pe harvey weinstein was one of the most powerfule in hollywood for decades, and he was a darling of the americanpo tical world. e y time you have a story like this where people tting hurt over decades and decades, knere are people around wh enough and cld have done more to stop it. >> i think this is a momentous reckoning. but, frankly, i think there's so much more discover. who knew about this? how much of a cover up was this?

♪ >> it began in buffalo, it all began in buffalo. it was a brash, young fellow from flushing, queens, who arrived here as an 18-year-old freshman at the university of buffalo. t i believe he only a year before he was just kind ofal mesmerized bof the opportunities that awaited him here. ♪ >> narrator: weinstein built up a successful concert promotion. busine then, in 1980, he made his first film. ♪ >> it was a gory film about aat guy omes back for revenge and murders the people at the

camp. (screaming) >> narrator: 24-year-old pla wachowiak worked on the film as an intern. one day, she says, s was asked to take some checks to a hotel room for weinstein to sign. >> he was standing there and he had a hand towel around his waist. i handed him the folder and he dropped the hand towel, and alll the he's asking me questions about checks. and he, at some point, sat down on the bed, and he plopped the folder on his lap, and then hesa starteng, "what about this one," and he's pointing. and i'm not gonna look down so , which one is that, harvey?" then he said, "i have a-a crick in my shoulder," he said, "could you give me a massage, could you rub it out for me?"

and at that point i looked at him and i said, "harvey, i don't think that's in job description." >> narrator: another young woman working on the film, suza maher-wilsonsays weinstein approached her at a party after filming had finished. this is the first time she's spoken publicly abou >> there was a hotel room right off the lobby. imd that's when he like lured me in there to give massage. and i agreed, being 23-year-old naïve, trusting young woman. he, said, "i'm going to the lavatory." and i said, "okay."d en i... he came out and he was naked with a towel and it was a little shocking. and i just sai "i'm sorry, this isn't... this isn't what i signed on for."

and, i-i left the room immediately. >> narrator: weinstein has since said in a statement, "i came of age in the '60s and '70s. that was the culture then." in his responses to "frontline," he denies paula wachowiak's count, and disagrees on the details of suza maher-wilson'sco t. >> i told probably a handful of people, but no one seeme shocked 'cause he was the producer. we all felt it was typical of someone in a position of power to wield that over younger,yo ger girls. >> i don't think anyone would have listened to me. i don't think it would have mattered. i'm not famous. i didn't think that my story meant anything to anybody.

>> narrator: weinstein soon left buffalo for new york city. miramax-- the film company he founded along with his brother bob-- was expanding. they saw themselves as artists, outsiderto the hollywood system. >> at miramax we're not under toat corporate pressure to say, "jesus, we've goo up each year." we can do what we think is good erd if our profits are low next year than they were the year before, so what? so what, as long as weid good work. ♪ >> narrator: the company made its name with movies that mainstream studios ignored. weinstein's power was growing,an d he was working with top hollywood actresses. (radio chatter) >> come on, we got him. >> narrator: in 1992, sean young, who was already known for movies like "blade runner," starred in his latest film "love crimes." >> w the (bleep) are you? >> district attorney,

ass(bleep). i play a characterho discovers this sexual predator, and then tracks them down, and then the tables are turned and is entrapped by h. the wire went out. r i wanted to get him undelony and i needed it on tape. i was sitting in harvey's office afr the picture. and this is the only time this has ever happened to me, he pulled his... thing out and my response was, "you know, harvey, i really wouldn't be pulling that thing out because it's really not pretty." and i got up and i left. >> narrator: in his responses, weinstein told "frontline" sean young's account is untrue, he never met her in his office or anywhere else, and had nothing to do with h career. it was the last time she wouldn workmiramax film.

>> the reason i didn't get another movie with harvey weinstein was that i made him feel foolish. ♪ i was set to have a very big career, but i upset a few important men, a theec trry of my career went... whooo... (imitates crash) ♪ >> narrator: in 1993, miramaxug was by disney, helping weinstein become one of the most powerf producers in hollywood. disney says it was unare of any sexual misconduct complaints against him. but his colleagues say he was notoriously difficult to workfo r. ki >> worng at miramax was likeg be a cult. the cult of harvey.

it was common knowledge, everybody knew what a brutal regime it was. he worked beyond the limits of normal human beings. >> narrator: paul bster joined miramax in 1995. this is his first television interview about weinstein. >> i knew i was making a deal with the dil. i knew he was a bully, i knew he would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. i r.ew he had a volcanic tems i knew ha dangerous character. but i knew also that he was at the epicenter of where i wanted to be. >> narrator: despite his reputation as a bully, hollywood stars continued to line up to work with hi a part in one of his films could aman artistic credibility, and awards. >> oh, my love! i thought you were dead!

>> narrator: in 1998, 26-year-old gwyneth paltrow appeared in "shakespeare in love." (cheers and applause) ♪ it won both her and weinstein oscars. >> this is a movie about life and art, and art and life combining is called magic. >> narrator: weinstein was at the top of the hollywood establishment.er but a repoith sources in the movie industry was investigating a disturbing rumor about him. >> we had heard that gwyneth paltrow d been assaulted. we heard it from a director who was very upset about it, and wanted it to be out there. and we tught well, "yeah, you know, we gotta try and do this." but there was no path forward at that point at all. if you call their publicist and say, "i wanted to talk to gwyneth paltrow because i heard

she was attacked by harvey weinstein," you can imagine how that phone call would go. it would be short. (laughs) >> narrator: paltrow didn't address the rumors at lte time, and never accused him of ass but she's since said that weinstein harassed her, and that she told her agent, and her then-boyfriend brad pitt, who confronted weinstein. >> it's a hard choice to make.ul she take him on or have her career, and i'm not blaming her for not wanting to take him on.'v seen in the aftermath, the lengths to which he would go to destroy people who tried to take him on. (indistinct chatter) >> narrator: whaver rumors had been circulating about harvey weinstein, h power only grew. some of the upnd-comers who met him say they were unaware of his reputation.

>> in 1998 i was 24. modelinground the world, i thought i was tough. >> narrator: zoe brock met weinstein at the cannes film festival. we >> we taken into the majestic hotel to have dinner, and that was where i was sat next to harvey. ♪ >> narrator: as the evening was drawing to a close, she says weinstein offered her a ride. >> then harvey told us that he'd spoken to everybody and they were going to join us at the du cap, where he was staying, which is 30 minutes out of cannes and quite remote. >> narrator: when they arrived at his hotel, she says weinstein's entouragean disappeareher friends were nowhere to be seen. >> my friends were never coming, that was a blatant lie. so we get to the hotel room.

and i remember sobing up fast. and then harvey walked back in w and naked. so he's negotiating, he's negotiating a massage. "i want a massage. come on, give me a massage, give a massage. just, you know, let me give you a massage. blah blah blah blah blah." and he's rapid fire, and he takes control of the situation. i very unwillingly let him maneuver me into his bedroom, and sat... sat on the bed. i may have even been stupid enough to lie down and he started to massage my oulders. and within seconds i knethat, that was just not going to fly, there was no way this wasin happ and i got up and i bolted into the bathroom and he chased me.

but i remember locking the door and him being on the other side of it and banging. i screamed at him, "put your (bleep) clothes on you naughty (bleep) boy." and i meant it. and it worked. i came out of the bathroom and he was apologizing, ... started to cry. and heaid something that i have never forgotten and i never will for the rest of my days, ie behis tears, "you don't like me because i'm fat." i really felt sorry for him inen that m at that point i had no idea obviously w dangerous he really was. >> narrator: weinstein's responses to "frontline" do not directly dispute zoe brock's alletions, but say she is "publicizing her lawsuit seeking mages from mr. weinstein

despite the fact that she never complained to anyone at the time." but zoe brock says she told many peop. >> i told my agent. i told so many people in hollywood-- producers, casting agents-- everyone's reaction ross the board was alway "oh... yeah, harvey." >> narrator: zoe brock's agent denies that she told him. ♪ but, across hollywood, many models a actresses now say they told their agents about weinstein's behavior. >> the agents had to know. the top agents had to know. and, frankly, any agent whknew what was happening with harvey b weinstein shoucoming forward now explaining what happened. ♪

f narrator: one of the most influential talems in hollywood, creative artists agency, has since said in a statement, "we apologize to any person the agency let down." by now, some inside miramax had started to connect the dots about weinstein'svi be. >> my memory is that i was fully aware that harvey was a serial womanizer. there would be times when you'd be kicked out of the suite in the savoy or the peninsula hotel inn..a., and he would entert but it didn't take too much brainpower to put it togetr that a man who was so e and bullyingn every aspect of his life would bring that abuse into the sexual arena. i think looking back that i did know and i chose to suppress it.

i chose to hide from that fact. e think we were all enablers. i think we were, wwere all complicit. could i have done anything at the time? well, for one, i nevught about doing anything about it. i know that i prevented my assistant being called to the voy hotel late at night. i said, "no, you can't go." so, obviously i was aware of that. i didn't have the guts to do anything about it. i think the deal i'd made with the devil was to my advantage. ♪ >> narrator: with no one in hollywood calling him out, weinstein'alleged behavior continued. zelda perkins was one of his assistants. >> the first time that i traveled alone abroad with him, he insisted that i went into the bathro while he had a sauna because he needed to do work, and i refused to go in the sauna. and he said, "well i... this

isn't working, i'm going to have a bath instead." so i tried to leave bathroom, he said, "you can't leave, i need to... we need to get this business done." he was reeling off names of all the actresses that he had had some sort of sexual relations with or who had given him massages or whatever. ki and i remember l round at him and saying, "how do you look at youelf in the mirror? how do you-- how do you do that?" and i can remember him looking back at me, utterly nonplussed and saying, "i have no problem at all." ♪ >> narrator: in 1998, perkins ivcompanied weinstein to the venice film fe, along with a new colleague. she came to me in a very distressed state and told me haat he had assaulted her, he'd attempted to rape her. i was completely sideswiped by

this. i went straight to harvey and confronted him about what had happened, and he swore on-on the life of his wife and children that absolutely nothing had happed. >> narrator: but perkins didn't believe him. she d her colleague quit miramax and went to lawyers in london for advice. >> the didn't seem to be any recourse in terms of bringinge. harvey to just we had no physical proof, we hadn't gone to the police in... on the lido in venice. weally the only option tha were given was to request damages. ♪ i >> narratonegotiation with weinstein's lawyers, they asked for around $200,000 each, and also insisted on measures at would protect miramax employee from harassment: therapy sessions for weinstein, a new hr

podcy, and a clause that co see him fired if he paid off any more women. weinstein accepted the terms on condition they sign a non-disclosure agreement, or n.d.a. >> we weren't allowed to talk to anybody about the alleged behavior, but also about our time at miramax.rm this wasn't a confidentiality agreement; thisg wasn't us sahat we weren't gonna, you know, give away corporate secrets. this was a deeply personally binding agreement, which certainly in my colleague's case, meant that she couldn't ever speak about a huge petoonal trauma that happene her. ♪ >> narrator: perkins wld

eventually decide to break her n.d.a. but her former colleague hasin main her silence. in his statement to "frontline," weinstein denies the attempted rape allegation, and says that, "ms. perkins asked for money instead of reporting her claimst to therities." >> so, you take your check and you try to deal with it as best you can, you know. he got away with ifor years, just on the strength of that. ♪ w >> narratonstein went on to use n.d.a.s with multiple women who accused him of sexual. miscondu in his response to "frontline," he said, "over a period of 30 yearthere were actually less than ten settlements of harassment claims."d anthat "none of these settlement agreemes prevented any individual from going to the police had they wished to do so." >> the use of n.d.a.s on behalf of weinstein to silence women

who agedo them was an enabling factor. it aowed him to silence complaining victims and just see neit as a cost of doing bu. so he knew that he had nothing to fear from continuing with the behavior that led to the problem in the first place, and agn, and again, and again. >> narrator: 4 years later, a journalist at the "new yorker" magazine heard that weinstein had been settling sexu harassment claims. e >> i had nevountered an n.d.a., a nondisclosure agreement, and you're talking about large sums of money. and each case hundred, hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> narrator: he began to investigate. then he got a name-- z perkins.ha shmoved to guatemala, but he tracked her down.

sk i picked up the phone and this gentleman a me directly about whether i had an agreement with harvey weinstein. >> she was really terrified--d "how'd you f?" >> i think i might have even said, "yes, i ha-- yes," when he said, "do you have an agreement with harvey?" and then panicked and was like,n "n i haven't... yes, i have... no, i haven't, no, i can't talk to you."w i just kat one thing that i absolutely in fear of death i was not allowed to talk to a journalist. >> narrator: perkins wouldn't agree to an interview for auletta's story, but he decided to confront weinstein. >> we were sitting in a smal conference room, across from each other and i said, "harvey, tell me about zelda perkins." he rose, and he clenched his fists, and he raised his shoulders, and he said, "this is a f..." you can imagine-- "an outrage," and he started

screaming at me. so i thought he was going to throw a punch at me. so i stood up, and that point harvey started to cry. it was extraordinary. and whate'd said was, "ken, you're going to ruin my marriage, these were csensual relationships. and if you publish this you're going to destroy my-my family." >> narrator: auletta couldn't get anyone to speak on the t record abo n.d.a.s and allegations of sexual misconduct. he and his editors concluded they couldn't publish what he'd heard. >> i wish i could have nailed s e guy in 2002. the problem i had at i couldn't prove it. clearly, people knew or suspected that harvey was a... was a prator, sexual predator. and-and they kept their mouths shut. (reports shouting indistinctly) >> narrator: as weinstein fended off reporters from the mainstream press, he was courting the tloids.

>> harvey liked havgood relationship with the media, and i guess 'cause i'm a brooklyn guy and he's a queens guy, he took to me. n and we'd spend some timee phone, shooting the breeze about what went on last night, where were the parties, what did you dor: om narrato gossip writer, aj benza, heard a source that wnstein was having an affair. i called him, and he said, "not true, not true, not true." and then he called back andka said, there's something to it, let's try to work this out." >> narrator: although weinstein denies it, benza says they cut a deal. he would be paid to supply lebrity gossip that weinstein could trade with other reporters who dug up dirt on him. >> the gossip industry is run on the barter system. if i've got a story about you and you don't want it printed, you say, "hold it, i'll get you something better, and i'll pri the other story and save you." inat's done every day, so what harvey and i were was something that was already-- it was always done. >> narrar: despite the rumors

about weinstein at the time, benza insists he never heard any s xual harassment allegations. >> i know it soudiculous, but in the 20 years i knew harvey there was never a story boabout him going after so sexually. finding out now all these women are... were in some kind of hell with him, no clue, not at all. ♪ >> narrator: but other reporters in hollywood were still tryingth to pin dowrumors they'd heard. kim masters, who'd biting critical stories about miramax, got a meeting with weinstein. >> i met him at the peninsula hotel, for the first time face to face. ve he comes i aggressive, yelling and screaming, "what have you heard about me?" and i sort of had this now or never thing, and i sd, "i've heard you rape women." did not seem shocked or outraged. you would expect a normal persoi

to say sorry, what? how dare you"-- and there was none of that at all. n rator: in his response to "frontline," weinstein said that he wasn't shocked because he'd aready heard the allegati it was false. >> i'd heard really brutal allegations. we couldn't write about those, we couldn't get it on theco . i think he kind of believed, as he did with reason for years to come, that he was going to be untouchable. (reporter shouting indistinctly) >> narrator: weinstein would eventually leave miramax after disney.s of disputes wh he and his brother s up the weinstein company. >> quick picture, please! >> narrator: rumors abouhis wonduct continued to circulate throughout hollyod, but he kept making hits, and wiing awards. >> "the king's speech." iain canning, emile sherman... >> thank you, harvey weinstein. >> and, of course, harvey. li harvey, thank you for k whoever you had to kill to get

me up here today. (lghter) >> i think the entire industry knew that he was obsessed with young actress, that he was a cheater on his wife, and that he "made the scene" with many women. i don't know who actually knew what was happening. >> and the golden globe goes to... meryl streep. it was a time and a pla where to be in his circle was to be successful. >> i just want to thank my agent, kevin huvane, and god, harvey weinstein. (laughter) >> narrator: some of hollywood's biggest stars-- like meryl streep-- have since said theywe unaware of weinstein's alleged miscduct.ve but a handful dmitted they knew, including director quentin tarantino. he said, "i knew enough to do more than i did." and that, "everyone who was close to harvery had heard of ae least one of tncidents."

>> i think there are still a lof eople out there who know way more about what was happening here than what they've cared to share. they were, in many ways, the great enablers for harvey's behavior. being in his grace was allowg them to make their careers more successful, but there were so many times they should've said something, stopped something, spoken up. ♪ >> narrator: in 2011, weinstein invited actress jessica barth for a business meeting at the peninsula hotel in beverly hills. >> he said that therwas a role in sarah jessica parker's new film. and then it very quickly shifted to asking me to give him a naked massage on the bed. i was like, "you know, i'm married." and he said-- i said, "you are too, right?" and he said, "yes, but we

have... we have an arrangement." and i was like, "you know what, harvey, about done with this conversation right now." so i left, i shut the door, and i burst into tears. i told my family, and then i told seth mcfarlane, he was a close friend of mine.s (ched applause) >> i'm seth mcfarlane, host of the oscars. congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to ber attracted to hy weinstein. (laughter)nd >>hen i was like, good, i'm glad. i'm glad he just did that. because at that point, nobody was saying anything puicly. i feel like everybody kind of knew about harvey, but nobody was saying anything publicly. honestly there wasn't anyer reaction ahat. i guess they still wanted to make movies and collect their awards and just go on their merry way. (chuckles) y

>> narrator:15, allegations of harvey weinstein's sexual misconductbe had en whispered among ins,stry insiders for decade but still hadn't become public. that was about to change. ♪ am it started whea battilana gutierrez, a 22-year-old italian model, went to the new york poli. she had just had a meeting with harvey weinstein. >> the story that she told is that shortly after she came in, harvey weinstein inquired about whether her breasts were real or not, he groped her breasts, he reached up her skirt and he tried to kiss her. it degenerates from her coming up there to discuss her career toner fighting this guy off his office. >> narrator: the police wanted evidence. they asked her to meet weinstein again, and this time wear a

wire. the next night, she met him at a hotel near his office. >> after i left the hotel i was with the police.

felt completely positive about what i'd done. keey were super happy and saying, "wow, now, this person is completely finished; you ved a lot of women." >> the n.y.p.d. ranges to speak with harvey weinstein, and he's denying that anything happened. but they felt that the accuser was credible and these charges were worth pursuin and that's what they told the... the manhattan district attorney. >> narrator: with new york prosecutors now considering whether to press charges, weinstein for the first time found himself in a story he couldn't suppress. >> movie mogul harvey weinstein's facing sexual assaulallegations this morning. >> it's on the front page of "the daily news."'s n the front page of "the new york post." this is already a huge story. >> the stunning italiamodel who's accusing harvey weinstein of sexual abuse.an >> the wlleges that weinstein grabbed her thigh and

chest. >> and so within 36 ho the news coming out, this was the big story in new york city. >> when ambra gutierrez came forward with her allegation, a machine mobilized to shut down these charges, and that included harvey weinstein hiring power lawyers. he had one of the most powerful p.r. teams in the country. ♪ >> narrator: weinstein also employedhe services of k2, a private intelligce firm usually specializing in corporate investigations and security.ne norom k2 would agree to an interview, but a former employee who was there at the time says weinstein's request was unusual. we agreed to hide his identity as he still works in the industry. >> harvey weinstein came to k2 itially with a matter that they probably wouldn't take on if it was somebody else.ik nobody l to develop information on somebody who's

cusing a client of sexual misconduct. but harvey weinstein bng harvey weinstein, exceptions were made. >> narrator: he says was tasked with investigating tierrez' past in italy a providing the information to weitein. >> stuff started leaking out of the weinsteicamp about her past. >> she once filed a sexual assault suit against a 70-year-old "sugar daddy." >> there was a report that she had been sleeping with a fo-year-old man in return gifts from this guy. >> it lasted for like a week, everyday something different ever was about me being a blackmailer, a prostitute. >> narrator: prosecutors asked to meet with gutierrez. she had given conflicting accounts of what happened in italy. >> they were asking me questions like, "are this news real?"

like, "you're a prostitute?" i ous asking them like, "did hear the recording?" they were like, "oh yes, i heard of it, but you have to explain this situation in italy is very confusing." i was like, "guys, i mean, i'm the victim." >> narrator: concerned how her story would play to a jury, the district attorney'office announced weinstein would not be prosecuted.nh tan district attorney cyrus vance jr. declined to be interviewed. his office told "frontline" they acted professionally, and that what emerged from the audio andi subsequeestigation was insufficient to prove a crime under neyork law. >> the case rose and fell entirely on a study of the o reputatithe accuser. everybody just focused on ambra and body focused on the guy that she accused. >> narrator: like other won before her, gutierrez went on to

sign a non-disclosure agreement. she received a million dollars-- weinstein's biggest known settlement. she says the deal doesn't prevent her from giving an interview, but she can't reveal the details of the alleged assault. >> there is 18 pages, like really, really like, wrien in very small letters and there is a list of dierent things i can't do and, yeah, the first of all is silence. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: although weinstein hadn'teen charged, an allegation of sexual assault was now in the public domain. inside the weinstein company, executives absorbed the news. >> it was on the front page of the "new york post," and those of us that heard about it and read it, kind looked at each other. i don't think anybody was too

surprised. tom prince, an executive who left the company last year, is speaking out for the first time. no current executives would agree ton interview. prince says he had become concerned about weinstein's use of company funds to fly women around the world. >> pretty much on every production i would get a phone call or an email saying we have to fly an actress to the movie set. and i would always come back and explain to them that this is ae- r two-day role, and you know, we're spending an awful lot of money flying somebodyil from paris to elphia or from new york to new zealand to fuill a role that could be occupied by a local resident there. but this was a mandate from harvey. it was the company that was completely and utterly ruled by harvey. and harvey was a dictator. i thought clearly there was

something more than the actresses' acting abilities involved with us flying somebodi and sp $20,000 on a role that would have cost $2,000. >> narrator: in his response toi "frontline,"nstein denied this and said thate and prince repeatedly cshed over budgets and other production issues. t but nearee years later, new york's aorney general would discover evidence of how weinstein was using company resources. >> we have emails, we have documents demonstrating that he was using the company to advance his sexual ierests. and there were a lot of employees who were either manipulated or intimated into helping him along. >> narrator: the attorney general alges that c executives and the board repeatedly failed to take meaningf steps to curb weinstein's behavior. >>here was a human resourc department at the weinstein company that not only didn't do

anythit it appears to have been manipulated by harvey into helping him cover it up. ofere were lotof complaints, there were lots reports of harassment, abuse, and a toxic work environment. not one formal investigation by human resources, by the corporation into harvey's conduct, it's just sort of unfathomable. to >> nar in 2015, weinstein's contract was up for renewal and the board signed off on it. >> the contract had provisions in it that provided a sliding scale for sexual misconduct that if he engaged in one act of misconduct he'd have to pay a certain amnt, if he engaged in a second act he'd have to pay a larger amount. essentially monetizing this pattern of abuse. ♪ >> narrator: bob weinstein, who heads the company, told frontline any suggestion that the contract "monetized sexual harassment is a gross misunderstanding of its substance and intent."

he has said that the board had no knowledge of his brother's alleged misconct. tom prince insists that he only heard vague rumors about weinstein. >> i knew nothing. i would hear things, but they were innuendos, and they were second and third hand. i didn't know, and to be perfectly honest, i didn't give it a lot of thought because you're too buried in dhat you're trying... just trying to survive every day. ♪ >> narrator: with his new contract, weinstein's position at the company was secure. but he was about to come under more pressure from an unexpected quarter.rs (reporteelling indistinctly) over the years, weinstein had helped raise millions for amfar, the foundation for aids research. but the amfar board had become ccerned. the problem wanot sexual

misconduct, but a dispute over the proceeds of a charity auction.is >> there, ths fun. >> narrator: the charity hired lawyer tom ajamie to investigate exactly what happened to the money. >> during the course of our investigation we had to interview people. we would say to them, "why did it go here, why did it go there?" the response we would get would be, "well, before we get intoou that, donow that harvey weinstein rapes women? do you know that harvey weinstein is a sexual predator?" now we had no proof of that, but this is what we were hearing and it was very disturbing.>> arrator: word about this got back to weinstein and he asked ajamie to meet him. >> he said to me, "tom, you're spreading rumorsbout me raping women." and my response was, "harvey, i'm not saying that, the community is saying that about you." and at some point got very angry and said, "you better be careful, tom, because i've

investigated you, and not so clean, so be careful." ♪ >> narrator: weinstein has repeatedly denied rape allegations. >> when the meeting ended, he ran up to me andot very close to my face and said, "please, please sign a non-disclosureag ement. please don't tell anyone. man to man, don't tell anyone what you've learned about me." and i id, "harvey, i can't do that." he walked out, he got into the elevor, and as the elevator doors were closing, i was looking at his face and he was looking at my face, and i saw a very sad and desperate who was now sticking his fingers in various parts of the dike andpr trying tent the water from caking out and the entire dam from falling ashing down on him.

>> narrator: weinste had been trying to silence his accusers for decades. w but now under increasing scrutiny from multiple news organizations. >> there had long been rumors about harv weinstein. and this was the moment in time where the "new york times" saidn "let's put somstigative muscle into this." and so we spent many, many weeks and many months trying to get women who had had encounters with weinstein to tell us their ories. ♪ >> narrator: in october 2017, harvey weinstein finally losthe control oftory. >> now to the latest on harvey weinstein. "the new york times" reporting allegations by numerous won who say the hollywood mogul sexually harassed them. >> nrator: it was no longer hollywood's open secret. it was news around the world. >> weinstein is accused of sexually harassing female employees and actors... >> (reporter speaking chinese)

>> (reporter speakinish) >> (reporter speaking french) >> narrator: "the new yorkli times"shed multiple allegations of sexual harassment going back decades. >> harvey weinstein seemed to asnduct himself as if he w invincible. so we really kind of held our breath after the story broke wondering if it was gonna have an impact. >> narrator: further allegations-- some of assault and rape-- would follow in the y "nker." in the following weeks, dozens more women-- some famous, some not-- would come fward. ♪ >> i had no idea of the breadth and enormity of the story, igh thhe just preyed on us. that was the most shocking thing, realizing that he was a rious predator, and he h been seriously abusing people with total impunity for all this time. (c era shutters clicking)

narrator: soon after the news broke, weinstein was fired from his company. he says he is now in therapy. >> i spoke to harvey. he doesn't sound sad and lejected, he sounds a litt bit... a little bit huliated, but i think he's gearing up for the fight. >> narrator: in a new atement to "frontline" this week, weinstein's spokeswoman said, while he denies any non-consensual sexual conduct, vi is deeply apologetic to those offended by his be. the spokeswoman said it is wrong and irresponsible to conflate claims of impolitic behavior or consensual sexual contact later regretted, with an untrue claim of criminal conduct, d his lawyers will respond in the appropriate legal forum with evidence disproving the claims against him. i think harvey's career is over. but you know, who knows?ap

anything cann. >> narrator:s of now, police in los angeles, new york, and london are investigating rape and sexual assault allegations going back to the 1980s. ♪ new york's attorney general has filed a civil rights case against weinstein and the weinstein company. ♪ and a group of models and actresses is pursuing a classsu action l against him. >> i don't want to go down in history as harvey weinstein's assault victim, but i damn well will if it's going to help put him in jail, and it's going to change the system. i will. >> harvey, are you doingkay? >> yeah, i'm not doing okay. i'm trying. gotta get help, guys. you know what, we all make mistakes. second chance, i hope, okay? >> it ddens me that everybody

woke up because of harvey weinstein. on the other hand, thank god we've woken up. >> it wathe hostile takeover of the republican party. >> narrator: the fight between the present and his own party. >> in one fell swoop the republicans sent a message you're not a king, you are a president. >> trump's response is classic trump. who am i going to blame? >> don't mess with donald trump. donald trump doesn't forget. >> somebody needs to stand up and say "this is not our rty, this is not normal." >> go to pbs.org/frontline for the latest on the weinstein company >> there were lots of complaint e formal investigation... >> and learn more about non- disclosure agreements.he >> is 18 pages, a list of different things i can't do andeah, the first of all is silence.

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