>> ♪ >> harvey! (cameras clicking)nt >> tonight, on froline... m >>ore than 60 women have come forward to accuse instein of sexual harassment, assault and rape. what he was alleged to beaware doing. >> weinstein has repeatedly denied allegations of non-consensual sex. >> he believed, that he was going to beha untoe. >> narrator: ...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 so powerless and furious... >> ...large pay outs,

nondisclosuragreements... >> absolutely in fear of death i was not allowed to talk to a journalist. >> ...an array of private investigation firms. >> they completely destroyed me and my image. >> he had one of the most powerful legal teams in the country. >> he got very angry and said, "i've investigated you and you're not so clean so be careful". >> narrator: the insiders speaking out for the first timeh >> it was the companat was completely and utterly ruled by. harv and harvey was a dictator. >> 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 "ontline" special, "weinstein." >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.th k you.

and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherine t.fo macarthudation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional support is provid by the abrams foundation: committed to excellence in journalism. the park foundation,edicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glessner family trust.ng supporrustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. anmby the frontline journal fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. ♪ >> i was just starting my career, it washe early '90s. i was just out of acting school, going on auditions and pounding

the pavement. ♪ the first time i met him was in the miramax office, and it was a, you know, a legitimate meing set up by my agents. the first moments of tha meeting were very easy, breezy, casual you know, "welcome to the miramax family." and i felt vy much like he was going to take care of me. and then he said, "there's aon screening this afterf one 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 crew, it was just a movie. ♪ i wanted to leave, he sort of said, "oh i'll take you home." we ended up stopping at his house. and then i-i ended up going up

probably against my better judgme. once i was in there we had another hour-long nversation 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.th ght, "he's coming after me.") (sig um...i st remember sort of darting back and forth trying to get past him.

you know in that moment that you may not make i i told him that i was furious, i said, you know, i said, "i can't believe you're doinghis to me. i don't know if he heard me, but he may have, he might have heard me, i don't know. (sniffles) i mean, i do... i waable to finally get a... a way out. i knew that 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 anythingo the people that might have been able to help me. >> narrator: katherine kendall is one of over a hundred womend who have come forwarth

allegations against harveyoc weinstein sincber 2017. many of these women are now suing him. weinstein declined to be interviewed.t rough his spokeswoman, he provided "frontline" with written responses to thehi allegations infilm. he denies any criminal conduct. >> harvey weinstein was one of p the moerful people in hollywood for decades, and heme was a darling of thecan political world. st any time you have y like this where people are getting hurt over decades and decades, there are people around who knew enough and could have done more to stop it. >> i think this is a momentous reckoning.t, frankly, i think there's so much more to 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. i believe he only put in a year before he was justind of mesmerized by all of the opportunities that awaed him here. ♪ >> narrator: weinstein built up a successful concert promotion business.98 then, in 1 he made his first film. ♪ ry >> it was a ilm about a guy that comes back for revenge and murders the people at the

camp. (screaming >> narrator: 24-year-old paula wachowiak worked on the film as an intern. one day, she says, she 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 e while he's asking me, and all questions about checks. dd he, at some point, satn on the bed, and he plopped the arted saying, "what about this one," and he's pointing. and i'm not gonna look down so i say, "which one is that, harv?" then he said, "i have a-a cricku in my er," 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 th's in my job description." >> narrator: another young woman working on the film, suza maher-wilson, says weinstein approached her at party after filming had finished. this is the first time she'sab spoken publiclt it. >> there was a hotel room right off the lobby.at and th's when he like lured me in there to give him a massage. and i agreing a 23-year-old naïve, trusting young woman. he, said, "i'm going to the lavatory."id and i "okay." and then i... he came out and he was naked with a towel and it was a little shocking. and just said, "i'm sorry, this isn't... this isn't what i signedn 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 account, and disagrees on the details of suza maher-wilson's account. >> i told probably a handful of people, but no one seemed shocked 'cause he was the producer. we all felt it was typical of someone in a position of power w ld that over younger, younger 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 th his brother bob-- was expanding. they sawhemselves as artists, outsiders to the hollywood system. >> at miramax we're not under that corporate pressure to say, "jesus, we've got to go up each year." we can do what we think is good and if our profits are lower next year than they were the year before, so what? so what, as lo as we did good work. ♪ >> narrator: the company made its name with movies that mainstream studios ignored. weinstein's power was growing, and he was working with top hollywood actresses. (radio chatter)we >> come on, ot him. >> narrator: in 19, sean young, who was already kwn for movies like "blade runner," starred in his latest film "love crimes." ?>> who the (bleep) are y >> district attorney,

ass(bleep). i play a chacter who discovers this sexual predator, and then tracks them down, and then the tables are turned and is entrapped by him. re the wient out.m i wanted to get hider felony and i needed it on tape. i was sitting in harvey's office after the pictur 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 prett 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 her career. it was the last time she would work on a miramax film.

>> the reason i didn't get another movie with harvey i weinstein was thade him feel foolish. ♪ s i t to have a very big career, but i upset a few important men, and the trajectory of my career went... whooo... (imitates crash) ♪ >> narrator: in 1993, miramaxwa bought by disney, helping weinstein become one of the most pooorful producers in hollywd. disney says it was unaware of any sexual misconduct complaints against him. but his colleagues say he was notoriously difficult to work for. >> working at miramax was like being in a cult. e cult of harvey.

t me s.everybodkn he worked beyond the limits of normal human beings. >> narrator: paul webster joined miramax in 1995. this is his first televisi >> i knew i was makinglin. with the devil. i knew he was a bully, i knew he would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. i knew he had a lcanic temper. knew he was a 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, hollywooo stars continueine up to work with him.is a part in one ofilms could mean artistic credibility, fame, and awards. >> oh, my love! i thought you were dead!

>> narrator: in 1998, 26-year-old gwyneth paltrow appeared in "shakespeare in (cheers and applause)♪ ♪ on both her and weinstein oscars. >> this is a movie about life and art, and art and life combing is called magic. >> narrator: weinstein was at the top ofhe hollywood establishment. but a reporter with sources in investigating a disturbing rumor about him. >> we had heard that gwyneth paltrow had been assaued. we heard it from a director who was very upset about it, and wanted it to be out there. and we thought 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. (lghs) >> narrator: paltrow didn't address the rumors at the time, and never accused him of assault. 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. r career, and i'm not blaming her for not wanting to take him on. we've seen in the aftermath, the lengths to which he would go to destroy people who tried to take him on. (indistinct chatte >> narrator: whatever rumors had been circulating about harvey weinstein, his power only ew. some of the up-and-comers who met him say they were unaware of his reputation.

>> in 1998 i was 24. modeling around the wod, i thought i was tough. >> nartor: zoe brock met weinstein at the cannes film festival. nt >> we were taken ithe majestic hotel to have dinner, w and that wre i was sat next to harvey. ♪ >> narrar: 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 entourage wesappeared and her friend nowhere to be seen. m friends were never coming, that was a blatant lie. so we get to the hotel room.

and i remember sobering up fast. and then hary walked back in and he was naked. so he's negotiating, he'sne tiating a massage. "i want a massage. come on, give me a massage, give me a massage. just, you know, let me give you a masse. blah blah blah blah blah." and he's rapid fire, and he takes control of t 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 shoulders. and within seconds i knew that, that was just not going to fly, there was no way this was happening. and i got up and i bolted into the bathroom and he chased me.

but i remember locking the door and him being on thether side of it and banging. i screamed at him, "put your (bleep) clothes on you naughtyle ) boy." and i meant it. and it worked. i came out of the bathroom and he waspologizing, and he... started to cry. and he said something that i have never forgotten and i never will for the rest of my days, in between his tears, "you don't like me becae i'm fat." i really felt sorry for him in that moment. at that point i had no idea obviously how dangerouhe really was. >> nartor: weinstein's responses to "frontline" do not directly dispute zoe brock's allegations, but s she is "publicizing her lawsuit seeking damages from m weinstein,

despite the fact that she never complained to anyone at the me." but zoe brock says she told many people. >> i told my agent. i told so many people in hollywood-- producers, casting agents-- everyone's reaction across the boa was always, "oh... yeah, harvey." to >> nar zoe brock's agent denies that she told him. ♪ but, across hollywood, many models and actresses now say they told their agen about weinstein's behavior. >> the agents had to know. the top agents had to know. and, frankly, any agent who knew what was happening with harvey weinein should be coming forward now explaining what happened. ♪

>> narrator: one of the most inflntial talent firms in hollywood, creative artists agency, has since said in a statement, "wepologize to any person the agency let down." by now, some inside miramax had started to connect the dots about weinstein's behavior. >> 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 pensula hotel in l.a., and he would entertain. buit didn't take too much brainpower to put it together that a man who was so abusive and bullying in 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. think we were all enablers. i think we were, we were all complicit. could i have done anything atme the well, for one, i never thought about doing anything about it. i know that i prevented my assistant being called to the a savoy hotel lat night. i said, "no, you can't go.", viously i was aware of that. i didn't have the guts to dong anytbout it. i think the deal i'd made withth devil was to my advantage. ♪ >> narrator: with no one inll hollywood g him out, weinstein's alleged behavior continued.ze a perkins was one of his assistants. >> the first time that i traveled alone abroad with him,w he insisted thatt into the bathroom while he had a sauna because he needed to do work, and i refused to go in the saa. and he said, "well i... this

isn't working, i'm going to have a bath instead." so i tried to leave the bathroom, he said, "you can'twe leave, i need to..eed to get this business done." es he was reeling off nf all the actresses that he had had s some sort ual relations with or who had given him massages or whatever. and i remember looking round at him and sang, "how do you look at yourself in the mirror? h how do you do you do that?" and i can remember him lookingut back at merly nonplussed and saying, "i have no problem at all." ♪ n rator: in 1998, perkins accompanied weinstein to the veni film festival, along wi a new colleague. >> she came to me in a very distress state and told me that he had assaulted her, that he'd attempted to rape her. i was completelyideswiped by

this. i went straight to harveand confronted him about what had happened, and he swore on-on the life of his wife and children that absolutely nothing had happened. >> narrator: but perkins didn't believe him. she and her collgue quit miramax and went to lawyers in london for advice. >> there didn't em to be any recourse in terms of bringing haey to justice. we had no physical proof, wedn gone to the police in... on the lido in vice. really the only option that we were given was to request damages. >> narrator: in negotiwith weinstein's lawyers, they asked for around $200,000 each, and also insisted on measures that would protect miramax employees from harassment: therapy sessions for weinstein, a new hr

policy, and a ause that could see him fired if he paid off anmore women. weinstein accepted the terms on condition they sign a non-dilosure agreement, or >> we weren't allowed to talk to anybody about the alleged behavior, but also about our time at miramax. this wasn't a normal confidentiality agreement; this erwasn't us saying that we't gonna, you know, give away corporate secrets. this was a deeply personally bindinagreement, which certainly in my colleague's case, meant that she cldn't ever speak about a huge personal trauma that happened to her. ♪ >> narrator: perkins would

eventually decide to break her n.d.a. but her former colleague has maintained her silence. in his statement to "frontline," pe allegation, and says that,d "ms. perkins asked for money instead of reporting her claims to the authorities." >> so, you take your check and you try to deal with it as best you can, you know. he got away with it for years, just on the strength of that. ♪ >> narrator: weinstein went on to use n.d.a.s with multiple women who accused him of sexual misconduct.on in his response to "ine," he said, "over a period of 30 years there were actually less harassment claims."s of and that "none of these settlement agreements prevente 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 agreed to them was an enabling factor. it allowed him to silence complaining victims and just see it as a cost of doing business. fear from continuing with the behavior that led to the problem in the first place, and again, and again, and again. >> narrator: 4 years later, a journalist at the "new yorkern magazine heard that ein had been settling sexual harassment claims. >> i had never encountered an n.d.a., a nondisclure 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-- zelda perkins. she had moved to guatemala, but he tracked her down.

>> i picked up t phone and this geneman asked me directly about whether i had an agreement with harvey weinstein. >> she was really terrified-- "how'd you find me?" >> 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,. "no, no, i havenyes, i have... no, i haven't, no, i can't talk to you."hi i just knew that one 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 smallco erence 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 startede. screaming at 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 what he'd said was"ken, you're going to ruin my marriage, these were consensuale tionships. and if you publish this you're going to destroy my-my family." >> narrator: auletta couldn't record about the n.d.a the allegations of sexual misconduct.he nd his editors concluded they couldn't blish what he'd heard. >> i wish i could have nailed the guy in 2002. the problem i had was that i couldn't prove it. clearly, people kn or suspected that harvey was a... was a predator, sexu predator. and-and they kept their mouths shut. >> narrator: as weinstfendedly) off reporters from thema instream press, he was courting the tabloids.

>> hary liked to have a good relationship with the media, an i guause i'm a brooklyn guy and he's a queens guy, he took to me. and we'd spe some time on the phone, shooting the breeze about what went on last night, where were the parties, what did you >> narrator: gossip wr aj bza, heard from a source that weinstein was having an affair. i called him, and he said, "not true, not true, not true." and then he called back andom said, "okay, there'shing to it, let's try to work this out." >> narrator: although weinstein denies it, ben says they cut a deal. he would be paid to supply celebrity gossip that weinstein could trth other reporters who dug up dirt on him. >> the gossip industry is run on the barter system.t if i've story about you and you don't want it printed, you say, "hold it, i'll get you e other story and save you."rint that's done every day, so what harvey a i were doing was something that was already-- it was always done. >> narrator: despite theumors

about weinstein at the time, benza insists he never heard any sexual harassment allegations. >> i know it sounds ridiculous, but in the 20 years i knew harvey there was never a story about him going after somebody sexually. finding out now all these women are... were in se kind of hell with him, no clue, not at all. ♪ >> narrar: but other reporters in hollywood were still trying to pin down the rumors they'd heard. kim masters, who'd been writing critical stories about miramax,o a meeting with weinstein. >> i met him at the peninsula hotel, for the first time face to face. comes in very aggressiv yelling and screaming, "what have you heard about me?" n and i sort of had th or never thing, and i said, "i've heard you rape women." he did not seem shocked or outred. you would expect a normal person

to say, "i'm sorry, what? how dare you"-- and there wasal none of that a >> narrator: in his response to "frontline," weinstein said that he wasn't shocked because he'd already hearthe allegation and it was false. >> i'd heardeally brutal allegations. oswe couldn't write about we couldn't get it on the record. i think he kind of believed, as he did with reason for years to touchable. he was going to be (reporter shouting indistinctly) >> narrator: weinstein would eventually leave miramax after a series of disputes with disney. he and his brother set up the >> quick picture, plea! >> narrator: rumors about his conduct continued to circulate throughout hollywood, but he kept making hits, and winning awards. >> "the king's speech." iain canning, emile sherman... >> thank you, harvey weinstein. >> and, of course, harvey. >> harvey, thank y for killing whoever you had to kill to get

me up here today. (laughter) >> i think the entire industry w knew that obsessed with young actresses, that he was a cheater on his wife, a that he "made the scene" with many women. i don't know who actually knew h what wpening. >> and the golden globe goes to... meryl streep. >> it was a time and a place where to be in his circle was to be successful. >> i just want to thank my agent, kevin huvane, and god, harvey weinstein. (laughter) >> nrator: some of hollywood biggest stars-- like meryl streep-- have since said they were unaware of weinstein's alleged misconduct. but a handful have admitted 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 at ."ast one of those inciden

>> i think there are still a lo of people ere who know way more about what was happening here than what they've cared to share. they were, in many ways, the f great enableor harvey's behavior. being in his grace was allowing 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 there was a role in sarah jessica parker's new film. and then it very quickly shifted to asking me to give him ahe naked massage oned. i was like, "you know, i'm married." and he said-- i said, "you are too, rig?" and he said, "yes, but we

have... we have an arrangement." and i was like, "you know what, harvey, about done with this r conversatiht 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. (cheers and applause) >> i'm sh mcfarlane, the host of the oscars. congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. (laughter) >> and then i was like, good, i'm glad he just did that. because at that point, nobody was saying anything publicly. i feel like everybody kind of knew about harvey, but nobody was saying anything publicly. honestly there wasn't any action after that. i guess they still wanted to make movies and collect their awards and just go on their merry way. (chuckles)

>> narrator: by 2015, allegations of harvey weinstein's sexual misconducter had been whisp among industry insiderfor decades, but still hadn't become public. that was about to change. ♪ itatarted when ambra battil gutierrez, a 22-year-old italian model,ent to the new york police. she had just had a meeting with harvey weinstein. >> the story that she told is thathortly after she came in ether her breasts were real ort not, he groped her breasts, he reached up her skirt and her. tried to kiss it degenerates from her cominghe up there to discuscareer to her fighting thisuy off in his office. >> narrator: the police wanted evidence. they asked her to meet weinstein agai 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.

i felt completely positive about what i'd done. they were super happy and like saying, "wow, now, this person is completely finished; you w saved a lot en." >> the n.y.p.d. arranges 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 pursuing. and that's what they told the... the manhattan district attorney. >> narrator: with new yorkec prosors 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 assault allegations th morning. >> it's on the front page of "the daily news." it's on the front page of "the new york post." this is already a huge story. >> the stunning italian modelwh s accusing harvey weinstein of sexual abuse. >> the woman alleges that weinstein grabbed her thigh and

chest. >> and so within 36 hours of the news coming out, this was the big story in new york city. >> wheambra 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 employed the serviceof k2, a private intelligence firm usually specializing in corporate investigations and security. no one from 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 initially with matter that they probably wouldn't take on if it was somebody else. nobody likes to develop information on somebody who's c

accusing aent of sexual misconduct. but harvey weinstein being harvey weinstein, exceptions were made. >> narrator: he says k2 was tasked wh investigating gutierrez' past in italy and providing the information to weinstein. >> stu started leaking out of the weinstein camp about her past. >> she once filed a sexual assault suit against a 70-year-old "sugar daddy."as >> there report that she had been sleeping with a 70-year-old man in return for gifts from this guy. >> it lasted for like a week, everyday somethingifferent coming out. everything was about me being a blackmailer, a prostitute. >> narrator: prosecutors askedie to meet with gez. nflicting accounts of what happened in italy. >> they were asking me questions

like, "are this news real?" like, "you're a prostitute?" i was asking them ke, "did you 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's office announced weinstein would not be prosecuted. manhattan district attorney cyrus vance jr. declined to interviewed. his office told "frontline" they acted professionally, and that what emerged from the audio and assubsequent investigation insufficient to prove a crime under new york law. >> the case rose and fell entirely on a study of the reputation of the accuse everybody just focused on ambra and nobody focusedn the guy that she accused. >> narrator: like other women 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, written in iry small letters and the a list of different things i caoft do and, yeah, the firs all is silence. ♪ >> narrator: although weinstein hadn't been charge an allegation of sexual assault was now in the public domain. inside the weinstein company, exutives absorbed the news >> it was on the front page of the "new york post," and those d us that heard about it read it, kind of looked at each other. i don't think anyby was too

surprised. tom prince, an executive who left the company last year, iski sp out for the first time. no current executives uld agree to an interview. prce says he had become conceed 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 thethat this is a one- or two-day role, and you know, we're spendi an awful lot of money flying somebody from paris to philadelphia or from new york to new zealand to fulfill a role thacould 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 somebod and spending $20,000role that would have cost $2,000. >> narrato in his response to "frontline", weinstein denied this and said that he and prince repeatedly clashed over budgetst anr production issues. and despite prins suspicions, he insists only ever heard vague rumors about weinstein's conduct. >> i knew nothing. i would hear things, but they were innuendoes and they were-h second and thid. i didn't know and to be perfectly honest, i didn't give it a lot of thoughbecause you're too buried in doing what you're trying to do, just tryinr tove every day. >> narrator: bob weinstein, who heads the weinstein company, has also said that he and the boardl had no kge of his brother's alleged misconduct, even though rumo had been circulating within the company.

>> over the ars there were certain people and it wasn't just assistants it w executives in the coany wholi did have gses of predatory behavior. there were hr officials who were told about his behavior within his owcompany, there were lawyers who were brought in to strike settlements, but it's not 100% clear exactly what went on behind the sceneof the weinstein company board in 2015, but what's clear is that the board was aware of the italian models allegation. >> narrator: in fact, soon after ambra gutierrez's settlementei with wnstein in 2015, his contract was up for renewal aimed at his behavior.e changes >> there was a new code of conduct that was put into place that year approved by the board in whichhey added more explicit language on sexual harassment, they also put some terms in the contract, harvey's

contract as well as the contract of other executives in which there would be financial t penalties y violated that code of conduct and the company was required to pay, to make any o-yments or settlements to victims of that misconduct. so there were some measures to try to address what they thought might be his misconduct at that time. ♪ >> narrator: with his newpo contract, weinstein'tion at the company was secure. but he was about to come undermo re pressure from an unexpected quarter.nd (reporters yelling itinctly) over the years, weinstein had helped raise millions for amfar, the foundation for aids research. but the amfar board had become concerned. the problem was not sexual

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

investated you, and you're not so clean, so be careful." ♪ >> narrator: weinstein has d repeatedied rape allegations. >>hen the meeting ended, h ran up to me and got very close to my face and said, "plse, please sign a non-disclosure agreement. please don't tell anyone. man to man, don't tell anyone what you've learned about me." and i said, "harve i can't do that." he walked out, he got into the elevator, and ashe elevator doors were closing, i was looking at his face and he was m looking face, and i saw a very sad and desperate man who was now sticking his fingers in various parts of the dike an trying to prevent the water from leaking out and the entire dam wnom falling and crushing on him.

>> narrator: weinstein had been trying to silence his accusers for decades. but he was now under increasing scrutiny from multiple news organizations. r >> there had long beors about harvey weinstein. and this was the moment in time where ew york times" said, "let's put some investigative muscle into this."t and so we spny, many weeks and many months trying to get women who had had encounters with weinstein to tell us their stories. ♪ >> narrator: in october 2017,ha ey weinstein finally lost control of the story.e >> now to test on harvey weinstein. "the new york times" reporting allegations by numerous women who say the hollywood mogul sexually harassed them. >> narrato 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) >> (report speaking spanish)

>> (reporter speaking french) >> narrator: "the new yorke times" published mul allegations of sexual harassmenc going back dades.ar >> hy weinstein seemed to conduct himself as if he was 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 "new yorker." in the following weeks, dozens more women-- some famous, some not-- would come forward. ♪ >> i had no idea of the breadth and enormity of the story, i that was the most shockingus. thing, realizing that he was a serious predor, and he had been seriously abusing people with total impunity for all this time. (camera shutters clicking)

narrator: soon after the newse, breinstein was fired from his company and went into thery. >> i spoke to harvey, he doesn't und sad and dejected, he sounds a little bit- a little bit humiliated, but i think he's gearing up for the fight. >> narrator: in a statement to ontline, weinstein's spokeswoman said while he denies any non-consensual sexual conduct, he is deeply apologetic to those offended by his behavior. the spokeswoman said "it is wronand irresponsible to conflate claims of impolitic behavior or consensu sexual contact later regretted with an untrue claim of criminal conduct, and hisawyers will respond in the appropriate legal forum with evidencdisproving the claims against him." >> i think harvey's career is over. but you know, who knows?

anything can happen. >> narrator: as of now, police in los angeles, new york and london are investigating rape and sexualssault allegations going back to the 1980s. the new york attorney general's office has filed a civil rights case against wnstein and the weinstein company - which declared bankruptcy and is now in the process of being sold. and a group of models and actresses is psuing a class action lawsuit 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 helput him in jail, and it's going to change the system. i will. >> harvey, are you doing okay? >> yeah, i'm not doing okay. i'm trying., i gotta get heguys. u know what, we all make mistakes. second chance, i hope, okay? >> it saddens me tt everybody

woke up because of harvey weinstein. on the other hand, thank god we've woken up. >> ...the violent ms-13 gang for machete attacks. >> ...police have uncovered human remains... >> if you're an ms-13 gang member, take a look behind me.e, for every person hhere is 10 more... >>major crackdown... >> they said, "we're taking the boy. uh, we're government." >>e have seen a significant number of ms-13 gang members who entered the united states as unaccompanied minors >> anyone can be labeled and cause them to be detained, and their civil rights to be violated, and thesare children. >> go to pbs.org/frontline for the latest developments on the weinstein story. >> any agent who knew what was happening with harvey weinstein should be coming forward now, explaining what happened... >> ...and learn more aboutn- sclosure agreements. >> there is 18 pages, a list of

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