and if you publish ts you're going to destroy my-my family." >> narrator: auletta couldn't get anyone and allegations of sexual misconduct.is he and hditors concluded they couldn't publish at he'd heard. >> i wish i could have nailed the guy in 2002. the problei had was that i couldn't prove it. clearly, people knew or suspected that harvey was a... was a predator, sexual predar. and-and they kept their mouths shut. (reports shouting indistinctly) >>arrator: as weinstein fe off reporters from theam mainst press, he was courting the tabloids. >> harvey liked have a good relationship with the media, ane i guess 'c'm a brooklyn guy and he's a queens guy, he took to me. and we'd spend some time on the phone, shooting the breeze about hewhat went on last night, were the parties, what did you do? >> nrator: gossip writer, aj benza, hed from a source that weinstein was having an affair.he i called him, and said, "not true, not true, not true." and then he called back and said, "okay, there's something to it, let's try to work this out." >> narrator: although weinstein denies it, benza saythe

. >> narrator: perkins wouldn't agree to an interview for auletta's story, but h decided to confront small conference room, across fromer each ond i said, "harvey, tell me about zelda perkins." he rose, and he clenched his fists, and he raised his h shoulders, asaid, "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 what he'd said was, "ken, you're going to ruin m marriage, these were consensual relationships. and if you publish this you're going to destroy my-my family." t anyone to speak on theldn't record about the n.d.a.snd allegations of sexual misconduct. udhe and his editors concl they couldn't publish what he'd heard.ul >> i wish i have nailed the guy in 2002. the problem i had was that i couldn't prove it. clearly, people knew or suspected that harvey was a... was a predator, sexual predator. and-and they kept eir mouths shut. (reports shouting indistinctly) >> narrator: as weinein fended mainstream press, he w courti