September 5, 2021 | 3: 19pm
Harvey Weinstein has answered to Angelina Jolie’s fresh interview, wherein she says she “escaped” an attain across with him.
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Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein says he never assaulted Angelina Jolie after she claimed in a fresh interview she needed to “destroy out” an attain across with the disgraced movie magnate.
“THERE WAS NEVER an assault, and NEVER an strive to assault,” Weinstein — who is at showcase serving a 23-365 days sentence for rape and battery — answered in a assertion to TMZ through his assistant on Saturday.
“It is overtly untrue and clickbait publicity,” the assertion continued. “You’re Angelina Jolie, every female and male on this planet, I’m particular, reveals interest in you. Is the total world assaulting you?”
The heated response from Weinstein comes after the actress described her alleged prior trip with him as “beyond a pass” whereas promoting her upcoming book, “Know Your Rights,” to The Guardian in an interview published Saturday.
“It’s very certain to me that right here’s for more gross sales on Angie’s BOOK,” Weinstein added in his assertion.
Within the interview, Jolie — who starred in Weinstein’s “Taking part in By Heart” when she was as soon as 21 — says she informed her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller, about the alleged incident.
“I stayed away and warned of us about him. I be aware telling Jonny, my first husband, who was as soon as mighty about it, to spread the note to other guys — don’t let girls scamper on my own with him,” Jolie shared.
She added that she was as soon as asked to raise out 2004’s “The Aviator” but talked about no because Weinstein was as soon as enthusiastic.
Jolie’s claims about Weinstein came out whereas she was as soon as discussing the ongoing considerations she had with her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, that finally resulted in their marriage ending.
The “Maleficent” fundamental individual claims that Pitt asked Weinstein to be a producer on his film “Killing Them Softly” — a film The Weinstein Firm later dispensed.
“We fought about (Weinstein’s involvement),” Jolie shared. “Needless to claim it injure.”
Nonetheless, one other one among Pitt’s exes, Gwyneth Paltrow, had a totally diversified trip after Weinstein allegedly invited the younger actress — then lawful 22 years old skool — abet to his resort room and suggested they accumulate massages within the mattress room.
Pitt allegedly confronted Weinstein at a movie premiere and bodily threatened the producer which, at the time, was as soon as an big wretchedness for the up and coming actor.
Conception B productions, Pitt’s company, is additionally working on a film about Novel York Times newshounds Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who helped gather down Weinstein with their Pulitzer Prize-a success document.
Jolie first unfolded about the alleged incident with Weinstein in the 2017 NYT document, claiming he’d made “unwanted advances” in direction of her in a resort room.
“I had a wrong trip with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and which means that, selected never to work with him another time and warn others after they did,” Jolie informed the Times through e mail. “This habits in direction of females in any enviornment, any country is unacceptable.”
