Madonna speaks out on her alleged experience with Harvey Weinstein.
In a New York Times profile published on Wednesday, the Material Girl said the disgraced movie producer “crossed lines and boundaries,” and was “incredibly sexually flirtatious” with her while the two worked.
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Back in the early ’90s, the now-67-year-old’s Miramax company distributed the singer’s documentary, Madonna: Truth or Dare.
Per the Borderline songstress:
“Harvey crossed lines and boundaries and was incredibly sexually flirtatious and forward with me when we were working together; he was married at the time, and I certainly wasn’t interested… I was aware that he did the same with a lot of other women that I knew in the business. And we were all, ‘Harvey gets to do that because he’s got so much power and he’s so successful and his movies do so well and everybody wants to work with him, so you have to put up with it.’ So that was it.'”
Following a different New York Times expose, Weinstein was accused of nearly 30 years of sexual misconduct, and was kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in October 2017.
In regards to his fall from grace, the 60-year-old entertainer remarked:
“So when it happened, I was really like, ‘Finally.’ I wasn’t cheering from the rafters because I’m never going to cheer for someone’s demise. I don’t think that’s good karma anyway. But it was good that somebody who had been abusing his power for so many years was called out and held accountable.'”
As we wrote last month, per a Wall Street Journal report, Weinstein reportedly reached a tentative $44 million civil lawsuit settlement agreement with “his sexual misconduct accusers, former business partners and other entities.”
According to attorney Adam Harris, who is representing the former board members of Weinstein’s production company:
“For the first time, as of yesterday, we now have an economic agreement in principle that is supported by the plaintiffs, the [New York attorney general’s] office, the defendants and all of the insurers.”
Though the settlement has not been finalized, reportedly, approximately $30 million will be paid to the plaintiffs in the civil suit (including his alleged sexual misconduct victims), as well as to Weinstein Company employees, and creditors who loaned the film studio money before it filed for bankruptcy.
The other $14 million will reportedly go to pay the legal fees of Weinstein’s former business associates.
[Image via Tina Paul/WENN.]
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