Harvey Weinstein dismissed his accusers and insisted on his innocence in a new jailhouse interview, calling his past behavior “immoral” but not illegal.
Speaking with right-wing commentator Candace Owens in a conversation she partially released on YouTube Tuesday, the disgraced producer, who is currently being retried for rape in New York, repeated his claim that he was “wrongfully convicted,” while admitting to making “mistakes” in his transactional relationships with women in the film industry.
Addressing Gwyneth Paltrow’s accusations that he came on to her after casting her in 1996’s “Emma,” Weinstein said, “It’s a complete fabrication, you know, about my relationship with Gwyneth. I didn’t put my hands on her. I didn’t touch her.”
Paltrow told The New York Times in 2017 that, two decades earlier, Weinstein invited her to his room at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, touched her, and suggested she let him give her a massage.
Weinstein acknowledged he “made a pass” at her during what began as a business meeting.
