Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein minimized his links to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein in a sweeping new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, despite evidence suggesting the two convicted sex offenders were far from strangers.
Asked if he knew Epstein during a prison interview published on Tuesday, Weinstein said, “No. I maybe ran into him once or twice. He didn’t travel in my circles. We certainly were not friends.”
Weinstein further distanced himself from Epstein when the interviewer compared the media attention both men received and asked if Weinstein believed Epstein may have been “unfairly accused” of sexual predation, just as the filmmaker has long claimed he was.
“No. I just know what I read in the papers — I can’t say one way or another,” Weinstein said. “I don’t have a lot of faith in the media. Or prosecutors, either. But the crimes he’s charged with are really awful. They’re nothing at all like mine.”
But despite Weinstein’s claims, the men do appear to have inhabited the same wealthy and powerful circles.
