- Media mogul is reported to have hired sexual harassment specialist Lisa Bloom
- He is said to have employed Charles Harder, who helped Hulk Hogan sue Gawker
- But he simply said: ‘The story sounds so good, I want to buy the movie rights’
- Other reports suggest the articles concern his ‘improper workplace behaviour’
The medial mogul, who co-founded Miramax and is the co-chairman of the Weinstein Company, has reportedly employed sexual harassment specialist Lisa Bloom and Charles Harder
Movie producer Harvey Weinstein has hired two big-name lawyers amid claims he is set to become the subject of major stories in two publications.
The medial mogul, who co-founded Miramax and is the co-chairman of the Weinstein Company, has employed sexual harassment specialist Lisa Bloom and Charles Harder, the man who represented Hulk Hogan when he sued Gawker.
According to reports, he has also hired various other lawyers and ‘several crisis PR consultants’ amid claims articles due to appear in the New Yorker magazine and the New York Times newspaper.
The Hollywood Reporter said Mr Weinstein laughed off the matter, explaining: ‘The story sounds so good, I want to buy the movie rights.’
Mr Weinstein won an Oscar for producing Shakespeare in Love in 1998 and his companies have overseen many successful pictures, including Pulp Fiction and Clerks in 1994.
But ‘multiple sources’ with knowledge of events told the Hollywood Reporter that a story is being written about his ‘personal behaviour’.
Variety magazine said the ‘bombshell’ stories concern ‘sexual allegations’ and ‘improper workplace behaviour’, with ‘some women’ making on-the-record charges.
It is believed the Times has contacted ‘dozens’ of current and former employees of Weinstein’s.
The reports are also said to have access to HR documents.
Ronan Farrow, who works for NBC News, has reportedly been researching a story on Weinstein for about a year with the intention of publishing in the New Yorker.
The New Yorker told Hollywood Reporter they do not comment on unpublished stories while the Times declined to say anything at all.