The New Yorker Magazine (№ 6th June 2022) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2022-06-06T09:39:43+00:00

and I was not that person until this cri-

That spring, the district attorney of movies. More movie stars. More par-sis started.” (His stilted words reminded Los Angeles County, Jackie Lacey, anties. Just more, more, more.”

me of a vow that Weinstein made when nounced the beginning of “the process Zelda Perkins, Weinstein’s assistant

I profiled him in 2002, to live a kinder, of extraditing defendant Weinstein to in London in the nineteen-nineties and calmer life that was more centered on California,” to face felony charges for the first woman to break one of his family and “human things.”)

sexually assaulting five women there be-

N.D.A.s, said in an interview, “He’s a

As a producer, Weinstein had excelled tween 2004 and 2013. In October, 2020, power addict. . . . He put an enormous at anticipating what would move an au-the D.A. added six new charges. In the amount of energy into humiliating men dience. But now he was clearly blind to summer of 2021, a New York judge ap-and an enormous amount of energy into

the feelings of the women before him, proved Weinstein’s extradition to L.A., getting women to submit.”

and to the way that the public would where he is now imprisoned at the Twin Bob Weinstein, who stopped speak-react to another self-involved statement. Towers Correctional Facility, awaiting ing to his brother in early 2018, told me Looking up at Justice Burke, Wein-trial later this year. He has pleaded not that in recent years he had been strug-stein described his years of philanthropy, guilty. If he is convicted on all eleven gling to understand what made Wein-saying that he had raised millions for the charges, he could be sentenced to a hun-stein behave as he did. He even spoke

families of 9/11 victims and first respond-

dred and forty years in prison, to be to medical professionals who study sex-ers, for victims of Hurricane Sandy, and served after completing his twenty-ual abuse. Bob said of his brother, “He’s

for amfAR’s AIDS work. He concluded, three-year sentence in New York. In doing this thing that you and I can’t

“I feel emotional . . . really caring and re-

January, 2021, he settled a civil case in imagine, and you’re applying logic to ally trying to be a better person. Thank New York with more than forty women something that is illogical.” In the end, you, Your Honor, for the time.”

for seventeen million dollars.

he decided that the reasons behind

Justice Burke briskly thanked Wein-

Weinstein continued to hope that Weinstein’s behavior didn’t matter: “He stein and the attorneys, then looked he could overturn his criminal convic-should just be judged on his actions.

down at the defendant and declared, tion in New York. On April 5, 2021, his Which is what the jury did.”

“Although this is a first conviction, it is lawyers filed an appeal, which was ar-Still, upon learning from news out-

not a first offense.” As it happened, on gued before the Appellate Division of lets in March, 2020, that Weinstein had March 6th, Vance had submitted to the the State Supreme Court in December.

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