Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein last year hired private investigators to track actresses and journalists, in an attempt to thwart allegations that he sexually assaulted or harassed women, Newsweek reports.
According to the The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow, Weinstein hired firms such as Kroll, which is considered as “one of the world’s largest corporate intelligence companies,” and Black Cube, another company run by ex-Mossad officers and other Israeli intelligence agencies.
Weinstein employed these enterprises to gather information on women and reporters who tried to publish the sexual harassment claims. According to the report, two investigators from Black Cube used false identities to meet actress Rose McGowan, who has publicly accused Weinstein of rape, Newsweek adds.
One of the investigators secretly recorded four meetings with McGowan while posing as a women’s rights advocate. The same operative also used another fake identity to meet with a reporter, in an attempt to find out which women were talking to the media about the matter.
The investigation’s overall goal was to avoid the publication of alleged sexual misconduct committed by Weinstein, which were eventually released by The New Yorker and The New York Times in recent weeks, the report added.
So far, 93 women have come forward to share their harrowing accounts of sexual misconduct by Weinstein, according to a list Argento compiled and shared on Twitter, Newsweek notes. The list includes some of the women who have already spoken, like Rose McGowan, Mira Sorvino, Angelina Jolie, Kate Beckinsale, Lupita Nyong’o and Annabela Sciorra.
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