Although Harvey Weinstein isn’t attending any pink carpet occasions as of late, one unique occasion took him off the visitor listing earlier than his fall from grace.
In his new e-book When the Going Was Good, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter revealed that the disgraced producer and convicted intercourse offender was the one movie star “banned” for all times from the publication’s highly-coveted Oscars get together.
Carter wrote within the e-book, which is accessible Tuesday, that Weinstein “regularly showed up with more guests than his invitation indicated and would bully the staff,” in response to Page Six.
“He got banned from everything because he was rude to the staff and I didn’t like that,” Carter instructed the outlet, noting that the preliminary ban was short-term lifted earlier than being reinstated. “It was not from drink. It was just within him.”
Serving as editor-in-chief on the shiny from 1992 to 2017, Carter started his star-studded custom in 1994 after the demise of agent Swifty Lazar, who was identified for his personal Oscars bashes. The ticket was so sizzling, Carter recalled that editor Sara Marks, who oversaw the visitor listing, “was the object of bribery, threats, and even abuse.”
More than 80 ladies have come ahead with sexual harassment, assault or rape allegations towards Weinstein since 2017. In 2020, Weinstein was discovered responsible on one rely every of felony sexual assault within the first diploma and rape within the third diploma, sentenced to 23 years in jail. He was discovered responsible of three extra prices in Los Angeles in 2022, receiving one other 16 years.
With his New York convictions overturned as a result of “egregious errors” on behalf of the choose, Weinstein is at present in custody at Rikers, awaiting a retrial that’s scheduled for April 15.