Brad Pitt threatened to kill Weinstein
Gwyneth Paltrow: Brad Pitt threatened to kill Weinstein
Gwyneth Paltrow accused her ex-boyfriend Brad Pitt, saying he threatened to kill disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein after an alleged incident of harassment in a hotel room.
Speaking on Wednesday on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show, Paltrow again accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the 1990s.
“We had one incident in a hotel room where he tried to make a pass at me,” she said, saying that he requested she give him a massage.
“It was weird,” she said. “I was alone in a room with him. It was out of the blue. I was blind-sided. I was shocked.”
Weinstein had hired Paltrow, then 22, as the lead in the Mirmax films Emma and Shakespeare in Love.
She said that before the shooting began, he asked her to his suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for a work meeting which the actress says ended with Weinstein placing his hands on her and suggesting they head to the bedroom for massages.
“I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,” she said in the interview with the New York Times, publicly disclosing that she was sexually harassed by the man who ignited her career and later helped her win an Academy Award.
“She refused his advances, she said, and confided in Pitt, her boyfriend at the time. Mr. Pitt confronted Mr. Weinstein, and soon after, the producer warned her not to tell anyone else about his come-on. ‘I thought he was going to fire me,’” she said.
-PTC News
