http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-harvey-weinstein-out-20171008-story.htmlIt's not exactly a secret that Hollywood executives, directors, producers, etc have often demanded sexual services in exchange for the possibility of favorable placement. Or that denying such demands would lead to being blackballed from the industry. I doubt that many of them beat the ever loving tar out of their victims. They've relied on their position, money and friends in politics, media and other corporations to maintain their crimes. They know that. They know that keeping to the correct political line, donating to the correct politicians, making the correct films, etc will keep them in a position of power, which they are knowingly allowed to exploit. Unless the floodgates open, the victims are at an individual huge disadvantage. In this case, Weinstein paid off a NYC district attorney with a measly $10k in exchange for getting charges dropped. Following the 'correct' steps shielded him for decades. I've seen plenty of victims who individually accused certain folks of crimes and get screamed down. Treated worse than the offender, certainly.
The same 'correctness' means when the fall happens, it is like falling into a piranha tank.
Directors and producers who flat out KNEW what Weinstein was doing will now beat their chests, rend their clothes and tear their hair. Journalists, prosecutors and politicians who directly covered up his crimes will publicly thunder, screaming how could this have happened. All will decry their own virtue, and shriek at the heretic who obviously they don't know, never knew and certainly never ever assisted in his heresy. I assume he'll be ritually thrown into a volcano. Or pay off the victim, be given the ceremonial slap on the wrist and retire to relative comfort and obscurity.
$1 says same thing happens in the publishing world.
