Rose McGowan Claims Amazon Exec Knew About Harvey Weinstein's Alleged Assault
The Charmed actress isn't holding back.
On Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, Rose McGowan took to Twitter to shame Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos about his alleged involvement in the coverup of Harvey Weinstein's reported sexual misconduct. Tweeting directly at Bezos, she wrote, "I told the head of your studio that [Harvey Weinstein] raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn't been proven. I said I was the proof."
"I had already sold a script I wrote to your studio, it was in development. When I heard a Weinstein bailout was in the works," McGowan continued, adding, "I forcefully begged studio head to do the right thing. I was ignored. Deal was done. Amazon won a dirty Oscar."
McGowan said that after she contacted her lawyer to take back her script, Amazon told her that her show would not be made. She then urged Bezos to "stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers."
"I love @amazon but there is rot in Hollywood," she tweeted. She concluded, "Be the change you want to see in the world. Stand with truth."
McGowan is just one of the many women in the entertainment industry who have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct. In a shocking piece by The New York Times, McGowan was named as one of the victims of Weinstein's sexual harassment, who had reached a settlement of a reported $100,000 in 1997. She's since openly accused Weinstein of rape. She is reportedly just one of several to make that allegation.
While neither Amazon nor Bezos have publicly commented on the exec's reported knowledge of Weinstein's inappropriate behavior, Amazon has suspended the head of its studios, Roy Price, after The Man in the High Castle producer Isa Hackett told The Hollywood Reporter about his alleged harassment of her just years earlier.