Harvey Weinstein has turned on his movie star accusers throughout a jail interview airing Tuesday – whereas admitting to creating a creep “pass” at Gwyneth Paltrow and paying off Rose McGowan to maintain his secrets and techniques.
The disgraced film mogul, who’s at the moment in the midst of a high-profile rape retrial in Manhattan, gave his first on-camera interview to conservative podcaster Candace Owens since his preliminary arrest seven years in the past to cry about his conviction.
The ailing 73-year-old took goal at a handful of his A-lister accusers, together with Ashley Judd in addition to Paltrow and McGowan.
In a one-minute teaser clip from the interview that’s set to air in full Tuesday, Weinstein claims he didn’t “commit these crimes” and swears “it before God and on the people watching now and on my family.”
He denied ever touching Paltrow — however copped that he “definitely made a pass” at her.
“It’s a complete fabrication about my relationship with Gwyneth. I didn’t put my hands on her. I didn’t touch her,” he stated.
On the peak of the #MeToo motion, Paltrow got here ahead to accuse Weinstein of preying on her on the set of a number of of his movies.
She accused him of inviting her to his resort room, placing his arms on her and even suggesting a therapeutic massage after she was forged within the 1996 movie “Emma.”
He additionally took goal at McGowan, who alleged the Hollywood bigwig orally raped her after she was forged in “Scream” again in 1997.
“I settled with Rose McGowan,” he admitted. “I gave her $100,000, don’t tell my wife, don’t get me into trouble. It’s all conflated, and it’s all led to the idea that I’m going to be the one they persecute.”
Weinstein married dressmaker Georgina Chapman in 2003 however they divorced in 2021 when he was hit with the barrage of intercourse abuse and rape allegations.
In the meantime, Weinstein bluntly dismissed Judd’s claims as “ridiculous.”
As soon as a Hollywood heavy-hitter, Weinstein turned a logo of sexual misconduct in 2017 after scores of girls began accusing him of intercourse pest habits — fueling the #MeToo motion.
He was later convicted of varied intercourse crimes in each New York and California.
Weinstein is on trial once more within the Massive Apple after an appeals courtroom discovered final 12 months that his New York trial was tainted by prejudicial testimony and overturned that conviction.
He has pleaded not responsible and faces as much as 25 years behind bars if re-convicted.
