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The survivors who stepped forward with sexual misconduct and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein are being award a $19 million settlement.

The members of the class-action lawsuit, aided by the New York Attorney General, are now waiting for approval by the bankruptcy and district courts for payments, according to Variety on Tuesday (June 30).

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This will resolve two lawsuits: one against Harvey, Bob Weinstein and The Weinsten Company filed in February of 2018 by the Office of the Attorney General due to the hostile work culture at TWC, and a separate lawsuit on behalf of a group of women who were sexually harassed and assaulted by Harvey.

Harvey is currently serving a 23 year sentence in a New York prison after being found guilty of sexual assault and rape in the third degree.

It was recently revealed this star threatened to beat up Harvey.

James Gandolfini once threatened to “beat the f*ck” out of Harvey Weinstein.

His Sopranos co-stars Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli were guests on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience where they told the story.

Weinstein wanted James to appear on David Letterman‘s talk show to promote 2012’s excellent Killing Them Softly.

The actors recalled, “He said, ‘Harvey Weinstein keeps calling, he wants me to do Letterman and I said no.’ And he got f*cking nasty with Jim. And Jim said, ‘I will beat the f*ck out of Harvey Weinstein! He f*cking calls me again, I will beat the f*ck out of him! For the money he paid me, I’m not f*cking doing it!’ Swear to God. And this is before all the Harvey Weinstein sh*t when he was still king sh*t.”

James passed away in 2013 at the young age of 51 from a heart attack.

A new report is making big claims about Harvey Weinstein‘s deformed genitalia.

The 68-year-old disgraced movie producer, who is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape, is the subject of a new exposé in former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter‘s new venture Airmail.

The report claims that Weinstein suffers from Fournier’s gangrene, a life-threatening bacterial infection that allegedly caused him to have deformed genitals.

“He had been stricken with Fournier’s gangrene, an acute infection of the genital region that diabetics and middle-aged men are prone to. Some patients need skin grafts to repair the affected area, while extreme cases can require an orchiectomy, the removal of the testicles. Deterioration of sexual function is another common side effect,” the report said.

Jessica Mann, who is one of Weinstein‘s accusers, says that she thought he might be “intersex” when she saw him unclothed.

Jurors at the rape trial in New York were reportedly shown full-frontal photos of Weinstein, which showed the deformity.

Last month, one of Weinstein‘s former assistants broke her NDA to speak out in a new interview.

Rowena Chiu, a former assistant at Miramax, came forward in September of 2019 to detail an attempted sexual assault by her boss Harvey Weinstein back in 1998. Afterwards she signed a non disclosure agreement.

Now, she’s breaking an NDA that she signed with the company to speak out again.

When asked by Variety why she’s actually breaking her NDA when she could get sued for it, she responded, “He’s got 111 women speaking out against him, he’s already done one criminal trial in New York and he’s got another upcoming criminal trial in L.A., so to be honest, he’s not going to waste his time or money suing me. I don’t have any money, so what’s the point of suing me? But legally, he’s within his rights to sue me and bring a case against me that says give back the settlement money. Every time I speak out, I run that risk.”

About what she tried to get put into the NDA to help future female employees, she said, “Stuff like Harvey must go to sex therapy, so he has to admit that he has an addiction to sex. And then there was all the corporate stuff we tried to put in about how complaints were handled — we even went so far as to say that if there is another woman who brings an accusation forward [within two years of the signed NDA] and Harvey feels compelled to settle with her for $35,000 or up, he will automatically resign from Miramax and report himself to the Walt Disney Co. How incredible would it have been if he had to do that within two years of 1998? This whole thing would have been cracked open in 1999.”

She also added, “We fought really hard to have a really simple clause that said Harvey must either travel with one male assistant at any one time.”

And she said, she didn’t try to get money out of him, adding, “At that time, we were really young women who actually did not want money – we spent a lot of time arguing not to get money. We spent hours in that law office arguing for clauses that would stop Harvey and protect other women. But, if you are one little tug boat, how do you turn the Titanic around? It’s heartbreaking – when you read our NDAs, you see the path and the pattern where she tried to lay out a blueprint to stop Harvey.”

Find out how long Weinstein will be spending in prison now that he’s been convicted of rape and criminal sexual acts.

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Harvey Weinstein‘s extradiction to Los Angeles, to face even more counts of sexual assault and rape, has been put on hold for now.

Variety reports that the disgraced producer is still in New York and will remain there for the time being as the world deals with the coronavirus pandemic, which Harvey was reportedly afflicted with.

Harvey is facing five charges of rape and sexual assault in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announced back in March that they had begun the extradition process, but since the pandemic hit, papers had not been filed for the request.

“It’s fair to say that the virus has delayed the processing of the extradition paperwork,” said Los Angeles D.A. spokesman Greg Risling.

Harvey is currently at the maximum security Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo. He was convicted of committing a criminal sexual act and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years behind bars.

Kevin Smith says that Harvey Weinstein refused to pay him royalties for Clerks, Variety reports.

The 49-year-old filmmaker sold Clerks, his first movie, to the 68-year-old disgraced film producer at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, when Harvey ran Miramax.

Harvey reportedly paid $227,000 for the movie, but they agreed that Kevin could receive a backend if the film became profitable.

Clerks went on to become a cult hit, grossing $3.2 million in North American theaters that fall, and earning tens of millions more on VHS.

“I’m still out money,” Kevin told the outlet. “It took seven years for us to see any profit from that movie. For seven years, they were like: ‘Nope, the movie is still not in profit.’ And we were like, ‘How?’ And then there were things.”

Harvey also apparently used sketchy accounting methods, such as billing Clerks for the costs of renting a yacht for Pulp Fiction at the Cannes Film Festival.

“You can’t tell this fairytale story without mentioning the monster,” Kevin said while discussing his upcoming documentary Clerk.

When his lawyer said he should audit Miramax, Kevin replied, “No, I can’t audit people I’m in business with. That’s gross.” By Clerks 2, though, Kevin started auditing The Weinstein Company: “If I was a better business person, I would have gone for more money. But it felt like, ‘Oh, there it is. That’s their process. Movie math.’”

Kevin kept working with Harvey because “I got paid upfront for each movie. Believe me, I ain’t crying poor. And I got ridiculous escalating salaries.”

Clerk was supposed to debut at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, but is now on hold amid the ongoing coronavvirus crisis.

“The Harvey part of the doc was one of the last things that made it into the movie,” Kevin Smith shared. “Having watched the doc without any mention of him in it, it felt like — well, whitewashing. It felt like something was missing.”

Harvey Weinstein has reportedly recovered from the coronavirus while in prison.

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