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Who Assaulted Rose McGowan

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[The Hollywood Reporter] “It’s been an open secret in Hollywood/Media & they shamed me while adulating my r*pist,” she wrote on Twitter on Thursday night, before all but naming her attacker.

In a series of provocative tweets, outspoken feminist actress-turned-filmmaker and activist Rose McGowan has declared she was r*ped by a powerful Hollywood executive – and, by process of deduction, left industry insiders narrowing down to whom she was referring.

Using the trending #WhyWomenDontReport hashtag, McGowan posted on Thursday evening that she’d attempted to have her alleged r*pist brought to justice. She wrote, “a (female) criminal attorney said because I’d done a sex scene in a film I would never win against the studio head.”

McGowan continued, “it’s been an open secret in Hollywood/Media & they shamed me while adulating my r*pist,” before all but naming her attacker. She finished by stating: “It is time for some goddamned honesty in this world.”

The statements have been liked and retweeted several hundred times.

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Rose’s Ex:

Studio Head/Studio:

[Optional] Why do you think she isn’t naming or filing charges against her attacker?

UPDATED!

Rose’s Ex: Robert Rodriguez?

Studio Head/Studio: Harvey Weinstein?

Yesterday, mega-producer Harvey Weinstein was named as a serial harasser/abuser of multiple women over multiple decades.

Actress Ashley Judd was one of those women.

Let’s talk about another.

Actress Rose McGowan was paid $100,000 by Weinstein as a settlement for something very serious back in 1997.

McGowan reportedly reached a $100,000 settlement with Weinstein after an encounter in a hotel room with the executive producer in 1997 during the Sundance Film Festival.

The $100,000 payout was “not to be construed as an admission” by Weinstein, but intended to “avoid litigation and buy peace,” according to a legal document reportedly reviewed by the NYT.

Buy peace? Buy silence is more like it!

An “encounter”? For what kind of “encounter” would an executive have to pay $100K to an actress in a legal settlement?

According to the New York Times, Weinstein has reached at least eight settlements with women, including McGowan. In their claims, they allege that Weinstein behaved inappropriately during work meetings.

Eight settlements, all of which were kept quiet until now? That’s a pattern we’ve seen before with men like Bill Cosby and Roger Ailes. Eight women is likely just the tip of the iceberg. How many more are out there?

Weinstein’s behavior is clearly disturbing.

It is also disturbing that attorney Lisa Bloom – Gloria Allred’s daughter – is representing Weinstein.

Bloom has always held herself up as a champion of women’s rights, saying that women who are assaulted by men need to be believed. Why is she now defending a known predator? Did he promise to produce a movie for her?

Weinstein’s attorney, Lisa Bloom, said in a statement that “he denies many of the accusations as patently false.”

Of course he does. Weinstein and Bloom are both horrible people.

Let’s get back to the McGowan case.

In order to settle with Weinstein, McGowan probably had to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. We do not know what kind of penalty she would face for breaking her silence and thus breaking the agreement. It is reasonable to assume that the legal and financial penalties would make her hesitate to name names.

She has been hinting at the event, though, through stories, through social media, and through a memoir that will be published next year.

The story was the original blind item where she says that she was “r*ped by a powerful Hollywood executive” who was a “studio head.” She also said “my ex sold our movie to my r*pist.” She could be talking about Grindhouse, directed by her then boyfriend Robert Rodriguez, which was sold to The Weinstein Company.

Yesterday, when the Weinstein story broke, McGowan tweeted:

Anyone who does business with _____ is complicit. And deep down you know you are even dirtier. Cleanse yourselves.

Is there any doubt that the timing and content of her tweet gives away who it is about?

Then there’s the book. Rose McGowan is publishing her memoir early next year.

Supposedly, Weinstein was terrified that he would be named as the r*pist in her story, and that was the reason other journalists started getting more aggressive about exposing his long and sordid history.

So, Rose McGowan’s book may actually be the reason that Weinstein is finally being named – not yet by her as her r*pist – but by others as a serial abuser of women in Hollywood!

The title of Rose McGowan’s book is Brave.

SOLVED!

Rose’s Ex: Robert Rodriguez

Studio Head/Studio: Harvey Weinstein

Rose McGowan has now stated outright that Producer Harvey Weinstein r*ped her!

McGowan is also saying that Harvey Weinstein, via his former attorney Lisa Bloom, offered her SIX MILLION DOLLARS to keep her mouth shut about the assault!

It is interesting to note that the offer was made not to McGowan’s attorney or agent or manager… but to her literary agent. That validates BlindGossip.com’s previous statement that Weinstein was terrified about McGowan exposing him in McGowan’s upcoming book.

The offer was made the night before the New York Times expose was published. This validates BlindGossip.com’s previous statement that other journalists had started getting more aggressive about exposing his long and sordid history in anticipation of McGowan’s book.

Rose McGowan is not shutting up for anyone, anymore, for any amount of money!

The ex in the original blind item is Roberto Rodriguez.

Rose McGowan was assaulted by Weinstein in 1997.

McGowan starred in two movies that were sold by her then-boyfriend, Roberto Rodriguez, to The Weinstein Company in 2007. Those movies were Grindhouse and Planet Terror.

Did Rodriguez know that Weinstein had assaulted McGowan… but continued to do business with Weinstein anyway?

Did Weinstein basically buy Rodriguez’s silence by doing those deals?

Something stinks here.

Rodriguez says:

I find the behavior of Harvey Weinstein truly disgusting, both what he did and how he covered his tracks, and it makes me wonder how many others can’t come forward and tell their full story because of legal and personal intimidation. His repulsive behavior was an abuse of power. Thankfully, he’s now discovering what true power is.

Perhaps Weinstein isn’t the only man in this story who is truly disgusting and repulsive.

Now, on to that $6 million bribe!

From Breitbart:

Rose McGowan: Lisa Bloom Offered Millions to ‘Silence Me’ About Weinstein

Sunday night, using her Facebook account, actress Rose McGowan accused disgraced attorney Lisa Bloom of offering her millions of dollars to hop on board the “Harvey’s Changed bandwagon.”

Bloom immediately denied McGowan’s allegations. Nevertheless, with her reputation already shattered by similar accusations of incompetence and inappropriate behavior in defense of producer Harvey Weinstein and Amazon’s Roy Price, the last thing Bloom needed was McGowan hopping on board the “Lisa Bloom’s a bumbling sell-out” bandwagon.

McGowan opens with:

Lisa Bloom.
Lisa Bloom.

Your very name makes my stomach clench with a stressed tightness that takes my breath away. As does your mercenary act of depravity. Did you think of how it would affect victims to see you champion a rapist? How it felt to those you once “fought for,” for them to know that you used them. You remember them right? They were the victims of assaults, women you’d previously helped. You lied to those hurt women and hid your true character. You wanted a shortcut to fame. You sold your book [to Weinstein] to be made into a mini-series, where you’d be the next Erin Brokovich, right?

And that was the good part.

I feel like people should know that you’ve been calling my literary agent and saying there’d be money for me if I got on the ‘Harvey’s Changed’ bandwagon. You told her that I should care about HIS reputation. How HE has a family now and HE has changed. Well, guess what? I’ve always had a family and that didn’t stop him from assaulting me.

McGowan goes on to lay out what she claims are the details of six months of pressure from Bloom and Weinstein’s other attorney, Charles Harder, to accept the hush money.

You and your vile partner in evil … have been hounding me for months now. Terrorizing me at every turn. Trying to silence me.

The night before the New York Times report came out. McGowan says she was offered a million dollars.

I then drove it to 6 million. But after “warring with thoughts” of how the money would help her family, McGowan says she turned the offer down. I will not be purchased. I will not be sold. Never again.

McGowan then details the two-decade old story of the $100,000 settlement she claims to have received from Weinstein, which did not include, according to her, a non-disclosure agreement.

I never signed an NDA. I’ve told scores of people the truth. And the open secret in Hollywood and mainstream media laid shame at my door.

So what we have here is yet-another claim that many, many, many in Hollywood knew and chose to enable Weinstein through silence.

McGowan closes with another broadside against Bloom:

Lisa Bloom, I had to play the trickiest game of my life because your threats were all about trying to silence me NOW.

You don’t get a mea culpa do over. We don’t trust you. We don’t like you. We see you.

The scarlet letter is yours, and it’s S is for SHAME.

In her statement to BuzzFeed, Bloom calls the accusations “completely false” and claims, ” I don’t even know who her agent is. I never threatened Rose McGowan, nor offered her money, nor reached out to her.”

In case you think that Lisa Bloom’s defense of Harvey “Serial R*pist” Weinstein was a one-time error in judgement, think again!

This past week, it was discovered that Bloom was also working for Amazon’s Harasser of the Week, Entertainment Division head Roy Price… who is a good friend of Weinstein’s!

Bloom was busy threatening publications not to run an expose on Roy “You Will Love My Dick” Price that detailed the extent of his sexual harassment of employees and clients.

Once Price was exposed, his fiancee called off their wedding. Not so coincidentally, the bride’s wedding dress by by Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, the wife of Harvey Weinstein.

Well, at least Weinstein has his good friend, Woody Allen, to support him!

LoveFifteen was first with the correct response.

The title of Rose McGowan’s book is Brave.

UPDATED!

Earlier in this story, we wondered why attorney Lisa Bloom would represent Harvey Weinstein.

Bloom has always held herself up as a champion of women’s rights, saying that women who are assaulted by men need to be believed. Why is she now defending a known predator? Did he promise to produce a movie for her?

It turns out…. YES!

At first, Bloom lied and said that she was representing Weinstein because:

All I can say is, from my perspective, I thought, ‘Here is my chance to get to the root of the problem from the inside . . . and to get a guy to handle this thing in a different way.’

That was a lie. Bloom was actually representing him because Harvey Weinstein was producing a movie for her!

She finally admitted that today on The View. From People:

Lisa Bloom Admits Movie Deal with Harvey Weinstein ‘Clouded’ Her Judgement

Lisa Bloom made an emotional appearance on The View on Friday, where she admitted that the documentary film series she was developing with The Weinstein Company “clouded” her judgement in representing Harvey Weinstein during the early stages of his controversy.

At the time, Bloom, 56, said she was there to work with Weinstein to help him take the allegations head-on, telling her followers on Twitter that Weinstein had “acknowledged the mistakes he has made” and had been “refreshingly candid and receptive” to her message that, in 2017, he needed to “evolve to a higher standard.”

“He is an old dinosaur and learning new ways,” Bloom tweeted at the time. “Harvey is not going to demean or attack any of the women making accusations against him, although he does dispute many of the allegations. Instead, he is going to use this as a painful learning experience to grow into a better man. I will make recommendations to ensure that gender equality and zero tolerance for workplace misconduct aren’t just goals, but a reality.”

But Bloom was highly criticized for her decision to stand by Weinstein, and resigned as his advisor days later.

She now calls the decision to work with him a mistake. “I very much regret ever being involved in this,” she said on The View. “I’m mortified that I was connected with him in any way. All the people who have reached out to me to say, ‘Lisa, we’re hurt and disappointed in you.’ I get it. And I’m very, very sorry.”

Part of the problem for Bloom was that Suspicion Nation, her book about the headline-making Trayvon Martin case, was being adapted by Weinstein’s film studio and JAY-Z into a documentary series.

“It was a real passion project for me. And when I was approached to do a documentary about it, yeah, I was thrilled,” Bloom explained. “It’s not a conflict legally for an attorney to have a business deal with a client. We had business deals, and then they tell us about legal problems. Ethically, it’s not an issue. But people ask me, ‘Was I so excited about it that it clouded my judgement?’ And I say, yes, I have to cop to that.”

We would disagree with her statement that “Ethically, it’s not an issue.”

From a legal perspective, she is right. She can represent whatever client she wants. However, from a human standpoint, her decision was highly unethical!

When she began representing Harvey Weinstein, you may recall that Bloom tweeted, “Harvey is not going to demean or attack any of the women making accusations against him.”

Right. That’s because it was Lisa Bloom’s job was to do it for him!

And she gave it her all. After years of claiming to be a champion for women, Lisa Bloom actively tried to subvert, smear, terrorize, and bribe female victims into silence because Harvey Weinstein had promised to line Bloom’s pockets with money on a side deal.

That’s disgusting. That’s unethical.

Related: Ashley Judd Reveals Sexual Harassment by Studio Mogul


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  1. PatioPrincess says

    I always thought Rose was kind of weird for wanting to date Marilyn Manson, but now I see that she did drastically change over the years and I’m certain the reason for that was her experience with Weinstein and Hollywood in general. It’s a filthy place and cannot be sugar coated.

    She is fierce and fearless and the true face of feminism. Only she and Courtney Love spelled it out and warned about him.

    Rose is smart, eloquent, a lovely lady and won’t suffer morons any longer. Go Rose!

  2. KCeagle says

    Harvey Weirdstein’s name surfaces alarmingly frequently in douchy-ness accounts and Hollywood real life horror stories. Just sayin….where there’s smoke….

  3. jefferino says

    Okay okay…..

    Let me explain my position a bit more-

    I think if a woman wants to keep it a secret then she has every right to do so. There is nothing disagreeable about that.

    What I can’t wrap my head around is people like Rose McGowan who takes it to the brink and then clams up.

    She trivializes the alleged crime by making us play this stupid guessing game.

    This is NOT about Winona Ryder shoplifting. This is about RAPE!

    Either keep your mouth shut completely or name…

    • prinny says

      You know, I have to agree with your point about either coming right out with it, or keeping quiet. Same with Corey Feldman. I think that when these partial accusations come out, we all start guessing who it could be. Alot of innocent people are guessed at the perps, and that is not fair. But I suppose that doing things in this way can warn young hopefuls of the dangers in Hollywood and to BEWARE.

    • Mills007 says

      I get what your saying but every case is different..
      For her it’s her career, if she would take it to the edge she has to deside if she wants her career to be over. If she has clear prove, and it would help convict him, she should!

      But then again, for her to open up and, tell all, is scary, she could/would start the clean up that hollywood so desperatly needs!

      That would give her, a strenght she does not get (yet),.

      But the keep your mouth shut is a bit harsh, sometimes it takes…

    • Stinkweed says

      Any woman who comes forward in this climate of hate against women and victim blaming/shaming is brave.

      Call someone a rapist in public without being able to prove it in court, and you’ll end up getting sued. Why would she want to put herself through that??

      She said enough that everyone knows who it is. That’s plenty.

    • JohnnyDerpp says

      She fears for her ability to make ends meet. She is a woman that’s all you need to know that nobody will believe her anyway. It took 20+ people for anyone to believe Cosby was a monster. And now more have come out against Trump and nobody bats an eye
      Even a porn star said Donald was a creep who offers women money for sex. Everyone blames the victim when the abuser is a household name. The victims of Cosby waited until they were never going to work again.

  5. robynsing says

    What is it about fat, ugly, balding sweaty pig-men that they can’t keep their weiners to themselves. I picture Harvey Weinstein with a little nubby button weiner drowning in pubes and a fat upper penis area (FUPA).

    • JohnnyDerpp says

      It’s not always the pigs. You never know who has a stack of restraining orders against them. Most guys feel entitled when they are better looking. This is such a landmine conversation.

  6. jophieljo says

    Honestly, I would be more surprised if Harvey Weinstein wasn’t a rapist. He is such a creep.

  7. jefferino says

    I hope I don’t get any backlash from this but…..

    I just don’t believe her!

    In this political climate, now is the EXACT time to come forward and open your mouth.

    I will never understand how women can justify allowing a rapist to CONTINUE the abuse of other women and girls.

    Sounds awfully selfish to me especially if she truly believes that this so-called “rapist” went on to rape other women and girls.

    How can she let THAT happen?

    • vorpalswrd says

      You knew you were going to get backlash, so here it is… I can think of no other crime where if the victim is scared if retribution against them, they would be blame for their attackers continued crimes. Shame on you.

    • blueandgreen says

      She’s probably scared to be stalked and murdered for revealing who it is. It’s a hard decision, especially in Hollywood where rich execs can lawyer up in a nanonsecond and end your career. Also, look at the reaction from the public every time a woman does name a rapist or a domestic abuser…slut-shaming, victim-blaming, death threats, accusations of lying. While I would love for these rapists to be named and shamed, I can’t blame her for deciding to not take the risk.

    • sparkyjackson says

      “How women can justify”?
      “Sounds awfully selfish”?

      There are thousands of reasons people (women AND men) don’t come forward. One of those reasons is a fear of judgment.

      Because no matter what they do, there’re gonna be people out there enumerating all the things survivors do wrong: how selfish they were, how their actions are unjustifiable, how their timing is just too “exact.”

      If Rose McGowan were commenting on this piece, I’m sure she’d apologize to you for not being the…

    • TheRevanchist says

      I was sexually abused by my brother for 10 years. He’s nobody important, has no “power”, and lives a typical suburban life. But as I type this, my hands are shaking at the thought of him finding out. I still get flashbacks of his fist slamming into the wall next to my head, one of the times I turned down his advances. I was 14.

      I lived through a decade of sexual & physical abuse, and 25 years of mental & emotional abuse. And I did tell, but nobody believed me. And I’ve been punished by…

    • TheRevanchist says

      And I’ve been punished by my family ever since. Do you even see that you’re villainizing ME for what HE did, what he made me into? It’s people like you, with your self-righteous, ignorant fury aimed in entirely the wrong direction and a stunning lack of empathy, who are the reason monsters get away with it.

      Read some articles on RAINN before you do actual damage to someone you love.

  8. kcloud says

    Look what’s happened to Kesha!!! That’s why victims don’t come out. It’s like Sony and the movie industry is pro sexual assault. Filled with dirtbags. The lawyer is right. She can’t prove it, and it would kill her career. If was one of the victims, I would seek vigilante justice because that’s the only way to get justice if your a victim of sexual assault. Hearing judges say messed up things to the victims proves you have to find your own justice.

    • luddite2 says

      But they are selective, right? Its $ and career first, then if safe, they make a statement. Where are the supportive feminists when there is a real risk on the line?

    • kcloud says

      Idk! It’s really hard to prove rape even if there is video. It’s truly appalling. I am saying find your own justice till the courts change. I have totally avoided Sony ever since Keisha came out. If they lose big money then maybe they will fire the sexual predators. I haven’t seen a Woody Allen flick in many yrs.. Money is a huge motivator. Harvey Weinstein can suck too!!!!

  9. CoCoJoe says

    I have issues with the attorney. Rape is hard to prove, especially if you don’t go to a hospital and report it right away, but there was no mention in the article that the attorney was cautious for any reason other than Rose’s job. That makes it seem like the lawyer was complicit with the industry’s protection of predators.

  11. thekatsclaws says

    This is only a guess to help eliminate or get clues out there.

    McGowan had a relationship with – and made a
    movie with – director Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror/Grindhouse).

    Dimension Films distributed this film. Founded & owned by the Weinstein company. My guess is Bob or Harvey Weinstein, weighed more in Harvey’s direction.

  12. CyndiTx123 says

    Rose’s ex is Rodrigo Rodriquez…. Don’t know about the studio head…. Weinstein maybe ? If she names her attacker then she could get sued, like Corey Fieldman is worried about naming his attacker from years past…. Just wish they would name the rapists and get these awful people off the streets .

    • spookie says

      Forget “off the streets”, it’s “get these people away from working with children” I’m concerned about. How come Jeffrey Jones is the only Hollywood named paedophile I can think of?

  13. KCeagle says

    Harvey Wierdtein? It’s despicable whoever it is that allegedly raped McGowan. Maybe since the floodgates have opened because of Trump’s accusers, someone else will come forward with accounts of the Hollywood exec. producer doing the unthinkable to them as well, basically corroborating McGowan’s story.

  14. JohnnyDerpp says

    Marilyn Manson
    Brett Rather or a Weinstein. Ratner was hands on with Olivia Munn and cocktail shrimp. I would imagine it worked on others before he tried her.

  18. lolachristina says

    robert rodiguez
    dimension films/harvey weinstein
    optional: because she’ll probably be sued or blacklisted

  20. missmarian says

    Her Ex: Richard Rodriguez, Planet Terror.

    Studio Head/ Studio: Bob Weinstein, Dimension Films.

  21. CevansLeftpec2 says

    Marilyn Manson, idk, and because she’d get sued/blacklisted/shunned by Hollywood. The rapist is too powerful for Rose to win against him.

  22. spookie says

    Rose’s ex: Marilyn Manson

    [Optional]: She’s not filing because if he’s a big Hollywood exec, he’ll be lawyered up to the eyeballs. She’ll be silenced, and will never work again. It happens all the * time.

  28. MikeInSanJose says

    Robert Rodriguez
    Harvey Weinstein/The Weinstein Company

    Film was Grindhouse

    Optional: Cuz he just weaseled his way out of some groping allegations dealing with an Italian model…

    • luvprue1 says

      Wasn’t Robert Rodriguez married when she started dating him? She was his mistress . Once he left his wife the tabloidsame said they were going to get married.

  29. delray74 says

    I think the ex is Robert Rodriguez and the studio head is Weinstein?

    Because Its California? Same reason Corey Feldman won’t name the rapist of Corey Haim.

    • Squeezes99 says

      Then why say anything if you’re not going to name your attacker? These celebrities who get publicity by saying ‘I was raped by a non-named Hollywood Fat Cat’ are part of the problem, not part of the solution. If you’re not willing to name names, STFU. Are you helping future victims by not naming names? No. Are you getting lots of publicity for your non-accusations? Yes.

    • JennyJustice says

      She can’t name names because w/out proof, she’d be sued and ruined. However, she can shame those that continue to support the rapists, work for him, praise him, etc. She may be doing this for publicity as well, but if someone raped me and I didn’t have any proof, I’d go after him any way I could – professionally, socially, whatever I could do to hurt him w/out getting myself in trouble.

    • Stinkweed says

      Or, here’s an idea… maybe the man can STOP RAPING WOMEN.

      Victim blaming is the absolute worst.

      The simplest answer is that she’d probably get sued for defamation, and she’d probably lose, because, let’s be honest, the courts in this country routinely punish women for trying to get justice.

    • ukv2014 says

      I could not agree with this more. If you are so scared, then why say anything at all? If you want some “goddamned honesty”, then out the rapists. I’ve had it with these people trying to set some sort of example by doing absolutely nothing.

    • jkthsnk says

      Though far from perfect (Brock Turner, never forget his name), California has some of the strictest rape sentencing and child protection laws in the nation. We don’t all live and work in Hollywood.

  30. chaseboogie says

    Hollywood is just terrible I swear. They are the worst people to walk the planet, yet everyone wants to sell their soul to be there.

    • luvprue1 says

      She certainly could use the publicity. Her career took a nose dive after her breakup with Robert Rodriguez.

  32. lovefifteen says

    Wow, could this be her ex Robert Rodriguez selling their movie Planet Terror to Harvey Weinstein?!

  33. thelasthigh says

    many hollywood victims stay quiet because they know their attackers are so rich & powerful that they’ll get off scott free. sadly, it’s the victims who don’t get justice & get ostracized and bullied