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Nov 6, 2017 · Weinstein also enlisted two former employees, Denise Doyle Chambers and Pamela Lubell, in what turned out to be an effort to identify and call people who might speak to the press about their...
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In the movie, Kantor gets the feeling a black van with blacked-out windows is following her down a dark street. As she looks back at it, it speeds up to go past her. It is never alluded to again. In fact, Weinstein used two covert surveillance companies to keep tabs on not only Kantor and Twohey but also other reporters working on stories about him...
Kantor and Twohey discover the key to the story is not the high-profile actresses harassed by Weinstein but three of the producer’s former assistants in the London office: Zelda Perkins (Samantha Morton), Rowena Chiu (Angela Yeoh), and Laura Madden (Jennifer Ehle). Chiu currently lives in California, and when Kantor goes to her house in 2015 and fi...
Jodi and Megan need a source to confirm their story before it can go to print, but they can’t get anyone to go on the record. They call Madden right before their last deadline for the exposé, which also happens to be shortly before Laura is due to get reconstructive surgery following a mastectomy. In her hospital gown, she gives them permission to ...
In a brief scene in the movie, Kantor and Twohey learn that Lena Dunham and her producing partner Jenni Konner want to help. In real life, in search of women in showbiz who might be potential corroborators, the reporters were put in touch with Dunham. As the reporters describe it in their book, they were wary at first because Dunham did not seem li...
Late in the movie, Kantor tells Twohey that a member of Weinstein’s team had approached her in an attempt to dissuade her from running with the story, asking to talk to her “Jew to Jew.” In an earlier scene, Kantor attempts to win over one of Weinstein’s representatives by bonding over their own shared backgrounds. Speaking to the Forward, Kantor s...
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Within short order, Lubell was tapped by Harvey Weinstein to run the creative department where she and her team designed some of the most iconic movie posters of the 1990's including: Pulp Fiction, Clerks, The Piano and more.
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Nov 7, 2017 · Key to Weinstein’s efforts were also two of his former female employees, Pamela Lubell and Denise Doyle Chambers, whom he tapped—or “manipulated,” in the words of Lubell—to compile a list...
Nov 7, 2017 · Pamela Lubell, a former Miramax producer who felt guilty about her own involvement, was the source for this scene (emphasis ours): Lubell told me that hours before the first Times story broke, on October 5th, Weinstein summoned her, Doyle Chambers, and others on his team, including the attorney Lisa Bloom, who has since resigned, to his office.
“He was in a panic,” recalled Pamela Lubell, a former producer who worked for Weinstein during his Miramax days and was enlisted by him to keep tabs on his possible accusers. “He starts screaming, ‘Get so-and-so on the phone.’”
Nov 7, 2017 · Former Miramax producer Pamela Lubell says Weinstein had her compile a list of her old Miramax contacts under the pretext that he wanted to write a book about the Miramax days, and then made...
