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Recently, the biggest news in the entertainment industry is that Wu Yifan was detained on suspicion of rape.
Even these two days there is new news that Wu Yifan has also been accused of rape in Los Angeles...
Before Wu was detained, many victimized women emerged on the Internet, bravely speaking out and complaining.
This scene is reminiscent of the "ME TOO" campaign that called on women to stand up and protect themselves many years ago.
This year, a documentary happened to be online about the origins of the ME TOO movement – the sexual assault case of Hollywood tycoon Weinstein.
Through this documentary, you will see the "unspoken rules" of the entertainment industry in Hollywood, which is shocking!
Podcast Hunt: Hollywood Sex Scandal
Before I officially talk about this documentary, I would like to introduce you to the protagonists of this documentary.
He was the central reporter of the entire Weinstein sexual assault incident, Ronan Farrow.
This handsome guy is not small.
He is the son of director Woody Allen and actress Mia Farrow.
(Woody Allen is not much to introduce, Golden Globe, Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award winners)
Many people may not know actress Mia Farrow, but the movies she starred in were thunderous to fans.
For example, Roman Polanski's horror film classic "Rosemary's Baby", in which she starred as the sad mother who was pregnant with the son of the devil;
(Rosemary's Baby is in a certain "better than 98% horror movie"))
There is also Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo", in which Mia Farrow played the lamentable heroine.
At the end of the movie, she stares at the big screen to escape from reality, and the face magnified by the close-up is unforgettable.
With such a father and mother, Ronan Farrow is considered a famous person.
Not to mention that there are rumors that ronan's father is actually the veteran American superstar Frank Sinatra.
(He and U.S. President John F. Kennedy are close friends.)
This man, who may be Ronan's father, won the Academy Award 3 times and the Golden Globe Award 3 times;
He is also extremely accomplished in music, winning 9 Grammy trophies and being called the "King of Swing".
(And full of fashion sense)
With such a strong family background, Ronan Farrow himself was not a vegetarian.
Born in 1987, he entered Yale Law School at the age of 16.
Before becoming a journalist, he served as a special adviser to Hillary Clinton and also served on U.S. President Barack Obama's staff.
Of course, Harvey Weinstein, who confronted Ronan Farrow in the sexual assault case, is not to be underestimated.
He is a true Hollywood tycoon who founded Miramax Pictures and has won 70 Oscars in films he has produced and distributed.
Many Hollywood filmmakers call him "Magical Harvey."
(He is also close to American politicians such as Hillary Clinton.)
However, this magical Harvey is now a "criminal Harvey".
The starting point for all the charges to be uncovered stemmed from a recording.
The documentary also begins with this recording.
This recording of the "five minutes" conversation, which took place in 2015, was spoken by Weinstein and a female model.
The female model, Ambra, was 22 years old at the time.
The recording was deliberately recorded by Ambra.
Before that, she had just arrived in the United States for 3 months, and had been called to his office by Weinstein on the pretext of introducing her work.
Then, without saying a word, the Hollywood tycoon put his hand under Ambra's skirt...
Frightened, Amber ran out of Weinstein's office crying.
The first thing she thought of was to call the police.
The police listened to Ambra's account of the incident and subconsciously replied:
"What happened again?"
This sentence from the police shows that Weinstein is a sexual predator, and many victimized women have come to the police.
This caused Ambra to feel a sense of anger.
Paradoxically, while Amberra was angrily continuing to tell what had happened to her, Weinstein actually called her.
He wanted Amborah to go back and continue to accompany him.
Ampora suppressed her anger, and with a stroke of genius, she turned on the speakerphone in front of the police and asked Weinstein seductively:
"How does my chest feel?"
Weinstein replied without hesitation:
"It felt great."
The call allowed the police to confirm that Ambera had indeed been violated by Weinstein.
But the evidence for sanctioning Weinstein with such a phone call alone is still insufficient.
The police also had a clever move - they asked Ambera to meet with Weinstein the next day, and the police would install a small bugging device for Ambra in advance and record their conversation.
The next day, Amber and Weinstein met, and the two spent some time at the bar.
In the bar, Weinstein has been talking to Ambra about his great achievements, especially when it comes to popular actresses.
Having said this, Weinstein proposed that Ambra and him return to his room, saying:
"I want to take a shower".
Although she was very uncomfortable, in order to get the key recording, Amberra forced herself to go with Weinstein.
Entering the house, Weinstein revealed his original form and asked Ambra to take a bath with him...
In order to convince Ambra that he would not mess around, he even swore an oath for his children.
Next, there's that "five-minute" conversation.
Weinstein wanted To get Ambra into the bathroom, five minutes.
Weinstein pleaded bitterly and then threatened, but Ambra strongly refused and ran out.
With this recording, the police summoned Weinstein for questioning that night.
However, because the Hollywood tycoon asked for the presence of a lawyer, he soon paid bail and left the police station.
Weinstein's counterattack soon arrived.
The case is still in the investigation stage, and some media have heard the wind first, but the news they released is all negative news from Ambra.
She was portrayed as a "prostitute" because of some unforgettable past events.
Under the storm of public opinion, Ambra died directly.
And Weinstein, who has many upper-level connections, also secretly exerted force to directly make the police withdraw the charges against him.
He has not forgotten to contact Ambra and wants to give some money to end this "trouble" once and for all.
Weinstein's offer ranged from 300,000 to 500,000 and finally to $1 million.
Seeing that Ambra still did not accept it, Weinstein found someone to threaten Ambra's brother.
This time, Ambra was really scared —she had to accept the 1 million that was sealed.
After accepting the money, Ambra signed an 18-page confidentiality agreement.
She also gave her electronic devices to Weinstein's men for the destruction of audio evidence.
Everything seemed to be settled, and Weinstein once again escaped the disaster.
Two years later, journalist Ronan Farrow appeared.
He was very interested in the sexual assault case two years ago and felt that there must be something hidden behind the case.
He tried to contact Ambra, who had been silent for two years.
Unexpectedly, she quickly accepted Ronan's interview request.
In the two years since receiving the sealing fee, Ambra has been living in pain.
Ronan's request to report the truth gave Ambra a force to face the matter again.
What's more, while Weinstein's men emptied Ambra's recordings, she still had backups.
With this backup recording, Ronan quickly wrote the first story about the Weinstein sexual assault scandal.
Because the story was published so quickly, Weinstein did not have time to intervene.
It became Ronan's first shot at Weinstein.
It is worth mentioning that this report very clearly conveys a concept in response to the previous media smear of Ambra:
The victim's imperfections do not mean that she is lying.
Ronan's report stirred up a thousand waves for a while.
More conscientious media peers began to prepare to investigate Weinstein's past.
There are also some stars in Hollywood who talk to the media about Weinstein's indiscretion.
(For example, "America's Got Talent" judge Howard Stern)
There are also rumors that Weinstein has violated two well-known Hollywood actresses.
One, is "Little Pepper" Gwyneth Paltrow;
(She won an Oscar for Weinstein's Shakespeare.
The other is Rosanna Arquette, who starred in "Robbing Couples" in Pulp Fiction.
(She also performed in the famous French director Luc Besson's masterpiece "Blue Sea and Blue Sky")
In the face of rumors, Rosanna Arquette chose to stand up bravely and reminisce to the media about her past of being violated.
According to her, it happened in the early 1990s, when she was preparing to shoot the film "Bloodstained Romeo" controlled by Weinstein.
(The film is starred by Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman)
Weinstein did the same thing— inviting Rosanna to his hotel room.
Weinstein was wearing a bathrobe and forced Rosanna to touch herself...
Rosanna endured the nausea and finally took the road and fled.
She didn't call the police and paid the price for escaping—Romeo didn't let her play again.
In addition to these two Hollywood actresses, Weinstein's claws also reached out to Rose McGowan.
She has starred in the well-known B-movie "Horror Planet".
Rose once posted an article online about her own rape, but did not mention who the perpetrator was.
Hollywood entertainment insiders know that that person is Weinstein.
(But later this report was still "public relations")
In addition to the abuse of the actress, the media also investigated another evil of Weinstein:
He also often misbehaved with the female assistants around him.
One of the female assistants, a Chinese named Qiu Luoweina.
At the age of 24, Churovina came to Miramax Pictures in Weinstein as an assistant.
As soon as she came to the company, senior employees reminded her:
Be careful with our owner.
But in the face of high salaries and the best opportunities in the industry, Qiu Luowena did not take this warning seriously.
Two months after she joined the company, she and Weinstein went to the Venice Film Festival.
Weinstein had been doing various activities during the day, and back at night, When Helovia was sorting through the information in the house.
Weinstein said "I'm tired" and then started undressing.
But because there were other people in the room at the time, Weinstein was just hanging around the room naked.
The next night, when Weinstein returned to his hotel room, only Churovina was left in the room.
As yesterday, as soon as he entered the house, Weinstein yelled that he was tired and then took off his clothes.
He also asked Qiu Luowena to take off her clothes and "relax and relax."
Qiu Luowena naturally and decisively refused.
But Weinstein said, I've never a Chinese girl, and began to commit violence against Churovina.
Weinstein frantically tore at QiuRovina's clothes.
When she took off her panties, Qiu Luowena clamped her legs with all her strength.
Her resistance made Weinstein gradually lose his strength, and Qiu Luowena took the opportunity to escape.
(Before leaving, Weinstein said a "trailer" that made people break out in a cold sweat)
Fortunately, in the days that followed, Weinstein did not seize the opportunity to invade Churovina.
Returning to the United States from Venice, Qiurovina immediately called the police.
Weinstein once again uses the "ability to pay money" and throws money at Qiu Luowena.
At the same time, he also made the resigned QiuRovina unable to find a job in Hollywood.
Qiu Luoweina, who eventually needed a job to make ends meet, had to return to Weinstein's company.
Although she was subsequently assigned to the company's Hong Kong branch, Qiu Luowena will not forget the experience of being violated.
Having to continue to be held hostage to Weinstein's suffocation left her suffering from severe depression.
Horribly, Churovina was just one of the assistants who had been violated by Weinstein.
So many victims came forward to let Ronan Farrow also continue to follow up on the Weinstein sexual assault incident.
He reached out to more victims and did a bunch of in-depth interviews.
At this time, the public opinion environment was no longer very friendly to Weinstein, and he had evil thoughts - to find someone to follow Ronan and wait for the opportunity.
The people Weinstein was looking for were all retired agent-level masters.
They can use a variety of tools to pinpoint Ronan at any time.
In other words, Ronan was in front of Weinstein, without privacy, and all his actions were under control.
Consider it more seriously—Weinstein could kill Ronan at any moment.
(Help Weinstein's mysterious organization, called "Black Square", created by cadres of israel's retired intelligence bureau)
Fortunately, the Black Square staff who followed Ronan thought that instead of helping Weinstein, it would be better to strike back and eliminate harm for the people.
He contacted Ronan privately and provided information that Weinstein was secretly investigating him.
Shocked, Ronan decided to expose the mysterious organization of the Black Square and unveil Weinstein's final hole card.
With the publication of this report, Weinstein was embattled.
On October 6, 2017, Weinstein finally bowed his head and admitted that he had violated at least 8 women.
But more than 70 victims accused him.
What followed was the "ME TOO" anti-sexual harassment campaign in full swing.
On March 11, 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
The so-called king of Hollywood is now in jail.
"Podcast Hunt: Hollywood Sex Scandal" is not long, only 6 short episodes, each episode is about 25 minutes.
But the content is enough to be powerful.
If it weren't for the brave whistleblowers and reporters, Weinstein, the demon, would still be rampant in Hollywood.
Finally, a tribute to the dragon warrior, Ronan Farrow.
He and his father, Woody Allen, also had a fight.
Woody Allen was once suspected of sexually assaulting her adopted daughter and has denied it for years.
(Woody Allen later married another adopted daughter and had two children.)
To indict his father, Ronan was involved in the production of another 4-episode documentary.
It is "Allen vs. Farrow", which caused a storm of public opinion.
If you're interested in this documentary and the story behind it, please give it a thumbs up and I'll give you another one as appropriate.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Bye bye bye.
The picture in this article comes from the network
EDIT: Kang Meng