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Ronan Farrow says Harvey Weinstein used his relationship with Hillary Clinton to try to kill his exposé about the now-disgraced movie producer
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Ronan Farrow says Harvey Weinstein used his relationship with Hillary Clinton to try to kill his exposé about the now-disgraced movie producer
Ronan Farrow details in his new book how Hillary Clinton's publicist reached out to him ahead of his big story on Harvey Weinstein in 2017.
In a bid to kill Ronan Farrow's exposé on the sexual misconduct allegations against him, Harvey Weinstein reportedly reached out to his good friend Hillary Clinton.
In Farrow's upcoming book "Catch and Kill" — which The Hollywood Reporter obtained a preview copy of — the journalist reveals an email he received from Clinton's publicist, Nick Merrill, in 2017.
It came as he was working on his Weinstein exposé and trying to land an interview with Clinton for a different book he was writing on foreign policy.
In the email, Farrow said Merrill told him that the "big story" he was working on was a "concern for us."
Weinstein, a major Democratic Party donor, gave Clinton more than $26,000 in contributions since her initial Senate run in 2000, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Five days after The New York Times investigation on the movie producer's sexual misconduct was published in October 2017, Clinton issued a statement decrying his behavior.
"I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein," the statement read."The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior."
She later said on CNN that she would donate the campaign contributions she received from Weinstein to charity.
The stories launched the #MeToo movement, and Weinstein was fired from the production company he founded and shunned from Hollywood.
Farrow's book, "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators," is coming out on October 15.