Episode 3: The Wire

The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

Pineapple Street Studios

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, Ambra Gutierrez agreed to do something that terrified her. A day after she told police that Harvey Weinstein had assaulted her, she decided to participate in a sting operation designed to extract a confession from the Hollywood executive. But those hours of dodging and weaving to escape Weinstein’s advances—and the threat he'd discover the wire she was wearing—would turn out to be just the beginning of a multi-year saga that pitted Gutierrez against powerful interests in Hollywood and law enforcement that seemed to want her evidence buried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, we're going to be talking a lot about sexual violence in this series.
0:06.0	There's also some language.
0:07.9	If either of those things are upsetting for you, please take care while you're listening.
0:14.2	It was a Friday in March 2015.
0:16.7	It was cold outside.
0:18.3	And Amber Gutierrez found herself on a corner in Lower Manhattan, breaking down.
0:24.6	Amber was 22.
0:26.1	She didn't speak much English.
0:27.7	She's a Filipina Italian model, and she just moved to the United States about a month
0:32.0	before to pursue her career.
0:34.4	And I was on the street, and I just started crying.
0:39.6	And my heart was like, oh my god, why is this happening?
0:46.6	Amber pulled out her phone and called her agent, and told him she had just been assaulted
0:51.7	by Harvey Weinstein.
0:53.9	She said that he groped her and put his hand up her skirt during a meeting at his office.
0:57.8	I just felt that I needed to go to the police, so I told him to take me there.
1:06.0	Amber didn't know much about Weinstein.
1:08.2	She didn't have much reason to.
1:10.1	She was a model, not an actress.
1:12.1	She never even had an interest in acting.
1:14.6	And so when she went to the police that day, she also didn't know that Weinstein had been
1:18.9	trailed by rumors of sexual harassment and assault for years.
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