Keeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets, Part 2: Gloria Allred

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🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In Part 1 of this series, our colleagues Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey reported on Lisa Bloom, a victims’ rights attorney who used her experience representing women to defend Harvey Weinstein. In Part 2, we look at the role of Ms. Bloom’s mother, the women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred. Guests: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, investigative reporters for The New York Times and the authors of “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.” For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: “She Said” reveals new information about the labyrinth of secret settlements and nondisclosure agreements that allowed Mr. Weinstein and other powerful men to conceal their behavior.Ms. Allred’s law firm helped negotiate a confidential settlement in 2004 between Mr. Weinstein and Ashley Matthau, a dancer who accused him of sexual assault.Ms. Allred represents two women who are expected to testify against Mr. Weinstein at his trial, scheduled to begin in January.

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0:00.0	previously on the daily.
0:10.0	So there we are moments from publishing the story and the role of Lisa Bloom is finally coming into focus.
0:19.0	Within a week we'd realize that her mother had also played a surprising role.
0:33.0	Today.
0:35.0	So we published the story.
0:38.0	Famed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is responding tonight after the New York Times revealed decades of sexual harassment.
0:45.0	And the reaction starts to build.
0:48.0	The idea that this predator, this assaulter, was out there silencing women.
0:53.0	It's beyond infuriating.
0:56.0	Most of it is about Harvey Weinstein.
0:58.0	Some of it is about Lisa Bloom.
1:00.0	Interestingly enough, one of the attorneys working with Weinstein is Lisa Bloom.
1:05.0	daughter of the very high profile women's rights attorney Gloria Alred.
1:09.0	People are incredulous that a women's rights advocate could have played this role.
1:13.0	Celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom sells herself as a fiery champion of the oppressed.
1:18.0	She represented one of Bill Cosby's accusers and three women who said Bill O'Reilly sexually harassed them.
1:23.0	Yet in the case of Harvey Weinstein, Lisa Bloom took the side of the predator over the prey.
1:28.0	She's normally on the other side. She's normally the first attorney defending women in most of these cases.
1:33.0	Which may have something to do with why he hired her.
1:36.0	It'll be interesting to see how this whole thing plays out.
1:40.0	So then.
1:41.0	Don't be now as attorney Gloria Alred.
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