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The New York Post's Page Six just called me saying Harvey Weinstein has told them he'll give $1 million to charity if I can produce the Scott Rudin email about HW's alleged callous treatment of Anthony Minghella's and Sydney Pollack's families. Because Harv doesn't think it exists. Question is, do I get to choose the charity? (UPDATE: As for Scott Rudin, he confirmed to me Monday night that it is his email and claimed that Weinstein's people pestered him "to protect Harvey and deny the email and lie to Page Six" -- so he said he did "in order to keep peace for the next weeks that the two of us still have to work together on The Reader.") Here's the email. I've blacked out the recipient of the message as well as SR's email address:
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get in there with the body shots
WOW. Geez, Nikki. Hmmm…make sure he spells your name right. And SIGNS the check…
Mmmmmmm, I love a smoking gun…
Do you get to choose the charity, Nikki?
May I suggest that the donation should go to the Furious D Foundation for the Improvement of the Lifestyle of Furious D.
And I want small, non-sequential bills, to be dropped off in a secret location to be determined later.
$1 million to charity?
I guess Harvey has gotten used to the feeling of giving away money expecting nothing in return. After all, that’s what The Weinstein Company does best.
great! What charity is it?
Nikki, I ♥ you.
Harvey’s next words: “show me the email where I told Page Six that I’d give $1m to charity.”
slam dunk.
not really.
This was the best piece of news I read all day!
Get a receipt.
Nikki, you are my personal hero at this moment. Might I suggest that the charity either be Cure Autism Now or one that would really, really, really anger Mr. Weinstein (like creating a Village Idiot one in his name)?
WTF? You couldn’t have negotiated cash? Now he’s just gonna write it off!
You could use it to bail out 1/700,000 of Wall Street.
Awesome. He probably thinks everyone deletes their e-mail messages right after they read them, lol.
How to cure a bad day?
Read a Nikki Finke scoop and your bad day goes away in a wave of laughter.
Now we must all wait wearing our “What will Harvey Do”(WWHD) wrist bands!!!
Nikki, you rock!
Ah, Nik…mad props to you…as if i didn’t already love ya enough.
I never had to work *for* Weinstein, but back in the day when I was at a baby shark at an agency I was on a film where we were repping an actress in a major film from Miramax. I’ll say that the actress on the film was big and the senior agents on the file were big and the execs at the associated co were big but that didn’t deter good ole harvey from treating everyone like shit. It was so bad, that the big co publicist was ordered to start bitching about him in the press…luckily, once the first Page Six report came out he chilled.
Still, in a biz where everyone and their dog (and their kitchen sink) is an ass, Harvey still stands as a truly horrible, horrible human being.
I’m even more unforgiving about Harvey b/c of this…around the time I had this horrible experience on this film with him I was doing something else that Ron Meyer was hands on in. I made a stupid (but insignificant mistake) on something on the Meyer film. I was totally horrified and apologetic. Although I was way too junior to have much contact with Meyer when I was in a meeting with him, he took me aside afterwards to tell me he heard i was emailing everyone to constantly apologize and that i should just stop b/c he knew that everyone made a mistake now and then and it was really no big thing.
…okay…i’ve gone on too long. But, yeah…my most intense biz moments can by characterized by working with the psychopatic Weinstein and the ever kind Meyer both at the same time.
…it’s heartening to know who, at the end of the day, will always have a table in the main room.
SWEET!
Oh, Nikki, you give hope to us all!
Make sure that oily prick makes good!
Niki…if you keep writing, we’ll all keep reading. No one has had the guts to truly hold Harvey Weinstein accountable for being a pig. Its been decades – The payoffs he’s had to make for sexual harrasment, the years of treating young filmmakers like dirt and he just keeps going.
Quadrangle and their investors have to be disgusted for getting “HarBob’d” out of hundred of millions of dollars while Harvey is sucking up to his fashion designer girlfriend and promoting Halston (Harvey…did anyone tell you that Halston is dead and so is the Brand???).
Scott Rudin may be a yeller, a screamer and a tough guy but at the end of the day he treats people with the respect they earn.
Harvey Weinstein will have no Oscar winners this year and it will be a Cold Mountain day in hell before he does again…
Congratulations to the next recipient of Harvey Weinstein’s frequent flier miles.
Weinstein got owned.
I expected dirt on him, but harassing the families of Minghella and Pollack? Fucking outrageous.
I donno, he was nice to me when I met him. He bumped into me at the 1408 premiere and apologized for stepping on my foot.
OH!! That’s gotta hurt.
(btw, this is now officially part of Hollwyood lore)
Nikki – I LUV you. This bastard deserves a public hanging (and so much more). Now, if only Harvey has a bad rest of the year, I’ll start believing in Santa Claus again…
Please follow this through and make sure that the charity he gives the check to CONFIRMS TO YOU THAT THEY RECEIVED THE CHECK. Ya gotta watch Mr. Weinstein.
Harvey is quite simply, a sociopath. A businessman that must be watched at all times. Just ask some of the directors, actors, and producers he’s screwed over the years. Not to mention his own staff, whom he treats very cruelly. Yes, Harvey is the only jew I’ve met who would have made a terrific nazi.
Best to you Nikki – you’ve got balls of iron that put the rest of this town to shame!
The Finke Panther Strikes Again — great work Nikki!
FIRST RULE OF HOLLYWOOD – ALWAYS GET IT IN WRITING. YOU SHOULD HAVE WAITED A BIT MORE PATIENTLY!
Nikki, you are so cool, gutsy and awesome. I hope you will lead the way for more women in Hollywood to grab ‘em by the balls. I know I will =)
Nikki, did you ever know you are my hero…
Some may think one million dollars isn’t much but you obviously haven’t dealt with Harvey Weinstein who would rather slash his own mother’s throat than give someone a penny.
Quite frankly, every time Harvey and Scott do a movie together, I assume body bags will have to be brought in after the first five minutes or pre-production.
Voodoo,
If only the bail out were only $700 million… as opposed to billion…
Used to be a film with the Weinstein name on it would merit SOME assemblence of quality. Now it’s depressing to see his name on anything.
Nail that smarmy puss-bucket!!!!
Ha ha!!!
Well played, Nikki Finke. Well. Played.
Sorry, don’t see any proof here…
Where are the email headers?
All I see is stuff someone could’ve whipped up in Word, or OpenOffice and then printed it.
no email headers = no proof.
Those of you who don’t understand how email works need not respond.
Amazing. This would have never happened if Harvey had used VaporStream.
Give it up to my charity!
I Harvey ran Wall Street, we would be in more of a mess than we are now.
Wow. Slime balls in Hollywood, imagine that.
Dave, you really think they should publish the tech details (headers, etc)? Get a clue.
You… who doesn’t know how the hacks, hackers, law and Hollywood work, need not post.