‘His reputation will never recover’: the rape trial that took down Harvey Weinstein

One of the most powerful men in Hollywood is unlikely to return to the top after reporting exposed decades of sexual harassment and assault allegations

Harvey Weinstein’s career in the movie business has risen and fallen as markedly as his famous temper.

Long before he faced harassment and assault charges from scores of women he worked with over the years, and before he was the symbolic villain of the #MeToo movement paying top-dollar to fend off rape charges, Weinstein was busy defending himself from something much more ordinarily Hollywood: the notion he was a gigantic jerk.

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