Reading Auletta’s meticulous reporting, one finds it impossible not to wonder why Weinstein is the way he is. In the book’s catalogue of ruined female bodies, details about Weinstein’s own body emerge as a nexus and potential driving force behind his harm
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images In the winter of 1999, Harvey Weinstein was medevaced from the island of St. Barthélemy to New York City with a mysterious life-threatening bacterial infection. Whatever it was embarrassed him so much that he checked into an undisclosed hospital under a fake name, shunned visitors, and expended the majority of his limited energy to keep the press from learning he was hospitalized at all.
One thing criminologists agree on is that the seeds of sexual deviance are often planted in early childhood. Parents with sadistic streaks are more likely to raise sadists. According to Auletta, Weinstein’s mother, Mariam, was a legendary screamer who shamed her son in front of his friends. “Do you really need to eat that bagel?” she would yell. “You’re fat. Don’t eat that!” She was critical of many people, as a rule, but her criticism of Harvey often focused on his body.
How might shame over his body have caused Weinstein to act the way he did? Zoë Brock was a young model when Weinstein attempted to assault her, and she said that when she managed to evade his advances, he came out of the bathroom crying and apologizing. “He said something in between his tears I have never forgotten, and I never will for the rest of my days,” she told a Frontline documentary crew. “‘You do not like me because I am fat.
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