Sex to boost film career is 'not rape': Harvey Weinstein lawyer

[DonViejo]

Source: Times of India




AFP | Mar 3, 2018, 17:46 IST

LONDON: Harvey Weinstein's lawyer said on Saturday a woman having sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career is "not rape", in a British newspaper interview on the eve of the Oscars.

Ben Brafman is one of the US' top criminal defence attorneys, hired by the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose career is in tatters following accusations of sexual harassment, assault and rape.

More than 100 women have accused Weinstein of impropriety going back 40 years, but Brafman argued there was no criminal behaviour.

"If a woman decides that she needs to have sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career and actually does it and finds the whole thing offensive, that's not rape," he told The Times.

Read more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/sex-to-boost-film-career-is-not-rape-harvey-weinstein-lawyer/articleshow/63148088.cms

[safeinOhio]

1. Good luck with that one.

[marble falls]

2. So if if she'd offered him an off the books sum of money it wouldn't have been bribery....

and if he had asked for an off the books payment from her it wouldn't have been extortion.

I think Harvey needs a better lawyer.

[Canoe52]

3. I thought you paid lawyers to help your case?

[MissMillie]

4. Does this man have a daughter?

A sister?

In theory he has a mother.... but then again he could just be a slug that crawled out from under a rock.


(on edit: turns out he has 4 daughters)

[infullview]

5. This defense won't work

Weinstein coupled his sexual advances with an implicit threat of being blacklisted if you didn't comply which makes this rape and extortion.

[forgotmylogin]

9. The casting couch shouldn't even be an option, even if consensual.

It implies that one must degrade themselves sexually to be competitive in the business.
It implies he is "reaping the inherent benefits" of his status and power whether his victims were compliant or not.
It is technically cheating someone else out of a job.

[Solly Mack]

6. Damn

[meadowlander]

7. Just like students who consensually sleep with their teachers for better grades...

Oh wait... using a power differential to coerce someone into sex means you didn't actually get consent which is...

[Drahthaardogs]

8. I know at my work place, it can never be consensual if one

Has power over the other. Is this law too?

[Skittles]

10. what a sick fuck he is

[olddad56]

11. yeah, that all makes sense. So if I wanted to hire a person to clean my house...

and she needed the job to support her 3 kids, I could get away with telling her part of the job was giving me a blow job, and if she was desperate enough for the money, to do that, it would be okay because she consented to the agreement. I just don't think it works that way. I think if I were a person like that, I would be in a lot of trouble.

[rocktivity]

12. Fine, so don't call it rape.

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Sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic terrorism, extortion, harassment, intimidation, conspiracy, pandering, collusion and racketeering will do.


rocktivity