"The Gentle Path": Hollywood’s Weinstein and Spacey the Most Publicly Punished… But Not the Last

Here's one of the headlines from the Hollywood. The headline, which could seem minor, got lost in the rapid information flow from the US on Monday.

Here's one of the headlines from the Hollywood. The headline, which could seem minor, got lost in the rapid information flow from the US on Monday. It was news about an almost outdated, sent over ten years ago, e-mail from one bored lady to the one she didn't mind meeting with. Here's this, at first glance, innocuous text.

"Hi, what's new? Will Harvey have time to see me before he leaves?"

 

The e-mail is dated from 2007. This is significant. It was sent to Harvey Weinstein, the famous Hollywood producer, whose films altogether have been awarded as many as 81 Oscars. The author is the assistant of the producer Weinstein's company, the pretty Mimi Haley. She is one of 150 Hollywood ladies who claimed that in the distant past, Harvey Weinstein committed sexual assault against them. We'll definitely talk about Mimi Haleyi again because she's a very important character for the denouncement of the whole story with Harvey Weinstein.

But first, let's remember how it all began. The first woman to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault was the actress Ashley Judd, who made her accusation in October of 2017, right in the New York Times. She came to the producer's hotel room, and the horrible producer met her in a bathrobe and offered to do a massage. How terrible! The case went to trial, but the court refused to consider the case because of a lack of evidence. It blew over.

Weinstein turned out to be a honeypot. After Ashley Judd, many Hollywood nymphs desired to follow her example. The claims against Harvey Weinstein seemed to be a kind of a quality mark then. A certificate. If you reported Harvey, you're legit. If you didn't, too bad for you.

The list of the offended impressed all of America. Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathrin Beckinsale, Rose McGowan, Rosanna Arquette, Cara Delevingne, Léa Seydoux, Heather Graham, Lucia Evans, Asia Argento. Over 150 statements were made about harassment, sexual assaults, and attempted rapes committed by Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein was crushed.

Considering suicide, he went all the way to Arizona, to the Meadows rehabilitation center. In fact, it was an involuntary treatment because the atmosphere of the manhunt in American society didn't leave him any other option but to receive treatment for men with sexual addiction. It's called "Gentle Path".

In the other wing of the same clinic, another Oscar winner, Kevin Spacey was set on the "Gentle Path". The doctors prescribed abstinence in compliance with the 12-step program, swimming, yoga, meditation, acupuncture, diet, and horse riding.

Over the course of the treatment, Harvey Weinstein was bankrupted and kicked out of his own company. He was also expelled from everywhere — the Oscar Academy, the British Academy, the Producers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. They deprived him of the Honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters of New York state. They initiated the procedure for depriving him of the orders of the British Empire and the orders of the Legion of Honour of France. They made mincemeat of the man.

On May 25th of this year, Harvey Weinstein was formally charged with rape, sexual misconduct, and sexual harassment. Two women were involved. The name of one of them wasn't mentioned. The rape took place in 2013. The other is Lucia Evans. She was forced by Weinstein to perform an unwanted sexual act in 2004. Weinstein was arrested on the same day. But the Manhattan court released him on $1,000,000 bail. But they put an electronic bracelet on him and restricted his movement. On May 31st, Weinstein's case formally went to trial. On June 5th, the accusations were read. Weinstein denied everything.

On July 9th, the court had a third victim of Weinstein. Later, it became known that it was the pretty Mimi Haley. Today, over a year after the first libels, the case against Harvey Weinstein is obviously falling apart in court. It looks like the court has no reason to hold Harvey Weinstein responsible for all of the filed accusations. Because the episode with Mimi Haley, who likes to talk about her incurable psychological trauma, isn't criminal. She did come to the room of Harvey Weinstein and did what, according to her, she wasn't ready for it then. But there wasn't rape in a literal sense. Yes, 11 years later, she told about the unhealed psychological wound which still hurts. But it turned out that several months after the first date with Harvey, she offered him to meet again.

“Hi, what's new? Will Harvey have time to see me before he leaves?”

Well, it became clear that the case has no chance in court, as they say. The former actress, Lucia Evans, dropped out of the process earlier. On October 11th, the D.A. dismissed her lawsuit against Weinstein for harassment in 2004. Lucia told her friend then that she agreed to have sex in the office in exchange for the prospects of career development. Her friend gave it to the investigator. The investigator advised her to keep silent about it in court. When the conspiracy was revealed, the accusation was ruined because she agreed to it herself.

And here's the third and the final episode, which the court is still considering. This is the rape case. The name of the victim hasn't been made public. In August, the lawyers presented the e-mails of Weinstein's alleged victim to the court. They show that the lady had an affair with the producer both before the rape in 2013 and after that. In one of the e-mails which were sent after that, she wrote that she missed the producer and wanted to see him again. In other e-mails, she thanked him for everything he did for her and added that, I quote, "nobody understands me like Weinstein".

Actually, this is what's on the judge's desk and what the jury will have to deal with. It's not much. By the way, all of the accusations against Kevin Spacey have fallen apart. The D.A. office didn't manage to bring the case to trial. So, the accusations against the Oscar winners weren't confirmed in court. But it doesn't matter. Neither Harvey Weinstein nor Kevin Spacey will work in the American film industry anymore. The last award which was conferred on both of them was the honored certificate of the Meadows clinic, Arizona, on completing the "Gentle Path" course as the apex of a Hollywood career.