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Harvey Weinstein's Secret Settlements

• https://www.newyorker.com, By Ronan Farrow

On April 20, 2015, the Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez sat in an office in midtown Manhattan with an eighteen-page legal agreement in front of her. She had been advised by her attorney that signing the agreement was the best thing for her and her family. In exchange for a million-dollar payment from Harvey Weinstein, Gutierrez would agree never to talk publicly about an incident during which Weinstein groped her breasts and tried to stick his hand up her skirt.

"I didn't even understand almost what I was doing with all those papers," she told me, in her first interview discussing her settlement. "I was really disoriented. My English was very bad. All of the words in that agreement were super difficult to understand. I guess even now I can't really comprehend everything." She recalled that, across the table, Weinstein's attorney was trembling visibly as she picked up the pen. "I saw him shaking and I realized how big this was.


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