“Could I Fairly Write About a Man Who Was Such a Monster?”: With Hollywood Ending, Ken Auletta Caps His Decades-Long Pursuit of Harvey Weinstein

The sordid tale of Harvey Weinstein’s steamrolling rise to power and spectacular criminal downfall is, by now, exhaustively documented. There were the original bombshell investigations—by Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey in The New York Times and Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker—that exposed the disgraced mogul’s expansive repertoire of sexual predation, arguably one of the worst-kept secrets in New York and Hollywood, but one that Weinstein managed to suppress for decades. There were the subsequent best-selling books by these journalists, the stories behind their Pulitzer-winning pieces, giving readers an intimate lens into the high-stakes reporting. Then there was the tidal… Read Full Article