Published 14:16 IST, March 11th 2020

Harvey Weinstein sent desperate mails to Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos asking them to save him

Harvey Weinstein tried to save himself against rape and sexual assault charges by sending mails to big names from Hollywood and corporate. Read details here

Reported by: Shrishaila Bhandary
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Harvey Weinstein is convicted of sexual assault and rape. 67-year-old producer from Hollywood will be jailed for a term period of 28 years. In a desperate attempt to save his career, Harvey Weinstein tried to gain support form film industry as well as entrepreneurs. Harvey Weinstein tried to strengn his plea by gaining support from big names when he was just accused of charges of sexual assault and more heius crimes against women. 

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Harvey Weinstein's frail attempt to gain support from Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos and more people 

It was reported in Variety that Harvey Weinstein mailed powerful people in industry like Tim Cook of Apple, Quentin Taranti, director in Hollywood,  Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Michael Bloomberg, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and more. sole motto was to help him save career as a producer, as reports of him being accused of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual acts came out. He asked m for ir support. 

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Harvey Weinstein obtained private mail ID of CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, and requested his support for remission and to t get convicted. He was urging Cook to help him get a ‘second chance’ according to reports in Variety. reports also suggested that Harvey Weinstein wanted a second chance to avoid a legal battle with his company. He wrote that if he receives support from a big name like Tim Cook, n he might have a chance to get out of everything and go into rapy inste. He h frail attempts at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. He reportedly asked Jeff Bezos to side with him during trial in an attempt to save his career. 

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In similar efforts, he tried to gain support of Netflix’s Ted Sarandos. Weinstein reportedly wrote ar letter and called himself 't guilty' of many of charges. According to reports in media, he wrote that he requires full support of Sandos. All he requires is time to fight allegations. He also asked Quentin Taranti to meet him personally. However, ne of above-mentioned people commented on matter or even helped Harvey out. He was found guilty of all charges. Many big names came out of Harvey Weinstein scandal as it fuelled #Metoo movement.

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14:16 IST, March 11th 2020