People Are Outraged At Lisa Bloom's Harvey Weinstein Memo Featured In New Book
A memo from attorney Lisa Bloom to disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein is going viral after being published in a new book, leading people on Twitter to call her “vile,” “disgusting,” and suggest that “there’s a special place in hell” for her.
The memo is featured in full in the book “She Said” by reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. Along with journalist Ronan Farrow, Kantor and Twohey are credited for amplifying the Me Too movement after they broke a story about allegations against Weinstein. The memo, which circulated ahead of the book’s release Tuesday, details the lengths Bloom, the daughter of women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, was willing to go to tamp down accusations by actress Rose McGowan, who was one of the first women to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment.
In the memo, which was sent in December 2016 and can be read in full below, Bloom reportedly tells Weinstein that she felt “equipped to help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them.”
I've read @jodikantor @mega2e's book 'She Said,' which comes out today
It's a triumph & it exposes predators AND enablers
That's why asked them if I could post the entire memo Lisa Bloom sent to Harvey Weinstein
Please read it & order their book today: https://t.co/cvVuK9cT9a pic.twitter.com/eNpxVRA3ef— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 10, 2019
The victims’ rights lawyer went on to say that she could place an article that paints McGowan as “increasingly unglued, so that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she’s discredited.”
Bloom would work for Weinstein up until Kantor and Twohey’s first bombshell about the producer in October 2017, which featured an alleged incident with McGowan.
Nearly a year after the memo was sent, Bloom dropped Weinstein as a client and apologized for representing him.
After reporter and HuffPost contributor Yashar Ali shared the memo in full on Twitter, many came out against Bloom ― who has since apologized again ― to lambast the lawyer:
Look at this awful woman selling out her gender after a career supposedly defending women. https://t.co/w6SetCL1Kw
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) September 10, 2019
If this memo is authentic, it wholly disqualifies @lisabloom from any substantive position of leadership re: women.
What a disappointment to read her memo to Harvey Weinstein. https://t.co/VLCqQX23XB— Chely Wright (@chelywright) September 10, 2019
This is so unbelievably sick. A lawyer laying out her plan to befriend and ruin someone her client had raped. https://t.co/0sLpvPHbNm
— Mikki Halpin (@mikkipedia) September 10, 2019
This is utterly vile and incredibly illuminating as to how entire ecosystems work to protect the powerful & discredit those who challenge them. Eager to read She Said, & grateful that not just the original behaviors but also the systemic support of them are being made public. https://t.co/N54BvAdGOV
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) September 10, 2019
Wow. This is disgusting. https://t.co/EDChKVdg8N
— rabia O'chaudry (@rabiasquared) September 10, 2019
There is a special place in hell. https://t.co/Ga50lHnewG
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) September 10, 2019
Rose McGowan is a fucking warrior, and that she has the last laugh after these ghouls and farces of feminists tried to destroy her life gives me faith in justice. https://t.co/iwp6BfEa1k
— Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) September 10, 2019
CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted an invite to Bloom, which both Twohey and Kantor have retweeted, to have her on his show to discuss the memo.
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