Journalist Claims Matt Damon And Russell Crowe Helped Cover Up Devastating 2004 NYT Article About Ha
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Vulture.com reports that Sharon Waxman, founder of The Wrap, wrote an investigative report about Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct in 2004, but it was "cut from the New York Times under pressure from several Hollywood elites."
On her site, Waxman says that both Matt Damon and Russell Crowe called her personally to dispel reports saying she was following Miramax’s Italian head Fabrizio Lombardo, who was allegedly hired 'to take care of Weinstein’s women needs.' Damon and Crowe worked on Weinstein-related pictures such as Good Will Hunting, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Cinderella Man.
Weinstein's company was a huge advertiser in the NYT at the time. Waxman said because of this, the article she wrote was chopped and edited to remove the most damning details of his sexual escapades.
"I had people on the record telling me Lombardo knew nothing about film, and others citing evenings he organized with Russian escorts,” Waxman said. Regarding her investigation-related travels abroad, she wrote, "I was devastated after traveling to two countries and overcoming immense challenges to confirm at least part of the story that wound up running last week, more than a decade later."
