Connection between Harvey Weinstein and Sophie Hunter
I’ll try to articulate what bothers me most about the Weinstein connection with Hunter, who is a mediocre nobody no matter how much PR tries to sexy up her CV, and it’s not what you might think it would be.
Let’s assume the relationship and engagement are 100% real.
Let’s assume what we suspect is true: Weinstein is running Benedict into the ground and that’s why he looks so unhappy.
This broad has had VERY close friendships with those in Weinstein and his wife’s circle far longer than she has had any friendship, let alone a relationship, with Benedict. Worse comes to worst, she’s never going to use her influence to get Weinstein to back off for the sake of the man’s sanity: she would jeopardize her personal and professional ties by doing that. Not just with Weinstein. Not just with his wife. But the wife’s brother and his partner, who is her best friend. It would be downright dangerous to her standing in that social circle.
I know many people in this business and I’ll tell you as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, many of these people, including lovers and so called close friends, put the safety of staying connected in the biz, especially with power players, above personal well being. Personal well being defined as personal sanity, staying free from addictions, men and women with ulterior motives, inflated egos and so on.
I have war stories and I have battle scars from this stuff. I thought BC would have been smarter to mix business with his private life, and it’s impossible to divorce those two things in such a setup.