Bob Weinstein confronted Harvey over 'misbehavior' 2 years before scandal broke

Two years before the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal broke in 2017, his brother, Bob Weinstein, confronted him about his many years of “misbehavior,” according to a letter published in New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s new book “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.”

“You have brought shame to the family and your company through your misbehavior,” Bob Weinstein wrote in the letter, which appeared in a Times story Sunday ahead of the book’s publication. “Your reaction was once more to blame the victims, or to minimize the misbehavior in various ways. If you think nothing is wrong with your misbehavior so in this area then announce it to your wife and family.”

Bob Weinstein told the reporters he initially thought of Harvey suffered from sex addiction and sympathized because of what the Times called Bob’s “own previously unreported recovery from substance abuse.” He also said that he eventually abandoned his efforts to address the situation. “I got worn out,” he said in the book. “I said, ‘I surrender,’ see?”

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Kantor and Twohey won a Pulitzer Prize for their initial reporting on Weinstein, who was forced out of the movie studio he had run for decades and now faces criminal charges of sexual assault and rape. (He has pleaded not guilty and repeated denied he ever had nonconsensual sex.)

Bob Weinstein’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In their new book, due in stores Tuesday, Kantor and Twohey offer more detailed accusations against Weinstein as well as new descriptions of how they reported the story, the Times wrote.

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