TW: this article contains depictions or discussions of sexual assault and may be triggering to some readers.
Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced on Wednesday to 23 years in prison after being convicted of criminal sex acts and third-degree rape.
The highly-publicized trial contained more than a thousand sealed court documents that have now been unsealed and publicized, which has revealed some dramatic information.
Some of these documents revealed that Weinstein had responded in a crude manner to an email about Jennifer Aniston.
While Jennifer never claimed to be abused in any way by the producer, she did tell Variety about his “piggish” behavior towards her.
Jennifer revealed Weinstein had attempted to “bully” her into wearing one of his wife’s dress designs to a red carpet event.
“I remember, right when Georgina’s clothing line Marchesa was starting. That’s when he came to visit me in London while we were shooting. He’d be like, ‘Ok, so I’d like you to wear one of these to the premiere,'” she said , explaining that he became irate and pushy when she refused.
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However, the leaked emails sent to Harvey by the ‘National Enquirer’ alleged that Jennifer would be claiming that Harvey had groped her.
The ‘Enquirer’ never ran the story.
And the allegations were never proven to have come from Jennifer. The emails claimed that a friend of Jennifer’s had told the Enquirer that “Through the years he would frequently stare at her cleavage/breasts and move his mouth around making Jennifer uncomfortable.”
Harvey’s response to these emails was extremely blunt: “Jen Aniston should be killed.”
Jennifer has not yet responded to the information contained in these emails, nor has she acknowledged Weinstein’s response.
Jennifer was not the only celebrity whose name appeared in the court documents.
One piece of information that the court documents revealed involved actor Ben Affleck, who frequently collaborated with Weinstein.
It was revealed by Variety that Weinstein kept a “red flag list” of actors, producers, and others that he had worked with over the years who he was worried might speak out to journalists regarding Weinstein’s behavior. That included Ben Affleck.
The list contained over 70 names, including two eventual accusers, Annabella Sciorra and Rose McGowan.
According to Variety, a private investigator testified during the trial that he had been approached by Weinstein to investigate the people included on that list.
Weinstein evidently specified that “the red flags are the first to call.”
The investigator at the trial stated that he did not investigate any of the names on the list, but was unaware if another investigator had been contacted to conduct the investigations in his stead.
Weinstein is still currently awaiting another trial in Los Angeles.
Weinstein faces multiple felony charges related to sexual assault in the state of California although a date for arraignment has not yet been set.
Affleck has not publicly commented on Weinstein’s behavior before or after the trial.
This is something actress Rose McGowan has criticized the star for, saying it “must be so wearying playing a superhero instead of being one.”
Affleck has not yet commented on the information revealed in the court documents.
