Huffington Post Writer SHREDS Weinstein Wife’s Claims That She “Knew Nothing”

As I mentioned earlier, Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife finally broke her silence by doing an interview with Vogue.

Anna Wintour played the “she’s totally innocent and knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING” card as hard as she possibly could.

“I am firmly convinced that Georgina had no idea about her husband’s behavior; blaming her for any of it, as too many have in our gladiatorial digital age, is wrong,” writes Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in the preface to her magazine’s glowing profile of Harvey Weinstein’s soon-to-be-ex-wife Georgina Chapman.

“I believe that one should not hold a person responsible for the actions of his or her partner. What Georgina should be receiving is our compassion and understanding,” she continued.

Of course. Of course. She’s totally innocent. She knew NOOOTHING.

I find that incredibly hard to believe, to be honest.

…and I’m not the only one. A Huffington Post writer is SLAMMING both Vogue and Chapman for what he thinks is utter BULLCRAP.

According to the Daily Wire:

Yashar Ali of The Huffington Post is buying none of it and cited several examples, many of which came from Weinstein’s accusers, that demonstrate that Chapman either knew of Weinstein’s behavior or stayed willfully and deliberately ignorant.

“I’ve spoken to over a dozen survivors of Weinstein’s sexual predation about Chapman and all of them surprisingly said they believed she was aware, in some form, of Weinstein’s behavior,” writes Ali. “Two of them told me that Weinstein made misogynistic remarks to them in front of Chapman and she did not react in any way. Others accuse Chapman of making a pact with the devil and accepting his money and influence (which greatly benefited the fashion house she co-founded, Marchesa) and turning a blind eye to his behavior.”

DAAAAAMN.

In fact, there are multiple reports that Weinstein intimidated actresses into wearing his wife’s dresses to big premiers. Surely she at least had a HUNCH something fishy was going on there, right?

While Ali understands that not all women should be held accountable for their husband’s actions, he notes that Weinstein sets a different precedent. Here was a man who had a reputation within the industry for sexual harassment, philandering, and treating subordinates with disdain, so how could she not have known? Not one rumor ever came upon her ears?

As I mentioned in my last post, this was at LEAST wilful ignorance.

“While that is not Chapman’s fault, Van Meter didn’t ask her how it made her feel to be married to a man with uncontrollable urges,” writes Ali. “We are left wondering if she was spared that side of her husband for the 10 years they were married.”

He has actual examples of why he’s just not buying it.

Ali also has a difficult time swallowing Chapman’s alleged ignorance of one particular incident involving Weinstein in 2015, when model Ambra Gutierrez accused him of sexual assault and worked in concert with NYPD in a potential sting. We all remember the famed recording: “I’m used to it,” Weinstein told Gutierrez in reference to his fondling breasts without consent.

Gutierrez recorded an interaction organized by New York police detectives of her confronting Weinstein about assaulting her the night before. After a week, and under a cloud of controversy, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office shuttered the investigation.

What did Chapman think of the incident? How did her husband explain it to her? How does she process the incident today? We don’t get answers to those critical questions in Van Meter’s profile. Typically, women who are married to sexual predators reflect on behavior they noticed but ignored ― hindsight is 20/20. Chapman offers no such reflection in this profile, and it’s not clear if Van Meter ever asked her about it.

Vogue went out of their way NOT to ask her any tough questions…

Which honestly, kind of worked against her.

Multiple outlets throughout the decades attempted to break stories about Weinstein’s behavior before being quashed by powerful forces. Do Chapman and Vogue really expect the public to fall for their gaslighting?

In the end, the Vogue profile leaves more questions than answers. If Chapman indeed had no knowledge of Weinstein’s behavior, then Vogue did little to repair her reputation by refusing to hit her with hardball questions.

It all just feels like another cover-up.