American fame and fortune

New York, Times Building.

Sharon Waxman, with her work tag stuck in her collar, waited for the file to be downloaded from the mailbox and copied it to a USB flash drive. She hurriedly left the office cubicle and knocked on the office door of deputy editor-in-chief Jonathan Landman.

When Jonathan saw someone coming in, he took off his glasses, pinched his eyebrows, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Head, I just received an email from a paparazzi anonymously." Sharon put the USB flash drive on her desk: "There is very sensitive news material in it."

Jonathan took the USB flash drive, plugged it into the computer, and clicked on the video. After watching it for less than ten seconds, his face became extremely serious and he asked, "Where did these come from?"

Sharon told the truth: "Someone anonymously sent it to my news mailbox, just ten minutes ago."

Jonathan realized the news value of it. He brushed his gray hair with one hand and seemed to have difficulty making a decision.

Sharon wanted to report it: "This is big news, enough to shock the United States."

Jonathan did not answer immediately. He considered it carefully for a while before saying, "Harvey Weinstein is an important advertiser of ours. He spends more than seven figures in advertising fees on The Times' media every year."

Sharon understood what her immediate boss meant. Although the New York Times was one of the three largest newspapers in the United States, it was not easy to make money.

With an annual advertising fee of seven figures, he is truly a big customer.

Jonathan unplugged the USB flash drive, locked it in a drawer, and said, "Harvey Weinstein is not an elected official and has no reporting value. This is the end of the matter."

At this point, he considered more: "You try to find the person who provided these, talk to him, and get all the original news materials back."

Sharon could only do as she was told.

Not far from here, in the editorial office of The New Yorker.

Brin sat at his desk, waiting for his immediate boss, Tina, to watch the video material she had just received.

Tina's eyes widened the more she looked at it, her mood got better and better, and she even couldn't help but laugh later on.

Brin was familiar with his boss's style and knew that the news would definitely be published, so he couldn't help but start writing a copy so that he could finish it as soon as possible.

Tina looked away from the monitor and said to Brin: "Where did you find it?"

"Someone delivered it to the mailbox, anonymously." Brin asked cautiously: "Editor-in-Chief, do you want to publish it?"

Tina waved her hand: "Publish it! Of course we must publish it and send it to our website as quickly as possible."

Brin asked for instructions: "To what extent?"

"Original photos and hair!" Tina is a woman, it is extremely difficult to get to the top, and the video resonates with her.

But the key thing is another thing: "When we were promoting the two films "Chicago" and "The Hours," Harvey Weinstein still owed us US$260,000 in advertising fees, forcing us to invest Pay a huge sum of money and hire a lawyer to sue him and the Weinstein Films!”

Brin understood: "Boss, I know what to do!"

Tina, who is not Jewish, did not hesitate at all: "Fuck him, make Harvey Weinstein look bad!"

Not only in New York, but also in major cities across the United States such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco, the editorial offices of newspapers, radio stations, and television stations with some influence have all received similar news clips.

Martin's strategy is very simple. At this time, the net must be cast widely to possibly catch a few more fish.

The first reaction of many of these media outlets was to suppress it temporarily, and some of them even contacted the parties involved.

But among the more than 500 media outlets in total, there are always some who are influential enough and don’t care about Harvey Weinstein, so they choose to publish the news.

There are limits to Harvey Weinstein’s influence.

After TMZ, websites such as YouTube, The New Yorker, HULU and Yahoo News all published news related to Weinstein.

Netizens who read the relevant information were ignited with enthusiasm.

In the news comment section of TMZ, fans left over a thousand comments in less than half an hour.

"Shocked! In this civilized society of ours, a sanctimonious and successful person would actually do such a disgusting thing!"

"Harvey Weinstein is committing a crime!"

"Where's 911? Where's the FBI? There's a rapist here!"

"Insert an eye and wait for a follow-up. If this matter goes silent, America will be finished."

In addition to large first-tier websites such as TMZ, the videos uploaded to hundreds of second-tier websites in Europe and the United States quickly attracted attention.

The fire of public opinion has been ignited.

…………

In a Beverly Hills mansion, a couple started quarreling again.

Georgina looked at her husband Harvey coldly and asked sternly: "Besides Nicole Kidman, is there anyone else?"

Harvey spread his hands: "No more, no one else."

"You still don't admit it at this point?" Georgina looked extremely angry: "You used the role to deceive Nicole Kidman, and you must have deceived other people too!"

Harvey said bravely: "After marrying you, Nicole Kidman is the first one."

Georgina asked: "Have you done this kind of thing a lot before you married me?"

"No." Harvey is not stupid, how could he admit: "Absolutely not. I am an investor and producer, and I don't bother to do this kind of thing..."

Before he finished speaking, there was the sound of the car door being forcefully closed outside.

Amidst the rapid footsteps, Harvey's deputy Lombardo ran in from outside. He ignored Georgina's presence and said, "Something happened. Look at the news on the home page of TMZ!"

Harvey asked, "What's going on?"

"Someone took the video at the Four Seasons Hotel," Lombardo said quickly, "and now it's posted to TMZ."

When Harvey heard this, he was completely angry and asked Georgina: "Did you secretly take the video?"

Georgina was taken aback for a moment, then her head turned quickly. She deliberately raised her chest and head, and said domineeringly, "Yes, I took the photo."

Without saying anything, Harvey raised his hand and slapped her hard enough to make a crisp sound.

Georgina threw her head to the side.

She was not simple either. When her head was buzzing, she reacted instinctively.

His legs softened, his feet twisted, and he fell to one side.

Georgina hit the shelf next to her with a bang and let out a terrifying scream. Her left forearm hit the edge of the wood and quickly turned red visibly to the naked eye.

Lombardo was stunned, what is this? But he quickly reacted and said: "It's not happening now, it was a few years ago."

Harvey was also stunned for a moment, and was so angry that he wanted to kick Lombardo, but what happened a few years ago made him take it very seriously and hurried to the computer room on the side of the living room.

The two men left quickly.

Georgina's face was in burning pain and she knew it was swollen without looking in the mirror. Staring at Harvey's fat and ugly back, she gritted her teeth tightly with hatred.

I didn't realize it before, but after getting together with Martin, Harvey became more and more unpleasant to look at.

Contrast always hurts.

Georgina got up from the ground and looked at a teddy bear on the cabinet.

That thing was placed relatively high and in a special position, overlooking the entire living room.

Georgina turned her face to face the teddy bear's eyes, and showed her arms. Because her skin was fair enough, the red marks on her arms were very obvious.

This was not enough. She was already prepared. She took out the iPhone given by Martin and slapped her face and arms hard.

Georgina remembered Martin saying that there were only zero and countless times when a man hit a woman.

As long as you have the first start, you will often do it later and you will never stop!

Georgina thought it made perfect sense.

After taking the photo and putting her phone away, she thought of what Lombardo had just said. She immediately went upstairs to take out her notebook and logged into the TMZ website. As soon as the page refreshed, she saw the shocking news headlines.

Georgina clicked on it, and the video inside made her slightly dazed. Although she had heard some rumors about Harvey, she always thought it was a consensual deal like Nicole Kidman's.

And the young actress in the video was completely forced!

He shouted rejection, but was suppressed by Harvey.

Although she was very scheming, had extremely complicated thoughts about marrying Harvey, and cheated on her with Martin, Georgina thought she was a good woman and despised Harvey's behavior!

That bastard Harvey betrayed her, and in this way!

Georgina scrolled down the video and saw those comments. She felt that the identity of Harvey Weinstein's wife was so embarrassing, and her face was burning with pain.

Not only was she hit by Harvey's slap, but also psychologically. Georgina was a normal woman and felt nauseous.

He didn't even want to be associated with Harvey for a moment.

With a thought, she changed several websites in succession and found that most of them had video news of Harvey, with many victims.

Georgina touched her swollen and painful face, picked up her mobile phone and dialed 911, crying: "Help me! Help me quickly, I have suffered terrible domestic violence! I am about to be beaten to death..."

Downstairs, Harvey smelled something wrong. After watching the TMZ video, he immediately took out his cell phone and called TMZ boss Harvey Levin.

As soon as the call was connected, he said: "Do you, TMZ, plan to start a war with me?"

Levin was eating with his children at home. He got up and left the restaurant and asked, "Harvey, what do you mean?"

Harvey said: "Your website posted news about me on the homepage headline! Don't say you don't know..."

"Wait a minute, let me find out first." Levin hung up the phone, went to the study to check the computer, and immediately dialed Jody's number: "You sent the news, why did you send such news? Do you know How serious are the consequences?”

Jody replied: "Boss, you gave me the power to publish news. I still remember when you approached me and asked me to come to work at TMZ, you said you wanted to be a news website that dared to disclose any dirty information. You told me I, no matter who is involved, must have the courage to reveal the truth!”

She was already ready to leave: "It is precisely because of your support, boss, that I persisted even though I received such serious personal threats when I was doing news about Pitt and Ben Affleck."

Levine said: "This time is different, Pete and Ben are just stars."

Jody reminded: "Boss, the people who provide me with news are not just ours, but other media as well."

Levine opened several websites in succession and found that this was indeed the case, and his thoughts immediately changed.

This is no longer the case for him to bear the pressure alone. What is he afraid of? He said: "Jody, you continue to dig deeper, but you are not allowed to post anything without my consent until you collect enough information!"

Jody responded, "I got it, boss."

Just as Levin hung up, Harvey's call came in again, but he didn't answer it. He waited until the ringing ended and turned off the phone.

Neither refuse nor cooperate.

Levin returned to the restaurant and said to his wife: "We haven't been on vacation for a long time, why not go on a self-driving trip?"

The wife smiled: "Really? That's great!"

Harvey couldn't get through Levin's phone call and was so angry that he cursed a few words starting with F.

Lombardo answered the phone, his face became even more ugly, and he said to Harvey: "Boss, there is more than one website."

Harvey quickly changed several websites, and nearly half of them had news about him.

"What to do?" Lombardo asked.

"Don't panic, calm down." Harvey picked up the phone and called Quentin, Matt Damon and Robert Rodriguez respectively, asking them to help him put pressure on the media.

He then personally called some media leaders.

But after few calls were made, the police lights at the gate were flashing!

Upstairs, Georgina took out the copied storage disk, handed it to her trusted assistant, and said: "You will give it to Martin later and tell him that if you can't contact me by eight o'clock in the evening, you should quickly find a way to save me. ."

The assistant wrote it down, picked up the storage disk and stuffed it into the business line.