Although Harvey Weinstein isn’t attending any red carpet events these days, one exclusive event took him off the guest list before his fall from grace.
In his new book When the Going Was Good, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter revealed that the disgraced producer and convicted sex offender was the one celebrity “banned” for life from the publication’s highly-coveted Oscars party.
Carter wrote in the book, which is available Tuesday, that Weinstein “regularly showed up with more guests than his invitation indicated and would bully the staff,” according to Page Six.
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“He got banned from everything because he was rude to the staff and I didn’t like that,” Carter told the outlet, noting that the initial ban was temporary lifted before being reinstated. “It was not from drink. It was just within him.”
Serving as editor-in-chief at the glossy from 1992 to 2017, Carter began his star-studded tradition in 1994 after the death of agent Swifty Lazar, who was known for his own Oscars bashes. The ticket was so hot, Carter recalled that editor Sara Marks, who oversaw the guest list, “was the object of bribery, threats, and even abuse.”
More than 80 women have come forward with sexual harassment, assault or rape allegations against Weinstein since 2017. In 2020, Weinstein was found guilty on one count each of criminal sexual assault in the first degree and rape in the third degree, sentenced to 23 years in prison. He was found guilty of three more charges in Los Angeles in 2022, receiving another 16 years.
With his New York convictions overturned due to “egregious errors” on behalf of the judge, Weinstein is currently in custody at Rikers, awaiting a retrial that is scheduled for April 15.
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