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Harvey Weinstein Has a Bigger Problem Than Someone Going Through His Trash

7/3/08 at 11:00 AM

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It turns out that recording released on Gawker yesterday, of a not-as-exciting-as-we'd-hoped 1996 Harvey Weinstein phone call with Joe Roth, was just the tip of the iceberg. The Post reports that the recording came from a former Miramax staffer who has fifteen years of tapes and files, supposedly, and is writing a tell-all memoir. "This former employee did not sign a nondisclosure agreement," says the tell-aller, who goes by the name "The Final Nail" and also claims to have access to the files and tapes of a former Miramax assistant who was later killed on 9/11.

We find it hard to believe that, NDA or no NDA, the Weinsteins will ever let a book detailing every phone-throwing, director-mauling minute of the past fifteen years see the light of day, but it is totally possible that fifteen years of tapes exist. Crazily, many Hollywood assistants tape their boss's phone calls — not out of a desire to write tell-alls, necessarily, but because if you work for a guy who barks out a dozen orders in ten seconds and you'll be fired if you get a single thing wrong, you'd better record him whenever you can. Seems like that's a tradition that's about to go the way of unshredded trash at Weinstein Co.

STUDIO INSIDER WRITING TELL-ALL [NYP]

Note: "On the other hand, Harvey optioned Wolf Boy, so he's okay in our book!"

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