Late last night the New York Times published a comprehensive article delving into the powerful support network of Harvey Weinstein, a network on which he apparently relied to help cover up decades of sexual assaults. Among the allies discussed in the article was none other than legendary hedge fund investor, and former Weinstein & Co. board member, Paul Tudor Jones.
But, unlike other Weinstein enablers who jumped ship when the tales of his monstrous behavior went public, Jones instead decided to pen an email expressing his support of the disgraced Hollywood executive saying "the good news is, this will go away sooner than you think and it will be forgotten!" just before signing "I love you."
Privately, at least one expressed loyalty. On Oct. 7, the day before he was ousted from his own company, Mr. Weinstein received an email from the investor Paul Tudor Jones.
“I love you,” he wrote, while detailing the steps Mr. Weinstein should take to rehabilitate his image. Mr. Jones told The Times that he condemned Mr. Weinstein’s alleged misconduct and wanted to encourage him to get help. “Focus on the future as America loves a great comeback story,” he wrote to the movie producer.
He finished: “The good news is, this will go away sooner than you think and it will be forgotten!”
Alas, in hindsight, Jones has seemingly now come to the conclusion that offering up his unwavering support for a man who has been exposed as an horrific sexual assaulter might have been a bad idea...though only after some backlash from the folks who work for him. Here's more from the Wall Street Journal:
Hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones took the unusual step of explaining his relationship with Harvey Weinstein, after a report indicated that Mr. Jones supported the disgraced Hollywood mogul as sexual harassment allegations unfolded earlier this year.
In a letter to employees Wednesday, Mr. Jones wrote: “Please also understand that I first learned about the revelations about Harvey only as they began to be reported in the media. They were 100% a surprise to me.”
Mr. Jones, 63 years old, referred to Mr. Weinstein’s actions as “horribly wrong” and described the entertainment executive as “a friend I believed too long and defended too long,” according to the letter, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
“Perhaps in your own life you have faced a similar dilemma—how to react to a friend who is revealed to be someone other than the person you believed him or her to be,” Mr. Jones wrote.
As you may recall, back in October Jones was the only Weinstein & Co. board member, aside from Harvey himself, who refused to sign a statement that ordered an independent investigation into allegations made against the firm's co-founder. Per Deadline:
A statement released by the TWC board earlier today said that the company has ordered an independent investigation into the allegations against its co-founder and co-chairman. While the members endorsed Weinstein’s “already-announced decision to take an indefinite leave of absence,” they stopped short of terminating the controversial co-chairman.
The statement was signed by four of the nine board members, “constituting a majority of the Board,” per the company — Bob Weinstein, Tarak Ben Ammar, Lance Maerov and Richard Koenigsberg. Of the other five, three have resigned. One of the remaining two, Paul Tudor Jones, opted not to sign the statement; the other is Harvey Weinstein.
Of course, Jones' argument that he was "100% surprised" by the allegations against Harvey would seem unlikely given that it has since been revealed that his transgressions were well known across Hollywood. Moreover, as a board member it would only seem logical that Jones would have had some knowledge of all the legal settlements his firm was constantly paying out to protect it's co-chairman. All of which begs the logical question of what dirt, if any, Harvey had on Jones that demanded such steadfast loyalty?
Dirtbag
he will go away sooner than he thinks
Paul Tudor Jones- sounds pretty WASP-y right? Nope, Tribe.
"Paul Tudor Jones- sounds pretty WASP-y right? Nope, Tribe."
Show your proof, or you are fake news.
"Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from Presbyterian Day School, an all-boys elementary school, before attending Memphis University School for high school. Jones then went on to the University of Virginia, earning an undergraduate degree in economics in 1976 as well as welterweight boxing championship."
Anoyone remember when he tried to get this video pulled from the internet because he said it revealed the secret to making money trading. Save you some time. History rhymes.
http://documentaryvine.com/video/trader-the-documentary/
yep- an amazing anecdote
Paul Tudor Jones sounds waspy, but his real name was Paul Tudor Jooooooooooooooooooooones.
I saw a Weisntein movie once. Does that make me a supporter?
come over and have some pizza and hot dogs
"This will go away soon. Take it from me. I know from personal experience the doj and fbi are weasels. They'll look the other way for enuff $$$$. You've always been a 'close' friend. I love you, Harvey."
~ Hillary
Just trying to butter up Weinstein for a movie part if Weinstein should manage a comeback.
Married Sonia Klein-1988.
Awkward .. !
His dad popped right up.Seems too old to be the son of the bass player 4 Led Zeppelin. Couldn't find shit on mom in 5-min search
Lot of New England Jews send their spawn to Catholic schools.
The schools are excellent and much cheaper than regular private schools.
So, someone going to a Christian school is absolutely not an indicator of not being Jewish.
With regard to this guy? I don't know not care. He's a dirtbag.
You don't get to be an oligarch or billionaire unless you have sold your soul to the Tribe.
Yeah,I was just gonna say something like that. (((Glen Larson))) (((Aaron Spelling))) (((Dave Barry))) ...some names just sound so fake waspish you automatically know they're tribe.Assume first,then double check.90+% right.
Yeah, there's always 1 or 2 of ((('em))) hanging upside down in the attic.
Dave Barry was the son of a minister
Let me guess...PTJ and HW are BOTH DUAL CITIZENS...?
It's hard to believe, but when Harvey was in his early 20's, he was a Playgirl Magazine centerfold:
https://teresashieldsparker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/13038474_s.jpg
https://vimeo.com/237144416
Lol baaa haa
He will go to Israel sooner than he thinks fify
For hypocrisy, Paul Tudor Jones has nothing on U.S. Senator Kristen Gillibrand, who is pushing for Senator Al Franken to resign while keeping silent about her father collecting a $100,000 legal fee from an upstate New York State cult that brands it young female members. If not for Catherine Oxenberg, whose daughter got entrapped by this sex cult, New York State AG Schneiderman's staff of incomptents and liars would have continued to ignore this bizarre cult. As would the lamestream New York reporters, stumblebums waiting for their layoff notices from their failing newspapers.
https://pagesix.com/2017/11/23/secretive-upstate-group-had-gillibrands-dad-on-payroll/
Nxivm — a secretive group headquartered in Albany — has had countless well-connected power brokers on its payroll, including the father of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
The lawmaker’s dad, Doug Rutnik, worked as an attorney for Nxivm for four months in 2004 at a rate of $25,000 per month.
“When he wanted to quit, he was falsely sued” on dubious grounds, said one source. “He ended up paying them back the $100,000 he’d been paid and signing a confidentiality agreement.”
Former members of N call it a cult and say its leader Keith Raniere, aka Vanguard, has a secret sorority of young, attractive women who are branded like cattle with his initials and forced to hand over nude photos as “collateral” in case they disobey him.
Rutnik was just one of several lobbyists and power brokers Nxivm has hired, including Roger Stone, Joe Bruno and Arkansas Judge Richard Mays.
People Magazine:
Jeff Truesdell
October 25, 2017 09:00 AM
Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg is desperately fighting to save her 26-year-old daughter, India, from a controversial group she alleges has “brainwashed” her oldest daughter.
In 2011, Oxenberg saw an opportunity to bond with her then 20-year-old daughter after she learned from a friend about a self-improvement program called Nxivm (pronounced NEX-I-um) and they decided to attend a meeting together.
remember when spitzer went after WS & was entraped?
one of the above names you've mentioned was resonsible for the takedown.
has a really funny shaped noggin.
who leaked this and why?
Great critical thinking skills. Should always be the first questions. As for this guy and his friend Weinstein, I am thinking that birds of a feather flock together. This leak was a warning for Tudor to pay up or the real leaks are going to come out.
Lol fucking fag
Has Weinstein sued George Lucas yet for making Jabba the Hut into such an extreme likeness?
"Who cares! Those whom Harvey assaulted or otherwise hurt were just the "little people." They're the crumbs of society...why would anyone care about them? We have MUCH too much power and influence, to be affected by something so trivial."
Nothing quite like watching a master of the universe trying to remove a used condom with holes in it...........
Losers email losers!
I just read this article, smoked some 420 and mid-way through realized this article is like a fucking tweet. WTF
I did not ... have sax ... with that Weinstein!
Billionares only support people who can make them even richer.
Isn't that right Kyle.
Sounds like they were having threesomes to me.
Weinstein is a genuine Ahole.
He may be a rapist.
He has lost a lot of friends.
One guy, Tudor Jones, sends Weinstein a private email, telling him to keep his head up and redeem himself.
So what's the big deal?
Does each and every person on the planet have to condemn the scumbag, Weinstein?
Does each and every person on the planet have to condemn the scumbag, Weinstein?
Yeah they do. Every fucking one. Including you.
Jones is whacked if thinks this is going away and Pervstein will be a comeback story.
There is a real estate advertisement on this post that shows a woman sitting on a couch reading to a mulatto abomination child. ZH, please try to stop this blatant advocacy of our white women miscegenating with nigger apes and producing half-breed abominations like Obamohammed.
You see Ads? one of the criteria for ZH is that you have to be smart enough to know what an Ad Blocker is. the Ads, keep out the riff raff.
Paul Tudor Jones accusers in 3, 2, 1....
I hate the term sloppy seconds, but Paul was gettin' somethin'.
Just breaks my heart to see these top caliber people of flawless character crap their own pants with stupid.
Here's America's future as a nation. It's too hard to explain. Michael & Ellen dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZO5q0B5wfw
Disgusting. Fucking shit!
Jones has been having a tough year trying to get things right. There was a story this past week abnout one of his funds not doing too well this year, with a resultant reduction in the money pledged for his Tuor companies to manage. Now this bad bet on Weinstein's future. When it rains it pours.
I have to say that as time passes, some of the anger aimed at Weinstein will begin to subside. Especially when the shock value of the stories subsides and people start to wonder about why adult women would be so stupid to go to a guy's hotel room alone with him. Especially a guy who had enormous power over the womens' careers and they knew that. Especially a guy that a lot of women had been warned about for having a voracious appetite for the favors of a casting couch or bed.
To believe that this is a Little Red Riding Hood falling prey to a wolf dressed in sheep's clothes strains credulity. I think the opposite is more likely, many of these women who now cry harassment or worse actually made a Faustian pact and now feel that they were not adequately rewarded for their offerings. He offered his honor and they honored his offer, and the rest of the night he was on her and off her. The problem is that he failed to deliver the goods for the long term, an outcome that even a producer cannot guarantee if the court of public opinion decides that the acrtress is not very good at her primary trade.
Don't get me wrong, there apparently were instances where Weinstein's behavior crossed the line to being criminal. An for that he deserves whatever punishment he earned. But the bottom line is that over time, public opinion will start to reverty away rom its total and complete condemnation of this character, and view him with less venom in the eye than he is looked upon today.
If that is what Jones had meant in his original note to Weinstein, then like most of his trades over his career, Tudor was correct.