Harvey Weinstein Knocks Gwyneth Paltrow, Calls Accusations A ‘Complete Fabrication’

Harvey Weinstein dismissed his accusers and insisted on his innocence in a new jailhouse interview, calling his past behavior “immoral” but not illegal.

Speaking with right-wing commentator Candace Owens in a conversation she partially released on YouTube Tuesday, the disgraced producer, who is currently being retried for rape in New York, repeated his claim that he was “wrongfully convicted,” while admitting to making “mistakes” in his transactional relationships with women in the film industry.

Addressing Gwyneth Paltrow’s accusations that he came on to her after casting her in 1996’s “Emma,” Weinstein said, “It’s a complete fabrication, you know, about my relationship with Gwyneth. I didn’t put my hands on her. I didn’t touch her.”

Paltrow told The New York Times in 2017 that, two decades earlier, Weinstein invited her to his room at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, touched her, and suggested she let him give her a massage.

Weinstein acknowledged he “made a pass” at her during what began as a business meeting.

“As I was walking out the door, I said, ‘I’d love you to give me a massage.’ And that was it. I didn’t put my hand on her. I didn’t touch her. I definitely made a pass… but that was the sum total of that situation.”

Weinstein confirmed that Brad Pitt, who was dating Paltrow at the time, confronted him afterward. “She did have Brad call me, and Brad, very manly, very cool, just said, ‘Don’t do that again.’ And that was that.”

Representatives for Paltrow did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Weinstein also took issue with Paltrow portraying herself as a vulnerable young star, describing the daughter of producer Bruce Paltrow and actor Blythe Danner as someone who didn’t need his help to succeed in Hollywood.

“She’s the daughter of a wealthy TV producer, a great man, and Blythe Danner, a great actress, with Steven Spielberg as her godfather,” he said. “She didn’t need me to succeed. She could have just said, ‘Harvey asked me for a massage. I’m never working with him again.’”

Calling their 11-movie run together a “great partnership,” he denied Paltrow’s claims that the dynamic was “abusive.”

“Anybody who was there, who witnessed that relationship, it just turned into total friends,” Weinstein said. “There’s pictures of her hugging me when I was sick and in the hospital and didn’t think I was gonna make it in 1999.”

“Gwyneth, at the Golden Globes, said, ‘Bomber, we miss you.’ She got up and made a speech about me,” he said. “Nobody asked her to do that. In her Academy speech, she thanks me.”

Weinstein also addressed rape allegations from actor Rose McGowan, claiming their 1997 encounter at the Sundance Film Festival was consensual and that he only paid her $100,000 to hide his infidelity from his wife.

“I settled with Rose McGowan,” he told Owens. “I gave her $100,000, you know, to say…just don’t tell my wife, don’t get me in trouble.”