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tj444 -> RE: Pussies Grab Back! (11/1/2017 1:37:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
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ORIGINAL: Nnanji
I'm sure you're correct. In this case it was a tool of a powerful man used to further stifle a traumatized victim. I'd personally not believe it was binding if I sat on a jury with Weinstein claiming a contractual breach. The only power it had, in my opinion, is gone now that Weinstein hasn't the power to blackball her anymore.
I would suggest that such NDAs are illegal even, in as much as the may mention the instrument to which they are attached.
If I pay you $200 because I want you to kill some lying scumbag and you don't kill them, I can't sue you for the money because the contract is illegal.
Similarly, if the agreement by which I pay you $1,000,000 to not tell anyone I touched you in your "bad place" is in any way connected to the NDA that you have to sign get your $1,000,000, I would posit that the NDA is invalid, on its face.
No?
Anyway, my point was about the motivation behind one being willing to sign a NDA, in the first place. I wonder how altruistic their motives are, at that point?
Michael
She has said she didnt want to settle with him, but everyone around her, advising her to... she was young, only 23 or so, and she has a sexual harassment/assault lawyer telling her she cant win.. and her own manager, Ms Messick, pushed her to settle, then not long after her manager goes off to work for a company the rapist pig ran... sure looks like she was betrayed and sold out by her own manager!..
I expect that many of those around her and the other women he assaulted were actually looking out for themselves, not wanting to have a client that makes waves, and pushed these women into settling...
When someone runs into you with their car, no one has any problems suing, but rape is very different, its something that is hard to go public with, but in both cases, the harmed party should be compensated for the harm done to them, that still doesnt make it go away or necessarily compensate them fully...
"She said she told Ms. Messick, then of Addis-Wechsler & Associates, what had occurred. “She held me,” Ms. McGowan said. “She put her arms around me.”
But in the months to come, Ms. McGowan did not feel supported by her management team. She was referred to a lawyer specializing in sexual harassment and assault cases who, Ms. McGowan said, gave her the impression that filing a criminal charge was hopeless. “She was like, ‘You’re an actress, you’ve done a sex scene, you’re done,’” she recalled.
Anne Woodward, now a manager herself, was a young assistant in Ms. Messick’s office at the time, and was in on many of Ms. Messick’s calls. “I remember that Rose was extremely upset and did not want to settle,” Ms. Woodward said. “She wanted to fight.” No one around her, as Ms. Woodward recalls, supported that instinct. “It was an emotionally shocking way to see a woman being treated,” Ms. Woodward said. “That’s what stuck with me.”
Both Ms. Woodward and Ms. McGowan were shocked when, only a few months afterward, Ms. Messick accepted a job working as vice president for development at Miramax, then run by Mr. Weinstein. Ms. Messick did not respond to a request for comment."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/us/rose-mcgowan-harvey-weinstein.html
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