{"id":271272,"date":"2026-01-07T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271272\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:11:08","slug":"rose-mcgowan-says-harvey-weinstein-was-a-mafia-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/271272\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose McGowan says Harvey Weinstein was a \u2018mafia boss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charmed actress <strong>Rose McGowan<\/strong> has described the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as a \u201c<strong>mafia boss<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old actress and activist is known for starring in 1996\u2019s Scream, 1999\u2019s Jawbreaker and playing Paige Matthews in the hit fantasy drama series Charmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood star was also one of the first of more than 100 women to come forward and accuse the film producer of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTKnSdlgquo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking on the We Need To Talk podcast, McGowan said: \u201cThey calculated that he was thanked more times than God at the Oscars. Because he was their god.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like the mafia boss. He was big and giant and tough and I later would see men shake if he walked in the room, like adult men that were like power players. They would like start physically shaking, the terror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard for people to understand the level of control and power, even though he wasn\u2019t maybe making the most money out of anybody, there\u2019s something about his situation that had a lock and hold on people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he was a thug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot the mafia boss of the cool kind with a suit like the Marlon Brando Godfather type, but more like a street way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein was sentenced in 2023 to 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault in California.<\/p>\n<p>He has continually denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"960\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rose-mcgowan-says-harvey-weinstein-was-a-mafia-boss.jpg\" alt=\"Harvey Weinstein attends The Animal Ball at Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, in 2016\" data-title=\"Animal Ball \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"David Mirzoeff\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Harvey Weinstein in 2016 (David Mirzoeff\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>McGowan recalled the alleged assault happened during a meeting her manager had set up between herself and Weinstein while attending the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cEverything in hindsight, every detail leading up to that moment, I could see how orchestrated it was to get me into the position that I was in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really thought I was safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was actually on my way out. I was almost out. I saw the door and then it just kind of like got sideways, pulled into, like a room with a hot tub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next thing I know I have no clothes on and I\u2019m like, just like a statue. And I just froze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, McGowan said she was \u201cshort circuiting\u201d and became more \u201cdespondent and angry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charmed actress Rose McGowan has described the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as a \u201cmafia boss\u201d. 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