Rose McGowan calls for entire Weinstein Company board to resign
Actress Rose McGowan wants the entire leadership of The Weinstein Company to quit over co-founder Harvey Weinstein‘s sex harassment scandal, according to a report Monday.
McGowan — who reportedly was paid $100,000 to drop a complaint against Weinstein in 1997 — issued the demand Sunday night, hours after he was fired, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I’m calling on the board to resign effective immediately,” McGowan said. The leadership includes Bob Weinstein, Harvey’s younger brother.
“And for other men to stop other men when they are being disgusting.”
The “Charmed” star also lashed out at what she called the movie industry’s “largely bro nature” and “‘Entourage’-like behavior.”
“Men in Hollywood need to change ASAP,” McGowan said.
“Hollywood’s power is dying because society has changed and grown, and yet Hollywood male behavior has not. It is so not a good look. In the way cooler than Hollywood world I live and work in, I am actually embarrassed to be associated with it.”
Last week, the New York Times reported that McGowan was one of at last eight young women whom Weinstein paid as much as $150,000 each to settle complaints about lewd behavior that included pressuring one assistant to give him a massage while he was naked.
A spokeswoman for The Weinstein Company didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
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