New York (AFP)

The Harvey Weinstein affair, which triggered the #MeToo movement, has been much in the news. Two years later, two journalists from the New York Times, behind the first revelations, return on the complicities that allowed the fallen producer to rage for years, in a new book to be published Tuesday.

The two journalists, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who published the first revelations about the sexual predator behavior of the powerful author, published in Penguin Press, published in Penguin Press, published by Penguin Press in early October 2017. film producer, explain how they conducted the investigation and how Harvey Weinstein tried to impede it.

They return to several personalities who would have closed their eyes or facilitated the behavior of the producer, according to extracts published by the American press.

They also transcribe a 2015 letter from Harvey's brother, Bob Weinstein, in which he begged his brother to be treated for "misconduct" and reproached him for "shaming the family and the company", according to the New York Times.

Bob Weinstein explained to the authors that he went astray, having long thought that his brother was suffering from addiction to sex, and having given up reforming it.

The book also pinpoints two prominent women lawyers in their defense of victims of sexual assault, Gloria Allred and her daughter, Lisa Bloom.

The first one is implicated for having negotiated in 2004 an amicable agreement between Mr. Weinstein and an alleged victim, taking in passing 40% of the amount negotiated, according to the New York Times.

These agreements by which the accusers pledged not to disclose their allegations are one of the factors that allowed Harvey Weinstein to go on for years.

Lisa Bloom is pinned for having proposed to Harvey Weinstein to put his experience in the service of victims of sexual abuse to better harm his accusers. The Los Angeles lawyer has since said she "regrets" having represented the producer.

While Harvey Weinstein's highly anticipated trial has been postponed until January 2020, other books related to the #MeToo movement are expected soon, including a story by Ronan Farrow, the New Yorker journalist who helped reveal the scale of the Weinstein scandal, to be published in October at the publisher Little, Brown and Company.

Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow received the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 in the category of "public service journalism" for their investigations of Harvey Weinstein.

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