But asides making movies that went on to win countless Oscars and receiving more than 300 Oscar nominations in his career as a movie producer, Weinstein had turned his power and influence into a bargaining tool with the lives of young women who were eager for the big screen.

Sometimes out of pure force, or by the sheer theory of influence, power and manipulation, Weinstein had his way with these women.

Sadly, for more than a decade, acts like Weinstein’s had been ingrained into the fabric of Hollywood and was so much of a culture that those who knew turned the other way either out of fear for the sustainability of their careers or in the very Nigerian way that we like to ‘mind our own business’.

Farrow had launched an investigation that lasted for ten months, tracking down women who had worked at any of Weinstein’s production companies and actresses he had had encounters with at that time. A lot of them were willing to talk, some anonymously due to various legal backings that Weinstein possessed, some of them very brutally sturdy.

With an ongoing trial on former TV-sitcom ‘sweetheart’, Bill Cosby for the same reasons, some of the women felt justified that maybe Weinstein’s cup would finally get filled up enough with the strength of their narratives and will have no choice but to run over.

They were right.

It became a roller coaster downward spiral for the movie producer and a host of other ‘powerful’ men in Hollywood, in the US and UK in general, who had assumed that power and masculinity included objectifying women to sexual items and using either their desperation for fame or their weakness to fight sexual predators-cum-potential-life-changers off to their advantage.

Shortly after tons of these women had come out and more names were blacklisted in this sexual predator list, women started a #MeToo campaign on Twitter.


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