Did actress Gwyneth Paltrow 'stab' Harvey Weinstein in the back with sexual harassment claims? Actor says from jail 'She told Brad Pitt...'

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein returned to court earlier this year in January, seeking to get his latest sex crime conviction thrown out because anger and apprehensions flared among jurors during deliberations last spring.

It’s the latest convoluted turn in the former Hollywood honcho’s path through the criminal justice system. His landmark #MeToo-era case has spanned seven years, trials in two states, a reversal in one and a retrial that came to a messy end in New York last year. Weinstein was convicted of forcing oral sex on one woman, acquitted of forcibly performing oral sex on another, and the jury didn’t decide on a rape charge involving a third woman — a charge prosecutors vowed to retry yet again.

The Gwyneth Paltrow angle

Weinstein claims he was stabbed in the back by the actress as she went public with her claims. Giving an interview from jail, the Hollywood veteran said, “I don’t know what drove (Paltrow) to do what she did. To make such a big deal over nothing. I walked out of a nice meeting with her and said, ‘How about a massage?’ And she just went, ‘No, I don’t think so’. I got the message. I never put my hands on her.”

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Weinstein added, “She told Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt came to me and said, ‘Don’t do anything like that with my girl’. I said, ‘Don’t worry, Brad. I got it’. But then Gwyneth goes on Howard Stern and The New York Times and makes a big deal about it all. She knows that nothing happened. But this person who was a friend, who owes her career to me, just stabs me in the back. She wanted to be part of the crowd. I won’t forgive her for that.”

Weinstein, 73, has denied all the charges. They were one outgrowth of a stack of sexual harassment and sex assault allegations against him that emerged publicly in 2017 and ensuing years, fueling the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct. Early on, Weinstein apologized for “the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past,” while also denying that he ever had non-consensual sex.