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Apparently Harvey Weinstein isn’t just a sexual predator, he’s also a man who holds a grudge and keeps tabs on his victims.

Ronan Farrow, who broke the scandal, says Weinstein paid a security firm full of ex-Mossad agents to keep tabs on the women Weinstein raped and abused. In fact, these “agents” even went so far as to directly contact Weinstein’s victims, using false identities and making sympathetic cover stories, or posing as film producers or investors, or even journalists.  But was it to keep track of the women and keep them from talking or was it just another way for Weinstein to “get off” on his victims? Imagine how much he loved knowing where these women were and what they were doing all of the time.

In addition, Weinstein ALLEGEDLY kept a master list of more than 100 powerful people that he feared might discover the depths of his depravity and take the stories public. Harvey used this list as part of a strategy to prevent accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him. The list was distributed to a team hired by Weinstein to suppress claims that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women.

Individuals named on the list were to be targeted by investigators who would covertly extract and accumulate information from those who might know of claims or who might come forward with allegations against the film producer. Feedback was then to be relayed to Weinstein and his lawyers.

Among those named were the actress Rose McGowan who accused Weinstein of raping her. Another was Laura Madden who claims Weinstein pestered her for massages at hotels in Dublin and London as far back as McGowan and Madden were among the first to speak out against Weinstein.

More than 50 of the names have been colored red to highlight those who should be prioritized by investigators as individuals Weinstein wanted to target. The names of the actresses McGowan and Madden are colored red.

Also on the list are names of victims who have already come out and told their stories, like Annabella Sciorra and Katherine Kendall, and Lauren O’Connor, who wrote the now-infamous memo for The Weinstein Company, describing Weinstein’s predatory behavior and the potential liability for the company.

Harvey may have thought he was outsmarting his victims, but if he kept tabs, on paper, of all the women he harassed, abused, assaulted or raped, that’s clearly an admission of guilt, eh?

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I guess with all these new allegations of sexual assault-harassment-abuse coming out daily, some folks try to get ahead of the story … eh, Seacrest?

Variety claims that Ryan Seacrest didn’t want to wait for E! to find out if an ALLEGED impending sexual harassment claim against him is valid or not, because he’s already apologizing for it … sort of.

Variety says that there was an “incident” involving Ryan and a stylist who worked at E! News that occurred about ten years ago though there are no details as yet … like, you know, was it a male stylist … but he still released a statement:

“Recently, someone that worked as a wardrobe stylist for me nearly a decade ago at E! News, came forward with a complaint suggesting I behaved inappropriately toward her. If I made her feel anything but respected, I am truly sorry. I dispute these reckless allegations and I plan to cooperate with any corporate inquiries that may result.”

So wait, no stylist has come forward, no one has uttered a sound, and yet Ryan Seacrest released a public statement apologizing for something no one has said he’s done because he wouldn’t do that?

Methinks there might be more to the story …

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Also on the sexual assault front, Jeffrey Tambor, who plays transgender women Maura Pfefferman on Transparent, has now up and quit the program entirely after several women accused him of harassing and assaulting them while working on the show.

Tambor’s ex-assistant, Van Barnes, a transgender woman, took her complaints to Amazon, who produce the show, and that triggered an internal investigation after which Tambor issued a statement saying it was all lies and misunderstandings.

But then transgender actress Trace Lysette came forward, saying that Tambor harassed her and groped her and Tambor issued another statement about lies and misunderstandings, but maybe that was just smoke.

Rumor has it that producers were looking for a way to write Tambor, their lead character, out of the show and apparently that’s what’s happening because Tambor quit:

“Playing Maura Pfefferman on ‘Transparent’ has been one of the greatest privileges and creative experiences of my life. What has become clear over the past weeks, however, is that this is no longer the job I signed up for four years ago. I’ve already made clear my deep regret if any action of mine was ever misinterpreted by anyone as being aggressive, but the idea that I would deliberately harass anyone is simply and utterly untrue. Given the politicized atmosphere that seems to have afflicted our set, I don’t see how I can return to ‘Transparent.’”

Wait, so you regret your actions but you did nothing wrong? You don’t quit a show if you’re being falsely accused of sexual harassment, you quit because you know a sh*t-storm is brewing and you want to get out of the way as fast as you can so none of it lands on you.

Too late; sorry, not sorry you’re gone.

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Tori “The Poorest Rich Girl In The World” Spelling and her Dean “Deadbeat Dad” McDermott do everything together, even appearing in court!

While McDermott is facing a contempt of court charge related to unpaid child support, a judge has demanded that Tori Spelling appear in his court and “bring all information on her assets because she blew off paying a $220,000 judgment she owes.”

These wacky kids; they keep having babies and then trying to skip out on their bills. So the judge wants Spelling in court to give a full accounting of her financial situation and to “also make it clear if Tori blows off the hearing, she faces an arrest for contempt of court.”

I see a new reality show: Tori and Dean in the Big House: Contempt of Court.

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Katy Perry desperately wants to live in the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary convent in Los Angeles and has been working hard to buy it from the nuns who own it, but the nuns don’t want their sacred spot soiled by the likes of a pop tart and so they’ve been fighting the sale for years.

Sisters, actual sisters not Catholic nun sisters, Rita Callanan and Catherine Rose Holzman sold their convent to a restaurateur Dana Hollister but they never cleared the sale with the LA Archbishop Jose H. Gomez so a judge voided the sale and ruled that Katy could buy the convent.

In addition the evil judge ruled that Dana Hollister should pay Katy $1.57 million for all the “exorbitant” legal costs and lawyer fees Katy has racked up while trying to buy the convent. The jury also decided Dana owes the Archdiocese $3.47 million for the same reason.

I don’t really think Katy Perry needs the money, but that three million for the Archdiocese will help defray some of the Church’s legal fees in all their child rape cases.

So, Katy gets a convent, and the Church gets to ease their financial burdens. Win? Win?

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Get ready for the profusion of stories about the best way to plan a wedding, dress for a wedding, the food to serve at a wedding, and the best guests to invite to a wedding because …

Gwyneth Paltrow is getting consciously coupled again.

But let’s take a moment, before she begs to revel in her happiness—which she’ll tell us is the best happiness anyone anywhere anytime ever has ever felt—to remember that Gwyneth and her husband-to-be, Brad Falchuk ... looking so happy up there ... clearly … okay, ALLEGEDLY … had an affair that blew up both of their marriages. But with Gwyneth’s spin, and the fact that Brad Falchuk’s wife wasn’t well-known, it all played out like that’s how love works … you get a job, on Glee in this case, bang the boss, and you each leave your spouses and profess your love for one another.

That’s the Paltrow way.

At any rate, the cheaters are getting married … gird your loins.

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