{"id":22255,"date":"2021-01-01T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=22255"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:29:14","slug":"zelda-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/zelda-perkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda Perkins: Paid to Keep Quiet About Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who is Zelda Perkins and what was her connection to Harvey Weinstein? Why did she keep silent about what was happening behind the closed doors of the Weinstein company?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelda Perkins is Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s former personal assistant who worked at his office in London. In 1988, she resigned from the company and attempted to sue Weinstein for sexual misconduct. However, her attorneys advised her against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about why Zelda Perkins never brought her accusations to court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Zelda Perkins<\/strong> on Harvey Weinstein<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelda Perins had worked for Weinstein in London in the late 1990s. In her interview with investigative reporter Ronan Farrow, she said that Weinstein\u2019s problematic behavior was clear from the start. She said that <strong>Weinstein would often appear naked around her and would try to pull her into bed when he summoned her for meetings at his hotel.<\/strong> Perkins was also wracked with guilt over her own complicity in Weinstein\u2019s crimes, claiming that she enabled his abuse of <em>other <\/em>women by acting as a \u201choneypot\u201d\u2014luring women into her boss\u2019 private quarters for liaisons which she <em>knew <\/em>would result in non-consensual sexual contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1998, Zelda Perkins hired an assistant of her own. She warned the female applicants about Weinstein\u2019s behavior and even rejected candidates that she deemed to be too attractive, in the hopes of minimizing the likelihood of abuse. She ultimately hired Rowena Chiu, a young graduate from the University of Oxford.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 1998, a tearful and shaken <strong>Chiu told Perkins that Weinstein had attempted to rape her in his hotel room at the Hotel Excelsior in Venice.<\/strong> Believing her employee, Perkins immediately confronted Weinstein, who furiously denied any wrongdoing. Outraged, Perkins and Chiu resigned from Miramax and notified their now-former employers that they would be pursuing legal action against Weinstein and the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The London-based attorneys hired by the two women, however, strongly advised their clients against bringing the matter to court and instead urged them to reach a settlement out of court. 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