Harvey Weinstein Calls Gwyneth Paltrow’s Claims A ‘Fabrication’

Harvey Weinstein dismissed his accusers and insisted on his innocence in a new jailhouse interview, calling his past behavior “immoral” but not illegal.

Speaking with right-wing commentator Candace Owens in a conversation she partially released on YouTube Tuesday, the disgraced producer, who is currently being retried for rape in New York, repeated his claim that he was “wrongfully convicted,” while admitting to making “mistakes” in his transactional relationships with women in the film industry.

Addressing Gwyneth Paltrow’s accusations that he came on to her after casting her in 1996’s “Emma,” Weinstein said, “It’s a complete fabrication, you know, about my relationship with Gwyneth. I didn’t put my hands on her. I didn’t touch her.”

Paltrow told The New York Times in 2017 that, two decades earlier, Weinstein invited her to his room at the Peninsula Beverly Hills, touched her, and suggested she let him give her a massage.

Weinstein acknowledged he “made a pass” at her during what began as a business meeting.

“As I was walking out the door, I said, ‘I’d love you to give me a massage.’ And that was it. I didn’t put my hand on her. I didn’t touch her. I definitely made a pass… but that was the sum total of that situation.”

Weinstein confirmed that Brad Pitt, who was dating Paltrow at the time, confronted him afterward. “She did have Brad call me, and Brad, very manly, very cool, just said, ‘Don’t do that again.’ And that was that.”

Representatives for Paltrow did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Weinstein also took issue with Paltrow portraying herself as a vulnerable young star, describing the daughter of producer Bruce Paltrow and actor Blythe Danner as someone who didn’t need his help to succeed in Hollywood.

“She’s the daughter of a wealthy TV producer, a great man, and Blythe Danner, a great actress, with Steven Spielberg as her godfather,” he said. “She didn’t need me to succeed. She could have just said, ‘Harvey asked me for a massage. I’m never working with him again.’”