The Legacy of Harvey Weinstein

Jeremy Fassler
4 min readMar 11, 2020
Photograph courtesy of Reuters

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 consecutive years in prison today on two charges of sexual assault and rape, and the only words I can say to express my feelings are thank — fucking — God. This pathetic excuse for a human being got exactly what he deserved, and not a moment too soon. Today marks a victory for every women who spoke out about their abuse at his hands, every other woman he ever wronged, for every filmmaker he…

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.