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She Said: an inside look at the story that brought down Harvey Weinstein

Journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor spoke to the Guardian about their sprawling investigation into Weinstein’s alleged sexual predation as detailed in their new book
Journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. The reporters wrote an exposé on Harvey Weinstein that fueled the #MeToo movement. Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images

On Wednesday, 4 October 2017, the New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor were finalizing their exposé of sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the now-disgraced movie producer, when they received a disorienting call: Weinstein, from whom they were expecting a final statement after months of intense investigative work, was approaching the building.

In minutes, he’d be on their doorstep with a small army of powerful supporters in tow – including the feminist lawyer Lisa Bloom and the former sex crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein – in a last-ditch effort to kill their story. After months of on-record only communication, would they take the meeting?

The fittingly cinematic episode is one of many explosive revelations in She Said, Twohey and Kantor’s book detailing their sprawling investigation into Weinstein’s alleged sexual predation –

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