Another planet with no women, where money means nothing, orbiting the sun at a distance that’s either uncomfortably hot or causes a perpetual state of shivering. That’s where you might expect disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein currently resides.
But he doesn’t.
Not unless the “other planet” means a luxury sex rehabilitation clinic in Arizona that costs AU$74,000 for 45 days (money must mean something, on that planet) and where patients can languish on deck chairs by the pool and in cabins surrounded by cacti.
At least there’s no women. It’s a men-only clinic offering its services to the likes of Weinstein, 65, who has been accused by more than 60 women of sexual assault and, in some cases, rape.
His habit of extreme sexual exploitation was made public in October last year and triggered a waterfall of allegations against powerful men across a range of industries. It’s a reckoning that has changed Hollywood, and seen a worldwide surgence of women standing up to their abusers.
But the world of Weinstein’s continues, The New York Times reports. And, in it, he moves between his home in New York’s West Village, his Tudor cottage in California, and the 38-acre sex rehabilitation clinic in Arizona.
“Patients wake up at 6:30 a.m. and begin the day with meditation,” the expose reads. “Breakfast (organic, farm-raised) starts at 7:15.”
There are trauma therapists, dietitians, psychologists, psychiatrists and other clinicians all there to help patients understand their behaviour. It’s a “rigorous” program, according to the Times, and is nicknamed the ‘Brutal Path’.
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For heaven's sake. The man is wealthy. What do you expect? For him to wear rags and to crawl around on his hands and knees? Melodramatic outrage at the fact a wealthy person is afforded a luxurious life adds nothing to this narrative.
$15 million divorce settlement - is that all? He's worth so much more than that... I am surprised.