Rose McGowan Claims Gavin Newsom’s Wife Pressured Her To Keep Quiet About Harvey Weinstein
Actress and activist Rose McGowan stumped for Larry Elder on Sunday, claiming Gavin Newsom's wife pressured her to remain silent about Harvey Weinstein.
Rose McGowan endorses Larry Elder for governor: 'He's the better man'
Actress Rose McGowan endorsed California recall candidate Larry Elder for governor on Sunday, calling him the "better man" after she accused Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife of trying to silence her about Harvey Weinstein.
McGowan, a leading voice in the #MeToo movement, was one of the first women to publicly accuse Weinstein of sex crimes. Last week, she told BlazeTV host Dave Rubin that Jennifer Siebel Newsom reached out to her six months before the publication of a New York Times bombshell on Weinstein, seeking to buy her silence.
At a campaign event for Elder on Sunday, McGowan endorsed him as both "the better candidate" and "the better man." She said that she is no longer a "Hollywood Democrat," throwing her support behind Elder while acknowledging that they don't agree on every issue.
Elder welcomed the endorsement, criticizing the mainstream media for neglecting to scrutinize Newsom in light of McGowan's claims.
"This is all you guys would be talking about if the allegation were made about me or my significant other," Elder said.
In a Twitter thread published on Sept. 12, McGowan elaborated on her allegations, saying that in 2017 Siebel Newsom contacted her on behalf of Weinstein's lawyer, David Boies, telling her "David Boies wants to know what it would take to make you happy."
She posted what she says is an email from Siebel Newsom, in which the governor's wife allegedly admitted to contacting McGowan about Harvey Weinstein, but changes the word "happy" to "heal."
🧵The Newsom Weinstein Connection 🧵 PART 4 - After Weinstein was exposed publicly, Jennifer Siebel Newsom got into a… https://t.co/EURZ4TJpUW
— Rose✨McGowan (@rosemcgowan) 1631486799.0
A spokesman for Siebel Newsom told Newsweek the alleged email is a "complete fabrication" and has denied the allegations of trying to buy McGowan's silence on Weinstein.
"It's disappointing but not surprising to see political opponents launch these false attacks just days before the election. Their limited correspondence has been strictly as fellow survivors of sexual assault and in Jennifer's former capacity leading the Representation Project, an organization that fights limiting gender stereotypes and norms," the spokesman said.
Gov. Newsom, speaking to KTLA-TV, said the allegations were "extreme even by extreme standards."
"Those allegations are outrageous and false and says everything you need to know about [Elder's] campaign," Newsom said. He repeated his assertions that the recall election is "Republican-backed," a tactic he's employed to scare the state's strong majority of Democratic voters into showing up at the ballot on Tuesday to stave off an upset victory by Elder.
"Gavin Newsom has been able to switch this thing from a referendum on his behavior, his governance, into a 'Republican takeover,' as if that has anything to do with crime, as if that has anything to do with homelessness, as if that has anything to do with the outrageous cost of living," Elder said.
As KTLA observed, while at one point the election seemed close, it now appears that Newsom has successfully rallied Democrats to support him:
As of Friday, Newsom appears to be on track to stay in office, with more than 60% of likely voters saying they'll vote against the recall effort, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll cosponsored by the Los Angeles Times.
Newsom isn't letting up, however. Advertisements against the recall have featured prominent Democrats like U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former President Barack Obama, and Newsom has been joined by Warren, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Vice President Kamala Harris for rallies.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden is scheduled to join the governor in Long Beach for an anti-recall rally.
California voters on Tuesday will be asked two questions on the recall ballot. The first is whether Newsom should be recalled. If a majority of voters say "yes," then whoever has the most votes for the second question — who should replace him? — will become governor.
Rose McGowan claims Gavin Newsom's wife tried to get her to bury Harvey Weinstein allegations
Actress Rose McGowan accused Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, on Thursday of trying to bribe her into silence regarding allegations against convicted sexual predator Harvey Weinstein.
McGowan, who was among the first women to publicly accuse Weinstein of sexual crimes, told BlazeTV host Dave Rubin on Thursday that Newsom reached out to her six months before the publication of a New York Times exposé on Weinstein purportedly seeking to bury the story.
The Times article, which McGowan was involved in setting up, would precipitate the downfall of the disgraced former Hollywood mogul, who is now imprisoned for rape.
"She called me and she set up a meeting with me to meet her somewhere in Brentwood [California]," McGowan told Rubin. "And I actually went, and I got like very creeped out and I saw her sitting where I was supposed to meet her. And I looked at her and I turned around and went back into my car and drove away."
"She called me on behalf of a Theranos board member — longtime lawyer of Hillary and Bill Clinton and Weinstein — one David Boies," the actress claimed. "So this woman I don't know, some blonde lady with the last name Newsom, cold calls me and [says], 'David Boies wants to know what it would take to make you happy."
“David Boies wants to know what it would take to make you happy…”@rosemcgowan tells me that Gavin Newsom’s wife J… https://t.co/dpMAuaB0x9
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) 1631218107.0
Boies, chairman of the Boies Schiller Flexner law firm, represented Weinstein during his criminal trial. The New York Times reported in 2018 that it fired Boies' firm "after learning that he had been personally involved in an undercover operation to smear Mr. Weinstein's victims and deceive Times reporters."
TheBlaze reached out to Jennifer Seibel Newsom and David Boies for comment prior to the publication of this story, but has not yet received a response.
Interestingly, Newsom, who is a filmmaker and writer, published a column on the Huffington Post one day after the Times story broke expressing belief in the victims' claims and alleging her own inappropriate experience with Weinstein.
"Based on my years in the industry and unfortunately, my own personal experience with Harvey Weinstein, I can tell you that I believe every single word that was written in the extremely disturbing, but not all that shocking, New York Times piece published yesterday," she wrote.
"Not all that shocking because very similar things happened to me. I was naive, new to the industry, and didn't know how to deal with his aggressive advances ― work invitations with a friend late-night at The Toronto Film Festival, and later an invitation to meet with him about a role in The Peninsula Hotel, where staff were present and then all of a sudden disappeared like clockwork, leaving me alone with this extremely powerful and intimidating Hollywood legend."
In her interview with Rubin, McGowan did not specify what motive Newsom had for allegedly attempting to silence the allegations against Weinstein. It's peculiar that Newsom, who considers herself a victim of Weinstein, would want to bury allegations against him.
Actress Rose McGowan says Democratic voters are in a ‘deep cult.’ She’d know — she was raised in one.
Actress and activist Rose McGowan battered Democratic voters for being in what she says is a "deep cult."
McGowan, who was raised in a cult when she was just a child, denounced much of the Democratic Party during a Monday Fox News interview.
What are the details?
McGowan, who was instrumental in the #MeToo movement that shook Hollywood from its top executives all the way down, told "Fox News Primetime" host Tammy Bruce that she believes Democrats and their supporters are in a "deep cult" and don't even realize it.
"I am not here to make people feel bad about their political choices," she told Bruce. "But I am here to say that you might be in a cult, too, if you don't know the signs. And I do believe Democrats, most especially, are in a deep cult that they really don't know about and aren't really aware of."
McGowan also warned that Democrats "masquerade" as humanitarians despite being "against changing the world for the better."
"They're for a system that is for so few people and benefits so few, but they masquerade as the helpers — 'We would do this, the world would be perfect if only those Republicans would get out of the way,'" she added.
The 47-year-old actress, who was raised in the Children of God cult, said that her experience as a child and adolescent provided her insight into the minds of those people ensconced in cults and similar organizations.
"It gave me the ability to see the control and the propaganda machine, especially in the U.S., for what it is and how it harms people and how the left can harm people just as much as the right if they go very, very deep into it and ignore all other aspects of, kind of, reality in a way," she said.
She added, "If you are serving a master that is not serving you, you are in a cult."
McGowan said that she doesn't feel that Republicans or Republican voters are the same, because they are mainly up front about what they're for and what they're against.
The actress, who admitted to being a former Democratic voter, added, "My persecution and awakening from being a Democrat was so much about what I do and what I say now and so much about realizing how hardcore of a cult it is."
McGowan's advice to Americans? Open your eyes and free yourselves from party politics — especially Democratic party politics — and stop being controlled.
"What part of it is organic to you and what part has been implanted either by Hollywood, or the media, or your leaders?" she asked. "What part of it is truly yours? What's organic to you? And see what's the polyester and pull it out of your fabric. We have to examine what we believe and why."
"Look at your own belief systems and get free," she added.
Rose McGowan, Juanita Broaddrick, and Epstein accuser blast Kamala Harris for hosting women's empowerment event with Bill Clinton: 'Have you no soul?'
Rose McGowan, Juanita Broaddrick, Leslie Millwee, and an alleged Jeffrey Epstein victim ripped Vice President Kamala Harris for hosting a women's empowerment event with former President Bill Clinton, who has multiple allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct against him.
An upcoming event for the Clinton Global Initiative University in conjunction with Harris' alma mater, Howard University, will reportedly feature a "one-one-one conversation with President Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women, and empowering women and girls in the U.S. and around the world."
Virginia Giuffre, an alleged sex trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein, blasted Harris for attending the Clinton Foundation event with the former president.
Giuffre tweeted on Wednesday, "Wow!! She's asking Clinton how to empower women??? Wrong person, what she should be asking him is what the hell was Clinton doing on #Epstein island & private jets 27 TIMES!! #EnoughIsEnough."
Flight logs show that Clinton traveled with Jeffrey Epstein 26 times between 2001 and 2003 on the late convicted sexual predator's private jet nicknamed the "Lolita Express." Photos surfaced last August showing Clinton getting a massage from one of Epstein's alleged victims during a trip to Africa in 2002.
Rose McGowan shared Giuffre's tweet, and then slammed Vice President Harris for appearing with Clinton, who was a purported acquaintance with alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell, a former Epstein associate.
"This is obscene @KamalaHarris. You speaking with Bill Clinton about empowering women & girls is disgusting," McGowan wrote on Twitter. "Have you no soul? Have you no ethics? Ask him about being on an island of human trafficking victims 27 times. You are showing us exactly who you are."
Last August, McGowan lashed out at then-Sen. Harris (D-CA) for previously accepting donations from convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein. The actress-turned-activist also attacked Democrats for inviting Clinton to speak at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
This is obscene @KamalaHarris. You speaking with Bill Clinton about empowering women & girls is disgusting. Have yo… https://t.co/Go1xtSxHYt— Rose McGowan (@Rose McGowan)1616618552.0
McGowan included a screenshot of the Wikipedia entry titled "Bill Clinton sexual assault and misconduct allegations" in the tweet. The Wikipedia post included the sexual assault accusations against Clinton by Juanita Broaddrick, Leslie Millwee, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey.
Broaddrick was enraged that Clinton would be hosting a women's empowerment event, "Is this a f***ing joke? This pervert ........ who raped me....is going to talk about empowering women....with a woman who spread her legs for power."
Is this a fucking joke? This pervert ........ who raped me....is going to talk about empowering women....with a wo… https://t.co/efco3KPmfW— Juanita Broaddrick (@Juanita Broaddrick)1616554746.0
Broaddrick made a comparison to cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, "Inviting Bill Clinton to speak on Empowering women.... is like asking Jeffrey Dahmer to host a cooking class."
Inviting Bill Clinton to speak on Empowering women.... is like asking Jeffrey Dahmer to host a cooking class.— Juanita Broaddrick (@Juanita Broaddrick)1616608606.0
Broaddrick also retweeted a post that said, "I thought this was a joke. They're really having BILL CLINTON do a talk with Kamala Harris about the well-being and empowerment of women + girls. Did anyone ask Paula Jones (he settled her sexual harassment suit for nearly $1M), Juanita Broaddrick or Kathleen Willey for comment?"
Millwee told the Daily Caller, "And he is going to get up on a stage and tell us about how to be empowered? I truly can't think of anything more brazen. I think this goes to show you the political power that the Clintons still have."
"It's just such an upset upside-down world when you have a rapist and a sexual assaulter who is giving tips and information to try and help empower women," Millwee said. "I can't think of anything more ludicrous than that."
Clinton has denied the sexual assault allegations by all four women.
Clinton's spokesperson issued a statement to the Daily Mail that reads, "For 20 years under the direction of President Clinton, the Clinton Foundation has worked to empower girls and women around the world. The Clinton Global Initiative has launched thousands of commitments to improve lives: empowering more than 13 million girls and women through job and leadership training; improving maternal and child health care access for more than 114 million people; and increasing opportunity for women in STEM education and careers."
Rose McGowan backs Matthew McConaughey on hypocrisy from illiberal left elites: 'Hollywood has been condescending'
Actor Matthew McConaughey chastised people on the "illiberal left" for being condescending and patronizing toward conservatives in an interview last week. Rose McGowan completely agreed with McConaughey's assertion of far-left members being arrogant, including the Hollywood elite.
"There are a lot [of people] on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize, and are arrogant towards the other 50%," McConaughey told Russell Brand during an appearance on the "Under the Skin" podcast.
Early Thursday morning, McGowan voiced her support of the fellow actor's position on how leftists and "elite media liberals" are condescending.
"Matthew McConaughey is right. Hollywood has been condescending, northern elite media liberals, too & it trickles down," McGowan tweeted. "Far before Trump presidency illiberal condescension & patronization has formed how too many think. Break the class structure."
Matthew McConaughey is right. Hollywood has been condescending, northern elite media liberals, too & it trickles do… https://t.co/jmIkqxb6eT— Rose McGowan (@Rose McGowan)1607596148.0
The actress-turned-activist has become an outspoken critic of Hollywood, the elite, and Democrats in recent years.
In October, McGowan pointed out the hypocrisy of "liberal intellectuals" defending Jeffrey Toobin after the New Yorker reporter was allegedly caught masturbating on a work Zoom video call.
In August, the "Charmed" actress slammed Democrats for supporting Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as Joe Biden. She also called out Democrat Kamala Harris for previously accepting donations from convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
McGowan is currently suing Weinstein and his team of "fixers," but the actress hit a roadblock this week. McGowan filed a lawsuit against Weinstein in October 2019, "claiming they stole a pre-publication copy of her memoir 'Brave' in 2017 and tried to 'silence' and 'portray her as increasingly unglued' to thwart her rape allegation against the movie mogul," according to the New York Daily News.
"Harvey Weinstein was able to perpetrate and cover up decades of violence and control over women because he had a sophisticated team working on his behalf to systematically silence and discredit his victims," McGowan said in the lawsuit.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright rejected nine of her 11 claims, including racketeering. In the judge's ruling, McGowan still has plausible claims of fraudulent deceit and common law fraud against the defendants.
Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year sentence at Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, New York, after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault.
Rose McGowan comes out swinging against 'liberal intellectuals' defending Jeffrey Toobin's masturbation scandal
Actress and activist Rose McGowan — who was instrumental in bringing down embattled film producer Harvey Weinstein — blasted "liberal 'intellectuals'" defending reporter and CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Toobin was suspended from the New Yorker on Monday after reportedly being caught masturbating during a work-related Zoom video call.
Among those who seem to be defending Toobin is CNN cohort Brian Stelter, who complained that Toobin was "sidelined" during a pivotal time ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
What are the details?
In a scathing tweet, McGowan said that if a woman were caught in the same position that Toobin's co-workers reportedly discovered him, they would be "burned at the stake."
"Can you all imagine if a conservative woman was caught masturbating on an [sic] @zoom meeting like #MeToobin? If it had been a liberal woman? If it had been a WOC [woman of color]? ... [D]o you think there'd be liberal 'intellectuals' rising to defend her? She'd be burned at the stake," McGowan tweeted.
McGowan's tweet was in response to remarks from attorney and legal personality, The Young Turks' Adrienne Law.
Law wrote, "With #MeTooBin trending, I have a few thoughts: 1. Masturbating at work is neither normal nor acceptable — it's sexual harassment. 2. Individuals who engage in sexual harassment should suffer professional consequences. 3. These Toobin defenders are telling on themselves."
Can you all imagine if a conservative woman was caught masturbating on an @zoom meeting like #MeToobin? If it had… https://t.co/dXZVqVoDeB— Rose McGowan (@Rose McGowan)1603215809.0
'I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake'
Toobin, 60, apologized for the embarrassing gaffe, and said that he didn't realize he was visible — or audible — on Zoom.
He also announced a leave from CNN following the scandal.
"I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends, and co-workers," Toobin admitted. "I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video."
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