Catch and Kill

Résumé du livre

Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer to the New Yorker and the author of many meticulously documented accounts of wrongdoing in high places. His reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award. Farrow was previously an anchor and reporter for MSNBC and NBC News. Before taking up journalism, he served as a State Department official. Farrow is also the author of War on Peace, a 2018 study of American diplomacy.

In March 2015, Ambra Gutierrez, a Filipina-Italian model, reported to authorities that Harvey Weinstein had groped her, later capturing his confession on a wire. Despite this damning evidence, tabloid smear campaigns and legal maneuvering derailed the case, forcing Gutierrez into a settlement and NDA. Years later, she revealed the existence of the recording to Ronan Farrow, who documented Weinstein’s predatory behavior, including testimonies from other victims like Rose McGowan and Ally Canosa. Farrow’s investigation faced relentless obstruction from NBC executives, who dismissed the story’s significance and delayed its progress, ultimately leading him to publish it with *The New Yorker*. The exposé, which detailed Weinstein’s abuse and the complicity of powerful institutions, became a pivotal moment in exposing Hollywood’s culture of silence, sparking broader conversations about systemic misconduct and accountability.

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