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Lisa Bloom #158458
License Status: Active
Address: 20700 Ventura Blvd Ste 301, Woodland Hills, CA
91364-6272
County: Los
Angeles County
Phone Number:
(818) 914-7397
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Available
Email: contact@thebloomfirm.com
Law School: Yale
Law School; New Haven CT
So famous lefty feminist
lawyer Lisa Bloom offered to plant stories to trash Harvey Weinstein's victims?
To get a whiff of just how corrupted and
hypocritical the blue establishment is, a new book from New York Times
reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor delivers the goods.
Their upcoming She Said details what they went through to report
the Harvey Weinstein story and focuses on the huge network of Weinstein
enablers (all of whom were, incidentally, on the Left). Probably the
worst character among them was Weinstein's famous feminist attorney, Lisa
Bloom, who up until that point, had been a much celebrated defender of sex
harassment victims, same as her mother, attorney Gloria Allred.
The Times review, by lefty feminist icon
Susan Faludi, is positive, as you might expect, and some of its analysis is
off, but nevertheless, it is well worth reading for its awful details about Bloom:
Kantor and
Twohey broke the Weinstein story. Their 3,300-word Times article on
Oct. 5, 2017, aired allegations against him that had been piling up as whispers
and rumors for 30 years. That report, and the ones to follow, were grounded in
scores of interviews with actresses and current and former employees,
supplemented by legal filings, corporate records and internal company
communications that documented a thick web of cover-ups, bullying tactics and
confidential settlements. It was bravura journalism.
"We watched
with astonishment as a dam wall broke," Kantor and Twohey write of the
response to that first article. A day after it was published, so many women
phoned The Times to report allegations of sexual harassment and assault against
Weinstein that the paper had to assign additional reporters to handle the calls.
But of course. When
establishment lefties go after other establishment lefties, you have a classic
Man Bites Dog story, and it's naturally going to draw attention.
Here's the lowdown on Bloom:
Maybe the most
appalling figure in this constellation of collaborators and enablers is Lisa Bloom, Allred's daughter. A
lawyer likewise known for winning sexual-harassment settlements with
nondisclosure agreements, Bloom was retained by Weinstein (who had also bought
the movie rights to her book). In a jaw-dropping memo to Weinstein, Bloom
itemized her game plan: Initiate "counterops online campaigns," place
articles in the press painting one of his accusers as a "pathological
liar," start a Weinstein Foundation "on gender equality" and
hire a "reputation management company" to suppress negative articles
on Google. Oh, and this gem: "You and I come out publicly in a pre-emptive
interview where you talk about evolving on women's issues, prompted by death of
your mother, Trump pussy grab tape and, maybe, nasty unfounded hurtful rumors
about you. … You should be the hero of the story, not the villain. This is very
doable."
So Lisa Bloom (as well as Lanny
Davis, Anita Dunn, and other left wing lawyers affiliated with the Clinton and
Obama years), who rushed to defend Weinstein, had a Fusion GPS–style operation
to trash Weinstein's accusers by
painting them as pathological liars and planting sick stories in the press to
do it. And there was a willing media corps that might have done it,
but Twohey's and Kantor's story (as well as Ronan Farrow's) was airtight.
Bloom sounded so confident and practiced
in her email — it inevitably raises questions about where she learned that sort
of thing. Could it be that what's been going on in politics has now
started to corrupt the legal profession? And "we'll just have
to win," as Bill Clinton famously said, is now the standard for even the
supposed idealists who defend sex harassment victims? And easily
convert that kind of legal practice into a defense of their
predators? Just astonishing what the Left is willing to do, if the
reporting is correct.
After that, she went on to get her name in
the news on other dear-to-lefties matters, such as advocating on Twitter, at
least, for now-exposed-as-politically-motivated Christine Blasey Ford. The
lefties clapped.
Here's another problem: Bloom sat on the
board of Weinstein's film company and might have (according to more than one source) wanted Weinstein to
make it "rain" for her by converting her book on the Trayvon Martin
case into a miniseries, meaning big bucks
for her, according to the book. If so, all about the
money? One wonders how many so-called public interest lawyers on the
left might be as susceptible to such a venal thing. Bloom in the end
said she made a "mistake" in representing
Weinstein for $895-an-hour legal work, according to the book, but it sounds
more as though she got caught.
Faludi goes off the rails in her analysis
when she claims the #MeToo movement started not with Weinstein, but with Donald
Trump.
[Kantor and
Twohey's] series of articles in many ways ignited the #MeToo movement, already
smoldering in the atmosphere of frustration after reports of Donald Trump's
alleged sexual predations (a story that Twohey broke with another
reporter) and the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape failed
to slow the reality star's march to the White House.
It's always about pinning the pervert on
Trump, isn't it? Happened with Jeffrey Epstein, now happening with Harvey
Weinstein, a longtime Democrat donor.
Actually, Trump has been accused of bad
behavior all right, but Faludi's original argument, that a vast network of
leftist establishmentarians protecting the likes of Weinstein is how the whole
thing was very different. Trump never had a network of anyone protecting him
the way Weinstein (and for that matter, Clinton's other good buddy, Jeffrey
Epstein) did. Lanny Davis, a Clinton-affiliated
lawyer, was busy defending Weinstein, and he also defended Clinton from
news reports of his associations with Epstein. Anita Dunn, the Obama advisor who had
a Mao poster on her wall, served as
an unpaid "advisor" to Weinstein to protect him, too.
Were Weinstein's and Epstein's donations
to Democrat causes what was going on? We know about the mini-series potential
deal. But why otherwise prominent Democrats and leftists would leap forward to
protect Weinstein -- including even to the point of using Fusion-GPS style
smear and plant tactics with a willing press, points to a potential
campaign donation nexus, too.
The bottom line here is that Bloom's case
and all the others likely cited is an unintentional indictment of the leftist
establishment and its astonishing unscrupulousness. It underlines
what Lindsey Graham said during the left's Bret Kavanaugh
attack: 'Y'all want power and I sure hope you never get it."
Hat
tip: Roger Luchs, via Conservative Daily News.
Image
credit: RavenQuoth via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rose McGowan Calls for Harvey Weinstein’s Former Lawyer Lisa Bloom to be Disbarred
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Actress and #MeToo activist Rose McGowan has called for Harvey Weinstein’s former attorney Lisa Bloom to be disbarred, following revelations that Bloom — a self-described defender of women and the daughter of lawyer Gloria Allred — sought to discredit McGowan and other actresses who have accused the movie mogul of sexual harassment and assault.
She Said, a new book from the New York Times reporters who broke the Weinstein scandal, reportedly reveals that Bloom tried to discredit McGowan by offering to place articles in media outlets that would portray the Grindhouse actress as unstable.
“I feel equipped to help you handle the Roses of the world because I have represented so many of them,” Bloom wrote in a memo to Weinstein that is excerpted in the book.
“We can place an article re her becoming increasingly unglued, so that when someone Googles her this is what pops up and she’s discredited.”
McGown responded Sunday with a call for Bloom to be disbarred.
“The evil that was perpetrated on me and others was mind bending and illegal. Lisa Bloom should be disbarred,” McGowan wrote on Twitter.
The evil that was perpetrated on me and others was mind bending and illegal. Lisa Bloom should be disbarred @yashar twitter.com/yashar/status/ …
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According to the new book, Bloom and Weinstein visited the New York Times the day before the initial article was published in 2017. In that meeting, they sought to discredit actress Ashley Judd and several other accusers as mentally unstable.
Judd has accused Weinstein of sexual harassment and is currently suing him for defamation, alleging that he tried to ruin her career when she rejected his advances.
In another memo excerpted in the book, Bloom told Weinstein: “You should be the hero of the story, not the villain. This is very doable.”
Bloom issued an apology on Sunday but didn’t mention McGowan by name.
“While painful, I learn so much more from my mistakes than my successes. To those who missed my 2017 apology, and especially to the women: I am sorry. Here are the changes I’ve made to ensure that I will not make that mistake again,” she wrote on Twitter.
While painful, I learn so much more from my mistakes than my successes.
To those who missed my 2017 apology, and especially to the women: I am sorry.
Here are the changes I've made to ensure that I will not make that mistake again.
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Bloom resigned from Weinstein’s team in October 2017.
Like her more famous mother, Bloom has promoted herself as a defender of women, representing victims of harassment and assault.
But her public image as a feminist crusader has collapsed as she has become engulfed in high-profile scandals.
The Daily Beast reported in 2017 that Bloom was prepared to leak files about McGowan’s sexual history to journalist Ronan Farrow.
The Hill reported that Bloom, who represented two of the women who made sexual harassment allegations against President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, sought payoffs as high as six figures for her clients.
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