NEW YORK _ Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein threw tables of food over his employees during "volcanic" fits of rage and forced them to get him prostitutes and lie to his wife, unsealed court documents reveal.
Manhattan prosecutors compiled decades' worth of alleged abuses at the hands of the "Pulp Fiction" producer from dozens of interviews with former Weinstein staffers conducted over a two-year period.
"Most describe him similarly _ as a bright but vindictive, abusive individual who has destroyed much more than he has created in his years on this earth. He has repeatedly been characterized as a violent person who used his money and position to rape, brutalize and destroy others," a memo filed Jan. 18, 2018, states.
"He has a talent, which he does not hesitate to use, for manipulating, fooling and dodging responsibility for what he has done to others," the note continued.
One former employee of Weinstein's told authorities that he was "always behaving strangely _ erratic, always snapping at people, seemed sociopathic."
"He got a lot of joy by demeaning people," the woman claimed in court filings. "If you opened the door for him, he would turn and say, 'What the f--- are you looking at? Don't f---ing look at me.'"
The previously unreported details were included in more than 1,000 pages of documents unsealed Tuesday in advance of the 67-year-old's sentencing Wednesday.
Weinstein was convicted Feb. 24 of criminal sexual act and rape. He faces a maximum sentence of 29 years.
One man who worked for the former Tinseltown titan in 2007 said he was forced to get prostitutes for Weinstein, who would allegedly scream in his employees' faces at close range. Another person told investigators the producer stole his Social Security number in 1998 to apply for a second passport.
The 31st person prosecutors spoke with claimed he "was verbally abused by the defendant, who, at a morning meeting threw a table full of food on top of him" in the late 1980s.
In 2013, Weinstein threatened to physically hurt an employee and "made him get out of the car on the side of the road, and abandoned him while on a business trip outside of the United States," according to the memo.
An account provided to prosecutors by a woman who worked for Weinstein in London in the late 1990s detailed a disturbing encounter in which Weinstein allegedly tried to assault her while he was naked.
The woman was forced to defend herself using a pen, and claimed she, "jabbed (Weinstein) in the stomach to get him away from her."
