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Weinstein Ally Hires Big Firms, Tries Prior Censorship

October 17, 2019

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Dylan Howard, a former National Enquirer editor who allegedly dug up opposition research on actress Rose McGowan on behalf of her accused rapist, Harvey Weinstein, has hired law firms on three continents in an effort to suppress publication of journalist Ronan Farrow’s exposé Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators. The firm’s are New York’s Kravet & Vogel, Sydney-based McLachlan Thorpe Partners and the London-based Tweed law firm. Farrow’s book is scheduled for publication on Oct. 15. “We have been consulted by Dylan Howard in relation to false and defamatory allegations, which he has been advised and has reason to believe will be included in the above-named book,” the Tweed firm wrote to Hive Store Limited, one of the targeted booksellers. “You are now on notice under UK and Irish defamation laws of the potential defamatory content within the said book.” A well-known litigator told The Daily Beast that First Amendment protections and judicial precedent likely doom the suit in the U.S., but it could succeed in Britain, Ireland, and Australia.

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