【Busty Coeds vs Lusty Cheerleaders (2011)】

Matt Damon,Busty Coeds vs Lusty Cheerleaders (2011) who launched his career with Harvey Weinstein, continues to answer questions about exactly what he knew about the producer's decades of alleged sexual assaults — and when.

Damon admitted in an interview with Good Morning America's Michael Strahan that he knew of at least one instance all the way back in the '90s, when 22-year-old Gwyneth Paltrow worked with Weinstein on her career-launching role in Emma:

I knew the story about Gwyneth from Ben because he was with her after Brad and so I knew that story. But I was working with Gwyneth with Harvey on "Ripley." ....I knew they came to whatever agreement or understanding she had handled it and she was, you know, the first lady of Miramax and he treated her incredibly respectfully. Always.

This admission appears to contradict a statement Damon made seconds earlier. While claiming that he knew Weinstein was a proud womanizer and "asshole," he continues to allege that, "this level of criminal sexual predation is not something I ever thought was going on. Absolutelynot."

As reported by The New York Times, Paltrow alleges that Weinstein groped her and requested a massage after a business meeting. She refused, later telling then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident. Pitt confronted the producer, and Weinstein responded by calling Paltrow to berate her and forbid her from speaking to anyone else about the harassment.

“He screamed at me for a long time,” she said. “It was brutal.”

The still up-and-coming actress worried she would be fired. She continued to work on films with the powerful producer, eventually becoming known as the “first lady of Miramax” and winning an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love.

Like most of Weinstein's victims, she felt pressured to keep up appearances as Weinstein's golden girl. "I was expected to keep the secret.”

The account makes claims like Damon's, which shrink away from personal responsibility for complicit behavior, a little hard to swallow. Parroting many others close to Weinstein, the actor claims that knowing the powerful producer was "intimidating" and a "bully" — and known for making serial advances on actresses in the industry — wasn't enough to clue him in to how Weinstein was abusing his power.

"That was his legend," Damon said in the interview. "That was his whole kind of M.O. Like could you survive a meeting with Harvey? Could you survive — could you stand up for yourself with Harvey?"

The question of whether or not one could survive a meeting with Weinstein — and its apparent acceptance as his known "M.O." — sound ever the more chilling as more and more women come forward with their stories.

"He didn't do it out in the open," Damon said.

But the question remains: Does a powerful man who you know committed at least one instance of sexual harassment (and silenced the woman) need to carry out more such acts "out in the open" before we admit to knowing he's a sexual predator?