Disney Chief Bob Iger on Harvey Weinstein Claims: "Abhorrent and Unacceptable"

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

Walt Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger has become the first chief of an entertainment conglomerate to speak out about Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul now engulfed in allegations of sexual harassment and rape.

"Harvey Weinstein’s reported behavior is abhorrent and unacceptable, and it has no place in our society," Iger said in a statement late Tuesday afternoon.

Iger's comments came hours after publication of separate reports in The New York Times and The New Yorker detailing numerous sexual assault and rape allegations.

The scandal engulfing Weinstein, who was fired as co-chairman of The Weinstein Co. on Sunday, first erupted last Thursday when the Times published an article leveling allegations of sexual harassment against the larger-than-life film titan.

Iger was former Disney chief Michael Eisner's No. 2 from 2000-2005, when Harvey and Bob Weinstein's Miramax was owned by Disney. The Weinsteins left Miramax in 2005 after an acrimonious split with Eisner over Michael Moore's political documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which Harvey Weinstein financed to the tune of $6 million without Eisner’s knowledge.

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