Authors Twohey and Kantor to discuss Weinstein scandal with key sources at Bloomsbury event

The three British women who were pivotal to helping journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break the Weinstein story will join the reporters on stage for an exclusive book event. 

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Twohey and Kantor was published by Bloomsbury in September, telling the story of how the two journalists exposed decades of alleged sexual misconduct by producer Harvey Weinstein. He has denied the allegations. 

While many of the women who went on the record for Kantor and Twohey were Hollywood stars, these three accusers – Weinstein’s former assistants Rowena Chiu and Zelda Perkins alongside former Miramax productive executive Laura Madden - gave up their anonymity in order to pursue justice, said Bloomsbury. 

The three women, who have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct, will join the Bloomsbury authors on stage at the Emmanuel Centre at the book talk in conjunction with Intelligence Squared and the New York Times on Tuesday 29th October. 

Publishing director Alexis Kirschbaum said: “We are thrilled to welcome Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey to the UK to promote their bestselling book She Said, hailed by the Washington Post as ‘All the Presidents Men‘ for the #metoo era’. Kantor and Twohey won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal, which changed conversations around sexual harassment and sexual abuse in our time. The event will be particularly poignant because for the first time we will hear Kantor and Twohey in discussion with three of their key sources. For the first time they will be telling the story of how central the UK was to the Weinstein story— both in terms of the alleged predation and the investigation that brought everything to light in this era-defining investigation.”