California Governor and #MeToo champion Gavin Newsom accepted an expensive bottle of wine from the lawyer hired to represent Harvey Weinstein and dig up dirt on the women who accused him of sexual assault.
Democratic superlawyer David Boies gave Newsom the $300 bottle of wine weeks after Boies led a smear campaign against Weinstein's accusers, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Boies helps run prestigious law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, which has also hit the headlines this weekend over a raft of staff departures linked to its work with Weinstein, Theranos founder Elizabeth Smart, and claims of nepotism linked to co-founder Jonathan Schiller's two sons. The firm has denied claims of impropriety.
While others cut ties with Boies because of his work with the disgraced Hollywood producer, Newsom accepted the pricey gift on December 8, 2017, more than a month after reports revealed the lawyer worked to discredit Weinstein's alleged victims.
The gift is set to reignite accusations that Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, helped Boies try to squash negative stories about Weinstein.
California Governor and #MeToo champion Gavin Newsom (left) accepted a $300 bottle of wine as a gift from Democratic superlawyer hired to represent Harvey Weinstein, David Boies (right), weeks after reports that the lawyer worked to discredit Weinstein's alleged victims
David Boies (pictured right with Harvey Weinstein in 2002) was hired to represent the disgraced Hollywood producer and dig up dirt on the women who accused him of sexual assault
The gift will surely fuel accusations that Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom (right), helped Boies try to squash negative stories about Weinstein
Meanwhile, in the closing days of Newsom's recall election - which ends on Tuesday - actress Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein's alleged assault victims, told Dave Rubin on his show The Rubin Report that Newsom's wife Jennifer called her back in 2017 to try and broker a deal between her and Boies to make the story go away.
'This is about six months before the New York Times article on Weinstein that I set up broke,' McGowan told Rubin.
Weinstein is pictured in 2016, the year before he was brought down by the #MeToo scandal and faced 11 additional sex crimes while already serving 23 years in New York
She added: 'And she called me on behalf of a Theranos board member... long-time lawyer of Hillary and Bill Clinton and Weinstein, one David Boies. So this woman... some blonde lady with the last name of Newsom, cold calls me and is like, "David Boies wants to know what it would take to make you happy."
'I don't know if it would be fiscal numeration. I don't know. Absolutely nothing would make me happy.'
Despite McGowan's allegations, Jennifer herself accused Weinstein of behaving inappropriately with her at a film festival years before
