Harvey Weinstein claims another victim: Jill Messick

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Rose McGowan's Ex-Manager Dies by Suicide—and Her Family Slams McGowan and Harvey Weinstein

Jill Messick, Rose McGowan’s former manager, died by suicide in Los Angeles on Wednesday. She was 50.

Messick was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had been battling depression in the years before her death, her family told The Hollywood Reporter. In an emotional statement, Messick’s family criticized McGowan and Harvey Weinstein for involving Messick in the controversy over McGowan’s allegations that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 1997.

Messick’s family says she was devastated after the movie mogul’s lawyer released an email in which Messick defended Weinstein.

“Jill was victimized by our new culture of unlimited information sharing and a willingness to accept statement as fact,” read the statement to THR. “The speed of disseminating information has carried mistruths about Jill as a person, which she was unable and unwilling to challenge. She became collateral damage in an already horrific story.”

The truth: Messick took action against Weinstein but McGowan never found out. So McGowan thought Messick did nothing, and so McGowan later came out about Weinstein and attacked Messick as well as Weinstein.

The only villain here is Weinstein. Everyone needs to turn their ire toward him and him alone.