– Harvey Weinstein agreed to pay up to $1.3m to Black Cube, an Israeli intelligence firm, in his original October 2016 contract with the company
– The disgraced movie mogul hired the firm to spy on his perceived enemies, including fashion designer Kenneth Cole, his close friend and amfAR chairman
– The covert operation was known internally as ‚Operation Parachute‘
– Black Cube also investigated Thomas Ajamie, an attorney who had been hired by amfAR to examine a suspicious financial transaction involving Weinstein
– Ajamie said Weinstein‘s lawyers were ‚trying to harass‘ him and people who may have been working for private investigators showed up at his house and office
– Black Cube is run by former Israeli intelligence officers of Mossad, and Kroll, the biggest global corporate-intelligence firm
– One corporate intelligence agent posed as a woman‘s right activist to get actress Rose McGowan to discuss her claims and give her a draft of her memoir
– According to documents, Weinstein was fixated on the idea that he was the victim of a ‚negative campaign‘ orchestrated by his enemies