Activist Rose McGowan Says Harvey Weinstein Bought Her Lawyers Off

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Rose McGowan recently blasted her ex lawyers, who are now representing her rapist Harvey Weinstein. She claims it was now all part of a plot that resulted in her pleading no contest to misdemeanor drug possession last week.

“This is a major conflict of interest but I knew there was shadiness going on behind the scenes,” she told The Daily Beast. “This is why my case didn’t go to trial — my instinct was my lawyers had been bought off. I thought Harvey would get to them behind the scenes and I wouldn’t have fair representation.”

As Page Six reports, it was previously announce that Weinstein hired Rose’s ex lawyers, Jose Baez and Ronald Sullivan, as part of a legal “dream team” to replace high-powered defense attorney Benjamin Brafman, who quit the case last week.

Rose claims that she “asked Jose Baez directly if he would ever work with Harvey and I told him it was my fear that he would be bought off while representing me.” Jose apparently responded, “I don’t like to lose.” 

Jose and Ronald represented the actress when she struck a no-jail plea bargain last week in Virginia, where she’d been charged with felony drug possession.