When Houston lawyer Tom Ajamie got a call in 2016 from board members of the Foundation for Aids Research (amfAR) asking him to perform an internal investigation into a questionable financial transaction involving Weinstein it was just another day, another missing dollar — or so he thought.
After Mr Ajamie's months-long report was concluded, he had a face-to-face encounter with Weinstein at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in 2017.
“He began screaming at me, ‘You’re telling everyone I rape women. You’re causing problems for me. I have a very good reputation. And you’re the source of all these rumours’,” Mr Ajamie said. "‘I slept with dozens and dozens of women, and you know they all won Academy Awards’, like that justified it.”
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Mr Ajamie said that after that encounter, he was under siege and alone for about a year.
“Literally alone, like no one else, like, no one was supporting me,” he said.
Meanwhile, two New York Times reporters, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, had not only gotten wind of Mr Ajamie's investigation, but of the multiple allegations of Weinstein's sexual misconduct. They reached out to Mr Ajamie in what is now a historic phone call.