Harvey Weinstein can’t be too happy with the New York Times’ T magazine for printing a story after the movie mogul flatly denied it happened.
According to the article on Gstaad, Switzerland — where old-money aristocrats are bemoaning the influx of jewelers and Russian kleptocrats — Weinstein, wed to fashionista Georgina Chapman, violated the dress code at the venerable Palace Hotel, where “a sign banning all manner of casual attire is posted outside the Palace’s revolving door in the evenings.”
“When the hotel’s uncharacteristically young, low-key owner and general manager, Andrea Scherz, spotted new-to-town Harvey Weinstein in the Grill downstairs, tails out, undershirt visible, he initially thought ‘a waiter had gone crazy and was quitting,’” Phoebe Eaton reports.
“Weinstein was asked to please rethink the outfit in his room upstairs. (Through a spokesperson, Weinstein says the incident didn’t happen.)”
Scherz informed me Monday: “The anecdote is very amusing, but this incident never happened.”