[john70t]

So he gets convicted for some of the lesser things he's probably done and everyone is happy now. Justice served, move on. He was probably guilty of 'rape' at some points in time with some women who either kept quiet, got paid, added themselves to the list of wanting financial compensation for a criminal act, or spoke out and were finally able to do the right thing many years later. Libel laws are powerful and attorneys aka right to pursue fair justice in the legal system are very expensive.

But the situation is an entire grey area.
Let's examine the facts. He wasn't some lone example. He was well known and well liked in many of the elite circles going to the top. For decades and decades. And he is definitly still not the lone culprit in the industry. Everyone knew or suspected what was and still is going on. Hollywood financial accounting is also an untouchable subject. There are many many thousands of tired bartenders/baristas/porn actors who have experienced the game. Only those who are willing to pay off the right agents and attend the right parties make it to the top. There has been been a culture of, shall we say, debauchery in Hollywood going back a century and mainly controlled by a select network of inter-supporting vested individuals. Everyone looses when the system falls.

Hollywood is a dynamic place where everything happens behind the scenes, incredible competition with the highs and lows, boom or bust, and personal connections and trade-offs are the modus operundi. There isn't any kind of standardized test which determines one's job opportunities or multi-million dollar paydays. It's all in personal connections and a lot of networking and time. A two minute phone call makes-and-breaks careers just like that

Did most of those actresses willingly travel to hotel rooms late at night expecting to talk to the very top boss about a problem on the set which needed to get fixed? No. They were adults and made choices knowing what was implied. But the real question should be about the entire structure of the industry and the hiring process with fraternization between bosses and employees. Any time there is inter-mingling there is the potential for 'unfair' advantages to those willing to trade favors for opportunities.