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Blind item obviously about Gretchen Mol (BlindGossip.com)


It was mystifying several years ago why she was hyped the way she was hyped. Just another starlet with no real significant starring vehicles somehow ending up with a prestigious magazine cover proclaiming her as the next It. Well It never happened. And after all this time and a string of failures, she’s been trying to change the course. So she’s gone back to the major player who tried to make it happen for her the first time. There was an arrangement back then – her sexual services for his professional services – and apparently the same arrangement was resurrected recently in the hopes that she’ll finally confirm a juicy role to kickstart a stagnant career.

Never mind that he’s married. His wife benefits handsomely from his generosity and while he may not fulfill her with fidelity, he certainly makes up for it through client exchange. Probably better that way. And given what he looks like, it totally makes sense. But he is a legend in the business both for his accomplishments and for the way he leads these ladies to their accomplishments, counting a couple of award winners and a few box office heavyweights on his resumé…which is why he quickly tired of our poor girl and discarded her.

But not before drying her out. One day late summer, they were joined in a hotel suite by a third gentleman (identity insignificant), both of them enjoying her as she allowed herself to be taken, and, um, decorated appropriately, all for a reward at the end of the session – the privilege of simply looking at a script, no promise, no confirmation…just an advance read. And a suggestion to show up at a premiere for a few introductions. She is so desperate, it’s been so meagre, she submitted to the humiliation although gamely seems to have enjoyed it. An actor after all, obviously able to shut out her husband and child waiting for her back at home.

And then he just cut it off. Told her he could no longer help her. That her body in his bed was no longer required. Which of course only added to her degradation. She tried and tried to offer up more, willing to engage in further depravity, but was only met with rejection. Because he’s moved on. He’s hunting his next target. A young, nubile, blonde babe with a large profile and a perky rack who so far has been able to resist his advances but is trying to graduate from supporting roles in film, as the fact that she’s a headliner on the small screen has not helped with the quality of scripts she’s being offered, or with many of her auditions so far. She’s currently waiting on a big break and he’s trying to make sure it doesn’t happen, so that in her disappointment, she’ll come running to him, ready to wheel and deal.

Note: there are 4 famous names at play – the reject, the replacement, the power player, and his wife.

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Someone else guessed gretchen mol, blake lively, harvey weinstein and his wife. So sad if it is true.

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"But he is a legend in the business both for his accomplishments and for the way he leads these ladies to their accomplishments, counting a couple of award winners and a few box office heavyweights on his resumé…"

I wonder who they are?

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I don't know who the replacement is but rest is pretty obvious:
Reject: Mol
Power player: Weinstein
Wife: Chapman

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Sadly, the reject is definitely Gretchen Mol. The scuttlebutt for quite some time is that she's sunk pretty low with a number of people she thought might help her in an attempt to have some sort of career. That Vanity Fair cover was such a joke. And, the power player is Harvey Weinstein as he put Gretchen in Rounders for her first movie. Of course she'd turn to him to help her again.

Whoring yourself out to moguels is never a magical fix for a lack of talent.

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Forgot to add this yesterday:

Here's a supposed Miramax memo from Harvey, in which Gretchen is noted as taking care of Harvey in "that way":

http://www.plaintivewail.com/pw/jan00/1_27_00.html

This also details how Harvey got Gretchen on the cover of Vanity Fair:

http://www.collider.com/entertainment/archive_detail.asp/aid/2478/tcid/1

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It's obvious, Blake Lively.

Blonde, nice rack, headliner on small screen (Gossip Girl), "graduated" to small roles in movies - GG cast graduated this season to college and Blake got a few supporting movie roles this year.

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that's really sad. i read this on dlisted and came here to see who she is. i googled harvey weinstein as well and there are heaps of photographs of him with big name actresses. It makes you wonder how many other actors built a career this way

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This is certainly not about Gretchen. I know her. She is one of the most grounded, modest, and sweetest people I have ever met. She has been happily married for years, and couldn't be more in love with and involved with her son.
After a bruising early brush with fame, Gretchen has been leery of the whole fame game. She loves acting, but does not do any of the things people do in order to work the media -- she never dated celebs, acted out in public, etc. She works consistently and quietly, and in my opinion very well, but is way too healthy and normal to engage in this kind of stuff.
People will believe what they want to believe, but it is a shame to see one of the few good people in the business slandered. I can only imagine it somehow makes people feel better about themselves peddling this garbage. In fact, the whole story seems pretty dubious. It reads like some loser's twisted fantasy created to explain to themselves why they didn't have a career in the movies. It's a strange business, especially on the fringes.

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