{"id":343236,"date":"2018-01-11T01:10:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/harvey-weinstein-attacked-at-scottsdale-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T01:10:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:10:18","slug":"harvey-weinstein-attacked-at-scottsdale-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/harvey-weinstein-attacked-at-scottsdale-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein \u2018Attacked\u2019 at Scottsdale Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Harvey Weinstein\u00a0was attacked Tuesday night at a restaurant &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-mNlASb89Wo\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Weinstein was at Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale, eating dinner with his sober coach when 2 men sat at a table next to them.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men &#8212; Steve &#8212; tells TMZ he walked up to Weinstein and told him he loved his movies and would like to take a photo with him. Steve says Weinstein became belligerent and told him to buzz off. The manager of the restaurant says Weinstein was not belligerent &#8212; she says to the contrary he was &#8220;very sweet about it&#8221; and said, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather not take a picture right now.&#8221; The manager says the two shook hands and Steve went back to his table.<\/p>\n<p>At around 9 PM, Weinstein and his sober coach got up to leave at the same time Steve and his dinner companion were leaving. Steve tells TMZ he had &#8220;quite a bit to drink,&#8221; told his friend to fire up his cell phone and shoot video of what was about to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Steve says he walked up to Weinstein and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re such a piece of s*** for what you did to these women,&#8221; and then punched him in the face twice. He says Weinstein stumbled backward and almost fell.<\/p>\n<p>A restaurant manager says neither attempted punch connected, and the guy was drunk and out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides agree &#8230; the person who filmed the incident asked Weinstein if he wanted to call the police, but Weinstein declined and everyone left the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/harvey-weinstein-attacked-at-scottsdale-restaurant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Weinstein\u00a0was attacked Tuesday night at a restaurant &#8230; TMZ has learned. Weinstein was at Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale, eating dinner with his sober coach when 2 men sat at a table next to them. One of the men &#8212; Steve &#8212; tells TMZ he walked up to Weinstein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}