Brad Pitt is one of this film's producers. This movie shows Marilyn Monroe being abused by a Hollywood executive and later by her romantic partners. Coincidentally, Pitt was aware of the sexual harassment allegations against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein decades before he was exposed in 2017. Pitt dated Gwyneth Paltrow (from 1994 to 1997), who accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the 1990s while she was dating Pitt, who knew about it since Paltrow told him when it happened, according to her interview on the Howard Stern Show on May 23, 2018. Peter Biskind, the author of the 2004 book "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film" (which depicts Weinstein as a brutish, violent man who nevertheless managed to charm all the right people in Hollywood), told Vanity Fair in October 2017 that he learned of the incident while reporting his 2001 Vanity Fair cover on Brad Pitt, but he wasn't able to mention it in his story because Pitt had gone off-the-record. "He made me turn the tape recorder off ... but he did say he liked Harvey, despite the advances he had made on Gwyneth Paltrow," Biskind said. Pitt was also married to Angelina Jolie until 2016 (with whom he had 6 children and a 12-year relationship), who also accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the beginning of her career. In 2009, Pitt starred in Bastardi senza gloria (2009), which was produced by Weinstein and distributed by The Weinstein Company, and a few years later he approached Weinstein and asked him to produce the movie Cogan - Killing Them Softly (2012), which was directed by 'Blonde' director, Andrew Dominik. Jolie said in an interview for The Guardian on September 4, 2021 that she fought with Pitt over that, but he still wanted Weinstein to produce the movie anyway, and Jolie said that it hurt her that Pitt was happy to work with Weinstein despite knowing he had assaulted her. Jolie never worked with Weinstein after he harassed her and avoided attending promotional events for Pitt and Dominik's 'Killing Them Softly'. After his separation from Jolie, Pitt hired Weinstein's former attorney and PR fixer strategist, Matthew Hiltzik, who helped kill a New York Times' 2004 exposé on Weinstein. Jolie has also accused Pitt of domestic violence against both her and their children.

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