Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas has been saying a lot on his new podcast. Over the weekend, Media Take Out learned that the podcaster told a story of how he overheard Harvey Weinstein and a group of older White men allegedly bragging about having relations with actress Halle Berry – when she was at the height of her career.
Arenas said the conversation happened courtside.
“2003-04. Halle Berry was walking by and I was like ‘Oh sh-t, Halle Berry bro!’ It was like four or five white dudes sitting there, Harvey Weinstein was one of them… I’m in like the second row, and they were sitting there and talking about, ‘Oh now she acting like she don’t know us, she wasn’t saying that when she needed that part.’ Every single one of them hit. I was like, ‘No, not Halle. No, not them. Yuck! Damn, they got the Berry,'” said Arenas.
Embed from Getty ImagesAccording to Gilbert. he was sitting near Harvey and the older White men, as they bragged about “smashing” Halle in exchange for acting roles. Gilbert claims he was shocked when he heard the men talking about one o the most beautiful women in the world …. like she was a $2 pr**titute.
Harvey was sued by multiple actresses, for manipulating and pressuring the young actresses for s** in exchange for movie roles.
The disgraced movie producer is currently in prison for s**ual assault. He is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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Halle is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy Boomerang (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in The Flintstones (1994) and Bulworth (1998) as well as the television film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Embed from Getty ImagesBerry established herself as one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s. For her performance of a struggling widow in the romantic drama Monster’s Ball (2001), Berry became the only African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the first woman of color. Berry took on high-profile roles such as Storm in four installments of the X-Men film series (2000–2014), the henchwoman of a robber in the thriller Swordfish (2001), Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002), and the title role in the much-derided Catwoman (2004). Nevertheless, she received US$12.5 million (equivalent to $19.37 million in 2022) for the latter.
Embed from Getty ImagesA varying critical and commercial reception followed in subsequent years, with Perfect Stranger (2007), Cloud Atlas (2012) and The Call (2013) being among her notable film releases in that period. Berry launched a production company, 606 Films, in 2014 and has been involved in the production of a number of projects in which she performed, such as the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015). She appeared in the action films Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama Bruised (2020).
