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Meryl Streep's brand under threat over Weinstein denial
She started the year leading the chorus of opprobrium against President Donald Trump but 12 months on Meryl Streep, multiple Oscar-winner and doyenne of the liberal Hollywood elite, has become a target herself.
Streep has worked on several Weinstein produced films and jokingly referred to him as "God" at the 2012 Golden Globes.
The pre-eminent actress of her generation, Streep has had a glittering 40-year career that has seen her play everything from a Nazi concentration camp survivor to an ABBA-singing mother.
Rose McGowan, one of the campaign's most prominent advocates and an alleged victim of Weinstein, criticized Streep in a since-deleted tweet over plans for actresses to wear black to the Golden Globes in a silent protest against sexual assault.
"Streep's claims that she didn't know are ludicrous and the kiss of death for her image in Hollywood," the bestselling author of The Kim Kardashian Principle told AFP.
He accused Streep of underestimating the intelligence of the public and the courage of female peers who had spoken out against Weinstein, adding that Clooney also had questions to answer over his response to the scandal.
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