Dirk Ziff quits Harvey Weinstein's company over Harvey's alleged sexual misconduct!
Do you or do you not love a principled stand? For my money principled stands are the greatest sort and very little beats them for shear cinema. A woman or man, having taken enough, standing up in the boardroom, perspiration beading a furrowed brow, thrusting a tired but firm finger in the air and saying, “No more sirs! Not I!”
And guess who just took a principled stand against sexual misconduct? Our very own Dirk Ziff! That’s right. The owner of the World Surf League and also billionaire Dirk Edward Ziff!
But let us now turn our attention to Hollywood inside digest The Wrap for more.
Dirk Ziff, a board member of the Weinstein Company, has resigned following a bombshell New York Times expose detailing at least eight settlements for sexual misconduct by co-CEO Harvey Weinstein, an individual with knowledge of the matter told TheWrap.
On Thursday, the nine-person board, minus Ziff, had a heated discussion about Weinstein’s fate at the company. By Friday morning, his fate was still in limbo, but a decision is expected on Friday.
The individual with knowledge said Ziff was not on the board call last night, indicating that he was already separating from the company. Ziff is managing partner at Ziff Capital Partners, the owner of World Surf League and also serves on the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
So let’s not dwell on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bit yet. Let’s first update you to the fact that Harvey Weinstein was indeed fired from his company for brutish behavior against women. What is with these sixty plus year old men? Have they lost all sense of dignity? Of decorum? Whatever your politics Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Trump are difficult to look at (i.e. hideous trolls) and should not foist their genetics upon potential sexual partners.
And maybe this is precisely why Mr. Ziff resigned. He appears… genteel. And now back to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bombshell city!
Will it somehow be wrapped into a Kelly Slater Surf Ranch experience? Oh don’t worry. I’ll get to the bottom of this tomorrow.
Until then, to principled stands!
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Nope, he groped and allegedly a lot more.
//http://www.newyorker.com/news/news...
The investment firm Ziff founded has strong morals.
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fashion police need to be rolling on this one with sirens.
only dude in this photo with any sartorial style is the guy in black to the right of steph gilmore.
Thanks for connecting the dots. Now you have gained position on the moral high ground.. No thoughts on angry shaper fist embellishing grom’s board?
Since we are on the topic of dirty old men…I forgot how good Coco Ho looks in a dress.
They’d get laid
*cums in a potted plant*
Foisted!
A company’s board is supposed to be its fire department. They’re supposed to stand firm to put out fires. Ziff may either need to run from the heat because things are getting too hot after being too close to the source or he’s like an arsonist that wants to stare from afar at the glory of their creation.
The Hard Rock in Kuta has underwater speakers pumping out all those super HoF standards. Kelly, take notes!
I heard this great number whilst making my way to the swim up bar in a different life.
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[I think Lemore might tend more to Pantera, though]
Fuck I hate this band!
I used to despise them, their peers and everything they stood for. But then I started to learn guitar at a late age and now I can recognise the utter professionalism in every second of their work. Like I’ve said before, if Mick Fanning was a band…
2 things.
Who’s the cat in the red trousers with the thousand yard stare to the left of Speaker.
And, is it just me or does Kelly’s ensemble look terribly ill-fitting? He looks like a badly dressed kid at the high school prom.
Chas, your expert opinion?
Where are Harvey’s hands? Greg seems distracted by the hasty departure of the woman behind Harvey.
He looks like a Hobgood. A sickly one at that…
thats terry hardy.
thanks
Most people in that photo are so horribly dressed it’s not funny. And yes, old mate in the red trousers looks creepy.
A too-big jacket is horrible. No one at Kering ever mentioned this to The King?
Isn’t the only principled stand to take a knee?
“what is it with 60 year old plus men?” , ah after a lifetime of being with the people , money and power ,mutate man into a Lustful Money mad human being who actually believes that whatever he does is good for all , including sexual favours , whether you want to or not , do not refuse a request from a baby boomer , well if you do , report him and destroy his twisted mutated lifestyle !
Politics aside, Weinstein has hugged Hillary at his hosted Democratic Party fundraisers like Bill gave Harvey the wink wink nod nod green light production for motion pick sure.
Ziff is an Olympic hopeful. Bad press nevers gets you the podium, even if you are happy with third place.
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The Ziffneister. Rock and Roll hall of Fame. Who is this guy??
I always imagined him as a rich nerd that thought surfers were cool so i will throw millions at them to make them like me.
But geez maybe he is cool. He needs to get MC5 into the hall of fame ASAP just to solidify but.
Is his wife hot??
I’m going to say yes. Dude could of been tagging in with his mate Weinstein on an all you can eat buffet of young Hollywood wannabes. Instead he took the moral high ground. So either his wife is smoking hot or he is a poof.
Regardless I got the feeling he might just be cool. I hope he ate at the buffet at least once.
Yeah, Georgina Chapman is kinda hot. https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Yeah not bad, but she gets extra points for the freaky sexual favours she must of done for Harvey.
However I was wondering if Dirk;s wife is hot not Harveys.
Maybe she has a fetish for heads that look like overboiled potatoes?
The first ever principled stand by anyone in Surf! (Save Chas’ WSL France boycott, of course.) (And the South Africa boycott, yes yes I know, Nick Carroll.)
please do not discount my stand against people riding shortboards who are not good enough to ride shortboards (75% of the surfing population)
Only 75%?
I was being extraordinarily generous.
Yes you were!
Brutish behavior or criminal behavior?