Harvey Weinstein used an 'army of spies' that included former Mossad agents in order to to dig up dirt on the actresses and journalists he feared would expose his history of sexual misconduct.

In yet another bombshell expose in The New Yorker, Ronan Farrow reveals that these men and women portrayed themselves as victims, journalists and, in one case, a women's rights activist to befriend actress Rose McGowan in hopes of getting an early copy of her memoir.

The disgraced mogul hired Black Cube, run by former Israeli intelligence officers of Mossad, and Kroll - one of the biggest global corporate-intelligence firms - to gather details about the personal lives and sexual histories of dozens of actresses and journalists.

Black Cube is still under contract with Weinstein, and McGowan said she spoke to an agent just two weeks ago - after the publication of both The New York Times and New Yorker exposes.

In one email, on October 10, the agent who went by the name Diana Filip and posed as a women's rights activist wrote: 'Hi Love, How are you feeling? . . . Just wanted to tell you how brave I think you are.'

Filip emailed her again on October 23 as well, while also meeting with McGowan in person four times.

During those meetings, McGowan spoke about what she had been through, unaware that this was all being reported back to man she had accused of raping her at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.

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A terrifying expose alleged that Harvey Weinstein (right) used an 'army of spies' to dig up dirt on the actresses and journalists he feared would expose him, including actress Rose McGowan (left)

It's not over: Ronan Farrow said on Good Morning America Tuesday (above) that there was more to come from this story

Tweet beat: McGowan responded to Farrow's report on Monday by tweeting: 'Here is my official statement: CHECK MOTHERF***ING MATE PIGFACE'

Speaking out: Another Weinstein rape accuser, Asia Argento, wrote: 'Why didn't I @rosemcgowan @RoArquette @AnnabellSciorra spoke up earlier? We were followed by ex-Mossad agents. Isn't that terrifying? Very.'

One of the Weinstein's objectives was to obtain a copy of a book that included 'harmful negative information on and about the Client' - identified as Weinstein in multiple documents.

The book referred to was 'Brave,' a memoir by McGowan that is set for release in January.

The documents reveal that the agency delivered more than a hundred pages of transcripts and descriptions of the book based on hours of conversation between the actress and Filip.

The Black Cube agent posing as Filip said she was the deputy head of a London-based wealth-management firm Reuben Capital Partners, who first wrote to McGowan in May 2017, asking her to speak at a gala event for discrimination against women in the workplace.

The pair met on a number of occasions in the following months, in Los Angeles and New York, where Filip began pressing the actress for information, while also offering to make an investment in a film she was hoping to make.

The agencies were employed to get their hands on McGowan's book Brave

There was even a very authentic looking website that was created for Reuben Capital, with an entire section devoted to women.

'It is a well-known fact that women have less access to capital around the world. This is certainly the case in emerging markets and rings true in other industries around the world too,' reads the 'Women In Focus' page.

'The scale of the issue is different depending on which country is brought into focus, but the fundamental issues are identical: women earn less, get promoted less, and are underappreciated in the workplace.'

The address in London is also a building with a number of small offices, though no actual office number is listed on the Reuben website.

McGowan responded to Farrow's report on Monday by tweeting: 'Here is my official statement: CHECK MOTHERF***ING MATE PIGFACE'

Another Weinstein rape accuser, Asia Argento, wrote: 'Why didn't I @rosemcgowan @RoArquette @AnnabellSciorra spoke up earlier? We were followed by ex-Mossad agents. Isn't that terrifying? Very.'

And Farrow wrote: 'Craziest story I’ve ever reported, and a rare professional experience that made me fear for my safety (even including time in Afghanistan).'

The elaborate planning that went into the operation involved the crafting of a fake website for Reuben Partners, with a section devote to 'Women In Focus' (above)

The fake firm of Reuben Partners also had an office building listed on its website (seen above in Google street view)

The terrifying lengths Weinstein went to silence his accusers

Hired Black Cube, run by former Israeli intelligence officers of Mossad, and Kroll, the biggest global corporate-intelligence firm

Invoices revealed he agreed to pay $600,000 for information that would stop the press publishing allegations of rape, abuse or harassment against Weinstein

One corporate intelligence agent posed as a woman's right activist to lull actress Rose McGowan into discussing her claims against Weinstein.

The same agent also spoke to reporters to try and find out their sources.

Weinstein or the agencies also hired their own journalists to interview accusers and alleged victims to find out what their claims against him were.

Agents went through journalists' personal lives, even profiling their ex-wives, to try and find information to discredit them.

Weinstein allegedly tricked an ex-employee into revealing a list of her old colleagues who would be open to contributing to a book about the 'good old days' at Miramax. When she provided the list, he forced her to call them in front of him to see who had spoken to the press.

The producer conducted much of his investigations with his secret intelligence agencies through his lawyers so they'd be protected by attorney-client privilege.

On Tuesday morning, Farrow made an appearance on Good Morning America to discuss his latest report, and was asked if there was more to come.

'A lot coming in and some of it very, very troubling and some of it I think checking out,' said Farrow.

'It is not over and, look, that is down to the bravery of women till coming forward and men coming forward as victims. This is a movement, a seismic shift.'

He also described the scene at the Weinstein offices the day that the story broke in his New Yorker piece, with Weinstein screaming at staff and attorney Lisa Bloom to send off photos of himself with smiling victims to the board.

David Boies, chairman of Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, (left) signed the contract for Black Cube while Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of American Media Inc., (right) provided information 'obtained by one of his reporters, as part of an effort to help Weinstein disprove McGowan's allegation of rape'

Left to right: Michael Elliott, Harvey Weinstein and David Boies attend the TIME 100 GALA

Weinstein also used several other private security firms including the Los Angeles-based agency PSOPS to investigate those who threatened to expose him.

The agencies deployed secret operatives to 'target' stars such as Rose McGowan, who would later become Weinstein's most vocal accuser, Farrow reports.

The agent known as Diana Filip even posed as a woman's right activist to lull McGowan into discussing her claims.

The same female operative later met with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press.

'The explicit goal of the investigations, laid out in one contract with Black Cube, signed in July, was to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against Weinstein that eventually emerged in the New York Times and The New Yorker,' Farrow said.

Over the course of twelve months, Weinstein had the agencies compile psychological profiles on dozens of targets that often focused on their personal or sexual histories.

One such profile focused on actress Rosanna Arquette, an accuser in a recent piece for The New Yorker, and included her posts on social media about sexual abuse, her family history with molestation and sexual assault, and her friendship with McGowan.

The agents even profiled the ex wives of certain journalists who were working on stories about Weinstein in a bid to undermine them.

A series of emails from Dan Karson, of Kroll, to Weinstein revealed they had been digging into the backgrounds of Adam Moss, the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine and reporter Benjamin Wallace.

'No adverse information about Adam Moss so far (no libel/defamation cases, no court records or judgments/liens/UCC, etc.),' Karson wrote in one e-mail. He also sent a profile of Wallace, which detailed a libel suit filed against his 2008 book about the rare-wine market and other public criticisms.

A couple of months later, PSOPS sent the results of their own investigations, pointing out they had profiled Wallace's ex-wife, who 'might prove relevant to considerations of our response strategy when Wallace's article on our client is finally published.'

The investigator sent a disappointed email, with a detailed profile of Moss, stating that their research 'did not yield any promising avenues for the personal impeachment of Moss.'

Targets? Adam Moss, the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, and New York reporter Benjamin Wallace

Weinstein had hired the intelligence agencies through his law firm so the investigations would be covered by attorney-client privilege. Those services ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars according to one invoice that was submitted for $600,000.

At least one contract with an intelligence agency was signed by David Boies, attorney for Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential-election controversy.

'Boies personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein's abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case,' Farrow said. The lawyer insists there was no conflict of interest and that he did not select the firms or direct the investigators' work

A July 17 contract between Weinstein and Boies' law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, shows how Black Cube be awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in 'success fees' for preventing stories of his abuse leaking.

Boies was also working for The New York Times at the same time he was hiring a firm to investigate one of the paper's writers, Jodi Kantor.

In a statement on Monday, the Times issued a stern response to the news of Boies' work for Winstein.

'We learned today that the law firm of Boies Schiller and Flexner secretly worked to stop our reporting on Harvey Weinstein at the same time as the firm’s lawyers were representing us in other matters,' read the statement.

'We consider this intolerable conduct, a grave betrayal of trust, and a breach of the basic professional standards that all lawyers are required to observe. It is inexcusable and we will be pursuing appropriate remedies.'

New York reporter Wallace was also targeted by the 'Filip,' who was actually a former officer in the Israeli Defense Forces working for Black Cube, sources told Farrow.

This time she went by the name 'Anna'.

'She identified herself only as Anna and suggested that she had an allegation against Weinstein,' he said.

He met her on a couple of occasions but became suspicious as 'Anna seemed to be pushing him for information, he recalled, 'about the status and scope of my inquiry, and about who I might be talking to, without giving me any meaningful help or information.'

Wallace said: 'It seemed like soap-opera acting.'

Filip also reached out to Farrow 'asking for a meeting and suggesting that I join her campaign to end professional discrimination against women'. He did not respond.

Another tactic saw Weinstein or his agencies hire journalists to interview his accusers and report back on their claims, as well as trying to dig up information on their other sources.

In January, 2017, McGowan said she was contacted by a freelance journalist who secretly recorded their conversation and reported back to Black Cube about what she said. The journalist, who has not been named, denies he reported back to them 'in a formal capacity.'

That same reporter contacted at least two other of Weinstein's accusers including actress Annabella Sciorra who later alleged the 65-year-old had raped her.

She says she'd got a call from the journalist but quickly became suspicious and realized the interviewer could be tied to Weinstein.

'It scared me that Harvey was testing to see if I would talk,' she said.

Elizabeth Avellan with ex-Robert Rodriguez, who left her to begin a relationship with McGowan, says a reporter contacted her and pressed her for dirt on McGowan

Weinstein had the agencies compile psychological profiles on dozens of targets such as Rosanna Arquette (left) while Pamela Lubell (right) was allegedly tricked into revealing a list of her old colleagues, then forced her to call them to see who had spoken to the press

Weinstein also appeared to rope in Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, according to an email exchange from December 2016.

The emails revealed that Howard had provided information 'obtained by one of his reporters, as part of an effort to help Weinstein disprove McGowan's allegation of rape,' the New Yorker report says.

Howard's reporter had called Elizabeth Avellan, the ex-wife of the director Robert Rodriguez, who left her to begin a relationship with McGowan.

Avellan claims the reporter had pursued her hard, calling friends and family until she answered the phone and then pressed her for dirt on McGowan. They did not say that the conversation was being recorded, she told Farrow.

Howard then sent an e-mail to Weinstein bragging he had 'something AMAZING... eventually she laid into Rose pretty hard.

Weinstein replied: 'This is the killer. Especially if my fingerprints r not on this.' Howard responded: 'They are not. And the conversation . . . is RECORDED.'

Howard said in a statement that at the time of the emails, he had been overseeing a television-production agreement with Weinstein and so had 'an obligation to protect AMI's interests by seeking out—but not publishing—truthful information about people who Mr. Weinstein insisted were making false claims against him.'

He insisted that he separated his role as a journalist from his role with Weinstein and resisted the Miramax producer's efforts to 'have AMI titles publish favorable stories about him or negative articles about his accusers.'

Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, and states on its website it offers 'a select group of elite Israeli intelligence community who specializes in tailored solutions to complex business and litigation challenge', declined to comment on the work it did for Weinstein but insists it always operates 'in full compliance with the law of any jurisdiction in which it operates.'

However, the firm has landed itself in trouble previously and just last year, two of its investigators were arrested in Romania on hacking charges.

Meanwhile, Weinstein's spokesperson Sallie Hofmeister, said: 'It is a fiction to suggest that any individuals were targeted or suppressed at any time.'

She also denied he had ever secure any part of McGowan's book, calling Farrow's article full of 'inaccuracies and wild conspiracy theories.'

Harvey Weinstein banned for LIFE from TV Academy just weeks after he was barred from the Oscars in the wake of sex abuse allegations

Harvey Weinstein has been handed a lifetime ban from the Emmys just weeks after he was stripped of his Oscars board membership in the wake of his sex scandal.

The Miramax producer has been accused of harassment by a multitude of high-profile Hollywood celebrities including Rose McGowan, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie after an New York Times expose revealed decades of alleged abuse.

On Monday, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences voted to expel Weinstein from the Academy for life.

Harvey Weinstein has been handed a lifetime ban from the Emmys. The disgraced mogul's former firm, The Weinstein Company, won an Emmy for Project Runway which features Heidi Klum, pictured him during the season 3 finale at New York Fashion Week in September 2016. She has since spoken out in support of his accusers

On Monday, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences voted to expel Weinstein from the Academy for life

The TV Academy said in a statement it is horrified by the claims of widespread sexual misconduct in entertainment and is taking a stand to support women speaking out against Weinstein.

'We are determined to play a role in protecting all television professionals from predatory harassment, ensuring they are able to practice their craft in a safe environment.'

The disgraced mogul's former firm, The Weinstein Company, had produced a number of popular TV shows over the years including Project Runway for which he won an Emmy.

Heidi Klum, who starred as a judge in Project Runway and was pictured him during the season 3 finale at New York Fashion Week in September 2016, has since spoken out saying she supports all the 'brave women' who have spoken out against him.

'I wish I could say that the horrible stories I read about Harvey Weinstein are a rare occurrence in our society, but that is simply not the case. We would be naive to think that this behavior only happens in Hollywood,' Klum, 44, told People.

Weinstein, pictured at an ELLE Magazine Hosts Viewing Party for the Season Premiere of Project Runway with editor Nina Garcia, has been accused of harassment by a multitude of high-profile Hollywood celebrities

'This is one example of the more pervasive problem of the mistreatment of women around the world. I think it would be hard to find a woman – myself included – who have not had an experience where they have felt intimidated or threatened by a man using his power, position or his physical stature,' the Project Runway host and judge says.

'I truly admire these brave women who are coming forward to share their stories because change cannot come unless there is a dialogue and people are held accountable,' she concludes.

Weinstein was stripped of his executive producer credit on the Lifetime reality show competition after the allegations. He has since been fired from The Weinstein Company which produces the show.

His wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman who has often appeared on the show as a guest judge since 2012, announced she's leaving him.

The 65-year-old is also under investigation by a handful of law enforcement agencies.

Weinstein has already been banned from the Producers Guild of America in the wake of the allegations and last month was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The 54-member board of governors, which includes power players such as Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and hands out Oscars every year, voted to oust Weinstein in October.

Weinstein was last month expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Winners of the Oscar for Best Picture, Shakespeare in Love, pose for photographers. From left are: David Parfitt, Dianna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, and Marc Morman

Weinstein is seen with his wife Georgina Chapman at the 2017 Academy Awards in February. She has said she is seeking a divorce in the wake of the allegations against him

The Academy issued a statement saying the board had voted 'to immediately expel him from the Academy,' noting that the vote was 'well in excess of the required two-thirds majority'.

It went on: 'We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.'

'What's at issue here is a deeply troubling problem that has no place in our society. The Board continues to work to establish ethical standards of conduct that all Academy members will be expected to exemplify.'

Only one other Adademy member has been kicked out previously, The Godfather II actor Carmine Caridi.

He was accused of giving tapes of around 60 Oscar movies seeking consideration for the Academy Awards to a neighbor, who turned out to be a movie pirate.

Weinstein only ever won one Oscar, personally, for Shakespeare in Love in 1999. He was also nominated for Gangs of New York in 2003. There is no word on whether his Oscar will be rescinded.

As a result of the allegations, the movie producer was also fired from the company he co-founded with his brother Bob in 2005.