What you are failing to recognise, and I'm tempted to see this as a symptom of how celebrity-obsessed this discussion is, is that fame isn't the only kind of power. Weinstein had a power to make movies happen, to make careers happen, that meant that he held the threads of people's futures in his hands. Including apparently powerful people.
Actually I think it's you who is the celebrity obsessed one.
Repeatedly on this thread people who seem to think they are taking the 'right on' PC approach to this (like you just there) have claimed it is acceptable to turn a blind eye to sexual assault as long as you get a Hollywood career out of it and get to be rich and famous. You and others are the ones who are saying that wealth and fame are worth condoning the abuse of others for. Do you see why you're being hypocritical.
It takes a lot of guts to piss off someone who has power over you. It's the right thing to do, but not that many people have that moral courage to risk their livelihood, their career, their reputation sticking their head above the parapet. We should be applauding those women who have, they've been brave.
I will applaud Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd who actually were brave by breaking cover. I will applaud Angelina Jolie who might not have felt able to break cover but never condoned what he did and was not complicit by working with him when she knew what he was doing, or posing for photos with him or giving speeches about how wonderful he was.
I will not praise Gwyneth bloody Paltrow. Her parents might only have been 'moderately famous' but her father was a very successful director and producer and her family were one of the best connected in Hollywood. Steven SPIELBERG is her godfather FFS. She was at the time going out with one of the hottest male actors in the industry who was prepared to fight her corner. Basically she recovered from knocking him back because she was connected. Angelina Jolie probably did for the same reason. But at least she had the decency not to tacitly condone his behaviour by working with him and posing with him and singing his praises. And Angelina Jolie's career is absolute proof that the even better connected Paltrow didn't need to do that to have a career. She CHOSE to do it because turning a blind eye got her what she wanted the easiest way.
Paltrow would have known full well that if Mindy Trott from Shitsville, Ohio had turned him down in that room she wouldn't have been as lucky. She would have known that her actions in gilding Weinstein's lily were adding to the power and untouchability that allowed him to do this. But she did it anyway.
Rose McGowan, Mira Sorvino and Rosanna Arquette had unconnected parents who were bit part actors or not Hollywood. They were the ones who had their careers destroyed. Not Paltrow. Jolie had the principles not to associate herself with a man like that. Paltrow didn't. She knew she was protected by her connections so went on to work with him extensively despite knowing other women weren't so lucky.
She might have had an unpleasant experience with him but I am certainly not going to applaud someone who tacitly condoned what he was doing to other women secure in the knowledge it wouldn't happen to her again.