Utah

Utah appears in the book through Park City, a setting associated with two episodes a decade apart: Rose McGowan’s 1997 entry in a chronology of allegations and settlements, and Tom Ajamie’s confrontation with Harvey Weinstein during the January 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The place links an earlier settlement to a later attempt to obtain Ajamie’s silence, without the book treating Utah as more than the setting for these events.

Park City and the 2017 Meeting

In January 2017, Ajamie was staying with friends at a Park City condo he had rented for the Sundance Film Festival. After returning from a party hosted by Weinstein and Jay-Z, Lisa Bloom said that Weinstein wanted to meet Ajamie. Ajamie reluctantly agreed to let her bring him to Weinstein’s suite at the Main and SKY hotel for breakfast.

The meeting shifted abruptly. Weinstein first lashed out at Ajamie for investigating his past, then pleaded for them to reach a deal. The proposed arrangement required Ajamie to sign a nondisclosure agreement drafted by David Boies, promising to keep what he had learned about Weinstein secret. Ajamie refused any exchange of a deal for his silence and left convinced that the $600,000 amfAR transaction was only a small part of what Weinstein had to hide. In Park City, a meeting framed as breakfast became a direct effort to contain what an inquiry might uncover.

An Earlier Entry in the Chronology

The book’s chronology also places Rose McGowan in Park City in 1997 and records a settlement. The entry is terse: it identifies the year and place, then names the settlement, without supplying further detail about the event in this passage. Its brevity contrasts with the extended account of Ajamie’s 2017 meeting, but both moments place Park City within the book’s record of Weinstein-related allegations and settlements.

Narrative Significance

The two references make Park City a recurring point in the account rather than a fully described setting. In the 1997 chronology, the city accompanies a settlement; in 2017, it is where Ajamie refuses a proposed agreement that would have silenced him. The contrast gives the later scene particular force: the effort to secure confidentiality is explicit, while Ajamie’s refusal leaves the investigation—and the questions surrounding the amfAR transaction—uncontained.