Who Is Fabrizio Lombardo? Italian 'Film Producer' Named In Weinstein Drama

Fabrizio Lombardo is the one-time head of Miramax’s Italy branch and is now being reexamined after the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Weinstein was the subject of an explosive New York Times investigation surfacing years of allegations of sexual harassment.

Weinstein started Miramax with his brother, and the company was later sold to Disney in 1993. On Sunday, Weinstein was fired from his job at the Weinstein Company, a film production house he co-founded with his brother.

Several A-list actresses have come out with allegations against Weinstein, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Ashely Judd and Patricia Arquette.

A former Times writer, Sharon Waxman, wrote in The Wrap Sunday that she had been working on a piece that outlined similar allegations against Weinstein in 2004, but that the Times killed the piece.

Part of Waxman’s story revolved around Lombardo, 50, who she claimed as part of his Miramax job took “care of Weinstein’s women needs, among other things.”

Waxman claims that Lombardo has little film experience but was hired by Miramax for a $400,000 salary for less than a year and said that sources told her he was responsible for procuring Russian escorts.

Waxman said that she also found a woman who was paid off by Weinstein for a sexual encounter. She claimed that Matt Damon and Russell Crowe helped kill the piece. Damon denies helping have the piece killed.

“Harvey said, Sharon Waxman is writing a story about Fabrizio and it’s really negative. Can you just call and tell her what your experience with Fabrizio was. So I did, and that’s what I said to her. It didn’t even make the piece that she wrote,” Damon said in an inter whew with Deadline Tuesday.

The Waxman piece the Times did publish in 2004 was about a dispute Miramax had with Lombardo over his contract. Lombardo is listed as an executive producer for the 2000 film “Malèna.” Lombardo is also an actor.