C'mon, she didn't ask that!

By Mark Lacter | May 10, 2007 1:33 PM

At Time magazine's big NY shindig the other night celebrating the world's 100 "most influential" people, film mogul Harvey Weinstein was explaining to his much younger girlfriend, British "designer" Georgina Chapman, that Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel "was in a concentration camp." Well, according to Rush & Molloy anyway.



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