The name of the winner of the dueling phone bids is unknown at this time, but we can be reasonably sure that it wasn’t Harvey Weinstein. Not because he’s had a lot on his plate lately, but because it was probably a bit out of his price range.
Harvey Weinstein is an extremely wealthy and powerful man, but there are circles in which he’s considered small change. In a country with 540 billionaires, Weinstein has an estimated net worth of a mere $300 million.
Given that he’s only spent a couple million on political influence since the turn of the century, it seems unlikely that he’d fork out 17.8 from his estate for a timepiece. Odds are on the other end of that phone bidding line was someone with some real money.
— Yashar Ali