They received random payments

Several people including The Director's Wife and a one name still young actress have received random payments in the past week for supporting or at least not bashing Harvey Weinstein when they could have.

Blind item about a philandering movie producer

When gossip columnists get a juicy tip but the sourcing is problematic, there’s a tradition called the blind item, in which the subjects are described in detail but not named. As in: What married media duo could not stop bickering during a two-and-a-half-hour interview with a reporter? George Rush and Joanna Molloy have written a book drawing from their years of gossip columns for The Daily News and The New York Post. That, at any rate, was what George Rush and Joanna Molloy were doing one day last week. These cohabitants and co-authors of the Rush & Molloy column — which from 1995 to 2010 in The Daily News covered everything from the breakup of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to the breakdown of Britney Spears — were sitting in their TriBeCa loft discussing an eyebrow-raising morsel in their new memoir, "Scandal: A Manual." It involved the alleged extramarital activities of a movie producer who is not named in the book, but who is described in some very specific (as well as borderline offensive) terms.