Feminist icon Gloria Steinem is happy to see that disgraced movie macher Harvey Weinstein is finally behind bars.

“I think it’s clearly a relief to everyone,” she told Page Six at the opening night of the Athena Film Festival at Columbia University. “It wasn’t an easy trial as 90% of the cases weren’t part of the trial so I suspect that it probably would not have happened ten years ago.”

The Ms. Magazine co-founder said she had no interaction with the convicted producer, although she did come close.

“There was a friend of mine who was trying to do a film, a civil rights film and everybody said to me, ‘Oh, only Harvey Weinstein will do this,’” the 85-year-old explained.

Steinem says the Oscar winner didn’t expand on why she nixed it but. “She never said why,” Steinem said, “but I understood why it was not a good idea.”

In 2017, Fonda admitted on CNN that she knew of Weinstein’s behavior from her friend, Rosanna Arquette, but had kept silent.

“I found out about Harvey a year ago and I’m ashamed that I didn’t say anything right then,” she said. “I only met Harvey when I was old and Harvey goes for young because that’s more vulnerable.”

“Frida” director Julie Taymor has memorialized Steinem’s fascinating life in a biopic called “The Glorias” starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander and Janelle Monáe which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival.

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