Ronan Farrow turns his focus to Brett Kavanaugh in New Yorker expose

Ronan Farrow is becoming the most feared journalist in America. After his expose of Harvey Weinstein, his latest target is Brett Kavanaugh.

Ronan Farrow is becoming the most feared journalist in America after his exposes of Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves, the CBS executive.

He has now turned his focus on to Brett Kavanaugh, perhaps his most powerful and well-protected target.

In a year of investigations, the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen has also taken down Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney-general. All three were laid low by their mistreatment of women and Farrow, 30, persuaded many of the victims to speak out, helping to create and advance the #MeToo movement.

The campaign for recognition of sexual abuse and harassment in the workplace has its first anniversary next month, a year after Farrow’s revelations about the film mogul Mr Weinstein in The New Yorker magazine won him a Pulitzer prize.

His latest story is co-authored with Jane Mayer.

Rose McGowan, left, and Ronan Farrow, right.

Farrow has defended his article in The New Yorker, published this week, in which a second woman accuses the Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct. The new accusation landed just after negotiators reached an agreement to hold a public hearing on Thursday for Mr Kavanaugh and his first accuser, California college professor Christine Blasey Ford, who says he sexually assaulted her at a party decades ago.

The second claim against Mr Kavanaugh dates to his first year at Yale University. Colorado resident Deborah Ramirez tells The New Yorker Mr Kavanaugh thrust his penis in her face at a party and caused her to touch it without her consent. Mr Kavanaugh denies the women’s allegations, calling Ms Ramirez’s claim “a smear, plain and simple.”

Farrow told ABC there are “several people in this story who back Ms Ramirez.”

Last night Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal fight with Donald Trump, claimed he represented a third woman with ­information about high-school parties attended by Judge Kavanaugh.

Judge Kavanaugh says he will not be intimidated into withdrawing his nomination for the Supreme Court saying in a televised interview that he never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or at any other time in his life.

He and his wife, Ashley, sat down for an interview with Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum.

“I have never had any sexual or physical activity with Dr Ford,” Kavanaugh said. “I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone, in high school or otherwise.”

Brett Kavanaugh and his wife Ashley Kavanaugh answer questions during a FOX News interview with Martha MacCallum.

Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow was destined for the spotlight from a young age. After working for Richard Holbrooke, the US diplomat, and Hillary Clinton, his TV career initially misfired.

An investigative journalism show was dropped by MSNBC before he turned to the Weinstein story. David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, said: “For any reporter to be able to achieve this is a work of process and patience and human sympathy.”

It is tempting to view Farrow’s pursuit of abusive, powerful men through the prism of his family life.

In 1992 Mia Farrow discovered that Allen was having an affair with one of her adopted daughters. A custody fight followed for the younger children, including Ronan.

THE TIMES