If he did approach him to produce weinstein didn’t end up producing it. I just did a quick check on imdb and though there are about 20 producers he wasn’t one of them and his company didn’t produce. I’l give you they were one of around 40 distributers but I have my doubts as to how involved Pitt was in the distribution discussions and that’s before we take into account that apparently he was battling alcohol addiction at that point too. I don’t know obviously anything I say can be taken as me defending him but mainly I’m confused by this article and just for my own curiosity now I’m going to see if any of her films were distributed by the weinstein company after this incident.