hatchet woman

Sources told the magazine that Brown was known as the "hatchet woman" after she was hired by Valence Media in April 2019.

She was the hatchet woman for John R. Bolton, the famously combative national security adviser, and drove out staff members from the National Security Council who were deemed insufficiently conservative or loyal.

Next for Stewart is a Lizzie Borden biopic she shot opposite Chloe Sevigny as the infamous hatchet woman, and a JT Leroy film in which she’ll play Savannah Knoop, the woman who posed publicly as the literary sensation later revealed to be a hoax.

Clay County Attorney Brian Melton responded by calling one of the defense attorneys a “hatchet woman.”

But now her peculiar combination of roles -- confidant, hatchet woman and business lobbyist -- is proving to be a potential hazard for the Administration.