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Harvey Weinstein’s abnormal testicles were a key piece of evidence in the trial against him. It was revealed during the trial that the former Hollywood mogul underwent surgery in 1999 which required him to remove his testicles due to Fournier’s Gangrene. According to reports about the surgery, his testicles were taken from his scrotum and put into his inner thighs.

Harvey Weinstein during an interview | Credits: BBC

Various victims in the case testified about his abnormal genitalia. The jury in the trial was shown photos of Weinstein’s private parts in a private room in the courthouse. The victim’s description of his genitalia eventually became crucial in proving that he had engaged in s*xual assault.

Harvey Weinstein’s testicles were removed due to Fournier’s Gangrene Harvey Weinstein in a still from The Graham Norton Show | Credits: BBC

Harvey Weinstein had to remove some of his scrotum...

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals.

On Thursday, the court found in a 4-3 ruling that the judge in Weinstein’s trial — a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement that the 2017 allegations against him started — had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court has now ordered a new trial.

Weinstein, the Oscar-winning producer of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Good Will Hunting,” is serving a 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Rome, N.Y. He will remain imprisoned as he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison. However, Weinstein was acquitted in the Los Angeles trial on charges involving a woman who testified in his New York case.

Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said in a statement: “We’re cautiously excited.

Los Angeles prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that they will not retry Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of one woman, on counts involving two others that left jurors deadlocked.

Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson announced the decision to Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench at a hearing in downtown Los Angeles. The judge granted a defense motion to dismiss the charges and said Weinstein would be returned to New York, where he was convicted in a similar case.

Weinstein attorney Jacqueline Sparagna said he maintains his innocence of the charges.

In December, the Los Angeles jury convicted Weinstein, 70, of the rape and sexual assault of Italian model and actor Evgeniya Chernyshova, and he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. That’s in addition to the 23-year sentence he is already serving in New York.

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Last year, disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury, though in a mixed verdict, the hung jury could not reach an unanimous decision on all counts with the judge declaring a mistrial on three of seven charges.

The judge dismissed those three remaining charges, and ruled that she would not be putting Weinstein back on trial, reports Variety.

Prior to the judge’s decision, the prosecution announced that the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office would not be proceeding with the remaining charges.

Weinstein was sentenced last month, to 16 additional years for his most recent conviction in L.A. He is already serving a 23-year sentence for his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction in New York, and will all-but-likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is appealing both of his convictions.

After a two month trial in late 2022, the jury found Weinstein...

Exclusive: Harvey Weinstein is looking for some new lawyers to lead his Los Angeles rape verdict appeal.

Earlier today, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge tossed out a trio of remaining sexual assault charges against the incarcerated Pulp Fiction producer after Deputy LA County District Attorney Paul Thompson officially said the office would not retry Weinstein on said charges. Representing Weinstein in court Tuesday with her wheelchair-seated client nearby, Werksman Jackson & Quinn Llp associate Jacqueline Sparagna said the producer is innocent of the charges he was convicted of late last year.

In that vein, the practical decision by the Da not to seek a risky retrial sets the stage for Weinstein to launch a formal appeal of the 16-year sentence he received back on February 23 in the City of Angels.

Weinstein won’t be using the services of Mark Werksman and Alan Jackson in that appeal, I hear.

Declaring his...

Harvey Weinstein will not be retried on the charges of rape and sexual assault that a Los Angeles jury failed to reach a verdict on last year.

According to The Associated Press, prosecutor Paul Thompson announced the decision at a hearing in L.A. on Tuesday, March 14. The judge dismissed the charges and said Weinstein could be returned to New York, where he was previously sentenced to 23 years in prison after being found guilty of similar sexual assault charges.

Weinstein was found guilty of one count of rape and two...

Harvey Weinstein will not face a new trial on deadlocked rape and sexual assault charges, a Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday, including those based upon the accusations of Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

Weinstein was convicted last month on three charges, all based on the testimony of a single accuser, a Russian model and actress known as Jane Doe 1. Three other charges ended in mistrial, and one in acquittal. Weinstein was sentenced last month to 16 years in California prison, time he’ll begin serving when his 23-year sentence is up in New York.

The deadlocked charges included those tied to the testimony of Newsom. Tuesday’s dismissal means the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom will not be brought back to testify again – something she says she never expected to do in the first place when she came forward to authorities in 2017.

The other accuser whose testimony supported charges the judge dismissed Tuesday was Lauren Young,...

Last year, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury — though in a mixed verdict, the hung jury could not reach an unanimous decision on all counts with the judge declaring a mistrial on three of seven charges.

On Tuesday morning, the judge dismissed those three remaining charges, and ruled that she would not be putting Weinstein back on trial.

Prior to the judge’s decision, the prosecution announced that the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office would not be proceeding with the remaining charges.

Weinstein was sentenced last month to 16 additional years for his most recent conviction in L.A. He is already serving a 23-year sentence for his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction in New York, and will all-but-likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is appealing both of his convictions.

After a two month trial in late 2022, the jury found Weinstein guilty...

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison Thursday after the disgraced producer was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault at his Los Angeles trial in December.

At his sentencing hearing Thursday, LA County Judge Lisa Lench sentenced Weinstein to 16 years in prison, to be served at the conclusion of his 23-year prison term he’s currently serving after being convicted on charges in New York.

Given that Weinstein is 70 years old, the Los Angeles sentence ensures that, unless his lawyers successfully appeal the punishments,...

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers filed a request on Tuesday for a new trial, over a month after the disgraced producer was convicted on rape and sexual assault charges in Los Angeles.

Variety, which obtained the filing, notes that Weinstein’s attorneys have requested for the court to “reconsider its ruling,” stating in their new filing that they were precluded from showing evidence to the jury that they claim could’ve shaken the first Jane Doe witness’ credibility and impacted jurors’ guilty conviction.

Weinstein, 70, was due to be sentenced earlier in...

Gloria Allred, the high-wattage attorney and women’s rights activist, represented three victims in Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape trial, two of whom ultimately testified against the disgraced producer.

In an interview with Variety after the verdict, Allred said that she was “disturbed” that none of her clients will be allowed to speak at Weinstein’s sentencing.

Judge Lisa B. Lench has said she will allow only one victim to address the court: Jane Doe #1, the only one whose allegations resulted in a conviction.

Allred said her clients “went through a grueling, challenging and brutal cross-examination, and they did it for the cause of justice. They should have an opportunity to give a victim impact statement at the sentencing, even though he was not convicted on any charges.” She added, “Why can’t they speak out in the court?”

Allred said she will push for new legislation to give...

Following Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial on sexual assault and rape charges, some jurors have opened up about the deliberations that resulted in the mixed verdict of guilty on three charges, an acquittal on another, and a mistrial on three charges.

In the end, jurors ultimately found Weinstein guilty of rape and two counts of sexual assault related to Jane Doe 1, an actress who said the producer raped her in her hotel room in Feb. 2013.

However, the jury was deadlocked when it came to the accusations brought forth by Jennifer Seibel Newsom,...

Three women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct and assault expressed relief, and some disappointment, after the disgraced producer was hit with three guilty verdicts, but also an acquittal and two mistrials in a Los Angeles court yesterday.

One of the women to speak up was Jane Doe 3, a masseuse whose sexual assault accusation against Weinstein was the only one that came back with a not guilty verdict. “After enduring the process of having my traumas thrown under a microscope for the entire world to examine, the verdict...

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape by a Los Angeles jury on Monday, marking the second conviction in as many states for the disgraced Hollywood mogul.

Weinstein was also found guilty of two other sexual assault charges involving one of the four women whose accusations formed the case for prosecutors. The jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on the other charges.

The jury reached the verdict on Monday afternoon after nine days of deliberations that spanned more than two weeks. The trial itself lasted for over four weeks and heard from dozens of witnesses, including the four women who accused the former film producer of sexually assaulting them.

Weinstein, 70, still has roughly 21 years left on his sentence in New York after a rape and sexual assault conviction there that is under appeal.

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After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape and sexual assault of just one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing.

But the three guilty counts involving an Italian actor and model known at the trial as Jane Doe 1 still struck a major blow against the disgraced movie mogul, and provided another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.

Weinstein, 70, who is two years into a 23-year sentence for a rape and sexual assault conviction in New York that is under appeal, could get up to 24 years in prison in California when he’s sentenced.

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He was found guilty of rape,...

A Los Angeles jury convicted Harvey Weinstein Monday of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault involving an Italian actress he forced himself on after pushing his way into her Los Angeles hotel room during a film festival in February 2013.

The sexual assault counts were forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object.

After deliberating 10 days, the jury failed to reach verdicts on the rape and oral copulation charges related to Jennifer Seibel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and the sexual battery...

Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday on three charges of rape and sexual assault.

But in a split verdict, the jury acquitted him of one other charge and could not reach a unanimous verdict on three other counts.

The jury convicted Weinstein of raping an Italian model, identified at the trial as Jane Doe #1, at the Mr. C hotel in February 2013.

The jury acquitted him of the felony sexual battery of a massage therapist, identified as Jane Doe #3. And they were split on charges involving two other accusers — Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Lauren Young. The jurors voted 10-2 to convict him on a charge of sexual battery against Young; and 8-4 in favor of conviction on charges of rape and forcible oral copulation of Siebel Newsom.

Judge Lisa B. Lench declared a mistrial on the three charges on which the jury was deadlocked. District Attorney George Gascón said the office would...

The prosecutor in the Harvey Weinstein trial urged a jury on Thursday to find him guilty on seven counts of rape and sexual assault.

“We know the despicable conduct the defendant engaged in,” said Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez. “We know he thought he was so powerful that people would excuse his behavior. ‘That’s just Harvey being Harvey.’ ‘That’s just Hollywood’ And for so long, that’s what everyone did. Everyone just turned their heads. It’s time for the defendant’s reign of terror to end.”

Martinez wrapped up her closing argument on Thursday morning, after beginning on Wednesday afternoon. She went methodically through each of the counts, arguing that the prosecution had met its burden to find Weinstein guilty. She also displayed a composite photo of all eight women who had testified together.

Defense attorney Alan Jackson began his closing argument around 11 a.m., and spoke...

After a brief few days, Harvey Weinstein’s defense has rested its case in the former Hollywood mogul’s Los Angeles rape and sexual assault case.

Weinstein’s attorneys, Alan Jackson and Mark Werksman, called a total of six witnesses, presenting their case over the course of two days this week. The prosecution’s case was much lengthier, spanning nearly a month with 44 witnesses taking the stand.

Closing arguments will begin later on Wednesday afternoon and are expected to wrap up this week, then sending the case into the jury’s hands. Deliberations will likely start by the end of this week and carry into next week before a verdict is reached.

Weinstein faces seven charges and a maximum sentence of 60 years. He is facing two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault in Los Angeles. Eight women testified with sexual assault accusations against Weinstein through the trial,...

The prosecution has rested its case in the People vs. Harvey Weinstein.

The Los Angeles trial is expected to last a total of two months, heading into December. On Thursday, the jury was told they would reconvene after Thanksgiving when the defense begins with its case on Nov. 28.

Weinstein — who was already convicted in New York and is in the midst of serving his 23-year sentence — is facing seven charges in the sprawling Los Angeles case: two charges of rape and five counts of sexual assault. On these counts, he faces 60 years, if convicted.

Originally, Weinstein was facing 11 charges and a maximum sentencing of 140 years. Jane Doe #5, who was associated with these charges, is no longer part of the case, so Weinstein won a motion for four charges to be dismissed. Prosecutors said earlier this week that they would not proceed with testimony from Jane Doe #5, but offered no explanation.

After being subpoenaed by the prosecution, a social media influencer reluctantly took the stand, after she was given assurances that she would not be charged as Harvey Weinstein’s accomplice.

Claudia Salinas, a dancer and influencer who met Weinstein in the early 2000’s, was called by the prosecution, who questioned Salinas as to whether she led Jane Doe #2 up to Weinstein’s hotel room where a sexual assault allegedly took place. Salinas disputed the alleged version of events.

Prior to her testimony, Salinas appeared before the judge on Tuesday with her attorney, Scott Rosenblum, who expressed concerns over her testifying and suggested she might invoke the fifth amendment.

Deputy district attorney Paul Thompson said Rosenblum asked if his client, Salinas, could be charged as an accomplice. “I told him I haven’t charged her yet, I have no intention of charging her, but it is still within statute,” Thompson said,...

In a fiery display of courtroom theatrics, Harvey Weinstein’s defense attorney aimed to poke holes in Jane Doe #2’s account of an alleged 2013 sexual assault by zeroing in on the timeline and specific details pertaining to her accusations.

Tuesday’s cross-examination was the most animated courtroom session thus far in Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial. In an effort to dramatically act out parts of Jane Doe #2’s story, while picking it apart, one of Weinstein’s attorneys, Alan Jackson, pounded on the podium at one point and pushed a chair across the floor at another. It was the most visible reaction seen from Weinstein, who laughed at his attorney’s commentary one time, and later, shook his head in disagreement with the woman testifying.

Lauren Young — who is known in this case as Jane Doe #2 — has alleged that Weinstein masturbated in front of her and groped her breasts after...

An aspiring actor and screenwriter who met Harvey Weinstein in 2013 to pitch a script testified that a business meeting went horribly wrong she was sexually assaulted by the former Hollywood producer who suddenly undressed himself, groped her breasts and masturbated.

Lauren Young, who previously testified in Weinstein’s New York trial in 2020, took the stand in the already-convicted rapist’s criminal trial in Los Angeles last Friday with her testimony continuing through Monday. In New York, she was called by the prosecution as a “prior bad acts” uncharged witness, but in the current trial, her allegations carry a charge of sexual battery by restraint.

Young — who is being referred to as Jane Doe #2 in the Los Angeles trial — is the only woman to testify in both trials.

Though Weinstein has been convicted of rape and sexual assault in New York, where he was sentenced to 23 years in prison, the Los...

Harvey Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence on rape and sexual assault charges, which make him ineligible for parole until after his 87th birthday. He’s also facing additional charges in Los Angeles that carry a maximum sentence of 140 years.

But the disgraced producer could go free in just a few months if a New York appeals court overturns his conviction.

Five justices heard arguments on the case on Wednesday, and three of them expressed serious concern about the testimony admitted at trial. One justice, Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, referred to the use of uncharged allegations as “overkill” and “piling on.”

Weinstein’s attorneys are not making any predictions about how the court will rule, but they are feeling optimistic.

“I think it couldn’t have gone better,” said Donna Rotunno, the lead defense lawyer at Weinstein’s trial, who said that the line of questioning felt like “a wish list of...

Several appellate justices said Wednesday that they worried that Harvey Weinstein had been subjected to “overkill” at his criminal trial in New York last year.

Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, is appealing his conviction on charges of sexual assault and third degree rape, which resulted in a sentence of 23 years in prison.

At a hearing before the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, on Wednesday, three of the five justices expressed serious concerns that Justice James Burke had erred by allowing prejudicial evidence at trial that could impugn Weinstein’s character.

“You’re really arguing this was not overkill?” Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels asked Valerie Figueredo, the assistant district attorney representing the Manhattan D.A.’s office.

The defense has argued that Burke should not have allowed three women — Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff and Lauren Young — to testify at the trial. Each of them alleged that Weinstein had sexually assaulted them after...

Update (4/12): A grand jury indicted Harvey Weinstein on 11 counts of sexual assault, the Los Angeles Times reports. The indictment doesn’t feature any new charges and was reportedly part of a procedural move to skip a preliminary hearing and make sure the trial itself can move quickly (Covid-19 has created a massive backlog of cases in the Los Angeles court system).

The new indictment comes as Weinstein appeared in a New York court for a hearing about his extradition to Los Angeles for the trial there. As Deadline reports,...

Harvey Weinstein appealed on Monday the rape and felony sex crime conviction at his New York criminal trial, arguing that a specific juror who had written a novel about “predatory older men,” and the admission of prior bad acts witnesses, affected his ability to have a fair trial.

Weinstein was convicted last year of a first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape after a months-long trial that heard the testimonies of six women who accused the former Hollywood mogul of sexual assault. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

But in Monday’s 166-page appeal, Weinstein’s defense took issue with a juror who they claimed was dishonest during jury selection about the themes of her novel.

“Juror No. 11 was unqualified to sit as a juror at Mr. Weinstein’s trial from the start and should have been excused for cause upon defense counsel’s discovery that she had misrepresented...

Harvey Weinstein has been hit with six new sexual assault charges in his Los Angeles criminal case, the L.A. District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday.

The amended complaint added an additional three felony counts of forcible rape and three felony counts of forcible oral copulation; Weinstein now faces a total of four counts each of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation, two counts of sexual battery by restraint and one count of sexual penetration by use of force. If convicted, Weinstein faces up to 140 years to life in prison.

The six new charges stem from accusations that Weinstein raped a woman at a Beverly Hills hotel between September 2004 and 2005 and raped another woman, twice, in November 2009 and November 2010 at a Beverly Hills hotel.

“I am thankful to the first women who reported these crimes and whose courage have given strength to others to come forward,” L.A. District...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has requested temporary custody of Harvey Weinstein from the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision so that he can face charges of rape and sexual assault in L.A.

The Monday request comes a day after reports that Weinstein tested positive for the novel coronavirus while in prison.

“As for any concerns given the coronavirus pandemic, our office expects that each agency responsible for processing, transporting and housing defendant Weinstein will follow its protocols and public health guidelines,” a spokesperson from the Los Angeles D.A.’s office told TheWrap in a statement.

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An arraignment date has not been set, since the D.A.’s office said it cannot determine when Weinstein will “physically be in Los Angeles,” according to the statement. But once he arrives in the county,...

Convicted rapist and fallen movie producer Harvey Weinstein has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus while in New York State prison. Law enforcement officials confirmed the diagnosis to Deadline on Sunday. Weinstein is now reportedly in medical isolation at the Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, New York. Weinstein was recently transferred to the prison east of Buffalo from New York City’s Rikers Island.

According to the Deadline report of Weinstein’s diagnosis, the New York State Department of Corrections did not respond to a request for comment under policies protecting an individual’s medical records. Weinstein public relations chief Juda Engelmayer, meanwhile, said his team hadn’t been informed of Weinstein’s condition.

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On Wednesday morning, sexual assault survivors all over the world sighed a breath of relief after a Manhattan judge declared that former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein — convicted of rape and a forcible sexual act — would be sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Inside the Manhattan courtroom, the group of six women who accused Weinstein of assault and testified during the months-long trial — Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, Annabella Sciorra, Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff, and Lauren Young — embraced one another in tears as they heard that Weinstein would be behind bars for close to the maximum possible sentence. And on the opposite coast, mornings were punctuated by the ping-ping-ping of notifications from survivor group texts containing all-caps messages expressing joy and victory.

“I had just got out of the shower and I was like, ‘What the heck?'” Weinstein silence breaker Louise Godbold told TheWrap in Los Angeles, where she was in the...

After Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday on charges of sexual assault and third degree rape, entertainment industry heavyweights were vocal in reacting to the powerful outcome that marked the downfall of a man who was once one of the most influential and powerful figures in Hollywood.

Before his sentencing, Weinstein addressed the Manhattan courtroom where he expressed his “deep remorse,” but also that he was “totally confused” in regards to the #MeToo movement and its impact on the country.

“I think men are confused about all of this, “Weinstein said. “This feeling of thousands of men and women who are losing due process, I’m worried about this country.”

Time’s Up, an advocacy group formed as the #MeToo movement roiled Hollywood, issued a statement after the news. “First and foremost, we are grateful for the courage and strength of Mimi Haleyi, Jessica Mann, Annabella Sciorra, Dawn Dunning,...

Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence has been met with hope in the U.K., where industry figures hope to see justice meted out for transatlantic victims of the disgraced movie mogul.

Wednesday’s outcome has been hailed a major victory that will set a groundbreaking precedent for future cases. Most importantly, the sentence proves that the “law can work,” according lawyer Jill Greenfield, who is representing six individuals in a group civil suit against Weinstein in the U.K.

Greenfield, a personal injury lawyer who began civil proceedings against the producer shortly after the scandal broke in 2017, tells Variety: “When I started this case, I said no one is above the law and I hoped that was going to be right, and this sentence proves to me that that really is right. It should embolden women around the world because the law works.”

Greenfield’s civil case, which is still “live,...

Harvey Weinstein’s defense team may think his sentence is “obscene,” but mere minutes after the much-accused prodicer was sentenced to almost the maximum for his sex crimes conviction, the Manhattan District Attorney that put the once mighty movie mogul away hailed the 23 years behind bars as giving “hope.”

“We thank the court for imposing a sentence that puts sexual predators and abusive partners in all segments of society on notice,” declared Cyrus Vance Jr on Wednesday from NYC’s Criminal Courts building.

Though Assistant D.A.s Joan Illuzzi-Orbon and Meghan Hast took point in the weeks long case, patrician Vance was in the 15th floor courtroom this morning with them as Judge James Burke handed the 67-year old Weinstein 20 years in prison for his conviction on first-degree sexual assault and three years for third-degree rape. Accusers Jessica Mann, Miriam “Mimi” Haley, Annabella Sciorra, Tarale Wulff, Lauren Young, and...

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in jail on Wednesday after being convicted on third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act.

Jessica Mann, one of Weinstein’s victims, raised her arm in triumph upon leaving the courtroom. Some in the hallway applauded. Watch her emotional reaction below:

Cheers break out after Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault pic.twitter.com/PZMYe8wtdk

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 11, 2020

Following Weinstein’s sentencing, 24 Silence Breakers — women who have spoken out against sexual misconduct by the movie mogul and other men in power — released the following statement:

“Harvey Weinstein’s legacy will always be that he’s a convicted rapist. He is going to jail – but no amount of jail time will repair the lives he ruined, the careers he destroyed, or the damage he has caused.

“The Silence Breaker community was founded on solidarity, support, and compassion.

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday morning in New York City for his recent rape and criminal sexual assault convictions. Last month, the former Hollywood heavyweight was found guilty of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree.

Weinstein was eligible for nearly 30 years of potential combined sentencing time, though experts had posited that he was likely to be sentenced to 10 to 15 years from Judge James Burke. Reflecting on the severity of the sentence he ultimately handed down, Burke said to Weinstein during sentencing, “This is your first conviction. It is not your first offense.”

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The New York trial covered five criminal counts, including two of predatory sexual assault, one involving Miriam Haley and actress Annabella Sciorra,...

Updated with Weinstein quotes Harvey Weinstein, his handcuffs temporarily removed and likening himself to Hollywood’s blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, was sentenced to 23 years in prison today, with New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke dismissing pleas from the former Hollywood mogul and newly convicted rapist for the minimum five-year hitch.

The judge delivered the sentence to a packed courtroom, with accusers who testified during the trial — Jessica Mann, Miriam “Mimi” Haley, Annabella Sciorra, Tarale Wulff, Lauren Young, and Dawn Dunning — filling the first two rows of the courtroom. They, along with supporter and witness Rosie Perez and attorney Gloria Allred, entered the courtroom as a group, prior to Weinstein’s arrival.

“The sentence just handed down by this court was obscene,” Weinstein’s attorney Donna Rotunno told reporters outside the courthouse. “That number was obnoxious. There are murderers who will get out of court (sic) faster than Harvey Weinstein will.

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in a New York State prison on charges of sexual assault and third-degree rape and will be formally registered as a sex offender. It’s the culmination of a stunning fall for a man who was one of the most influential and powerful figures in Hollywood.

Before the sentencing was delivered, Weinstein addressed a packed Manhattan courtroom and said he had “deep remorse.” But he showed little contrition. In a rambling speech he also pushed back at the #MeToo movement, implying that it had gone too far, while talking up his charity work.

“I am totally confused,” he said. “I think men are confused about all of this…this feeling of thousands of men and women who are losing due process. I’m worried about this country.”

“This is not the right atmosphere in the United States of America,” Weinstein added.

Weinstein said...

During a TV interview this week, attorney Gloria Allred said the scope of Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial will widen to allow more women to take the stand than in New York.

“You’re going to see more women who are going to be testifying in that L.A. case,” Allred said on “The View.” “I think Mr. Weinstein is in a world of trouble, and this is not going to end for a while.”

Allred represents Lauren Young, a model who testified as a “prior bad acts” witness in New York, telling the jury that Weinstein grabbed her breasts and masturbated in a Beverly Hills hotel bathroom in 2013.

Assuming the Los Angeles case goes to trial, she will have to testify again. On Jan. 6, the L.A. District Attorney filed four charges against Weinstein for rape and sexual assault, based on the allegations of Young and of an...

Harvey Weinstein, convicted in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday of rape and a forcible sexual act, may be awaiting his March 11 sentencing from prison, but another courtroom saga lies ahead of him on the other side of the country — and a timeline for that case may come sooner rather than later.

“Justice delayed is justice denied,” Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor who now runs West Coast Trial Lawyers, told TheWrap. Since the L.A. district attorney’s office has “already taken a backseat to New York,” he said, “I would expect L.A. to writ Weinstein over as soon as possible to face these charges.”

In January, just as jury selection was beginning in New York, the L.A. district attorney’s office charged Weinstein based on the accounts of two women: an unnamed Italian actress and model who said the convicted producer raped her at a Beverly Hills Hotel in 2013 and Lauren Young,...

Update, video added In an appearance on ABC’s The View today, Miriam “Mimi” Haley, whose courtroom testimony of being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein resulted in a conviction that could see the ex-producer in prison for 25 years, spoke out against the victim-blaming tactic of Weinstein’s defense team.

Without mentioning defense attorney Donna Rotunno by name, Haley told The View audience, “I don’t think we should be telling people, like Harvey Weinstein’s attorney did, ‘Don’t put yourself in that position.” She added that the message should be, “Don’t rape people.”

Throughout the trial, Rotunno and other defense attorneys portrayed Weinstein’s accusers, including Haley, as women used the producer for career advancement and failed to accept responsibility for the results. Rotunno said on a New York Times podcast that she had never been sexually assaulted because she had never put herself in “any vulnerable circumstance.

Before being found guilty by a jury and handcuffed on his way to jail, Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual misconduct, harassment, assault or rape by at least 100 women.

On Monday morning, the possibility of Weinstein being imprisoned seemed impossible, to some. How could one of Hollywood’s most powerful men end up behind bars? By Monday afternoon, that question became a reality.

Weinstein was convicted on a charge of criminal sex act and a charge of rape in the third-degree. He faces a maximum sentence of 29 years. The former movie mogul faced five sex crimes charges in his rape trial, which marked the first criminal trial of the #MeToo movement.

Despite allegations from over 100 women, the criminal trial was largely based on the accusations of just two women: Jessica Mann and Miriam Haley.

Mann, who admitted during her testimony to a partly consensual, yet complex and abusive, relationship with...

“This trial – and the jury’s decision today – marks a new era of justice.”

Time’s Up Foundation president and CEO Tina Tchen said on Monday (February 24) that the guilty verdict against Harvey Weinstein on two lesser charges marked “a new era of justice”.

In a statement, Tchen, who heads the group that launched two years ago in response to the Weinstein allegations and the #MeToo movement, said, “This trial – and the jury’s decision today – marks a new era of justice, not just for the Silence Breakers, who spoke out at great personal risk, but for all survivors of harassment,...

A jury in New York found former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of two felony sex crimes involving two different women: Committing a criminal sex act in the first degree, and rape in the third degree. However, the jury also ruled that Weinstein was not guilty of three other more serious charges against him: two counts of predatory assault, and rape in the first degree.

After the verdict was read, Justice James M. Burke, who presided over the trial, told the court that Weinstein would be sent to jail until his sentencing on March 11th.

Harvey Weinstein, the former media mogul and co-founder of The Weinstein Company, has been convicted of rape and sexual assault. Weinstein has been on trial in New York since January, facing several of his many accusers in a court of law, representing one of the most significant moments in the #MeToo movement to date. Now, Weinstein faces 25 years or more in prison.

A jury of 12, comprised of seven men and five women, officially convicted Harvey Weinstein of criminal sexual assault in the first degree and rape in the third degree after five days of deliberation. Weinstein was facing five possible counts in total, including two counts of predatory sexual assault, the most serious charges brought against him, which the jury did not convict him on. Judge James Burke had this to say to the jury following the verdict.

"Thank you for the care and concentration, concern and attention you have given to your deliberations.

Monday’s news of the conviction of Harvey Weinstein on counts of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree has been applauded by Hollywood as a #MeToo victory — including by those whose voices helped start the movement back in 2017. Though Weinstein’s sentencing won’t take place until March 1, and an appeal from his attorneys is reportedly already underway, the entertainment community where the movie-producer-turned-convicted-rapist once maintained powerful influence, nonetheless, is in a celebratory mood.

That includes on Twitter, where critical #MeToo figureheads such as the New Yorker journalist Ronan Farrow, actress and activist Ashley Judd (whose sexual harassment claim against Weinstein was dismissed by a judge in January 2019), and actor and Kevin Spacey accuser Anthony Rapp, all championed the news.

Annabella Sciorra, who testified that Weinstein raped her in the winter of 1993, also released a statement on Monday. “I spoke for myself and...

“This trial – and the jury’s decision today – marks a new era of justice.”

Time’s Up Foundation president and CEO Tina Tchen said on Monday (24) that the guilty verdict against Harvey Weinstein on two lesser charges marked

In a statement Tchen, who heads the group that launched two years ago in response to the Weinstein allegations and the #MeToo movement, said, “This trial – and the jury’s decision today – marks a new era of justice, not just for the Silence Breakers, who spoke out at great personal risk, but for all survivors of harassment, abuse, and assault at work.

Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on charges of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree drew a quick reaction from entertainment industry figures on its meaning for the MeToo movement.

“The beginning of #justice. More to come, my sisters,” wrote actress Mira Sorvino, one of dozens of women who have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct.

The beginning of #justice. More to come, my sisters. #weinsteinguilty

— Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) February 24, 2020

Weinstein was acquitted of more serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which carried the potential for life in prison.

But the Silence Breakers, a group that have come forward to allege misconduct on the part of Weinstein, issued a statement in which they said, “While it is disappointing that today’s outcome does not deliver the true, full justice that so many women deserve, Harvey Weinstein will now forever be known as a convicted serial predator.

As Harvey Weinstein still sits in court after a jury found the much-accused producer guilty on two counts in his New York City rape trial, Time’s Up’s CEO says today “marks a new era of justice.

“The jury’s verdict sends a powerful message to the world of just how much progress has been made since the Weinstein Silence Breakers ignited an unstoppable movement,” declared Tina Tchen on Monday morning.

“While we celebrate this historic moment, our fight to fix the broken system that has allowed serial abusers like Harvey Weinstein to abuse women in the first place continues,” the organization’s CEO and president added. “Abusers everywhere and the powerful forces that protect them should be on notice: There’s no going back” (See the full Time’s Up statement below)

Now facing up to 25 years behind bars for the sex crimes he was convicted of, Weinstein was...

Tina Tchen, president and CEO of the Time’s Up Foundation, on Monday hailed the criminal conviction of disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was found guilty by a New York jury of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act.

“This trial — and the jury’s decision today — marks a new era of justice, not just for the Silence Breakers, who spoke out at great personal risk, but for all survivors of harassment, abuse, and assault at work,” she said.

She went on to credit individual women, including several who testified in the case for speaking out: “We owe a debt of gratitude to Mimi Haleyi, Jessica Mann, Annabella Sciorra, Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff,and Lauren Young and all the Silence Breakers for their bravery and resolve as they faced this man in court. We continue to believe them — all of them — and continue to be in solidarity with them.