Harvey Weinstein

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape, the Los Angeles Superior Court says.

He was extradited from New York to a Los Angeles prison in July 2021. Weinstein faces up to 18 years in prison on the counts for which he was convicted, but aggravating factors could increase that to 24 years. I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime." "Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back. The jury did not reach a verdict on charges relating to one other woman. Siebel Newsom and three other women offered testimony that provided the basis for the two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault that Weinstein faced.

It's been five years since he became a magnet for the #MeToo movement.

The rape trial of That 70s Show actor Danny Masterson, held simultaneously and just down the hall from Weinstein’s, ended in a mistrial. Weinstein beat four other felony charges before the trial even ended when prosecutors said a woman he was charged with raping twice and sexually assaulting twice would not appear to testify. They were brought to the stand to establish a pattern of sexual predation. Four were other women who were not part of the charges but testified that Weinstein raped or sexually assaulted them. And actor Kevin Spacey was victorious at a sexual battery civil trial in New York last month. A movie about that reporting, She Said, was released during the trial, and jurors were repeatedly warned not to see it. They declined to give a reason. “It is time for the defendant’s reign of terror to end,” Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez said in the prosecution’s closing argument. Weinstein was today found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving a woman known as Jane Doe 1. And tears do not make truth.” A mistrial was declared on those counts. “Well, fury does not make fact.

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by foreign object of one woman Monday in a ...

The 70-year-old is already serving 23 years in jail after he was convicted in New York two years ago.

He was cleared of that attack. When he heard guilty on count one, the former Hollywood producer looked down. Then the court clerk read guilty on count two and he looked at his lawyer. A mistrial was declared on those counts. The woman whom Weinstein was convicted on Monday of raping, Jane Doe 1, was a Russian-born model. The Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction producer and co-founder of the entertainment company Miramax was wearing a grey suit and looked pale at the court in Los Angeles on Monday.

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced former Hollywood film producer, has been found guilty of raping a woman by a Los Angeles court.

“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back. Weinstein was acquitted of sexual battery against an accuser known as Jane Doe 3. Weinstein was found guilty on charges of rape and two sexual assault charges against the accuser Jane Doe 1.

Weinstein's legal trouble is far from over. In London, he faces criminal charges of indecent assault of a woman in 1996.

"Harvey is grateful for the jury's work on the other counts, and he's determined to continue his legal challenges in ultimately proving his innocence." "In Hollywood, sex was a commodity," Weinstein's attorney, Mark Werksman told the jury, saying Weinstein's actions were part of a "casting couch culture." In 2015, she filed a police report that spurred sex crimes prosecutors to investigate Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein is a serial predator and what he did was rape. That movement has exposed sexual misconduct by very powerful men in business, politics and entertainment. To all survivors out there — I see you, I hear you, and I stand with you." Harvey Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood whose many sex crimes helped ignite the #metoo movement, was convicted of 3 of 7 charges in his second sex crimes trial, this time in Los Angeles. "Throughout the trial, Weinstein's lawyers used sexism, misogyny, and bullying tactics to intimidate, demean, and ridicule us survivors. Newsom testified that Weinstein invited her to meet to discuss her career at a hotel in Beverly Hills. For more than a month in court, eight former models and actors vividly described Weinstein attacking them in various hotel rooms. She graphically described how he shoved her onto a bed and raped her. The 70-year-old is already serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York.

The jury in the Harvey Weinstein trial deadlocked on two sentencing factors that could have led to a longer prison term.

The Los Angeles jury acquitted Weinstein of one count and could not reach a verdict on three other counts. She had to decide on the fly how she was going to react.” The prosecution asked the jury to approve two factors: that the victim was “particularly vulnerable” and that Weinstein had planned the assault. 1, a jury must approve “aggravating factors” in order for the judge to sentence him to the maximum term — eight years — on each count. Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson argued Tuesday morning that she was particularly vulnerable because she was thousands of miles from her home in Italy, spoke limited English, and had “very little support structure” in the U.S. Because the jurors could not reach a unanimous decision on those factors, Weinstein will face no more than 18 years in prison on the L.A.