Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein guilty of sex crimes in NYC retrial

Weinstein, erstwhile 1 of the astir almighty figures successful Hollywood, had been accused of rape and assaults.

A assemblage successful New York City has recovered Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced, erstwhile movie mogul, blameworthy connected a enactment crimes complaint successful a retrial aft a authorities appeals tribunal past twelvemonth overturned its archetypal 2020 conviction, which had been an inflection constituent for the #MeToo movement.

Jurors, successful a majority-female jury,  reached their verdict Wednesday connected the 5th time of astatine times quarrelsome deliberations. He was acquitted of different charge, and jurors were arsenic yet incapable to scope a verdict connected a 3rd charge.

Weinstein, erstwhile 1 of the astir almighty figures successful Hollywood, was accused by prosecutors of raping an aspiring histrion and assaulting 2 different women.

The 73-year-old had pleaded not blameworthy and continues to contradict assaulting anyone oregon having non-consensual sex, contempt aggregate women contending helium did. More than 100 women, including celebrated actresses, person accused Weinstein of intersexual misconduct.

In closing arguments connected June 3, the prosecution told the 12 jurors that the grounds showed however Weinstein utilized his powerfulness and power to trap and maltreatment women.

The defence enactment guardant that the accusers had lied connected the basal retired of a benignant of spite aft consensual intersexual encounters failed to pb to Hollywood stardom.

The retrial began connected April 23. Weinstein has had a litany of wellness problems and attended the retrial successful a wheelchair.

In the retrial, Weinstein was charged with raping aspiring histrion Jessica Mann successful 2013, assaulting erstwhile accumulation adjunct Miriam Haley successful 2006 and assaulting Kaja Sokola successful 2002 erstwhile she was a 16-year-old aspiring actress.

A assemblage had, successful February 2020, recovered Weinstein blameworthy of raping Mann and sexually assaulting Haley. Sokola’s allegation was not portion of that case.

That high-profile condemnation was captious to bolstering the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to travel guardant with allegations of intersexual misconduct by almighty men.

But the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, threw retired that condemnation successful April 2024. It said the proceedings justice erred by letting women attest that Weinstein had assaulted them, though their accusations were not the ground of the transgression charges.

Weinstein, however, has remained down bars due to the fact that of his 2022 rape condemnation successful California, which resulted successful a 16-year situation sentence. He is inactive appealing that verdict.

Weinstein co-founded the Miramax studio, whose deed movies included “Shakespeare successful Love” and “Pulp Fiction.”