By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was indicted Wednesday on rape and criminal sex act charges, furthering the first criminal case to arise from a slate of sexual misconduct allegations against the former movie mogul. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said the indictment brings Weinstein “another step closer to …
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein won’t testify before the New York grand jury that’s weighing whether to indict him on rape and other sex charges, according to a statement issued through a spokesman Wednesday. The statement said Weinstein’s lawyers decided there wasn’t enough time to prepare him to testify. They say he learned the …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Friday on rape and other charges in the first criminal prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him that sparked a national reckoning over sexual …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ashley Judd sued Harvey Weinstein on Monday, saying the former movie mogul hurt her acting career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances. In the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Judd accuses Weinstein of defamation, sexual harassment and violating California’s unfair competition law. Judd was in the …
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office dropped an investigation into sexual assault despite apparent audio confession from Weinstein
A man stabbed himself in the neck in Manhattan’s tony West Village neighborhood on Monday, leaving a trail of blood on one of the most sought-after residential blocks in New York City. The New York Post reports that Damon Tolstoy, 48, drove a knife through his own neck on Bank Street Monday morning, just above the …
Actress Uma Thurman has broken her silence to accuse disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. In an explosive interview with The New York Times, Thurman, 47, said the incidents with Weinstein, 65, began after working on Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction. “I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,” she recalled. “He used to spend …
The hits keep coming for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein as British authorities announce they are investigating two more claims of sexual assault against him. According to the Daily Mail, the latest allegations come from the same woman and include a 2011 incident in Westminster and another incident she said occurred outside of the United …
A video appears to show a drunk patron slapping embattled producer Harvey Weinstein in an Arizona restaurant on Tuesday night. The man, who identified himself to TMZ as Steve, claimed he spotted Weinstein with his sober coach at Elements restaurant in the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale. Steve said he approached the 65-year-old and …
In a harrowing first-person essay, Hayek details the harrowing experience of working with Weinstein, who she says tried to derail her passion project ‘Frida’ out of vengeance
Jeff Herman is a lawyer known for filing controversial sex assault lawsuits. His latest include two lawsuits against Hollywood super-producer Harvey Weinstein and another against X-Men director Brian Singer. Herman discusses these cases with Nancy Grace in this Crime Stories episode. Grace also questions Herman about a rape accusation filed against him two decades ago …
Uma Thurman posted a photo on Instagram Thursday that suggested she may have been yet another victim of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein. The Thanksgiving message directly addressed Weinstein and included the hashtag “metoo” in reference to the social media campaign launched by women telling their stories of sexual harassment. “I am grateful today, to …
