The retrial of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in New York ended on Thursday with a conviction, an acquittal, and a mistrial after weeks of testimony. Weinstein was convicted in 2020 of rape and criminal sexual assault, but the state’s highest court overturned the conviction last year, saying that accusers who were not part of …
A New York judge halted Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial Thursday, declaring a mistrial on the third-degree rape charge after the jury foreman refused to rejoin deliberations. ABC News reports that a foreman told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Curtis Farber he feared his fellow jurors, claiming they yelled at him in an attempt to pressure his …
New York prosecutors said on Thursday that jailed producer Harvey Weinstein is facing a new indictment, after his conviction for sex crimes was overturned in April. The New York Times reported that the indictment is sealed as Weinstein, 72, remains hospitalized and has not been arraigned. Prosecutors said they informed Weinstein’s attorney that they presented …
Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, 72, had emergency heart surgery Monday after experiencing chest pains and being transported from Rikers Island to a Manhattan hospital late Sunday, according to his lawyer. Weinstein, currently held in jail awaiting his second trial on sex crimes charges, was moved to Bellevue Hospital after notifying his lawyers that he …
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has appealed that 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles appeals court. Attorneys filed the appeal on Friday after a series of extensions to give them more time to file the documents, KCBS reported. The disgraced movie mogul was convicted in December 2022 of sexually assaulting an actress in a Los Angeles …
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein rolled into a Manhattan court in a wheelchair Wednesday as prosecutors said they may have more claims of sexual misconduct before his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. An appeals court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction, which sent him to prison for 23 years, in April, as CrimeOnline reported. The …
New York’s highest court has overturned the 2020 rape conviction against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, ruling that the judge in the trial made “egregious” improper rulings. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” the court’s 4-3 decision …
Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years behind bars Thursday in Los Angeles for raping a woman after a 2013 film festival. According to Variety, the conviction comes two months after a jury convicted Weinstein in December on three counts of sexual assault and rape. Weinstein had already been convicted in another …
A dancer in 2004’s “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” testified this week that disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein masturbated on her during the filming of the “reimagining” of 1987 blockbuster “Dirty Dancing.” The dancer, identified as Ashley M., is not one of the five Jane Does accusing Weinstein of rape and sexual assault in Los Angeles, …
