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May302020 by adminNo Comments

Harvey Weinstein: Four more women accuse producer of assault

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Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of sexual assault by four further women as he serves a 23-year prison sentence.Court documents filed in New York on Thursday allege several sexual offences dating from 1984 to 2013.One of the four anonymous women was 17 at the time of an alleged attack.Weinstein's legal representative told BBC News: "Mr Weinstein intends to defend against the claims filed anonymously against him yesterday."The lawyer, Imran H Ansari of Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins PC, added: "Some of these claims, including those alleged to have occurred in the 1980s and 1990s, may be barred by the applicable statute of limitations, and not subject to any exceptions under the law, as these plaintiffs do no...

Mar232020 by adminNo Comments

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus in prison

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Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus, a US federal prison union official has said. The former Hollywood producer has been placed in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison east of Buffalo, New York. He was moved from New York City's Rikers Island jail where he is serving a 23-year sentence.The president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, Michael Powers, said he learned that Weinstein's test came back positive on Sunday morning.Several prison staff have since been quarantined, Mr Powers added. ...

Mar62020 by adminNo Comments

Harvey Weinstein moved from hospital to jail ahead of sentencing

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Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been moved from hospital to an infirmary unit at Rikers Island jail in New York City.Weinstein was found guilty on 24 February of one count of carrying out a criminal sex act on a woman in 2006 and one count of third-degree rape for a 2013 attack on another woman. But instead of being taken straight to prison to await his sentencing, he was taken from the court in Manhattan to Bellevue Hospital due to concerns about his blood pressure and heart palpitations. Weinstein's spokesman Juda Engelmayer said the 67-year-old had a "successful" heart procedure but gave no further details.Weinstein also has a number of other health conditions, according to his lawyers - back problems following a car crash last summer and a condition that requires ...

Feb242020 by adminNo Comments

Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in watershed case

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of sexual assaults, including rape, capping a stunning downfall for the former Hollywood mogul and a victory for the #MeToo movement.Weinstein, 67, was convicted in New York City of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act. He was cleared of the most serious count of predatory sexual assault. He faces up to 25 years in prison.He still faces charges in Los Angeles of assaulting two women in 2013.At least 80 women had accused him of sexual misconduct stretching back decades, including actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Uma Thurman and Salma Hayek. The allegations were at the centre of the #MeToo movement that inspired women to go public with misconduct all...

Feb142020 by adminNo Comments

Weinstein lawyers wrap up as mogul faces potential life sentence

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Harvey Weinstein saw aspiring actresses as "complete disposables", lawyers have said in the closing statements of his rape trial.Mimicking the Hollywood mogul, prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said: "The universe is run by me and they don't get to complain when they get stepped on, spit on, demoralised and, yes, raped and abused by me - the king." Weinstein, 67, is accused of five counts, including rape and predatory sexual assault, relating to two women.The jury will decide his fate next week and he could get a life sentence if found guilty.Weinstein insists all the sexual encounters were consensual. ...