The disgraced movie mogul’s 2017 conviction by a jury was overturned seven years later by an appeals court that ruled the way witnesses were handled i...
: The retrial of Harvey Weinstein, whose prosecution and conviction for rape and sex assault ignited the “MeToo” movement, kicks off in New York on Tuesday.
Former Miramax studio boss Weinstein will be in the dock for the sexual assault of former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006, the rape of aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013, and a new count for an alleged sexual assault in 2006 at a hotel in Manhattan. Weinstein is serving a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted on separate rape charges in California in 2023 for raping and assaulting a European actor a decade prior.The producer of a string of box office hits like “Sex, Lies and Videotape,“ “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love,“ Weinstein has appeared frail and gaunt at recent courtroom hearings ahead of the trial.
Weinstein has never acknowledged any wrongdoing and has always maintained that the encounters were consensual.
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