Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in court on Wednesday (May 1), a week after the state's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction. Weinstein appeared in court before Judge Curtis Farber in a wheelchair, more than four years after his conviction was hailed as a milestone...
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned on April 25 by New York’s highest court, reopening the landmark case that launched the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable. In a 4-3 decision, the state’s Court of Appeals said the trial judge had made a mistake by letting prosecutors introduce...
Harvey Weinstein has been named in another lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and battery. The disgraced film producer is currently serving time in prison after being convicted of rape and sexual assault in December 2022. He is now being sued by actress Julia Ormond, who alleges that he assaulted her in 1995. The actress has also named CAA (her agency at the...
