Harvey Weinstein convicted of rape and sexual assault..the king of cinema faces prison. He was a sexual predator
A Los Angeles jury has found former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape. And my crime other sexual assault.
At the conclusion of two weeks of deliberations, the jury found the defendant guilty of all three charges brought against him by the first of the four women who accused him of sexually assaulting them.
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On the other hand, the jurors acquitted Weinstein of the charges brought against him by the second plaintiff, while they did not reach a verdict on the charges leveled by the remaining two plaintiffs.
The 70-year-old producer of “Pulp Fiction” and “The Artist”, who was dubbed the “King of Cinema”, is serving a 23-year prison sentence issued against him in New York in 2020 on similar sexual charges.
In this new trial, Weinstein faced accusations from four women, whose identities were kept confidential, who detailed how he forced them to have sexual relations with him in hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles between 2004 and 2013. There was a fifth plaintiff who ultimately refused to testify.
After exhausting trial sessions that lasted for weeks, during which the victims often cried, prosecutors described Weinstein as a "ghoul" with great influence in Hollywood (his films were nominated for 330 Oscars and won 81 of them), stressing that this matter discouraged his victims from exposing him. They were reluctant to report it, fearing for their professional future.