Weinstein faces sentencing, prison in landmark #MeToo case. NEW YORK -- The final act of Harvey Weinstein's rape trial in New York begins Wednesday, when the once-powerful film producer will be sentenced following his landmark #MeToo conviction.
Harvey Weinstein seeks mercy ahead of rape sentencing. Harvey Weinstein has asked for a five-year sentence as he faces 29 years behind bars, ahead of his rape conviction sentencing on Wednesday.
Last month the disgraced Hollywood mogul was convicted on two out of five counts – criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree – after being found guilty by a jury of seven men and five women. The 67-year-old went on trial in early January facing five charges of rape and sexual assault, all of which he pleaded not guilty to. Now Weinstein’s lawyers have argued he deserved mercy for his already ‘historic fall from grace’ and serious health issues. In a letter filed on Monday, as prosecutors sought a severe punishment for the disgraced movie mogul this week, his defence team allegedly asked Judge James Burke to give him only five years behind bars.
He is facing a 29-year maximum term in prison. ‘Mr. Harvey Weinstein’s Jail Sentence: Everything We Know. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.
Procès Weinstein : Sous la pression de la défense, une accusatrice en difficulté à la barre. Harvey Weinstein injected himself to get erection before raping woman, trial hears. Harvey Weinstein was a "seasoned predator" who injected himself to get an erection before raping a woman, a court has heard on the opening day of his trial.
The once-powerful Hollywood producer screamed at the alleged rape victim that she "owed" him sex and forced oral sex on another woman, a jury was told. Weinstein, 67, is standing trial in New York City accused of raping one woman in a hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulting a second woman in 2006. Prosecutors claim that the former movie mogul also raped another woman, Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra, in the 1990s but that allegation is too old to be charged as a separate crime. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to five charges against him and insists any sexual activity was consensual. If convicted, he could face life in prison. The Ms. Q&A: What Ursula Macfarlane Learned by Investigating the Harvey Weinstein Scandal – Ms. Magazine.
Ursula Macfarlane is a UK-based filmmaker whose candid documentaries have gained multiple wins and nominations for the BAFTA, Grierson and Royal Television Society Awards—including One Deadly Weekend in America, a feature documentary tracking gun violence over one July weekend; Captive, for Netflix, Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris; and Breaking Up With The Joneses, a feature documentary about a couple going through a divorce.
Macfarlane’s latest is a documentary that rewinds the clock on the #MeToo movement’s viral explosion—exposing the institutions and individuals who enabled Harvey Weinstein’s career of sexual misconduct, and mapping its impact on women’s lives. Untouchable: The Inside Story of the Harvey Weinstein Scandal, now streaming on Hulu, weaves the harrowing stories of Weinstein’s victims into a larger narrative about corruption, misogyny and the women who toppled one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Where does Untouchable begin? The Opening Statements in the Harvey Weinstein Trial and the Undermining of #MeToo. On Wednesday morning, when the former movie producer Harvey Weinstein hobbled into the courtroom on the fifteenth floor of the New York State Supreme Court building, observers occupying the room’s wooden pews craned their heads toward him simultaneously, as if we were at a wedding where all the guests despised or pitied the bride.
Weinstein, in a black suit, looked lumpy and radiated persecution. Two men in his entourage helped him move to the front of the room, with another following behind, carrying a tennis-ball-bottomed walker. The lighting was flat, like an office break room, the kind that makes you want to eat a stale doughnut and abandon all hope. Seventy journalists had been allowed inside, a reward for lining up outside the building before dawn; one of them opened his laptop to spend several minutes revising a tweet about being in the courtroom.
More than eighty women have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault; he has repeatedly denied the allegations. Harvey Weinstein avait établi une "liste rouge" des femmes susceptibles de le dénoncer. Harvey Weinstein se doutait-il que ses agissements finiraient un jour par faire la une des journaux ?
Visiblement oui, si l’on en croit le détective privé Sam Anson. Ce vendredi 24 janvier, celui-ci s’est exprimé à la barre, au troisième jour de ce procès emblématique du mouvement #MeToo. Lors de son audition, il a notamment expliqué avoir reçu un courrier électronique du célèbre producteur mi-août 2017, soit un peu moins de deux mois avant la publication des révélations du New York Times et du New Yorker. Le message contenait une «liste rouge» de personnes sur lesquelles l'ancien patron du studio Miramax demandait au détective d'enquêter. Peu après, Harvey Weinstein en personne l’aurait appelé pour préciser sa requête. Des noms d'actrices Dans cette liste figuraient entre autres, selon l'enquêteur, les noms des actrices Annabella Sciorra et Rose McGowan.
Harvey Weinstein envoyait des cadeaux glauques à l'une de ses victimes présumées. Ouvert depuis le 6 janvier, le procès d’Harvey Weinstein a connu un moment-clé jeudi 23 janvier.
L’actrice Annabella Sciorra est venue témoigner contre le producteur américain, qu’elle accuse de l’avoir violée chez elle durant l’hiver 1993-94. Un récit de cinq heures durant lequel l’une des instigatrices du mouvement #MeToo a livré quelques détails troublants sur le comportement du magnat de l’industrie cinématographique, peu après leur rencontre au début des années 1990. Interrogée par la subsitut du procureur de Manhattan, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, l’interprète de Gloria Trillo dans Les Soprano a révélé que M.Weinstein lui avait notamment fait parvenir plusieurs « paniers garnis » au contenu obscène.
Le premier paquet envoyé à son appartement de Central Park ouest contenait plusieurs films en VHS, dont la comédie romantique La Dame du vendredi, de la réglisse, du pop-corn et une bouteille de Valium (Diazépam), un puissant anxiolytique.