Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another #MeToo moment of reckoning
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Lacking any forensic evidence or eyewitness accounts of assaults Weinstein’s accusers said happened from 2005 to 2013, the case hinged heavily on the stories and credibility of the four women at the center of the charges. Lauren Young, the only accuser who testified at both Weinstein trials, said she was a model aspiring to be an actor and screenwriter who was meeting with Weinstein about a script in 2013 when he trapped her in a hotel bathroom, groped her and masturbated in front of her.A massage therapist testified that Weinstein did the same to her after getting a massage in 2010.
The women’s stories echoed the allegations of dozens of others who have emerged since Weinstein became a #MeToo lightning rod starting with stories in the New York Times in 2017. A movie about that reporting, “She Said,” was released during the trial, and jurors were repeatedly warned not to see it. “Regret is not the same thing as rape,” Weinstein attorney Alan Jackson said in his closing argument.Article content“‘Believe us because we’re mad, believe us because we cried,”’ Jackson said jurors were being asked to do. “Well, fury does not make fact. And tears do not make truth.”
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