LOS ANGELES - Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood titan who came to epitomise a culture of pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men that ignited the #MeToo movement, was sentenced on Thursday (Feb 23) to 16 years in prison for the 2013 rape of an actress in Los Angeles. The sentence, imposed as a consecutive penalty to the 23-year prison term...
LOS ANGELES - Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood titan who came to epitomise a culture of pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men that ignited the #MeToo movement, was sentenced on Thursday to 16 years in prison for the 2013 rape of an actress in Los Angeles.
The charges stemmed from an assault on a former model and actress, identified in court as Jane Doe 1, at a Los Angeles hotel in February 2013. Defense counsel Mark Werksman asked that Weinstein get no more than three years for each of the three counts on which he was convicted, to be served concurrent to one another, arguing the charges stemmed from "one continuing sexual assault" that occurred in "one frenzied 10- to 15-minute ordeal," rather than as three separate criminal acts.
"This is a made-up story. Jane Doe 1 is an actress. She can turn the tears on," Weinstein told the judge. "Please don't sentence me to life in prison."It marked the latest low point in a remarkable fall from grace for the co-founder of Miramax Films, the wildly successful US movie production and distribution house that produced such films as Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction.
One of them, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, now the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, had disclosed she was the alleged rape victim referred to in court records as Jane Doe 4.
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