Harvey Weinstein was convicted guilty of rape by a jury in Los Angeles. The now 70-year-old former Hollywood producer was found guilty by the jury of rape, forced oral copulation, and another count of sexual misconduct. He was convicted of the 2013 assault on Jane Doe 1, a former actress and model. After the judgment, Jane Doe released a statement. According to Reuters, she said that “Harvey Weinstein irreversibly destroyed a part of me that night in 2013, and I will never get it back.”
Horrible act
“Although the criminal trial was horrific and Weinstein’s attorneys tortured me while I was testifying. I persisted because I knew I had to see this through to the very end, which I did.” “I really hope Weinstein never leaves his cage during his lifetime.” A Los Angeles jury has found former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of raping a woman.
During the two-month trial, it was revealed that Weinstein had enticed women into private meetings with him before abusing them.
When he is convicted, the 70-year-old Oscar winner may spend up to 24 years behind bars.
After being found guilty of rape and sexual assault in his first trial in New York two years ago. He has already completed nearly 23 years in prison.
The jury exonerated Weinstein on charges involving a second claimed victim but found him guilty of rape. Forced oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object involving one woman.
Sexual assault
The California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was accused of rape on two occasions, and the jury was unable to reach a decision on both cases or on one other woman’s complaints. Weinstein, 70, was found guilty of sexual assault in New York and is currently serving a 23-year jail term.
In Los Angeles, four women accused Weinstein of rape and sexual assault on seven separate occasions between 2004 and 2013. Accusers, including documentary director Siebel Newsom. Claimed Weinstein led them to what they thought were business encounters during five weeks of evidence in the Los Angeles Superior Court. The charges made by Siebel Newsom were among the counts on which Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench declared a mistrial because the jury was unable to reach a decision.
The ladies said that the influential producer of Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction masturbated in front of them and grabbed or molested them during their graphically detailed testimonies. Weinstein was charged with two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault based on evidence from Siebel Newsom and three other women.
Hollywood producer
In support of the prosecution’s claims that Weinstein frequently exploited his position as a powerful figure in Hollywood to prey on women, four other women provided similar accounts. They said that after promising to assist them in getting an audition or a book contract. He set up meetings where his employees vanished. Leaving them alone with him. In his not-guilty plea, Weinstein claimed that all of his sexual interactions were consensual.
The women’s defense lawyers contended that they freely had sex with Weinstein because they thought he would advance their careers as part of what they called a pervasive “casting couch” culture in the movie business. They said that the sexual interaction was faked in two of the cases. Additionally, they emphasized the fact that several of the accusers, like Siebel Newsom. Continued to communicate with Weinstein, which they claimed was inexplicable if he had abused them.
When he is convicted, he might spend up to 24 years in jail. There were no quick comments from prosecutors or defense lawyers about the verdict.
Hollywood producer is unable to violate another woman ever again. His whole life will be spent in prison, which he deserves, according to a statement from Siebel Newsom. Throughout the trial, Weinstein’s attorneys intimidated, belittled, and ridiculed us, survivors. They did this by using sexism, misogyny, and bullying techniques. The trial served as a sobering reminder that our society still has work to do.
Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez made the following statement in the prosecution’s closing argument. It is time for the defendant’s reign of terror to come to an end.”The kingmaker has to be brought to justice.”
The prosecution mostly depended on the claims and veracity of the four women who were at the core of the accusations because there was no forensic proof or eyewitness testimony of the attacks Weinstein’s accusers said occurred from 2005 to 2013.
Last note
The accusers included Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and Gavin Newsom, a documentary director. The trial’s most dramatic moments came from her impassioned and moving evidence of being raped by Weinstein in a hotel room in 2005.
Another was a model and actress from Italy who said that during a 2013 film festival. A Hollywood producer barged through her hotel room door unannounced and sexually assaulted her.