Disgraced US movie producer Harvey Weinstein is to be tried for a 3rd time in a sexual assault case.
A jury in New York couldn’t attain a verdict in June towards the 73-year-old who was accused of raping actress Jessica Mann, and a mistrial was declared.
Decide Curtis Farber has mentioned he desires the brand new trial to occur earlier than the tip of this yr.
The identical jury discovered Weinstein responsible in June of sexually assaulting former Mission Runway manufacturing assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and never responsible of assaulting Polish former runway mannequin Kaja Sokola the identical yr.
Weinstein might be sentenced for the responsible verdict in Ms Haley’s case on 30 September.
He denied all the expenses. All through the retrial, his attorneys insisted the sexual encounters along with his three accusers have been “transactional” and “consensual,” and labelled the ladies as opportunists.
Weinstein was initially convicted of rape and felony sexual act by the identical court docket in 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in jail for the crimes.
Final yr, nonetheless, New York’s highest court docket overturned the conviction, prompting Weinstein’s retrial this summer season.
Weinstein was as soon as one of the vital highly effective folks in Hollywood – the co-founder of movie and tv manufacturing firms Miramax and The Weinstein Firm, who produced movies such because the Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love, Pulp Fiction, and The Crying Sport.
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In 2017, a sequence of sexual misconduct allegations towards him propelled the #MeToo motion.
A few of these accusations later led to felony expenses and his convictions in New York and California.
Earlier than the retrial, Weinstein was additionally serving a 16-year jail sentence after being discovered responsible of rape in California in December 2022. He has additionally denied this cost.
