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Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in jail for the rape of a girl in a Beverly Hills resort room a decade in the past.
The sentence was handed down by a Los Angeles court docket. Mr. Weinstein is already serving a 23-year sentence for his separate 2020 conviction in New York for intercourse crimes.
It will increase the chance that the Academy Award-winning “Shakespeare in Love” producer, 70, will spend the rest of his life in jail — although he’s interesting in each circumstances.
In December, he was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a overseas object of a European actress whose id was not revealed.
The court docket heard express accounts of conferences between the beforehand influential film producer and a number of other younger ladies who have been trying to discover a foothold in Hollywood.
Prosecutors mentioned Mr. Weinstein exploited and abused ladies for years, and lengthy loved impunity due to his then-powerful place in the business.
The ladies would have risked dropping their future Hollywood job prospects if they’d publicly accused Mr. Weinstein on the time, prosecutors mentioned.
Mr. Weinstein was finally convicted in the Los Angeles case of assaulting one girl, however acquitted of sexual battery involving a second.
The jury didn’t attain a verdict on fees relating to the alleged assaults of two different ladies, one among whom was recognized by her legal professionals as Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the now-wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Mr. Weinstein’s legal professionals had filed a protection movement requesting both a brand new trial or a diminished verdict, alleging they have been precluded from admitting vital proof in regards to the rape sufferer — together with Facebook messages with an alleged lover which the decide deemed irrelevant — and that their cross-examination was restricted.
But Judge Lisa Lench denied the movement, and sentencing went forward.
In New York final June, Weinstein misplaced his first enchantment in opposition to his prison verdict and sentence in the state’s intermediate appellate court docket.
But he has additionally additional appealed that case to the upper New York Court of Appeals.
