The startling sentence meant that Mr. Weinstein, who is 67 and in poor health, might spend the rest of his life in prison. Just before the sentencing, Mr. Weinstein, who was sitting in a wheelchair, told the court that he was remorseful, but also “totally confused” about what had happened to him.
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Harvey Weinstein suggested that Jennifer Aniston 'should be killed' upon learning that the National Enquirer was planning to report he sexually assaulted her, court papers revealed Tuesday.
Harvey Weinstein was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Monday after complaining of chest pains, according to his representative.
Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, bringing his seven-week New York trial to a conviction in the central criminal case of the #MeToo movement.
The jury in the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct trial resumed deliberations Monday morning, returning after Friday’s cliffhanger in which jurors questioned New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke as to whether they were legally allowed a deadlock on two charges with the heaviest possible prison…
When a jury of seven men and five women convene next week to decide Weinstein’s fate, experts say they will have to determine which framing of the case they will follow: The tearful words the accusers delivered, the praise-heavy missives they later sent to Weinstein calling him a 'genius' or seeking…
Men are not going to stop asking women to go to the hotel room. Women have to stop going. Because if there's one woman left willing to do it, it's going to continue.
Women started speaking out more and more about harassment and assault in the wake of the initial “silence breakers” (as they came to be called), and many expected that finally holding powerful people accountable for their alleged misdeeds would usher in unprecedented social change. A year later, how…
If there's more, we will deal with them when they come.
Fashion makes hypocrites of us all at one point or another.
I have moments of rage. I have moments of confusion. I have moments of disbelief!
I stopped at Harvey Weinstein's party for a little bit, got my parents drunk, and then I left and went home.
There is something unsettling about how little these celebrities have to lose by taking these stances.
How does one judge a young woman who listens to a world that screams money, power and fame will make her better?
It’s the micro that makes the macro. I have been a victim of each component of the sexual assault spectrum of which you speak. They all hurt. And they are all connected to a patriarchy intertwined with normalized, accepted--even welcomed-- misogyny. We are not outraged because someone grabbed our as…
For the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her…
Little did I know it would become my turn to say no. No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with. No to me taking a shower with…
Once we started filming, the sexual harassment stopped but the rage escalated. We paid the price for standing up to him nearly every day of shooting.
In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body.
I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry stopped making an effort to find out what female audiences wanted to see and what stories we wanted to tell.