Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced in L.A., two months after his trial ended with a jury convicting him on three sexual assault counts.

They could not reach a unanimous verdict on the charges involving two other accusers, aspiring actor and screenwriter [Lauren Young](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles-trial-jane-doe-2-sexual-assault-1235425561/), known as Jane Doe #2 in the case, and the First Partner of California, [Jennifer Siebel Newsom](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/jennifer-siebel-newsom-harvey-weinstein-testimony-trial-1235431726/), who was Jane Doe #4. Weinstein has consistently maintained his innocence, denying any accusations of rape or assault, and his legal team has repeatedly stated that their client has unfairly been painted as the poster boy of the #MeToo movement. [were dismissed in the midst of the trial](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/harvey-weinstein-four-rape-charges-dropped-1235433594/). Weinstein’s attorneys said the jury “would never have voted to convict if they knew the truth.” Lead prosecutor, deputy D.A. “I have been carrying this weight, this trauma, that it was my fault for years,” Jane Doe #1 said, addressing the judge. Weinstein told the judge that Jane Doe #1 lied about the entire rape and maintained that he never sexually assaulted her, or even came in contact with her. All three charges on which Weinstein were convicted were based on the counts relating to Jane Doe #1, a European model who testified she was raped by Weinstein at Mr. Weinstein did a lot of good for a lot of people in a 50-year career,” Werksman said. “I hope you give him the maximum sentence allowed.” “These are not easy decisions to make, but this is my decision,” Lench said. “I maintain that I’m innocent,” Weinstein said. Before he was sentenced, Weinstein addressed the court, making one final plea to Judge Lisa B.

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison in his Los Angeles criminal trial Thursday, adding on to the 23 years he is already serving.

When Young testified in New York in February 2020, she was not one of the accusers whose stories would lead to Weinstein's conviction for rape and sexual assault and a 23-year prison sentence because her alleged encounter with Weinstein took place in California, not New York. Weinstein's 2020 New York sex crimes case resulted in his conviction on charges of sexual assault and third-degree rape, though in August he was granted a bid to appeal those charges. The jury reported it was unable to reach verdicts in her allegations and the allegations of another woman. “It is time for the defendant’s reign of terror to end,” Martinez said. Weinstein’s New York conviction survived an initial appeal, but the case is set to be heard by the state’s highest court later this year. He looked forward as the rest of the verdict was read. The trial was a stark reminder that we as a society have work to do.” He will spend the rest of his life behind bars where he belongs,” Jennifer Siebel Newsom said in a statement. “Throughout the trial, Weinstein’s lawyers used sexism, misogyny, and bullying tactics to intimidate, demean, and ridicule us survivors. For his Los Angeles trial, Weinstein faced up to 18 additional years in prison. The jury hung on several counts, notably charges involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. "Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman.

Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood mogul already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, was sentenced in Los Angeles Thursday to an additional ...

“It can’t erase the trauma they’ve endured, but it can serve as a catalyst for change and provide hope to other survivors.” [Jennifer Siebel Newsom](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/us/jennifer-siebel-newsom-harvey-weinstein-trial/index.html), a filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. In all, eight women testified they were assaulted during the trial. I thought I did something wrong for him to do that to me. “I thought I did something wrong because he chose me that night. I was excited about my future,” she said. It was humiliating, miserable. It was disgusting. I soon became invisible to myself and to the world. I never raped or sexually assaulted Jane Doe 1. “I maintain that I’m innocent. “Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman.

Former Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison in Los Angeles on Thursday for rape and sexual assault charges dating back ...

There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage." "Please don't sentence me to life in prison," he told the court. A mistrial was declared. Weinstein, meanwhile, maintained his innocence, telling Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench he did not know the victim. He avoided a sentence of up to 24 years after a jury was unable to agree on whether Weinstein had planned the rape or whether the victim was "particularly vulnerable". "Everything changed after the defendant brutally assaulted me.

The disgraced Hollywood producer, 70, is already serving a separate 23-year sentence for raping an aspiring actress and sexually abusing a TV and film ...

… I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.” “The judge, just like the trial judge in his New York trial who was not reappointed to the bench, will eventually be called out for bias and injustice,” he continues. Her entire claim thing was a setup for a money grab.” “It’s not justice, but a pile-on for a man many people just decided should be cast off and discarded regardless of facts. I am innocent.” C Hotel in the city in February 2013.

Over 2 months after a LA jury delivered a mixed verdict on rape charges, the ex-mogul learned his fate today.

That suit became the focus of more filings by the defense team, now saying that witnesses lied on the stand during the trial and that Jane Doe #1 is looking for money – as Weinstein himself reiterated today. [on December 19](https://deadline.com/2023/01/harvey-weinstein-verdict-rape-trial-jennifer-siebel-newsom-los-angeles-1235193722/) on all counts in relation to Jane Doe #1. Claiming that “the jury was left with a false impression” of Jane Doe #1 and her allegations and overall credibility, the motion also took a specific swipe at LA Deputy DAs Marlene Martinez and Paul Thompson for creating a “false version” of events and circumstances in the presentation of their case. case, and the sex that he said did occur was consensual. The ailing and shuffling Weinstein is not eligible for parole on his East Coast sentence until 2039, when he will be 86. The ex-Miramax boss has been behind bars and housed in Los Angeles’ Twin Towers Correctional Facility since being extradited from a prison outside Buffalo in the summer of 2021. In her statement in court Thursday, a tearful Jane Doe #1 said that Weinstein had “broken me into a million pieces.” Thanking the jury for their verdict, Jane Doe #1 also said: “Ten years later, the effects of this rape are still raw and difficult to discuss.” Addressing Judge Lench directly, she concluded, “Your honor I hope you can understand my suffering. There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage. Even with an ongoing appeal of that East Coast conviction, the 70-year-old Weinstein will serve his West Coast sentence after completing his current confinement, Judge Lench ruled Thursday. Of the trio of L.A. The judge said the sentences are to run consecutively. With the already incarcerated former producer in attendance at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center courtroom today, the somewhat delayed ruling by Judge Lisa B.

A Los Angeles judge on Thursday sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the 2013 rape and sexual assault of an ...

New York’s highest court has agreed to hear his appeal in his rape and sexual assault convictions there. A hearing on the possible retrial is scheduled for next month. Prosecutors and Weinstein’s attorneys declined comment after the sentencing. Weinstein directly appealed to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. “Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman. “I was excited about my future.

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday for rape in his Los Angeles sexual assault trial.

Prosecutors requested the instruction, arguing during the trial Weinstein made threats to some of his victims, including a woman identified as Jane Doe 3. Following his conviction for rape last year, Jane Doe 1 said in a statement, in part, "Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back. The landmark decision came after the so-called #MeToo movement, in which powerful men were exposed for sexual misconduct, began largely around bombshell reports about the Miramax founder's behavior in The New York Times and The New Yorker in 2017. Vicedomini to provide his lover's room number to Harvey Weinstein." And for years, he walked away unfettered while I spent years nursing my wounds," she said, later adding that "during this recent trial and the almost three years leading up to it, I was asked, like others, to relive and lay bare the most horrific and humiliating experience of my entire life with complete strangers, the general public and even my own family in ways so harmful, more harmful than you can even imagine." Siebel Newsom was referred to as Jane Doe 4 during the trial, but she has been publicly identified by her lawyer. The four women all testified during the trial, including Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. I thought I did something wrong for him to do that to me. His assault was excruciatingly traumatic. Weinstein was accused by four women of assaulting them in hotels between 2004 and 2013 in Los Angeles. "I thought I did something wrong because he chose me that night. I was excited about my future.

A Los Angeles judge on Thursday sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the 2013 rape and sexual assault of an ...

[New York's highest court has agreed to hear his appeal](https://apnews.com/article/new-york-harvey-weinstein-eae103d055013888317f92c6c0dfad6c) in his rape and sexual assault convictions there. There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage.” [Jurors in December convicted](https://apnews.com/article/harvey-weinstein-verdict-los-angeles-rape-trial-1a3a9db4e4589a9e0fb03214bc01fecf) Weinstein of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault against the woman who at the trial’s opening in October gave a dramatic and emotional account of him arriving uninvited at her hotel room during a 2013 film festival in the run-up to the Oscars, talking his way in and assaulting her during a film festival. “If the jury had known that Jane Doe 1 and Pascal were intimately involved, they never would have bought the story that was told,” Jackson said. A hearing on the possible retrial is scheduled for next month. Lench handed down the sentence Thursday after rejecting a motion by Weinstein’s lawyers for a new trial. [identified in court only as Jane Doe 1](https://apnews.com/article/harvey-weinstein-jury-los-angeles-rape-trial-72ad51203d13f4051b53bc468303086d), said through tears as she stood at a lectern behind prosecutors. “No woman has to fear Harvey Weinstein again as he will never leave prison.” ”He was a man that many famous movie stars would thank in their Oscar speeches.” “This is a made up story. “Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman. I never raped or sexually assaulted Jane Doe 1. Lench, saying: “I maintain that I’m innocent.

The disgraced film producer will add 16 years onto his previous 23-year prison sentence for sex crimes.

[filed an appeal](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/01/10/harvey-weinstein-appeals-2020-new-york-conviction-one-month-after-second-guilty-verdict/?sh=7bb5cfa34c7b) against his New York conviction last month, asking the New York Court of Appeals to throw out his conviction and suggesting that he instead be charged on one count of a criminal sexual act. The exposes quickly prompted other alleged victims to come forward; a group of women [published a list](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/07/harvey-weinstein-sexual-abuse-accusers-list) of 100 allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Weinstein in November 2017. Weinstein told the New York Times he apologized for behavior that “caused a lot of pain,” though he [denied](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories) acts of nonconsensual sex and retaliation to The New Yorker. [Harvey Weinstein Sentenced To 16 Years In Prison On L.A. She Said, a film chronicling the 2017 New York Times investigation into Weinstein’s abuse, hit theaters in November 2022. [faced 11 charges](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-los-angeles-prison-term-1235531069/) in his Los Angeles trial: He was convicted on the three relating to Jane Doe No. Director Quentin Tarantino [said](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/movies/tarantino-weinstein.html) he once confronted Weinstein about his behavior, and Courtney Love [warned](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/15/courtney-love-warned-actresses-harvey-weinstein-2005/) aspiring actresses in a 2005 interview that if “Weinstein invites you to a private party in the Four Seasons, don’t go.” Despite his abuse allegations spanning decades, journalists initially [struggled](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-weinstein-complicity.html) to cover the issue because many victims feared retaliation if they were to speak on the record against the powerful producer. [campaign tactics](https://www.vulture.com/2014/01/miramax-oscar-campaigns-harvey-weinstein-timeline.html). 1 never knew each other and the case was about “money” (Weinstein pleaded not guilty). He produced films that reaped major awards and box office profits, including Shakespeare in Love, which won him the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1999, though he was known for aggressive Oscar 3 and a mistrial was declared on charges related to Jane Doe No. 5 were dropped, he was acquitted of a felony sexual battery charge relating to Jane Doe No.

Weinstein, who is 70 and in poor health, is already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, where he was convicted in 2020 of sexually assaulting other ...

Defense attorney Alan Jackson pleaded with jurors to focus on what he said were inconsistencies in the women’s claims, as opposed to their emotional testimony. The mogul has denied all wrongdoing and is appealing his New York conviction, though an earlier attempt to do so failed. Confined within those walls, victims were not able to run from his hulking mass. The woman, identified as Jane Doe 1, trembled and cried while speaking in court Thursday and asked Lench to hand down the most severe punishment possible. And prosecutors dropped counts related to allegations made by a fourth woman, who did not appear in court to testify. Weinstein’s career unraveled in 2017, after investigations by the New York Times and the New Yorker revealed the mogul had used his status in the industry to get access to actors and models, many of whom said he abused and in some cases raped them. Thursday’s hearing was another, and possibly final, turn in Weinstein’s complete fall from Hollywood’s highest echelon. Jane Doe 1 filed a civil suit against Weinstein shortly after he was convicted. [including Jennifer Siebel Newsom,](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-14/jennifer-siebel-newsom-takes-the-stand-against-harvey-weinstein) who is married to Gov. Combined, the sentences ensure Weinstein will not be eligible for release until at least the 2050s. [convicted last month of raping an Italian model and actor](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-19/harvey-weinstein-verdict-in-los-angeles) after he barged into her hotel room. In handing down Weinstein’s punishment, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench ruled he cannot serve the two sentences concurrently.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom reacted to Harvey Weinstein's sentencing, while calling to end the larger culture of sexual abuse and violence on women.

He was the top of the industry.” “As was the case of Weinstein, over and over again too many catered to him in public, excused his lewd behavior and turned a blind eye to his questionable relationships with young actresses and models,” she continued. “During this recent trial, in the almost three years leading up to it, I was asked, like others, to relive and lay bare the most horrific and humiliating experience of my entire life with complete strangers, the general public and even my own family in ways so harmful, more harmful than you can imagine,” Siebel Newsom said. She chose the title of “First Partner,” rather than “First Lady,” in an effort to signal more inclusivity. She became visibly emotional when describing the alleged assault as a “horror” and her “worst nightmare.” During His assault was excruciatingly traumatic,” Siebel Newsom said in the video.

Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood titan who came to epitomize a culture of pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men that ignited the #MeToo ...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said that giving testimony at Harvey Weinstein's trial was “one of the hardest experiences of ...

She is founder of the organization “ Thursday’s sentence was possible because “eight very courageous women stepped forward to confront this serial rapist,” Elizabeth Fegan, Siebel Newsom’s attorney at the trial, said after the sentencing. The effects of such experiences have sweeping consequences. That pain is compounded by the skepticism with which society regards survivors, she said. In December, he was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and a third sexual misconduct charge in Los Angeles. Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and wife of California Gov.

Weinstein directly appealed to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench, saying: “I maintain that I'm innocent. I never raped or sexually assaulted Jane ...

New York’s highest court has agreed to hear his appeal in his rape and sexual assault convictions there. A hearing on the possible retrial is scheduled for next month. Prosecutors and Weinstein’s attorneys declined comment after the sentencing. “Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman. Weinstein directly appealed to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. “I was excited about my future.

Evgeniya Chernyshova, the Jane Doe whose testimony prompted a guilty verdict, on Harvey Weinstein's conviction and why she no longer chooses anonymity.

“I finally have a voice and I can speak,” she says. “This is a made-up story,” Weinstein said, while seated in a wheelchair and wearing a gray L.A. “I felt very, very dirty and like I have to die,” she says. In October of 2022, Chernyshova took the stand as Jane Doe 1 for three days of testimony in Weinstein’s trial, which she calls, “the worst experience of my life.” She couldn’t sleep during that period, and was regularly vomiting from the stress. “And that is the thing I have regretted for the last 10 years — that I did open this door,” she says. “I was hating myself,” Chernyshova says. “And she told me that she does understand, because she has been raped.” When mother and daughter realized that they shared this painful bond, Maria says, it was devastating. She didn’t feel she was in danger, she says, she felt embarrassed, and she wanted him to stop, so she opened the door. “I heard somebody talking loudly in the background, and then he took the phone and said, ‘It’s Harvey and we have to talk,’ And I was like, ‘What?’ So confused. She was the first of 44 witnesses the prosecution called to testify in the trial, and she is the only person the court allowed to deliver a statement at Weinstein’s sentencing on Feb. “A lot of people think it’s just ice there and white bears,” she says of her home. “Part of me, I’m fearing for my future,” she says of speaking publicly now.

Evgeniya Chernyshova, known in the Harvey Weinstein trial as "Jane Doe #1," tells her side of the story.

[the sentencing](https://www.avclub.com/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-16-more-years-in-prison-1850150015), “I feel free, and a heavy weight and burden has been lifted off my chest. The road to the Los Angeles trial was slow going, and when it finally happened in 2022 Chernyshova described it as “the worst experience of my life.” She said, “The defense lawyers’ techniques, how they And I want to say this—this is not only my victory, this is our victory.” “I told her that there was only one condition that I was gonna be able to [report my case], and that’s if she also came forward with her case,” the former model explained. Known throughout the trial as “Jane Doe 1,” the survivor, Evgeniya Chernyshova, revealed her identity in a new interview with [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-jane-doe-victim-reveals-identity-1235333076/). [multiple women](https://www.avclub.com/california-governor-wife-harvey-weinstein-rape-trial-1849785224), the disgraced producer was only convicted in connection to the assault of one woman in particular.

On Friday, Jane Doe 1 finally revealed her identity to the Hollywood Reporter. She is Evgeniya Chernyshova, a 43-year-old mother of two who was born in Siberia, ...

I will never get that back,” she told The Times in a statement after the verdict was read, still identifying herself as Jane Doe 1 after her three days of painful testimony in his trial. She told The Times in 2017 that once he was in her room, Weinstein repeatedly bragged about his power and influence and told her not to fight him. “He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.” When he left, she said, he told her she was very beautiful and that she could work in Hollywood. ... He deserves to experience the same shame, humiliation and fear as I did.” “He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do,” she said in 2017. After sentencing the disgraced former producer, Judge Lisa Lench ruled that Weinstein could not serve his New York and L.A. Later that night she returned to her hotel and changed into a robe, only to have Weinstein call up from the lobby “without warning” — she hadn’t told him where she was staying — and demand to know her room number. That was followed days later by a similar piece from the [New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories). When they were in Rome, he had invited her up to his room, but she declined, she told The Times. She and her husband separated, and he has since died. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html) published the first investigation of Weinstein. At some point she moved to Southern California; she now runs a floral design business in Beverly Hills, according to an interview published Friday by