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&lsquo;Please don't sentence me to life in prison. I don't deserve it,&rsquo; the disgraced Hollywood star told a Los Angeles court.

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 years in rape case

‘Please don't sentence me to life in prison. I don't deserve it,’ the disgraced Hollywood star told a Los Angeles court.

&lsquo;Please don't sentence me to life in prison. I don't deserve it,&rsquo; the disgraced Hollywood star told a Los Angeles court.

Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 more years in prison for the 2013 rape of an Italian actor-model in Los Angeles. Weinstein is already serving 23-year prison term for a sexual misconduct conviction in New York and it is all more likely that the disgraced Hollywood mogul will spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
Moments before he was given an additional 16 years, Weinstein, who attended court in a wheelchair, begged the judge for leniency.
&lsquo;Please don't sentence me to life in prison. I don't deserve it,&rsquo; the disgraced Hollywood star told a Los Angeles court.
Harvey Weinstein maintained he was innocent and the victim of a &lsquo;set-up&rsquo; before the sentencing.
In December last year, a Los Angeles jury convicted him of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault involving an actor. The victim, known as Jane Doe 1 to protect her anonymity, spoke in court before the sentence was read. She recalled the trauma she had endured for &lsquo;many years&rsquo; since the assault.
However, Weinstein told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench that he did not know the victim.
Over 80 people have made rape and misconduct claims about Harvey Weinstein dating back as far as the late 1970s.
In 2020, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault against a production assistant in 2006 and an aspiring actor in 2013. &nbsp;The conviction was seen as a milestone in the #MeToo movement.
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 Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in Los Angeles trial

 #MeToo: Harvey Weinstein found guilty in second sex crimes trial

Weinstein, 70, who is two years into a 23-year sentence for a rape and sexual assault conviction in New York that is under appeal, could get up to 24 years in prison in California when he's sentenced

After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape and sexual assault of just one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing.
But the three guilty counts involving an Italian actor and model known at the trial as Jane Doe 1 still struck a major blow against the disgraced movie mogul, and provided another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.
Weinstein, 70, who is two years into a 23-year sentence for a rape and sexual assault conviction in New York that is under appeal, could get up to 24 years in prison in California when he's sentenced.
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He was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving the woman who said he appeared uninvited at her hotel room door during a Los Angeles film festival in 2013.
&ldquo;Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back. The criminal trial was brutal and Weinstein's lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand, but I knew I had to see this through to the end, and I did,&rdquo; the woman said in a statement after the verdict. "I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.&rdquo; Weinstein was acquitted of a sexual battery allegation made by a massage therapist who treated him at a hotel in 2010.
The jury was unable to reach a decision on counts involving two accusers, notably rape and sexual assault charges involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. A mistrial was declared on those counts.
Weinstein looked down at the table and appeared to put his face in his hands when the initial guilty counts were read. He looked forward as the rest of the verdict was read.
&ldquo;Harvey is obviously disappointed in the verdict. He knows what happened and what never did,&rdquo; Weinstein's spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said in an email, saying there was a strong basis for an appeal on the convictions. &ldquo;Harvey is grateful for the jury's work on the other counts, and he's determined to continue his legal challenges in ultimately proving his innocence.&rdquo; Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon applauded the accusers for their bravery to testify in the case, saying in a statement he was disappointed by the split verdict but hoped it brings &ldquo;some measure of justice to the victims.&rdquo; &ldquo;Harvey Weinstein will never be able to rape another woman. He will spend the rest of his life behind bars where he belongs,&rdquo; Siebel Newsom said in a statement. &ldquo;Throughout the trial, Weinstein's lawyers used sexism, misogyny, and bullying tactics to intimidate, demean, and ridicule us survivors. The trial was a stark reminder that we as a society have work to do.&rdquo; Siebel Newsom's intense and dramatic testimony, in which she described being raped by Weinstein in a hotel room in 2005, brought the trial its most dramatic moments. But only eight of the 12 jurors agreed to find Weinstein guilty of those counts.
Jurors were deadlocked 10-2 on a sexual battery count involving Lauren Young, the only accuser who testified at both Weinstein trials. She said she was a model aspiring to be an actor and screenwriter who was meeting with Weinstein about a script in 2013 when he trapped her in a hotel bathroom, groped her and masturbated in front of her.
Lacking any forensic evidence or eyewitness accounts of years-old allegations, the case hinged heavily on the stories and credibility of the four women at the centre of the charges.
The women's stories echoed the allegations of dozens of others who have emerged since Weinstein became a #MeToo lightning rod starting with stories in the New York Times in 2017. A movie about that reporting, &ldquo;She Said,&rdquo; was released during the trial, and jurors were repeatedly warned not to see it.
It was the defence that made #MeToo an issue during the trial, however, emphasizing that none of the four women went to the authorities until after the movement made Weinstein a target.
Defence lawyers said two of the women &mdash; including the one he would be found guilty of raping &mdash; were entirely lying about their encounters with Weinstein. They said the other two had &ldquo;100 per cent consensual&rdquo; sexual interactions that they later reframed.
Defence attorneys said during the trial that if Siebel Newsom hadn't reached her later prominence she would be "just another bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get ahead in Hollywood.&rdquo; &ldquo;Regret is not the same thing as rape,&rdquo; Weinstein attorney Alan Jackson said in his closing argument.
He urged jurors to look past the the women's emotional testimony and focus on the factual evidence.
&ldquo;Believe us because we're mad, believe us because we cried,'&rdquo; Jackson said jurors were being asked to do. &ldquo;Well, fury does not make fact. And tears do not make truth.&rdquo; All the women involved in the charges went by Jane Doe in court. The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly or agree to be named through their attorneys, as the women named here did.
Prosecutors called 40 other witnesses in an attempt to give context and corroboration to those stories. Four were other women who were not part of the charges but testified that Weinstein raped or sexually assaulted them. They were brought to the stand to establish a pattern of sexual predation.
Weinstein beat four other felony charges before the trial even ended when prosecutors said a woman he was charged with raping twice and sexually assaulting twice would not appear to testify. They declined to give a reason. Judge Lisa Lench dismissed those charges.
Weinstein's latest conviction hands a victory to victims of sexual misconduct of famous men in the wake of some legal setbacks, including the dismissal of Bill Cosby's conviction last year. The rape trial of &ldquo;That '70s Show&rdquo; actor Danny Masterson, held simultaneously and just down the hall from Weinstein's, ended in a mistrial. And actor Kevin Spacey was victorious at a sexual battery civil trial in New York last month.
Weinstein's New York conviction survived an initial appeal, but the case is set to be heard by the state's highest court next year. The California conviction, also likely to be appealed, means he will not walk free even if the East Coast conviction is thrown ou

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is among the accusers of Harvey Weinstein who will testify at his rape and sexual assault trial that began on Monday, her attorney said.
“Like many other women, my client was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein at a purported business meeting that turned out to be a trap," Newsom's attorney Elizabeth Fegan said in a statement.
“She intends to testify at his trial in order to seek some measure of justice for survivors, and as part of her life's work to improve the lives of women.” Weinstein, the 70-year-old former movie mogul who is serving a 23-year prison sentence after a conviction in New York, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of rape and sexual assault involving Newsom and four other women.
All of them will testify as Jane Doe during the eight-week trial in a Los Angeles court, where jury selection began on Monday.
The Associated Press does not normally name people who say they've been sexually abused, but Newsom agreed to be named through her attorney.
The news of her involvement was first reported by The Los Angeles Times.
Newsom, 48, appeared in small roles in dozens of films and television shows between 2002 and 2011. Recently she has directed documentaries including “The Great American Lie” in 2020 and “Fair Play” from this year. Both deal with gender in society.
She wrote about her experience with Weinstein in a 2017 essay in the Huffington Post after the New York Times and New Yorker stories made him a magnet of the #MeToo movement, but gave few details.
Weinstein, who is being held in a Los Angeles County jail, was brought on Monday into court in a wheelchair through a side door, and climbed from it carefully into a seat next to one of his lawyers at the defence table.
He was wearing a blue suit, which he is allowed to change into from his jail attire during the trial.
He stood with the rest of the room as the first panel of 67 prospective jurors were brought in, but sat down about halfway through the process. He waved at them from his seat when his lawyers introduced them.
The jurors were given a lengthy questionnaire intended to screen out those who need to be dismissed. Both the questions and answers on the forms are private, but previous hearings on its contents revealed that it contains questions on how much media coverage of Weinstein they have seen, and whether they have formed opinions from it, though the judge rejected questions on specific stories and media outlets.
The prosecution will be allowed to introduce as evidence parts of Weinstein's conviction for rape and sexual assault, where the state's highest court has agreed to hear his appeal.
The questionnaire also includes a question about a California law that says the testimony alone of a sexual assault victim can be sufficient evidence to convict if a juror believes them.
The jurors were also given a long list of names of witnesses in the coming trial, including those of the accusers to determine whether they have any connection to them.
The initial witness list in the case had more than 270 names, though fewer than half that are expected. Most of the prospective witness list has not been made public.
One witness, Barbara Schneeweiss, a producer on “Project Runway” and other television shows, was present in court early on Monday and was told by a judge she was on call to come in at any time.
Two more panels of up to 75 jurors will be brought in Tuesday and Wednesday. Questioning of individual jurors is not expected to begin until next week, and opening statements may not begin for two weeks.
The trial comes five years after women's stories about Weinstein made the #MeToo movement explode.
Weinstein is charged with four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts.
Most of the incidents in his indictment, like Newsom's, happened under the guise of business meetings at luxury hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, which Weinstein used as his California headquarters and where he could be seen during awards season and throughout the year.
Four of them occurred during Oscars week 2013, when Weinstein releases “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Django Unchained” would win Academy Awards.

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All of them will testify as Jane Doe during the eight-week trial in a Los Angeles court, where jury selection began on Monday.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is among the accusers of Harvey Weinstein who will testify at his rape and sexual assault trial that began on Monday, her attorney said.
&ldquo;Like many other women, my client was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein at a purported business meeting that turned out to be a trap," Newsom's attorney Elizabeth Fegan said in a statement.
&ldquo;She intends to testify at his trial in order to seek some measure of justice for survivors, and as part of her life's work to improve the lives of women.&rdquo; Weinstein, the 70-year-old former movie mogul who is serving a 23-year prison sentence after a conviction in New York, has pleaded not guilty to 11 counts of rape and sexual assault involving Newsom and four other women.
All of them will testify as Jane Doe during the eight-week trial in a Los Angeles court, where jury selection began on Monday.
The Associated Press does not normally name people who say they've been sexually abused, but Newsom agreed to be named through her attorney.
The news of her involvement was first reported by The Los Angeles Times.
Newsom, 48, appeared in small roles in dozens of films and television shows between 2002 and 2011. Recently she has directed documentaries including &ldquo;The Great American Lie&rdquo; in 2020 and &ldquo;Fair Play&rdquo; from this year. Both deal with gender in society.
She wrote about her experience with Weinstein in a 2017 essay in the Huffington Post after the New York Times and New Yorker stories made him a magnet of the #MeToo movement, but gave few details.
Weinstein, who is being held in a Los Angeles County jail, was brought on Monday into court in a wheelchair through a side door, and climbed from it carefully into a seat next to one of his lawyers at the defence table.
He was wearing a blue suit, which he is allowed to change into from his jail attire during the trial.
He stood with the rest of the room as the first panel of 67 prospective jurors were brought in, but sat down about halfway through the process. He waved at them from his seat when his lawyers introduced them.
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The jurors were given a lengthy questionnaire intended to screen out those who need to be dismissed. Both the questions and answers on the forms are private, but previous hearings on its contents revealed that it contains questions on how much media coverage of Weinstein they have seen, and whether they have formed opinions from it, though the judge rejected questions on specific stories and media outlets.
The prosecution will be allowed to introduce as evidence parts of Weinstein's conviction for rape and sexual assault, where the state's highest court has agreed to hear his appeal.
The questionnaire also includes a question about a California law that says the testimony alone of a sexual assault victim can be sufficient evidence to convict if a juror believes them.
The jurors were also given a long list of names of witnesses in the coming trial, including those of the accusers to determine whether they have any connection to them.
The initial witness list in the case had more than 270 names, though fewer than half that are expected. Most of the prospective witness list has not been made public.
One witness, Barbara Schneeweiss, a producer on &ldquo;Project Runway&rdquo; and other television shows, was present in court early on Monday and was told by a judge she was on call to come in at any time.
Two more panels of up to 75 jurors will be brought in Tuesday and Wednesday. Questioning of individual jurors is not expected to begin until next week, and opening statements may not begin for two weeks.
The trial comes five years after women's stories about Weinstein made the #MeToo movement explode.
Weinstein is charged with four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts.
Most of the incidents in his indictment, like Newsom's, happened under the guise of business meetings at luxury hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, which Weinstein used as his California headquarters and where he could be seen during awards season and throughout the year.
Four of them occurred during Oscars week 2013, when Weinstein releases &ldquo;Silver Linings Playbook&rdquo; and &ldquo;Django Unchained&rdquo; would win Academy Awards.

Convicted rapist&nbsp;Harvey Weinstein has said that he never assaulted Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, after she claimed in a new interview she had to 'escape' an encounter with the disgraced movie mogul.
Weinstein who is currently serving a 23-year sentence for rape and battery charges said that 'it is brazenly untrue and clickbait publicity'.
He claimed that Jolie was making up the allegations in order to boost sales for her book 'Know Your Rights'.
The heated response from Weinstein comes after the 'Maleficent'&nbsp;star previously claimed that she was sexually harassed by convicted rapist and film producer Weinstein, while referring to an incident that occurred while working on the 1998 film 'Playing By Heart', produced by Weinstein's&nbsp;production company.&nbsp;
Describing the situation as an abuse of her rights, Jolie said Weinstein&nbsp;attempted to assault her and hence she had to warn everyone to stay away from him.&nbsp;
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Jolie further added that she refused to work with Weinstein, time and again, but found it 'hard' when her ex-husband Brad Pitt continued to act in his projects, despite knowing he had assaulted her.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Jolie also claimed that she feared for her and her family&rsquo;s safety during her marriage to Brad Pitt, who she filed for divorce from in 2019.

Harvey Weinstein calls Angelina Jolie’s claims that he tried to sexually assault 'clickbait publicity'

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Harvey Weinstein rubbishes Angelina Jolie’s assault claim, says it is 'brazenly untrue'

SUPER:&nbsp;Harvey Weinstein calls Angelina Jolie's accusations 'brazenly untrue'
(Harvey court visuals)
Convicted rapist&nbsp;Harvey Weinstein has said that he never assaulted Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, after she claimed in a new interview she had to 'escape' an encounter with the disgraced movie mogul.
(Harvey and Angelina shots, 2 window)
Weinstein who is currently serving a 23-year sentence for rape and battery charges said that 'it is brazenly untrue and clickbait publicity'.
SUPER:&nbsp;Jolie making up allegations to boost sales for her book:&nbsp;Weinstein
(Jolie&nbsp;with her book)&nbsp;
He claimed that Jolie was making up the allegations in order to boost sales for her book 'Know Your Rights'.
SUPER:&nbsp;Jolie said that Harvey Weinstein attempted to 'assault her'
(Angelina Jolie&nbsp;generic footage)
The heated response from Weinstein comes after the 'Maleficent'&nbsp;star previously claimed that she was sexually harassed by convicted rapist and film producer Weinstein, while referring to an incident that occurred while working on the 1998 film 'Playing By Heart', produced by Weinstein's&nbsp;production company.&nbsp;
(Jolie's&nbsp;look from&nbsp;1998 film 'Playing By Heart')
Describing the situation as an abuse of her rights, Jolie said Weinstein&nbsp;attempted to assault her, and hence she had to warn everyone to stay away from him.&nbsp;
SUPER: Angelina Jolie&nbsp;claims ex-husband Brad Pitt was aware of her 'assault'
SUPER: Brad continued to worked with Weinstein, after knowing it all: Jolie
(Jolie&nbsp;with Pitt)
Jolie further added that she refused to work with Weinstein, time and again, but found it 'hard' when her ex-husband Brad Pitt continued to act in his projects despite knowing he had assaulted her.&nbsp;&nbsp;
(Jolie, Pitt with their children)
SUPER: Angelina Jolie&nbsp;filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in 2019
Jolie also claimed that she feared for her and her family&rsquo;s safety during her marriage to Brad Pitt, who she filed for divorce from in 2019.

Angelina Jolie described her prior experience with media mogul Harvey Weinstein&nbsp;as&nbsp;'beyond a pass'

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Weinstein who is currently serving a 23-year sentence for rape and battery charges said that 'it is brazenly untrue and clickbait publicity'.
He claimed that Jolie was making up the allegations in order to boost sales for her book 'Know Your Rights'.
The heated response from Weinstein comes after the 'Maleficent'&nbsp;star previously claimed that she was sexually harassed by convicted rapist and film producer Weinstein, while referring to an incident that occurred while working on the 1998 film 'Playing By Heart', produced by Weinstein's&nbsp;production company.&nbsp;
Describing the situation as an abuse of her rights, Jolie said Weinstein&nbsp;attempted to assault her and hence she had to warn everyone to stay away from him.&nbsp;
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Jolie further added that she refused to work with Weinstein, time and again, but found it 'hard' when her ex-husband Brad Pitt continued to act in his projects, despite knowing he had assaulted her.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Jolie also claimed that she feared for her and her family&rsquo;s safety during her marriage to Brad Pitt, who she filed for divorce from in 2019.

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