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Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on three charges of rape and sexual assault, Variety reported on Dec. 19, 2022. Harvey faced a total of seven charges during the Los Angeles trial: two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault. The jury acquitted him of one charge and was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on three other charges.
The jury spent 40 hours deliberating over the span of two weeks beginning on Dec. 2 to come to their final conclusion. The charges were based on allegations from four women who said they were assaulted by Harvey between 2005 and 2013 in Los Angeles.
As Harvey awaits his sentencing, he will be staying behind bars for the 20 years left for his 2020 New York prison sentence after he was found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act in the first-degree and third-degree rape. He received 20 years for assaulting a former production assistant, Mimi Haley, in 2006. He got an additional three years for raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013 in a Manhattan hotel.
Harvey pleaded not guilty in both trials and waived his right to take the witness stand.
The second conviction comes five years after The New York Times and The New Yorker published shocking investigative pieces about several allegations against him starting in the late 1990s and his pattern of abuse. He and his brother were among the most revered film producers in Hollywood at the time, creating iconic movies such as 1994’s Pulp Fiction, 1998’s Shakespeare in Love, and 2002’s Gangs of New York.
This is a developing story.
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