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A New York appeals court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on sex crimes.
The court, in a 4-3 ruling, said there were errors in the way the trial had been conducted.
It thus overturned the conviction and ordered a fresh trial.
The 72-year-old in February 2020 was convicted in February 2020 of rape and sexual assault by a court in New York.
He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Weinstein will remain behind bars as he is currently serving 16 years in prison for the rape of a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel room.
Let’s examine the myriad allegations against the disgraced mogul who founded the studio Miramax with his brother Robert in 1979:
The 1980s
1984: Tomi-Ann Roberts, a 20-year-old aspiring actress, meets Weinstein in his New York hotel room to discuss a film. Weinstein is nude in the bathtub and asks Roberts to bare her breasts, she told The New York Times. She leaves the hotel room, she said.
1988: Lisa Rose, then a 22-year-old assistant in Miramax’s London office, is sent to work for a day at The Savoy hotel and while alone in a suite with Weinstein, he requests a back rub and a massage, saying others complied, she told the BBC. She leaves immediately.
The 1990s
The 90s were arguably Weinstein’s most powerful period.
Weinstein was producer or executive producer on nearly six dozen films including hits such as Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting and Shakespeare in Love.
Uma Thurman, who starred in Pulp Fiction, accused Weinstein of attempting to sexually assault her in a hotel room.
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View AllHer Pulp Fiction co-star Rosanna Arquette said Weinstein asked her for a massage.
Gwyneth Paltrow, who won the academy award for best actress in a leading role for her part in Shakespeare in Love, would accuse Weinstein of coming onto her in a hotel room.
As per The Cut, Ashley Judd says he turned up in his bathrobe and asked for a massage at a breakfast meeting they had in the late 1990s.
Judd says her refusal to acqueise to Weinstein cost her parts in movies including The Lord of The Rings.
Around 1990: British actress Kate Beckinsale, then 17 years old, arrives to meet with Weinstein at The Savoy hotel in London and is told by reception to go to his room. He opens the door in his bathrobe and offers her alcohol, she wrote in an Instagram post.
She tells Weinstein she has school in the morning and leaves, she said. A few years later, Beckinsale said Weinstein asked if he’d made advances at the London hotel, apparently unable to remember.
Early 1990s: Actress Rosanna Arquette, then in her early 30s, stops by The Beverly Hills Hotel to pick up a movie script from Weinstein, who is in the bathroom when she arrives and asks for a massage, she told The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times.
Early 1990s: Louise Godbold, then 28 and seeking a film industry internship, is touring Weinstein’s New York offices when he leads her to an empty meeting room, begs for a massage and places his hands on her shoulders as she moves to leave, she wrote on the website of the childhood trauma social network ACEs Connection.
Early 1990s: English actress Sophie Dix, 22, accepts Weinstein’s invitation to dinner at an American restaurant in London, Joe Allen, and then visits his room at The Savoy hotel to offer suggestions on film footage from a movie he was producing, she told The Guardian newspaper.
Instead, Weinstein discusses a massage before he tries to pull off her clothes and pin her down on a bed, she said. Dix locks herself in the bathroom. When she opens the bathroom door, she sees Weinstein masturbating, so she locks the door again until room service arrives and she can flee, she said.
1991: Laura Madden, then an employee, is asked by Weinstein to give him massages at hotels in Dublin and London, she told The New York Times.
1993: Actress Katherine Kendall, 23, arrives at Weinstein’s New York apartment for a business meeting, and he returns from the bathroom in his bathrobe, then nude, chasing her around the room and asking to see her breasts, she told The New York Times. She said she refused his advances.
1994: Paltrow, 22, is summoned to Weinstein’s suite at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for a meeting, where she refuses his suggestion of a massage, she told The New York Times. Paltrow said her then-boyfriend, actor Brad Pitt, confronted Weinstein soon after.
1994-95: French actress Florence Darel, 26, meets Weinstein at a movie preview screening in New York City in 1994 and fends off his requests to meet following an after-party by claiming she’s dating a costar, she told the newspaper Le Parisien.
During a 1995 meeting in Weinstein’s hotel suite at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, with Weinstein’s wife next door, Darel quickly excuses herself, she said, when Weinstein makes advances while implying that to appear in American movies, she had to go through him.
1995: Liza Campbell, a British artist and writer then in her mid-30s, arrives to meet with Weinstein at The Savoy hotel in London, but he instead asks her to join him for a bath as she hears him undress, she wrote in The Sunday Times of London. She immediately leaves, she said.
September 1995: Actress Mira Sorvino, 27 and attending the Toronto International Film Festival, meets with Weinstein at his hotel room where he massages her shoulders and chases her around, prompting her to leave, she told The New Yorker.
Weeks later, Sorvino said, Weinstein shows up at her New York apartment after midnight and she convinces him to leave by telling him her boyfriend is coming over.
1996: French actress Judith Godreche, 24, attends a meeting with Weinstein and a female Miramax executive at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, she told The New York Times. The female executive leaves, and Godreche joins Weinstein at his suite to discuss a film they were working on. After Godreche says no to his suggestion of a massage, he pulls off her sweater and she leaves, she said.
1997: Actress Ashley Judd, then in her late 20s, arrives at a hotel in Beverly Hills for breakfast with Weinstein and learns they will be meeting in Weinstein’s suite. She rejects his suggestions to give him a massage, to give him a shoulder rub, to pick out his clothes and to watch him shower, she told The New York Times. She earlier spoke of the encounter to the trade magazine Variety without naming Weinstein.
1997: Actress Rose McGowan, 23, reaches a financial settlement with Weinstein after an encounter in a hotel room at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, according to a legal document reviewed by The New York Times.
McGowan in 2017 tweeted “HW raped me,” apparently in reference to Harvey Weinstein.
1997: Asia Argento, an Italian film actress and director then 21 years old, arrives at what she expects to be a Miramax party at a hotel room at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, but only Weinstein is there, she told The New Yorker.
After going into the bathroom he returns in his bathrobe and asks for a massage, she said. Argento gives him a massage, and Weinstein forces her legs apart and performs oral sex on her despite her protests, she said. She told the magazine they had consensual sexual relations in the years that followed.
1997: Model Zoe Brock, 23, is chased by a naked Weinstein, locking herself in the bathroom of his suite at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, she wrote in a post on Medium.com. She convinces him to get dressed and to allow her to stay the night in his penthouse suite at the Majestic Hotel, leaving at dawn before Weinstein returns, she said.
Around 1997: Claire Forlani, an English actress then 25 years old, attends two meetings with Weinstein at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel and three dinners where Weinstein suggested massages and talked about actresses he has slept with, she wrote in a Twitter post. Forlani wrote she “ducked, dived and ultimately got out of there” each time.
1998: Zelda Perkins, a 25-year-old assistant in London, confronts Weinstein about remarks in hotel rooms she considers inappropriate, and about Weinstein’s treatment of another female co-worker, her former co-workers told The New York Times.
Late 1990s: Actress Angelina Jolie, then in her early 20s, rejects unwanted advances from Weinstein in a hotel room, she wrote in an email to The New York Times. She said she decided never to work with Weinstein again and even cautioned others from doing so.
Late 1990s: Actress Tara Subkoff, in her mid-20s, attends a premiere after-party where Weinstein grabs her to sit on his lap and she felt Weinstein’s erection, she told Variety. After Subkoff got up from Weinstein’s lap, she said he made requests that prompted Subkoff to laugh in Weinstein’s face and leave the party.
In the 2000s
2000: Actress Melissa Sagemiller, in her mid-20s, is filming in Toronto when Sagemiller is invited to Weinstein’s hotel room ostensibly to discuss a movie script, she told HuffPost. Weinstein is wearing a robe and offers drinks, requests a massage, says he needs a shower and, as Sagemiller leaves, blocks the door and insists she kiss him, listing other actresses he said kissed him, she said.
Actress Salma Hayek accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the early 2000s
Early 2000s: Actress Heather Graham, then in her early 30s, is told by Weinstein while discussing movie scripts that he has an agreement with his wife allowing him to sleep with anyone he wanted when he was out of town, she wrote in Variety.
Early 2000s: British actress Romola Garai, 18, arriving for what she expected to be a job interview at The Savoy hotel in London, is asked to go to Weinstein’s hotel room, where he is waiting in a dressing gown, she told The Guardian.
After 2000: Canadian actress Erika Rosenbaum, in her 20s, is ushered into a meeting in Weinstein’s hotel suite during the Toronto International Film Festival, then left alone, she told CBC/Radio-Canada. Weinstein exits the bathroom wearing only a dress shirt and no pants, she said, and soon after grabs Rosenbaum by the neck and asks her to watch in a mirror as he begins masturbating.
2003: Dawn Dunning, then a 24-year-old aspiring actress, is invited to a meal at a New York City hotel, but after arriving is told to go to Weinstein’s suite instead, where he is wearing a bathrobe, she told The New York Times. He said he had contracts for three films, but she would only allow her to sign them on the condition they have sex, she said. Dunning said she quickly left.
After 2003: Actress Minka Kelly, a day after meeting Weinstein at an industry party, declines his request to hold a meeting in his hotel room, instead joining Weinstein and a female assistant the next day at a hotel restaurant, she wrote in an Instagram post. When the assistant leaves the table, Weinstein touts perks Kelly would enjoy as his girlfriend, she said. When she says she prefers to keep their relationship professional, he says he trusts she won’t tell others about the conversation, she said.
2004: Lucia Evans, then Lucia Stoller, a college student and aspiring actress, is approached by Weinstein at the Cipriani Upstairs club in New York and accepts an invitation to meet with a female Miramax casting executive, but is led to an office where she was alone with Weinstein and he forces her to perform oral sex on him, she told The New Yorker. Weinstein later begins calling her late at night, she said. The experience led to eating problems, caused her schoolwork to suffer, ruined relationships and made roommates fear she’d kill herself, she said.
“That’s the most horrible part of it, and that’s why he’s been able to do this for so long to so many women: People give up, and then they feel like it’s their fault,” she was quoted as saying by The Cut.
After 2004: French actress Lea Seydoux, then in her 20s, fends off Weinstein’s attempt to kiss her in his hotel room after he flirted with her at a fashion show, she wrote in The Guardian.
Before 2007: Actress and model Angie Everhart, in her 30s, is sleeping on a yacht during the Cannes Film Festival in France, when she awakes to Weinstein blocking the door and masturbating, she told TMZ.
Around 2007: Television anchor Lauren Sivan, 28, meets with Weinstein and others at the New York restaurant Cipriani before driving to the Cuban-themed club Socialista, where during a tour of the club’s restaurant, Weinstein tells two kitchen staffers to leave, attempts to kiss Sivan and then exposes himself and masturbates into a plant while blocking her path, she told HuffPost.
2008: Louisette Geiss, then an actress and screenwriter, is pitching her script to Weinstein at a hotel during the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, when Weinstein changes into a bathrobe, gets into a hot tub and asks Geiss to watch him masturbate, she recounted during a news conference this week.
2008: Sarah Ann Masse, then an aspiring actress, comedian and writer, arrives at Weinstein’s home in Connecticut for an interview to work as a nanny for his three children, and is greeted by Weinstein in his underwear, she told Variety. At the end of the interview, Weinstein gives her a long hug and says he loves her, she said. Masse said an assistant calls afterward to say that Weinstein decided not to hire her as a nanny because she was an actress.
In the 2010s
2010: French actress Emma de Caunes, 34, visits Weinstein’s room at the Hotel Ritz in Paris to get a movie script, she told The New Yorker. Weinstein leaves his bathroom naked with an erection, and asks her to lie on his bed, she said. De Caunes said she quickly left.
January 2011: Actress Jessica Barth, then in her early 30s, arrives at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for a business meeting with Weinstein, when he asks her over the phone to come to his room, she told The New Yorker.
While there, Weinstein demands a naked massage in his bed, and she leaves, she said.
After 2010: British model and actress Cara Delevingne, then in her early 20s, receives a call from Weinstein where he asks if she had slept with “the women I was seen out with in the media,” she wrote in an Instagram post. He also tells her that her sexual orientation could limit her career prospects, she wrote. A year or two later at a hotel, Weinstein brags about sleeping with actresses, asks Delevingne to kiss another woman and tries to kiss Delevingne when she attempts to leave, she said. Delevingne wrote she regrets accepting a part afterward in a movie Weinstein produced.
December 2014: Emily Nestor, recently hired as a temporary employee, meets with Weinstein at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel, where he promises her career help if she agrees to have sex, she told The New Yorker, and told co-workers in accounts reported by The New York Times. Co-workers notify The Weinstein Co. executives of Nestor’s allegations.
March 2015: Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, an Italian model and actress then 22 years old, arrives at Weinstein’s New York office for a meeting about her career and soon after calls police, claiming Weinstein grabbed her breasts and put his hands up her skirt. The next day, Gutierrez wears a wire from New York City police and meets Weinstein at a bar. The district attorney declines to prosecute.
2015: Lauren O’Connor, a 28-year-old literary scout, production executive and colleague of an unnamed The Weinstein Co. employee allegedly harassed by a naked Weinstein, sends a memo detailing misconduct to executives, reported The New York Times.
Allegations from unnamed women
As per The Cut, a 38-year-old Italian model and actress claimed Weinstein raped her in 2013. She reported the incident to the LAPD.
A woman using the pseudonym Sarah Smith also claimed Weinstein raped her in 1992. She said she was an employee of Weinstein at the time.
A Canadian actress similarly accused Weinstein of sexual assault in 2000. The actress filed a case against him in 2017. An actress said Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 2015 and 2016. She filed a case against him in LA Superior court.
A woman in 2017 claimed that Weinstein sexually assaulted her several times after 2000.
who works in the film industry says in a civil claim she filed in the U.K. in November 2017 that he sexually assaulted her several times sometime after 2000.
An unnamed woman identified in court papers as CW-1 says he raped her in a midtown-Manhattan hotel room in 2013. Her allegations are part of the criminal case against him.
In all at least 100 women have accused Weinstein of harassment and misconduct, as per The Cut.
Weinstein maintains his innocence. He insists any sexual activity was consensual.
‘Do everything in our power to retry the case’
In overturning Weinstein’s 23-year sentence in New York, the court said in its 4-3 decision that “the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes.” The court’s majority called this “an abuse of judicial discretion.”
In a stinging dissent, Judge Madeline Singas wrote that the majority was “whitewashing the facts to conform to a he-said/she-said narrative,” and said the Court of Appeals was continuing a “disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.”
In a statement, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said: “We will do everything in our power to retry this case, and remain steadfast in our commitment to survivors of sexual assault.”
Attorney Douglas H. Wigdor, who has represented eight Harvey Weinstein accusers including two witnesses at the New York criminal trial, called the ruling “a major step back in holding those accountable for acts of sexual violence.”
“Courts routinely admit evidence of other uncharged acts where they assist juries in understanding issues concerning the intent, modus operandi or scheme of the defendant. The jury was instructed on the relevance of this testimony and overturning the verdict is tragic in that it will require the victims to endure yet another trial,” Wigdor said in a statement.
The reversal of Weinstein’s conviction is the second major #MeToo setback in the last two years, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a Pennsylvania court decision to throw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.
Weinstein’s conviction stood for more than four years, heralded by activists and advocates as a milestone achievement, but dissected just as quickly by his lawyers and, later, the Court of Appeals when it heard arguments on the matter in February.
Ashley Judd, reacting to the conviction being overturned, told The New York Times: “That’s really hard for the survivors … We still live in our truth. And we know what happened.”
The Guardian quoted Weinstein’s attorney Arthur Aidala as telling the newspaper that the decision was “not just a victory for Mr Weinstein, but for every criminal defendant in the state of New York, and we compliment the court of appeals for upholding the most basic principles that a criminal defendant should have in a trial.”
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