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Less than a week after suing the City of New York and others over “deplorable conditions” at Rikers Island jail, Harvey Weinstein is back in the hospital.

Seemingly suffering from leukemia, the convicted rapist and ailing producer is now at Manhattan’s Bellevue, where he has had frequent stints since first convicted of sex crimes by a NYC jury in early 2020.

“Harvey Weinstein, who has been suffering from a lack of adequate medical care and enduring deplorable and inhumane conditions on Rikers Island, has been transported to Bellevue Hospital for emergent treatment due to an alarming blood test result that requires immediate medical attention,” said Weinstein attorney Imran H. Ansari. “It is expected that he will remain there until his condition stabilizes. His deprivation of care is not only medical malpractice, but a violation of his constitutional rights.”

It should be noted that Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins partner is representing the...

Manhattan prosecutors revealed in court Wednesday that they are evaluating new sexual misconduct claims against Harvey Weinstein as they prepare for his upcoming retrial on rape and sexual assault charges.

Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg told the judge that additional people have recently come forward with assault allegations against the disgraced movie mogul. Prosecutors are assessing which claims may fall within the statute of limitations.

“Some potential survivors that were not ready to step forward during Weinstein’s first New York trial may now be willing to testify,” Blumberg stated. When asked if a new indictment was possible, she responded, “Yes, your honor.”

Blumberg said the prosecution would update the court on the case’s direction by late June. The next hearing was scheduled for July 9, with Weinstein’s retrial tentatively set for after Labor Day.

Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, remained confident outside the courthouse that no new accusers...

Harvey Weinstein may face a new indictment on criminal sexual misconduct charges, Manhattan prosecutors told a judge today.

According to the Associated Press, Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg told a judge that they are evaluating additional claims of assault from additional accusers who have come forward. She said that a new indictment is possible, even as Weinstein faces a retrial later this year after his 2020 conviction was overturned.

Weinstein appeared at the hearing today, held in the same Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump is awaiting a jury’s verdict in his hush money case.

Weinstein was convicted in February 2020 on first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape after allegations by two women, Mimi Haley and Jessica Mann. But a New York appeals court overturned Weinstein’s conviction last month, ruling that the introduction of prior bad acts testimony was prejudicial to the jury. Weinstein also was convicted of sexual assault in...

Prosecutors in the Harvey Weinstein case say they may issue a new indictment against the former mogul, as there may be more women who come out against him.

“Some people who were not ready to speak out in 2020 now appear ready to do so in 2024,” Assistant D.A. Nicole Blumberg said in New York criminal court Wednesday. A July 9 hearing was set for purposes of discovery and compliance.

Blumberg disclosed this as she mentioned a letter filed with Judge Curtis Farber asking the judge to direct Weinstein’s defense counsel to refrain from making public statements about witnesses, for fear of scaring off the additional women who may now bring claims. The attorney, Arthur Aidala, had held a press conference outside of the courtroom May 1, after the first hearing in the case, in which he called into question statements made by Miriam Haley, who brought claims against Weinstein in the first trial.

Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York on rape and sexual offence charges after his 23-year conviction was overturned on appeal, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday.

The disgraced 72-year old former Hollywood titan appeared in court in a wheelchair wearing a blue suit and according to reports did not speak in a brief hearing. Reports said Attorney Gloria Allred and Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann attended the hearing.

Prosecutors said there was nothing consensual about Weinstein’s conduct in reference to prior charges that led to the original conviction in February 2020, and told Judge Curtis Farber they would be proceeding.

Harvey Weinstein is expected to stand trial again in New York after his previous conviction was overturned by New York’s top appeals court.

Weinstein appeared in court today, May 1 for a hearing, his first time appearing in New York court since he was convicted back in 2020. Weinstein was in a wheelchair and was seated next to his lawyer Arthur Aidala, who told the court Weinstein has “very, very serious medical issues” but is still mentally sharp and could end up testifying on his own behalf in a new trial.

Judge Curtis Faber set a hearing for discovery for May 29, at which point prosecutors will also file a certificate of compliance. If filed by that date, the judge expects a trial could begin at some point after Labor Day.

Jessica Mann, one of the women who testified in the original case against Weinstein, was also present in the courthouse on Wednesday.

Harvey Weinstein is looking at a new trial in New York after Labor Day.

The former Hollywood mogul appeared in court in New York Wednesday for the first time since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned. Judge Curtis Farber set a May 29 hearing for discovery and for prosecutors to file a certificate of compliance. If the certificate is filed by that date, the judge anticipated that a trial will begin sometime after Labor Day.

Weinstein was wheeled into the courtroom in a wheelchair, wearing a blue suit with an American flag pin, after having been hospitalized in the days leading up to the hearing. He waved to the first row of attorneys as he was wheeled in and shook their hands as he was wheeled out. He appeared with his attorney Arthur Aidala, in front of a full audience, including Jessica Mann, who testified in the first New York trial.

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Harvey Weinstein appeared in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, less than a week after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction. It’s the first time the former movie producer has been seen in public since he was convicted of rape in a Los Angeles court and sentenced to 16 years in prison in February 2023.

Weinstein was seated in a wheelchair and wheeled by a security guard into a courtroom packed with journalists, lawyers and other officials. Lawyer Gloria Allred and Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann were present in the room. Prosecutor Nicole Blumberg from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said they will seek a retrial in the fall.

“[Mann] wants everyone to know the truth, and the defendant may have power and privilege, but she has the truth,” Blumberg said, adding they “have every reason to believe” Weinstein will be convicted in a retrial.

Attorney Arthur Aidala represented Weinstein and...

Exclusive: Despite a myriad of health issues landing the incarcerated Harvey Weinstein in hospital last week, the much-accused producer is still expected to show up in court tomorrow — at least right now.

“Mr. Weinstein entered prison with serious medical issues, and they have not magically disappeared, but are being managed,” the producer’s long-time spokesperson Juda Engelmayer tells Deadline of his client who is suffering from diabetes, cardiac issued, sleep apnea, and who is also near blind.

Following the April 25 overturning of his 2020 sex crimes conviction, the past few days have seen a storm of rumors that 72-year-old Weinstein wouldn’t make the re-arraignment hearing in the early afternoon local time at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan. While Weinstein’s current condition is far from critical at present and he is under observation at Bellevue, one well-positioned law enforcement source said that “things could turn on a dime” and not to rule out “more drama.

Two days after Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals, the former movie mogul has been hospitalized.

Weinstein’s attorney, Arthur Aidala, said he was admitted to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for a battery of tests, according to The Associated Press.

“They examined him and sent him to Bellevue,” Aidala explained. “It seems like he needs a lot of help, physically. He’s got a lot of problems. He’s getting all kinds of tests. He’s somewhat of a train wreck health-wise.”

NYC Department of Correction spokesperson Frank Dwyer told The Hollywood Reporter that Weinstein remains in custody while in the hospital. A representative for the former movie producer told THR that his prison consultant and Doc liaison, Craig Rothfeld, said they “are grateful for NYC Doc’s care and discretion as they have been treating Harvey Weinstein’s medical issues as best they can.

Miriam Haley, the key witness at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in New York, said Friday that she is weighing whether to testify again, after an appeals court on Thursday overturned his guilty verdict.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has indicated that it will seek to retry the former producer, but a trial likely would not go forward without Haley’s participation.

At a press conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, Haley said she does not want to go through the ordeal of another trial, but recognized there are broader issues at stake.

“This isn’t just about me,” she said. “It’s a really important case. It’s in the public eye. It is difficult for me personally, but it is important for the collective.”

The Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s verdict on a 4-3 vote, finding that the trial judge, James Burke, erred by allowing testimony from...

When New York’s top court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan-based sex crimes conviction in a surprise move Thursday, questions about Weinstein’s reversal of fortune and what comes next for the disgraced movie mogul started to multiply.

Will there be a new trial in New York? Could Weinstein be released on bail while that question plays out? Is Weinstein’s subsequent conviction in California in jeopardy now too?

A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg quickly signaled Thursday that the office hoped to put Weinstein back in front of a jury.

Lauren Sivan had barely opened her eyes Thursday morning when she got the news Harvey Weinstein’s landmark #MeToo-era conviction in Manhattan had been overturned by New York’s top court. The former New York TV news reporter – one of more than 100 women who say Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them during his decades-long career as a top Hollywood gatekeeper – knew the divided decision was a possibility. The judges who issued the ruling had appeared unsettled during an appeals court hearing in February. Still, she needed time to process everything at her home in California.

In a stunning development of news, the ruling of former Miramax studio head, Harvey Weinstein, has been overturned by the New York State Court of Appeals in his rape charges conviction back in 2020. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the court had a 4-3 ruling that claimed that “the judge in the New York County trial prejudiced Weinstein with improper rulings, including allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case.” The court, which is the highest court in the state’s judicial system, has now decided that a new trial must take place.

Judge Jenny Rivera stated in her ruling that “Under our system of justice, the accused has a right to be held to account only for the crime charged and, thus, allegations of prior bad acts may not be admitted against them for the sole purpose of establishing their propensity for criminality. Nor...

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers celebrated his overturned rape conviction at a press conference in New York Thursday.

“From the bottom of our hearts, we knew Harvey Weinstein didn’t get a fair trial,” his attorney Arthur Aidala told reporters. “There are some people who are unpopular but we still have to apply the law fairly to. The law was not applied fairly to Harvey Weinstein. The court of appeals said today that no one is above the law, but no one is below the law either. You can’t throw out 100 years of legal precedent because someone is unpopular.”

The press conference took place in a park across from the Manhattan court where Donald Trump is currently on trial for hush money payments. Shouting Trump protesters surrounded the scrum of over 50 reporters, including a man in a pig mask with a sign that said “Trump is a pig.” Once he...

Arthur Aidala, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer in the appellate case, opened the first press conference after the former Hollywood mogul’s rape conviction in New York was overturned saying that his team always knew that “Harvey Weinstein did not get a fair trial.”

“You can’t throw out 100 years of legal precedent because someone is unpopular,” Aidala said, referring to the Molineux precedent that helped overturn the ruling. “Today’s legal ruling is a great day for America because it instills in us the faith that there is a justice system.”

The New York state Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction Thursday, ruling that the judge in the New York County trial was prejudiced against Weinstein because among other things, the court allowed women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case.

Aidala said he spoke with Weinstein after 10 am Thursday on a call. Weinstein...

In a stunning twist to the landmark #MeToo case, the New York state Court of Appeals has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction.

The highest court in New York state’s judicial system ruled on Thursday that the judge in the New York County trial prejudiced Weinstein with improper rulings, including allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case.

The decision orders a new trial take place.

“Under our system of justice, the accused has a right to be held to account only for the crime charged and, thus, allegations of prior bad acts may not be admitted against them for the sole purpose of establishing their propensity for criminality. Nor may the prosecution use ‘prior convictions or proof of the prior commission of specific, criminal, vicious or immoral acts’ other than to impeach the accused’s credibility,” wrote Judge Jenny Rivera in her ruling.

Harvey Weinstein’s accusers slammed the decision to overturn his New York rape conviction, saying it’s “profoundly unjust” and a “major step back.”

The New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction on Thursday in a 4-3 decision, ruling that the trial showed prejudice to him by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. Weinstein will now face a new trial.

“The news today is not only disheartening, but it’s profoundly unjust,” said the Silence Breakers, a group of Weinstein survivors, in a statement. “But this ruling does not diminish the validity of our experiences or our truth; it’s merely a setback. The man found guilty continues to serve time in a California prison. When survivors everywhere broke their silence in 2017, the world changed. We continue to stand strong and advocate for that change. We will continue to fight for justice for survivors everywhere.

Four years after Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape in New York, a victory for the #MeToo movement, the disgraced film mogul’s conviction has been overturned. On Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals reached a 4-3 decision to overturn the conviction.

In a 77-page decision, the majority of judges decided that the judge who oversaw Weinstein’s trial, Justice James M. Burke, should not have allowed prosecutors to let accusers whose allegations were not part of the charges against him to testify in the trial.

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Harvey Weinstein‘s 2020 rape conviction has been overturned.

The decision was made today (April 25) by the New York Court of Appeals. He will still remain in prison due to his conviction for rape in a 2022 Los Angeles court case.

Keep reading to find out more…

In 2020, Weinstein was found guilty of sexually assaulting Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley at his apartment in 2006 and was also convicted of the rape of another woman, Jessica Mann, in 2013. The case was appealed and New York State’s highest court heard the case in February.

Weinstein‘s lawyers argued that the judge in the 2020 trial allowed three women to testify against him at the time whose allegations were not related to the case at hand.

The judge today ruled that a new trial must now take place for this 2020 conviction.

Judge Jenny Rivera said in today’s ruling (via THR), “Under our system of justice,...

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals.

On Thursday, the court found in a 4-3 ruling that the judge in Weinstein’s trial — a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement that the 2017 allegations against him started — had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court has now ordered a new trial.

Weinstein, the Oscar-winning producer of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Good Will Hunting,” is serving a 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Rome, N.Y. He will remain imprisoned as he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison. However, Weinstein was acquitted in the Los Angeles trial on charges involving a woman who testified in his New York case.

Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said in a statement: “We’re cautiously excited.

The New York state Court of Appeals has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction.

The court, in a 4-3 ruling, ruled that the judge in the New York County trial prejudiced Weinstein with improper rulings, including allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case.

The court — the highest court in New York state’s judicial system — ruled that a new trial must take place.

“Under our system of justice, the accused has a right to be held to account only for the crime charged and, thus, allegations of prior bad acts may not be admitted against them for the sole purpose of establishing their propensity for criminality. Nor may the prosecution use ‘prior convictions or proof of the prior commission of specific, criminal, vicious or immoral acts’ other than to impeach the accused’s credibility,” wrote Judge Jenny Rivera in her ruling. “It is our...

Harvey Weinstein appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday and received an Oct. 10 trial date for his serial rape case. The case is expected to last eight weeks.

The disgraced movie mogul agreed to the date and then hung his head, staring at his glasses folded in his hands shackled in his lap. It was last week that Weinstein learned that a five-judge appeals panel in New York upheld his 2020 conviction on felony sex crimes in Manhattan. He plans to ask New York’s highest court to review that decision,...

A New York appeals court upheld the 23-year prison sentence against Harvey Weinstein Thursday, ensuring that the disgraced producer will remain behind bars ahead of his upcoming Los Angeles trial on sexual assault charges.

In March 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being found guilty on charges of felony sex crime and third-degree rape in his New York trial on sexual assault charges; his legal team filed an appeal a month later. On Thursday, the five-judge panel ruled unanimously to affirm the verdict and sentencing in that trial.

A New York appeals court has upheld Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on rape and sexual assault charges, rejecting arguments that the trial judge effectively rigged the outcome in favor of the prosecution.

In a unanimous ruling issued on Thursday, a five-justice appellate panel found that the judge did not make errors that would warrant overturning the conviction or the 23-year sentence.

“We reject defendant’s arguments, and affirm the conviction in all respects,” wrote Justice Angela Mazzarelli, on behalf of the court.

Alvin Bragg, who was sworn in as Manhattan D.A. in January, issued a statement thanking the survivors in the case “for their remarkable courage and candor.”

“We are gratified by today’s decision, which upholds a monumental conviction that changed the way prosecutors and courts approach complex prosecutions of sexual predators,” Bragg said.

A spokesman for Weinstein, Juda Engelmayer, said that, “We are disappointed, but not surprised.

Two years after former studio executive and producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted on multiple counts of rape and sexual assault, Oscar season has changed for the better — at least according to three-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain.

During Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast, Chastain chose not to mention Weinstein by name, but implied that the Weinstein Company mega-producer had a huge hand in the toxic Hollywood culture around awards season campaigning.

“Listen, he-who-shall-not-be-named really changed awards season,” Chastain said. “I don’t see it nowadays like I saw it when I first came onto the scene. If a film had a lot of attention, there’d be all these negative articles about it, all of a sudden. I believe he-who-shall-not-be-named is the instigator of that kind of campaigning.”

Chastain continued, “Thank goodness our industry is moving to a more healthy environment, and we’re now more celebratory of everyone. We...

Harvey Weinstein’s longtime Los Angeles limo driver was called to the witness stand Wednesday to preserve his testimony related to at least one alleged rape at the center of the jailed movie mogul’s California criminal case.

According to prosecutors, Alfred “Freddy” Baroth, 74, was Weinstein’s on-call driver during a critical three-day period in February 2013 that matches up with allegations the Oscar winner bullied his way into the room of an Italian actress at the Mr. C Beverly Hills hotel shortly after the two exchanged greetings at an L.

Jurors in the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct trial did not debate the #MeToo movement, one of the jurors told CBS This Morning on Friday, saying that discussing “outside factors” would have been an “adulteration” of the judicial process.

“I have no appetite or aspirations to be both the face of the jury or the larger movement,” said the juror, identified only as Drew, adding that the jury’s only focus was “this case, these people, this is our decision.”

“There is no message,” he said. “We were there to do a job, and to make a decision based on the information that was presented to us, and we have absolutely no stance or voice or opinion as to any type of larger movement.”

Watch the first segment of the interview above, and the second half below.

In an interview with Gayle King, the juror said about larger “messages” of the trial,...

“I’ve seen a situation where people are motivated to want to try to remember more.”

A psychology professor called by the defence as an expert witness at the New York rape trial of former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein testified on Friday (7) that people’s memories can become distorted after the fact.

Professor Elizabeth Loftus, a human memory expert at the University of California, Irvine, told jurors that receiving misinformation about an event, trying to remember it in therapy and discussing it with law enforcement can all distort memory.

“I’ve seen a situation where people are motivated to want to try to remember more,...

The Manhattan courtroom where Harvey Weinstein is being tried for rape and sexual misconduct took on the aura of a college psychology classroom today as a high-profile cognitive psychologist and defense witness Dr. Elizabeth Loftus testified about false memories and the ways in which misinformation, media coverage and leading questions from police investigators can warp how people recall — and mis-recall — even the most traumatic events.

Loftus is an acknowledged memory expert who has testified — mostly for defense attorneys — in a roster of celebrity trials and litigation including those of O.J. Simpson, the Menendez Brothers, Ted Bundy, Oliver North, Bosnian war criminals, the Oklahoma City bomber and the Duke University lacrosse team. She testified today about the malleability of memory and about how susceptible the human brain is to misremembering events, particularly as time passes. Researchers, she said, have successfully implanted false memories “in the minds of otherwise healthy people” merely by suggestion and “post-event information.

Paul Feldsher, a former film producer, Miramax consultant and longtime friend at various points to both Annabella Sciorra and Harvey Weinstein, testified under subpoena in Weinstein’s rape trial Thursday that Sciorra drank alcohol and used prescription sedatives well before what he says the actress once referred to as merely a “crazy” sexual encounter with Weinstein.

Called to testify by Weinstein’s defense in an apparent attempt to discredit the actress’ previous testimony that her drinking and drug problems started after she was raped by Weinstein, Feldsher, a former ICM agent, presented a fairly unflattering depiction of the woman he once considered a very close friend.

Although acknowledging that he and Sciorra haven’t been in touch for seven years, Feldsher said he still cares about the actress and considers her a friend, then said that Sciorra used to joke about taking sedatives and that she’d once described the...

Defence case expected to last three days.

The first defence witness in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial said on Thursday (6) he thought the former Hollywood mogul was a sex addict, but did not believe he was capable of committing the crimes of which he has been accused.

Writer Paul Feldsher also acknowledged sending messages to the former producer in which he disparaged the “dog pile of actresses” who had accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct.

Feldsher testified for the defence that actress Annabella Sciorra told him in the early 1990s that she had a sexual encounter with Weinstein but did not say she had been raped.

Defence case expected to last three days.

The first defence witness in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial acknowledged on Thursday (6) sending messages to the former producer in which he disparaged the “dog pile of actresses” who had accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct.

Writer Paul Feldsher testified for the defence that actress Annabella Sciorra told him in the early 1990s that she had a sexual encounter with Weinstein but did not say she had been raped.

Under cross-examination by prosecutors, Feldsher, who was a friend of Sciorra’s, acknowledged that he had been in regular contact with Weinstein since allegations of...

Defence case expected to last three days.

Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape trial wrapped up their case on Thursday morning (6), clearing the way for the former producer’s lawyers to begin calling their own witnesses in the afternoon.

Weinstein’s first two witnesses were expected to be film producer Paul Feldsher and director and producer Warren Leight. Both knew actress Annabella Sciorra, one of the six accusers who have testified for the prosecution.

Other potential defence witnesses include two experts: Elizabeth Loftus, an expert on human memory and a psychology professor at the University of California, Irvine,...

The prosecution in the Manhattan rape trial of Harvey Weinstein rested its case just before lunch today following a morning of largely uneventful, if occasionally vivid, loose-end-tying testimony that stood in contrast to the more dramatic and emotional displays of the last couple days.

The tenor could change this afternoon, though, when Weinstein’s defense begins calling its own witnesses, one of whom is expected to be film and TV director and writer Warren Leight. Best known for his work on work on TV’s Law & Order franchise, Leight is expected to testify about his experience directing Annabella Sciorra in the 1993 film The Night We Never Met.

Earlier in this New York Supreme Court trial, which began January 6, Sciorra tearfully told jurors that Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment in late 1993 or early 1994. Her longtime friend and fellow Brooklyn native Rosie Perez confirmed that Sciorra told her about...

The prosecution in the Harvey Weinstein trial rested their case on Thursday, after concluding with the testimony of the sixth and final sexual assault accuser.

Weinstein’s defense team is expected to call its first witness later on Thursday afternoon, and will spend the next three days trying to rebut the allegations against the producer.

Weinstein is accused of five charges, including rape and predatory sexual assault. The trial in Manhattan Supreme Court has captivated much of the country and Hollywood, and is seen as a key test for the #MeToo movement.

The prosecution — lead by Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi, along with Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast — brought in six women who accused Weinstein of sexual assault and rape, over the past two weeks. After calling in their final witness on Thursday, morning Illuzzi stood up and told Justice James Burke why they have proven Weinstein to be guilty of first-degree rape,...

Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial rested their case on Thursday after calling six of the former mogul’s female accusers to the stand. Their accusations, taken together, have illuminated patterns: the late-night meetings at hotel bars that moved into hotel suites, the promises of auditions or roles in Weinstein productions in exchange for sexual favors and the physical violence of restraining the arms of protesting women. And then there were the persistent fears of retaliation, the attempts to pretend the alleged incidents never happened and the emotional tolls of trauma, shame and self-blame.

These women’s stories have completed a graphic and striking portrait of the former mogul’s decades-long treatment of women seeking entry or respect within the entertainment industry — one that Weinstein and his attorneys have disputed. But the ultimate determination of Weinstein’s fate will be up to the 12-person jury, a group of seven...

Early this afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom, actress and model Lauren Marie Young, whose accusations of a sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein are included in a criminal case brought against the former Hollywood producer in Los Angeles, recounted a harrowing incident in 2013.

Young described being trapped in a hotel bathroom while a naked Weinstein groped her breasts, “grazed” her vagina with one hand and masturbated himself with the other.

By the end of the afternoon, Weinstein’s defense attorney Damon Cheronis had called into question numerous details of the account. He hammered away at inconsistencies in Young’s testimony today and versions of the incident she’d conveyed previously to law enforcement agencies and district attorneys on both coasts.

At one point, with Young’s pro bono attorney Gloria Allred seated in the front row of the courtroom’s spectator section, Cheronis, his hands in thin rubber gloves, held up...

Witness says former Hollywood mogul told her, ”This is what all the actresses do to make it.”

A woman testified at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial on Wednesday (5) that the film producer trapped her in a hotel bathroom in 2013 and masturbated in front of her while groping her breasts and told her, “This is what all the actresses do to make it.”

Lauren Young, a 30-year-old model and actress, is the last of six accusers scheduled to testify in a Manhattan courtroom against Weinstein, a once-powerful Hollywood figure.

Her claims are not part of the criminal charges against Weinstein. She...

Lauren Young testifies about February 2013 hotel encounter.

A woman who has accused Harvey Weinstein of trapping her in a hotel bathroom and masturbating in front of her took the stand on Wednesday (5) in the New York rape trial of the former Hollywood mogul.

Lauren Young, a 30-year-old model and actress, is the last of six accusers who are scheduled to testify against Weinstein. She told jurors on Wednesday morning that she met Weinstein in 2012 at an Oscar dinner, where she also hit it off with actress Claudia Salinas.

Young said Salinas invited her to a meeting in a Beverly Hills...

Lauren Young testifies about February 2013 hotel encounter.

A woman who has accused Harvey Weinstein of trapping her in a hotel bathroom and masturbating in front of her took the stand on Wednesday (5) in the New York rape trial of the former Hollywood mogul.

Lauren Young, a 30-year-old model and actress, is the last of six accusers who are scheduled to testify against Weinstein. She told jurors on Wednesday morning that she met Weinstein in 2012 at an Oscar dinner, where she also hit it off with actress Claudia Salinas.

Young said Salinas invited her to a meeting in a Beverly Hills...

Model Lauren Young has accused Harvey Weinstein of groping her, masturbating in front of her and ejaculating onto a towel in a Beverly Hills hotel bathroom in 2013.

Testifying on Wednesday afternoon in the disgraced mogul’s Manhattan criminal trial, Young appeared on the stand as the prosecution’s final “prior bad acts” witness. The model and then-aspiring actress said she had been invited by a friend of Weinstein’s — model Claudia Salinas — to meet up with the producer at the Montage Beverly Hills under the guise of discussing a script Young was working on at the time.

“I was excited to network and pitch my ideas,” Young, now 30 years old, said. “I put on my best dress.”

Eventually, after the group of three had a conversation at the hotel bar, Young said Weinstein told them he needed to bring the conversation up to his room because he had to get...

Actress and model Lauren Marie Young, who has said she was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein after being lured to his hotel suite on the pretext of discussing a script she was writing, took the stand at Weinstein’s rape trial in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan today, with her testimony set to continue this afternoon.

Young’s allegations are included in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s case filed January 6, the day the New York trial got underway. The La charges allege Weinstein assaulted Young and raped another woman on consecutive nights in February 2013.

Young’s case is not among those being tried in New York; she and two other women have been called to testify here in the cases of Jessica Mann and Mimi Haleyi in an effort to establish a pattern of broader conduct by Weinstein and a history of what the law considers “prior...

A front desk clerk said he was concerned for Jessica Mann’s safety when she checked in at the DoubleTree Hotel on March 18, 2013 with Harvey Weinstein. The hotel employee’s testimony could bolster prosecutors’ criminal case against the movie mogul.

Mann alleges the Weinstein raped her in his hotel room. Her allegations are a key component in the charges that Weinstein is facing, which include first-degree rape, third-degree rape and predatory sexual assault. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

Rothschild Capulong, a hotel employee who helped Weinstein check in when he arrived in the lobby around 10:30 a.m., recalled the movie producer entering the hotel with a “female companion.” He observed “discontent” between Weinstein and the woman, behavior so atypical that he made a notation in his end-of-shift report, which was sent to the head of security.

“I specifically wrote that security might want to check Mr. Weinstein at the room,...

The defense team for accused rapist Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday questioned accuser Jessica Mann about her psychiatric and emotional history, eliciting responses indicating that Mann had been diagnosed with panic disorder and disassociation, had previously engaged in self-injury and suicidal ideation, and was tested, but did not complete, an examination for borderline personality disorder.

Asked whether she had experienced “disassociation’ or “loss of touch” with reality, Mann said, “I never lost touch with reality. I do disconnect.”

The testimony came in the final minutes of Mann’s cross-examination this afternoon by Weinstein’s team during his trial in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan. At one point, when defense attorney Donna Rotunno asked Mann whether she’d experienced “paranoid thinking,” Mann said, “During the course of waiting for this trial a little bit.”

“Anger?,” asked Rotunno.

“Are you my psychiatrist?” shot Mann.

Today’s testimony involved allegations by Mann that...

Jessica Mann pushes back against defence attorney after Monday’s testimony cut short by breakdown.

Former aspiring actress Jessica Mann told a Manhattan court on Tuesday (4) that Harvey Weinstein raped her and said that while their relationship was “complicated” that did not change the fact that he had raped her.

Mann’s testimony in Weinstein’s Manhattan rape trial came as the defence pressed her about her continued contact with the former Hollywood mogul after he allegedly raped her in March 2013.

On Monday the accuser’s testimony had been cut short after she began weeping uncontrollably as she read aloud...

Former aspiring actress and hairdresser Jessica Mann acknowledged that her relationship with Harvey Weinstein was “complicated and difficult,” but told jurors on Tuesday that her prolonged communication with the Hollywood mogul didn’t negate her accusation that he raped her several times.

Entering the second day of cross-examination, Weinstein attorney Donna Rotunno exhaustively questioned Mann, email by email, on why she would continue to reach out to Weinstein and meet up with him even after, by her account, he raped her. “I do know the emails. I’m not ashamed of them — that’s why I’m still here,” Mann said. “I know it’s complicated and difficult, but it doesn’t change the fact that he raped me.”

Rotunno responded, “You are again making excuses for your behavior.”

Mann, who first testified on Friday and said that Weinstein violently raped her in hotels in New York and Los Angeles around 2013, replied,...

Harvey Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann, returning to testify in the former mogul’s rape trial a day after she left the courtroom in tears and hyperventilating, spoke in an often-barely audible voice Tuesday morning as she fielded questions from Weinstein’s defense about the seemingly affectionate email relationship in which she engaged with the now-disgraced producer even after the alleged instances of sexual assault.

Weinstein defense attorney Donna Rotunno presented Mann with one email exchange after another that suggested a by turns friendly and professional relationship between Mann and Weinstein. The emails stood in stark contrast with the image of Mann presented earlier this morning in testimony by Italian actress Emanuela Postacchini, with whom Weinstein allegedly attempted a sexual threesome involving Mann. Postacchini testified that Mann, apparently surprised by the attempted hotel room encounter, was so upset that she ran crying from the hotel bedroom, taking refuge on a bathroom...

A key witness in the Harvey Weinstein trial took the witness stand for a third day on Tuesday, a day after the trial was halted when she broke down in sobs during cross-examination.

Jessica Mann, who claims that Weinstein sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions, testified that she also caught Weinstein trying to film them having sex.

“He had his cell phone with the camera facing this way,” she said.

Weinstein’s attorney Donna Rotunno asked how she reacted. “I freaked out,” she responded.

Rotunno asked if Mann ever saw any footage from the time Weinstein allegedly filmed her during a sexual encounter. Mann said she has never seen any footage.

Last Friday, on the first day of her testimony, Mann revealed explosive details on the stand, giving a glimpse into Weinstein’s alleged sexual appetite, which included him asking to film her during sex.

During her testimony, Mann...

Italian actor Emanuela Postacchini testified that Harvey Weinstein pressured her and key witness Jessica Mann to have a threesome in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2013.

Weinstein’s efforts left Mann sobbing, before she eventually fled the room at the Montage hotel, Postacchini said on the stand in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday.

“I remember crying,” Postacchini said. “[Jessica] was crying in the fetal position on the ground, crying, and so I just…tried to calm her down.”

Postacchini said she arrived at the Montage hotel with the understanding that she was meeting Weinstein for a drink downstairs in the lobby bar. When she arrived, Weinstein emailed her and asked her to come upstairs to the hotel suite.

“I did not have any idea that there would be a woman in the room,” Postacchini testified, adding that she felt “tricked” by the situation.

Postacchini said Mann ran out of the...