LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a month-long trial & 9 days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape & sexual assault of just 1 of the 4 accusers he was charged with abusing.
But the 3 guilty counts involving an Italian actor & 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, 5 years after he became a magnet for the movement.
Weinstein, 70, who is 2 years into a 23-year sentence for a rape & sexual assault conviction in New York that is under appeal, could get up to 24 years in prison in California when he’s sentenced.
He was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation & 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.
“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 & I will never get that back. The criminal trial was brutal & Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand, but I knew I had to see this through to the end, & I did,” the woman said in a statement after the verdict. “I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.”
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