Harvey Weinstein, 70, is interesting in each circumstances. (File)

Los Angeles:

Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in jail for the rape of a girl in a Beverly Hills lodge room a decade in the past.

The sentence was handed down by a Los Angeles court docket. Weinstein is already serving a 23-year sentence for his separate 2020 conviction in New York for intercourse crimes.

It will increase the chance that the Academy Award-winning “Shakespeare in Love” producer, 70, will spend the rest of his life in jail — although he’s interesting in each circumstances.

In December, he was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a overseas object of a European actress whose id was not revealed.

The court docket heard specific accounts of conferences between the beforehand influential film producer and a number of other younger girls who have been looking for a foothold in Hollywood.

Prosecutors stated Weinstein exploited and abused girls for years, and lengthy loved impunity due to his then-powerful place within the business.

The ladies would have risked shedding their future Hollywood job prospects if they’d publicly accused Weinstein on the time, prosecutors stated.

Weinstein was in the end convicted within the Los Angeles case of assaulting one lady, however acquitted of sexual battery involving a second.

The jury didn’t attain a verdict on fees regarding the alleged assaults of two different girls, one among whom was recognized by her legal professionals as Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the now-wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Weinstein’s legal professionals had filed a protection movement requesting both a brand new trial or a decreased verdict, alleging they have been precluded from admitting vital proof in regards to the rape sufferer — together with Fb messages with an alleged lover which the choose deemed irrelevant — and that their cross-examination was restricted.

However Choose Lisa Lench denied the movement, and sentencing went forward.

In New York final June, Weinstein misplaced his first attraction towards his prison verdict and sentence within the state’s intermediate appellate court docket.

However he has additionally additional appealed that case to the upper New York Court docket of Appeals.

#MeToo

Weinstein’s behaviour had been the subject of rumours in leisure circles for years, however his energy participant standing in Hollywood ensured few have been prepared to publicly name him out.

Bombshell allegations broke towards him in 2017, launching the #MeToo motion and paving the best way for a whole bunch of ladies to combat again towards sexual violence within the office.

Dozens of ladies have now accused Weinstein of predatory behaviour.

After his conviction in New York, a civil trial awarded $17 million to dozens of different girls who had accused the previous film magnate of abuse.

Earlier this month, the European actress who Weinstein was convicted of raping in Los Angeles additionally sued him for damages.

The civil case alleges sexual battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional misery and negligence.

“The conduct of Defendant Weinstein was despicable, and performed with malice, oppression and fraud, thus justifying an award of punitive damages towards him,” her lawsuit says.

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