Harvey Weinstein charged with assaulting third woman

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Harvey Weinstein charged with assaulting third woman

By Brendan Pierson

 

Film producer Harvey Weinstein leaves court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 5, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Manhattan district attorney on Monday announced new criminal charges against film producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of sexually assaulting a third woman in addition to the two mentioned in earlier charges.

 

The new indictment accuses Weinstein of forcibly performing oral sex on a woman in July 2006. The new charges, which include predatory sexual assault, carry a sentence of 10 years to life in prison, according to the office of District Attorney Cyrus Vance.

 

Weinstein, 66, once one of Hollywood's most powerful filmmakers, has pleaded not guilty to the first set of charges and has denied ever having non-consensual sex. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, could not be reached immediately for comment on Monday.

 

Vance issued a statement about the new charges saying, "This indictment is the result of the extraordinary courage exhibited by the survivors who have come forward. Our investigation continues."

 

More than 70 women - mostly young actresses and women in other aspects of the movie business - have accused the Miramax film studio's co-founder of sexual misconduct, including rape, in a series of incidents dating back decades. The accusations gave rise to the #MeToo movement, which has seen hundreds of women publicly accusing powerful men in business, government and entertainment of sexual harassment and abuse.

 

Weinstein has been free on a $1 million bail after surrendering in May to face the first set of charges, which came after a monthslong investigation by the New York Police Department.

 

Prosecutors have not named any of the women accusing Weinstein of sexual assault in court papers.

 

The details of one of the cases in the earlier charges align with the account of Lucia Evans, a former aspiring actress who told the New Yorker in October 2017 that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004. The earlier indictment also accused him of raping a different woman in March 2013.

 

As the accusations against him came out, the Weinstein Co's board fired him, the company filed for bankruptcy in March, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled Weinstein.

 

In years past, the academy had showered him with Oscars for a string of films that helped define independent cinema in the 1990s. Miramax and later the Weinstein Co put out acclaimed movies such as "Shakespeare in Love," "Pulp Fiction," "Sex, Lies and Videotape," "The Crying Game" and "The King's Speech."

 

London's Metropolitan Police and Los Angeles prosecutors have said they are reviewing accusations of sexual assault against Weinstein.

 

(Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Bill Trott)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-07-03

[Boon Mee]

This guy is going to spend the rest of his life behind bars. 

[NCC1701A]

sick POS. I worked in Hollywood for years. In many ways it is worse than you can imagine.

[GOLDBUGGY]

I don't know???

 

But this is not New News! How many here didn't know before this time that in Hollywood, younger would be actresses were sleeping with Producers or Directors in hopes of getting some small part in a film? That many actresses roles and careers came from the couch and not the stage? That this whole arrangement was a sleezy business?

 

But as sleezy as this all is, I can't help feeling this all came about by two willing adult partners. In the Old Days, when a Young Woman exchanged sexual favours for money or profit, it was called Prostitution. But today they call it Rape! 

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4 hours ago, GOLDBUGGY said:

I don't know???

 

But this is not New News! How many here didn't know before this time that in Hollywood, younger would be actresses were sleeping with Producers or Directors in hopes of getting some small part in a film? That many actresses roles and careers came from the couch and not the stage? That this whole arrangement was a sleezy business?

 

But as sleezy as this all is, I can't help feeling this all came about by two willing adult partners. In the Old Days, when a Young Woman exchanged sexual favours for money or profit, it was called Prostitution. But today they call it Rape! 

You are forgetting that Weinstein is a slob and a pig, including his table manners apparently which show a lot.

He did his fair share of pimping and trafficking. 

[Will27]

9 minutes ago, cooked said:

You are forgetting that Weinstein is a slob and a pig, including his table manners apparently which show a lot.

He did his fair share of pimping and trafficking. 

He's also omitted that a lot of the victims were employee's who were afraid to complain

about his constant bullying as well.

[GOLDBUGGY]

4 minutes ago, cooked said:

You are forgetting that Weinstein is a slob and a pig, including his table manners apparently which show a lot.

He did his fair share of pimping and trafficking. 

I am not trying to Defend this guy and to be honest I know very little about him or his case. 

 

I guess I was just talking in general as it seems every time we turn around there is some Woman screeming Rape, for something stupid she chose to do in her youth. 

 

I recall reading long ago a story about Suzanne Somers. When she was in her late Teens she posed Nude for Playboy and many years later said she deeply regretted that. She even tried to get these picture not published and blocked. She said she only did them as she was in desperate need of money at the time. 

 

Well Boo Hoo for her! But the way things seem to be going lately I am surprised there isn't some Woman's Rights Group right now out sueing Playboy for enticing some young desperate woman into doing some ungodly act and charging Hugh Hefner for Rape as Suzanne may have woke up nude and naked on his bed sleeping in his Mansion one night, and can't remember how she got that way.     

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2 minutes ago, hyku1147 said:

Why  not just avail  one's self of legal high end escort's services?

 

These rapists need to "feed the ducks."

Because, as feminists will tell you, it is just about sex, it's about power and domination.