Harvey Weinstein showing in court docket in Los Angeles in Oct. 2022.

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Harvey Weinstein showing in court docket in Los Angeles in Oct. 2022.

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Editor’s notice: This report consists of descriptions of sexual assault.

Disgraced former film mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 extra years in jail by a Los Angeles decide Thursday. He was convicted there in December on three fees of rape and sexual assault. Separately, the 70-year-old is already serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York — which means that it is rather probably that Weinstein will now spend the remainder of his life in jail.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench ordered this second sentence to be served consecutively, which means that it’s going to begin after Weinstein completes his 23-year sentence in New York.

The lady whose testimony offered the premise of his conviction was referred to throughout the Los Angeles trial as “Jane Doe #1.” The lady is a European mannequin whom Weinstein raped throughout a movie competition in Los Angeles in Feb. 2013.

The former producer — as soon as one of the crucial inarguably highly effective males in Hollywood — was dropped at trial in California on seven fees of rape and sexual assault involving 4 ladies between 2004 and 2013. The jury discovered him not responsible of 1 cost and couldn’t determine about three different fees.

Weinstein was initially charged in Los Angeles on eleven counts of rape and sexual assault; by the point he went on trial, prosecutors had dropped 4 of these fees associated to a girl recognized within the case as “Jane Doe #5” as a result of the state was “unable to proceed” along with her allegations.

Allegations towards Weinstein by dozens of girls — together with these revealed by The New York Times and The New Yorker in Oct. 2017 — had been a driving pressure behind the #MeToo motion. During his New York sentencing in Mar. 2020, Weinstein in contrast the #MeToo motion and his personal scenario to the Red Scare of the Forties and ’50s, throughout which Hollywood professionals had been blacklisted for his or her perceived assist of communism.

Edited by: Ciera Crawford

Produced by: Anastasia Tsioulcas