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'I don't deserve this': Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 more years in prison for rape

2023-02-24T12:09:09.132Z


Former Hollywood star producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday, February 23, to 16 years in prison in Los Angeles for rape and sexual assault in 2013 against a European actress.


Harvey Weinstein, 70, producer of award-winning hits like

Pulp Fiction

, was sentenced on Thursday, February 23, to 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault on an actress.

The facts took place in a hotel in Beverly Hills (Los Angeles) in 2013. This sentence will apply following that of 23 years of imprisonment decided after his conviction in New York in 2020 for similar facts on other women, and whom he appealed.

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With this sentence, the former "king" of cinema risks ending his days behind bars.

“Please don't sentence me to life in prison.

I do not deserve it.

There are so many things that are not normal in this case, ”he said in his wheelchair, the day of his appearance.

In video,

She said

, the journalistic investigation that brought down Weinstein and changed the world

“Selfish and disgusting acts”

The actress, whose identity has not been revealed, had asked judge Lisa Lench for the “highest possible sentence” for the former Hollywood star producer, saying his “selfish and disgusting acts” had had "significant consequences" on his life.

“No prison sentence is long enough to repair the damage,” she said.

The defendant's lawyers have again announced that they are appealing this conviction.

During this second trial of Harvey Weinstein, whose #MeToo movement and the liberation of the speech of many women resulted in the fall in 2017, four women testified anonymously against him.

During several weeks of a bitter and trying hearing, sometimes interrupted by the sobs of the plaintiffs, they accused the former Hollywood titan of having forced them to have sex in hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles between 2004 and 2013.

The prosecution had portrayed Harvey Weinstein as an all-powerful ogre, a

"

predator"

whose stranglehold and aura on Hollywood hampered any possibility of speaking for his victims, for fear of repercussions on their careers.

His lawyers have worked to cast doubt on the word of the four complainants, highlighting in particular the absence of forensic evidence to support their stories.

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Damages and interests

The trial ended with a split verdict.

Jurors found Mr. Weinstein guilty of all charges brought by the Italian actress, but spared him an even heavier sentence by acquitting him of charges of sexually assaulting a masseuse, and failing to reach a conclusion. decision in cases involving two other women.

After the criminal conviction of the ex-producer, the actress, recognized as a victim at the end of the trial, filed a complaint in early February in a Los Angeles court to obtain civil damages.

Consulted by AFP, this complaint does not specify the amount claimed but it insists on the “physical and mental suffering” caused by the rape and the sexual assaults suffered.

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In 2021, a civil agreement awarded $ 17 million to several dozen women accusing the former producer, but this woman was not one of them.

Rumors about Mr. Weinstein's behavior had been circulating for years in Hollywood.

The scandal finally broke in 2017 thanks to press investigations compiling multiple accusations, which sparked the #MeToo movement.

Since then, nearly 90 women, including Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rosanna Arquette, have accused Harvey Weinstein of harassment, sexual assault or rape.

But the limitation period has been exceeded in many of these cases, some of which date back to 1977. In addition to his legal setbacks in the United States, the ex-producer is also charged in the United Kingdom for acts of assault. sex dating back to 1996.

Source: lefigaro

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