All it took was an article in the
New York Times
for his world to collapse like a house of cards and lead to his conviction: a 23-year prison sentence announced by Judge James Burke on March 11, 2020. Two years later, the former producer will be tried again for five rapes and sexual assaults, in Los Angeles, from this Monday, October 10.
Alleged crimes that allegedly took place in hotels between 2004 and 2013. He faces a sentence of up to 140 years in prison, at the end of this new two-month trial.
In video, #MeToo: producer Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison
A vertiginous fall caused by the explosive investigation, signed Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, published on October 5, 2017. At the end of the day, the testimonies of several alleged victims of producer Harvey Weinstein, including assistants and executives of his company, as well as as actress Ashley Judd.
All say they felt uncomfortable in the presence of the producer, when some of them accuse him of rape and sexual assault.
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The fall of an empire
In the footsteps of Harvey Weinstein
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The revolt is on.
Three days later, the Weinstein Company dismisses its leader with loss and noise.
The film magnate's wife, Georgina Chapman, leaves him in the process (she has now found love in the arms of Adrien Brody).
On October 10, 2017, a column by journalist – and renegade son of Woody Allen – Ronan Farrow, published in the
New Yorker
, dealt the deathblow to the king of the seventh art.
In the space of a few days, the powerful Harvey Weinstein was dethroned by a sex scandal of unprecedented magnitude.
Asia Argento – since herself the target of a dark case of sexual assault – thus describes how the producer, indifferent to her repeated refusals, “brutally” gave her cunnilingus in her hotel room.
Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Léa Seydoux, Emma de Caunes... Actresses from all walks of life express themselves in turn.
But it is indeed Rose McGowan who sets fire to the powder.
She claims to have been raped by the big shot of Hollywood, and claims to have received 100,000 dollars (103,000 euros) in exchange for her silence.
The man whose films have won 81 Oscars is falling from his pedestal.
His fall marks the advent of the #MeToo movement.
Feet in the “
red carpet
”
Hard to believe that, for thirty years, the producer frequented All-Hollywood, multiplied the accolades with Tom Cruise and posed alongside Madonna, Brad Pitt or even Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Immutable figure of the Academy of the Oscars, Harvey Weinstein then directs the Weinstein Company, a production company founded with his brother Bob, which makes rain and shine in Hollywood.
The
red carpet
and social dinners no longer have any secrets for this Pygmalion of the seventh art.
Harvey Weinstein is still unaware that his name will be associated with a historic feminist revolution.
More than five years after the advent of #MeToo, Harvey is only a shadow of Weinstein.
The Hollywood producer appeared on January 6, 2020 in Manhattan court, defended by lawyer Donna Rotunno.
In total, five counts were brought against him: a criminal sexual act in the first degree, two rapes and two “predatory sexual assault” (“
predatory sexual assault
” in English).
A little over a month later, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape and sexual assault.
But cleared of charges of “predatory” sexual behavior that put him at risk of life.
If he has since been sentenced to spend 23 years behind bars – his appeal request was rejected – the former producer will have to explain himself again in court, starting this Monday, October 10.