Former Hollywood producer
Harvey Weinstein
was convicted Monday of rape and two sexual assaults at the end of his trial in
Los Angeles
, half of the charges for which he was sued by four women.
After two weeks of deliberations, jurors found him guilty of all charges brought by the first of the four women.
He was found not guilty of charges brought by a second woman, and reached no verdict on the charges brought by the other two.
The 70-year-old former
king
of cinema, producer of hits such as
Pulp Fiction
and
The Artist
, was previously sentenced in New York in 2020 to 23 years in prison for similar crimes.
During the trial in Los Angeles,
four women
who testified anonymously accused the producer of forcing them to have sex in hotels in
Beverly Hills and Los Angeles between 2004 and 2013.
A fifth woman ultimately refused to testify.
After weeks of hearings, often punctuated by sobbing from the plaintiffs, the prosecution portrayed
Weinstein
as an all-powerful whose dominance over Hollywood - the films he produced garnering more than
330 Oscar nominations and 81 statuettes
- long prevented his victims speak out for fear of repercussions on their careers.
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