Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein gets 16 more years in prison

Former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 much years successful situation successful Los Angeles connected Thursday for rape and intersexual battle charges dating backmost to 2013.

The 70-year-old is already serving a 23-year condemnation for a abstracted condemnation successful New York.

More than 80 radical person made rape and misconduct claims astir Weinstein dating backmost arsenic acold arsenic the precocious 1970s.

He has denied ever having non-consensual sex.

On 19 December, a Los Angeles assemblage convicted Weinstein of 1 number of rape and 2 counts of intersexual battle involving a exemplary and histrion known lone arsenic Jane Doe 1 to support her anonymity.

The unfortunate testified that Weinstein assaulted her successful a edifice country during an Italian movie festival successful Los Angeles successful February 2013.

Weinstein was acquitted during the aforesaid proceedings of intersexual artillery against different accuser. The assemblage was incapable to scope a verdict connected 3 different intersexual battle counts, including 1 involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the woman of California Governor Gavin Newsom. A mistrial was declared.

He is apt to entreaty the sentence.

The erstwhile movie magnate was facing up to 18 years successful situation successful the Los Angeles case. He avoided a condemnation of up to 24 years aft a assemblage was incapable to hold connected whether Weinstein had planned the rape oregon whether the unfortunate was "particularly vulnerable".

In 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23-years successful situation for rape and intersexual battle against a accumulation adjunct successful 2006 and an aspiring histrion successful 2013. He has appealed.

The condemnation was seen arsenic an important infinitesimal successful the #MeToo movement, which had shone a airy connected rampant intersexual maltreatment and harassment successful the movie and tv industry.