Harvey Weinstein, sentenced to another 16 years in prison for a rape case in 2013

Harvey Weinstein faces more prison time. After serving a 23-year sentence after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault at the New York trial in 2020, one of the great Hollywood moguls ha was sentenced this past Thursday to 16 more years behind bars after being found guilty of rape and sexual abuse of a model in a Beverly Hills hotel room.

In December, Weinstein was found guilty of three counts of forcible rape in a Los Angeles trial that lasted nearly two months.. The guilty verdict involved seven counts — two of rape and five of sexual harassment — that were based on four women whose abuses occurred between 2004 and 2013, all of which occurred in Los Angeles hotel rooms. The only publicly identified woman was Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom. In all, 49 people testified during the nearly two-month trial. Despite the two accusations of rape and the five for sexual abuse, the judge declared three trials void, including that of Siebel, who had testified during the trial about her meeting with Weinstein in a Los Angeles hotel, where he abused her. she.

After a process of almost two months, the producer was convicted of rape, forced fellatio and “penetration with an object”. The attack happened in February 2013 during the celebration of a film festival. Weinstein showed up at the woman’s hotel room, and there he abused her. In her statement, the model, who has maintained her anonymity, indicated that she felt guilty, “mainly for having opened the door.”

Despite the history of attacks carried by the person in charge of titles such as ‘Shakespeare in love’, the producer has pleaded not guilty “I maintain that I am innocent. I have never raped or sexually assaulted Jane Doe 1. I have never met this woman, and the fact is that she does not know me. It is about money,” Weinstein said in court before his sentencing, according to reports CNN. “Please don’t sentence me to life in prison. I don’t deserve it.”

In the last trial held in 2020, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. That was a key moment for the #MeToo movement in their fight against sexual abuse and assault. Total, more than 80 women have accused him of rape and improper conduct since the late 70’s.

Last December, ‘She Said’ was released, the film that triggered this movement when an investigation carried out by two New York Times journalists was published, bringing to light multiple cases of sexual assault in Hollywood.