The prison term, along with the 23 years Harvey Weinstein received in 2020 for a similar conviction in New York, amounts to a likely life sentence for the 70-year-old.
A jury deadlocked on most counts against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, but did convict him in one woman's assault and acquit him in another woman's.
Harvey Weinstein's defense lawyers told a jury that the testimony against his client came down to, "'Believe us because we're mad, believe us because we cried.'"
Jennifer Siebel Newsom faced cross-examination by Harvey Weinstein's lawyers, who noted that her testimony at trial had been more detailed than what she initially told prosecutors.
The massage therapist who testified that disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein had repeatedly assaulted her was asked by his lawyers if she allowed his behavior as a quid pro quo for a book deal.
A massage therapist with a high-end client base testified that Weinstein repeatedly coerced her into non-consensual sexual situations that she was too scared to report.
The unidentified woman testified that the disgraced producer sexually assaulted her in a hotel during the Toronto Film Festival in 1991 and in the same hotel in 2008 when she tried to confront him about the first incident.
Weinstein's lawyers grilled a woman who testified that the disgraced producer targeted her on the set of his 2003 "Dirty Dancing" sequel and eventually assaulted her at his hotel.
The woman, who was a dancing double for one of the stars of "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," testified that Weinstein, who produced the movie, had his assistant bring her to his room under the guise of a business meeting and then assaulted her.
The unnamed model and actor testified that she was living in Rome and visiting Los Angeles for work when Weinstein knocked at the door of her hotel room in 2013 and allegedly proceeded to sexually assault her.
Prosecutors allege that the disgraced Hollywood producer assaulted multiple women — but pointedly left one victim who had been expected to testify out of their opening statement.
Filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, spoke out against Harvey Weinstein in a 2017 essay and has now told reporters she is one of the alleged victims in the California case against him.
The disgraced Hollywood producer has asked a California judge that he be allowed private dental care after jail officials refused to allow him to have cosmetic dentistry after he gets teeth pulled.
The Crown Prosecution Service has authorized police to charge Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault involving an unnamed woman back in 1996.
Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted in New York in February 2020 of a criminal sex act in an attack on a production assistant in 2006 and rape in the third degree for an attack on an aspiring actress in 2013.