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Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial, which was initially scheduled to begin June 3 has been delayed until Sept. 9. a spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr., said Friday.

According to the Associated Press, a New York City judge announced the delay Friday following a closed-door hearing. Prosecutors are trying to get Judge James Burke to allow some of Weinstein’s accusers to testify during his trial.

Weinstein faces five counts, including rape. He’s accused of raping a woman in a New York hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. Weinstein has denied all accusations.

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“The Court is additionally holding June 21, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. as a ‘control date’ in the event that an additional appearance is necessary to resolve pretrial issues,” the Vance spokesperson said in a statement.

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Juliette Binoche believes Harvey Weinstein has experienced enough trial in the court of public opinion — and that it’s now time to move on, and let “justice” prevail.

“I’m trying to put my feet in his shoes. He’s had enough, I think,” the Oscar-winning actress, 54, remarked at a news conference on Thursday at the Berlin Film Festival, where she’s serving as president of the international jury, according to Variety.

“A lot of people have expressed themselves. Now justice has to do its work,” she added.

The French actress, who has appeared in two films produced by Weinstein...

Benjamin Brafman will seek court permission to depart as Harvey Weinstein’s defense attorney, both Weinstein and Brafman said in a joint statement Thursday. The news was initially reported by TheWrap on Monday. The exit must be approved by Judge James Burke in New York.

“Both parties have agreed to part ways amicably and Mr. Brafman has agreed to cooperate fully with new counsel for Mr. Weinstein so as to ensure an orderly transition,” Weinstein and Brafman said in the joint statement. “Mr. Weinstein praised Mr. Brafman for his legal work to date and Mr. Brafman reiterated his belief that Mr. Weinstein would be exonerated of the charges that have been filed against him and Brafman personally wished Mr. Weinstein the best of luck as he defends the case and the accusations that Mr. Weinstein has vehemently denied.”

Weinstein added that he will announce his new legal team by early next week.

A New York judge rejected a request from Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers to throw out charges that he sexually assaulted two women, Variety reports.

Weinstein’s lawyers have accused one of the alleged victims of lying, while they have also accused the Manhattan District Attorney’s office of not turning over evidence that would supposedly show a consensual relationship between Weinstein and his accusers. After a private meeting with the prosecution and defense Thursday, Judge James Burke rejected the request and set a pre-trial date for March 7th.

Weinstein is...

A sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein will still go to trial after New York judge James Burke shot down an attempt by Weinstein’s lawyers to have the case dismissed on Thursday, according to ABC News.

It clears the way for prosectors to try Weinstein, who faces five counts, including rape. He’s accused of raping a woman in a New York hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. Burke now says pre-trial hearings will take place on March 7.

“We are obviously disappointed, by the Court’s decision to deny our motion to dismiss the Indictment,” Weinstein’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman said in a statement to TheWrap. “Judge Burke has however, ruled and we must accept his ruling. Nothing in the Court’s ruling however, removes the flawed theory of this case that we intend to vigorously defend at trial,...

A week before a hearing that could decide the fate of the Manhattan District Attorney’s rape case against Harvey Weinstein, the primary lawyer for the much-accused producer today attacked the alleged victims and prosecutors.

“Contrary to what Mr. Wilson would have us believe, the issue before this Court is one of law and not political correctness,” Ben Brafman told New York Supreme Court Justice James Burke in a letter (read it here) filed Tuesday morning. The letter was in response to correspondence by Assistant D.A. Kevin Wilson on Friday. Back then, Deadline noted that the white gloves had come off in the lead-up to the December 20 hearing in NYC. Today it seems the pummeling has intensified.

“We also note with great respect that, as a result of our extensive investigation, we now have access to the personal email exchanges between Mr. Weinstein and many of the most vocal...

Attorney says prosecution case ‘falling apart under a cloud of serious official misconduct.’

Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys have stepped up their attack on the disgraced former mogul’s accusers and investigating authorities, moving to dismiss the entire criminal indictment against him and claiming to have found a new witness that puts a serious dent in one of two rape charges he faces.

Benjamin Brafman on Thursday (29) filed a motion requesting the court dismiss the indictment as “deeply flawed”. The New York Supreme Court will decide at a hearing on December 20 whether there is a criminal case to answer.

In Thursday’s filing Brafman requested,...

Less than an month away from a hearing that could determine if the criminal case against Harvey Weinstein has the legs to go forward, lawyers for the disgraced producer today assert that they have a new witness to prove one of the accusers in the case is making up her claims. Claiming further cover-up, they also hit back again at the Manhattan District Attorney and detectives at the NYPD in an effort to get the whole action dismissed.

“Counsel is not aware of any other sex crimes case in recent memory where the integrity of the investigation and the prosecution has been so severely compromised by evidence that is not even contested,” said a muscular defense filing Thursday in New York state court (read it here).

“As part of counsel’s ongoing investigation, the defense has recently located and interviewed a woman who was an extremely close friend of CW-...

Harvey Weinstein will be shooting for dismissal of the criminal charges filed against him at a hearing next month. The movie mogul, now facing 25 years to life in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting two women, believes dismissal is in order of what his lawyer characterizes as a "deeply flawed indictment." But if the judge doesn't wish to go so far, attorney Benjamin Brafman on Thursday suggested that an evidentiary hearing should commence that explores prosecutorial misconduct.

Defense attorneys already achieved dismissal of a criminal charge related to the alleged rape of Lucia Evans after prosecutors acknowledged ...

Harvey Weinstein will be shooting for dismissal of the criminal charges filed against him at a hearing next month. The movie mogul, now facing 25 years to life in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting two women, believes dismissal is in order of what his lawyer characterizes as a "deeply flawed indictment." But if the judge doesn't wish to go so far, attorney Benjamin Brafman on Thursday suggested that an evidentiary hearing should commence that explores prosecutorial misconduct.

Defense attorneys already achieved dismissal of a criminal charge related to the alleged rape of Lucia Evans after prosecutors acknowledged ...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is urging a state Supreme Court judge to reject Harvey Weinstein’s call to dismiss all of the remaining sex-crimes charges against him.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office strenuously objected to Weinstein’s legal argument that the entire grand jury process had been tainted by police misconduct and perjury by one of the accusers in a court filing today.

Prosecutors moved to dismiss one of the sexual assault charges last month, after acknowledging that the lead detective in the case had committed an error — he failed to tell them about other witnesses who cast doubt on the credibility of one of Weinstein’s accusers, Lucia Evans.

In today’s legal filling, the prosecutors argue that the remaining criminal charges rely on other evidence that is independent of Evans’ testimony, and therefore not sullied. Indeed, the grand jury was instructed to treat those allegations separately,...

Defence claims case ’irreparably tainted and rendered defective by police misconduct.’

Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys have moved to dismiss the five remaining counts on the criminal indictment that include rape and could result in the disgraced former Hollywood mogul spending the rest of his life in jail.

Weinstein’s attorney Ben Brafman on Monday (5) filed a legal motion with the New York Supreme Court seeking a dismissal arising from a grand jury process he called “irreparably tainted and rendered defective by police misconduct.”

Weinstein is due to appear on criminal charges on December 20.

Last month Brafman succeeded in getting one...

Harvey Weinstein, through his lawyer Benjamin Brafman, filed paperwork in New York Supreme Court on Monday asking that it dismiss the five remaining counts in his sexual assault case.

Weinstein argues that the entire prosecution has been contaminated by police misconduct.

The request comes just a few weeks after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. dismissed the accusations of Lucia Evans, who had accused Weinstein of forcing her to perform oral sex on him back in 2004. That was one of the six criminal charges Weinstein faced.

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In the court documents filed on Monday, Brafman said the entire superseding indictment should be dismissed “because it was based on a defective Grand Jury proceeding, that was irreparably tainted by police misconduct, Lucia Evans’ false testimony and the District Attorney’s failure to provide the Grand Jury with exculpatory evidence of the long-term,...

Just under a month after seeing one of the counts dropped in the criminal case that could put him behind bars for life, a bolstered Harvey Weinstein today moved to get the rest of the case dismissed.

In papers filed in New York Supreme Court on Monday, the much accused and disgraced producer’s lawyer Ben Brafman is seeking the tossing out of “the entire indictment, or particulars thereof, as arising out a Grand Jury proceeding that was irreparably tainted and rendered defective by police misconduct, Lucia Evans false testimony and the District Attorney’s failure to provide exculpatory emails to the Grand Jury (all counts), unsupported by legally sufficient evidence (Count One) or based on an unconstitutional statute (Counts One and Three).”

Basically, the documents (read them here) declare that the NYPD are corrupt, the D.A. is incompetent, one of Weinstein’s alleged victims is a liar, Harvey...

Five months after Harvey Weinstein was first indicted on sex crimes charges in New York, The New York Times reports that prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office are struggling to hold together their case against the disgraced Hollywood producer. In May, Weinstein was charged with first- and third-degree rape for an incident with one woman in 2013, and first-degree criminal sex act — forced oral sex — with another in 2004; then, in July, he was indicted on three additional felony sex charges for an incident involving a third victim, who claims Weinstein...

New York’s criminal case is proving how hard it is to prosecute the powerful, even as our culture evolves

Harvey Weinstein kicked off the #MeToo movement, but whether he will face criminal repercussions looks increasingly uncertain.

The criminal case against him hit a snag earlier this month when the prosecution threw out the charge of Lucia Evans, one of three women who have spoken out against him in the case. Meanwhile, Weinstein is looking to settle various civil cases against him out of court.

The case against Harvey Weinstein suffered a massive blow when prosecutors had to admit the lead detective on the case advised one of the alleged victims to delete information from her phone. Prosecutors sent a letter Wednesday to Weinstein's attorney, Ben Brafman, informing him that NYPD Det. Nicholas Digaudio had a conversation with the alleged rape victim about the contents of her phone before she turned it over to the D.A.'s Office. According to the letter,...

Harvey Weinstein has won a small victory in his sexual assault criminal case: A judge has dropped one of his six charges. This summer, a New York grand jury voted to indict the producer on one charge of a criminal sexual act in the first degree, stemming from an alleged 2004 encounter with a woman—later identified to be actress Lucia Evans; charges of rape in the first and third degrees, stemming from an alleged 2013 encounter with a second woman; and two counts of predatory assault and one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree stemming from an alleged 2006 encounter with a third. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and has for...

A Manhattan judge dismissed one of six criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein Thursday, The New York Times reports. The dropped charge relates to an allegation brought by Lucia Evans, who claims Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004.

Prosecutors said that they uncovered inconsistencies in statements made by one of Weinstein’s accusers, though the report did not specify what those inconsistencies were. Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, also argued that the grand jury had not been given evidence regarding Evans’ accusation before deciding to indict the disgraced Hollywood mogul.

Two further charges of rape and sexual assualt remain.

Part of the criminal case against Harvey Weinstein was dropped by Manhattan’s District Attorney on Thursday (October 11). The rejected charges refer to the allegations made by Lucia Evans, one of the first of Weinstein’s accusers to come forward.

According to a report in the New Yorker magazine in 2017, Evans accused Weinstein of forcing her to perform oral sex on him in his office when she was a college student and aspiring actress in 2004.

The move follows weeks of behind closed doors negotiations between prosecutors and Weinstein’s lawyers in...

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. has dropped one of the six criminal charges against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein on Thursday.

On Thursday, a judge in the case dismissed the accusations of Lucia Evans, who had accused Weinstein of forcing her to perform oral sex on him back in 2004.

“Nothing in the disclosure relating to [Lucia Evans] impacts the strength of the remaining case and the remaining counts in the indictment, all five of them, including Predatory Sexual Assault,” said Danny Frost, Director of Communications for the Manhattan District Attorney.

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“In short, we are moving full steam ahead. As we do with every case, we will follow the facts of law wherever they may lead, and protect those who are preyed upon as well as the integrity of the process. Those who place their trust in us and...

(Updated with unsealed D.A. letter to defense lawyer) Harvey Weinstein appeared without handcuffs in New York Supreme Court this morning and even flashed a faint smile, a big change from his previous sober and shackled appearances in his sexual assault trial.

The fallen mogul’s more upbeat demeanor suited the outcome of the day. Judge James Burke dismissed one of the six counts against him after the Manhattan D.A. agreed to drop it, and also pushed a key ruling to December, giving the defense more time to fight the charges.

The ditched sexual assault count stemmed from allegations by Lucia Evans, who told the New Yorker a year ago that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex in his office in 2004. At the time, she was a 21-year-old student and aspiring actress.

Weinstein’s legal team will have until November 16 to file further motions attacking the remaining charges against him.

7:30 Am Pt -- The judge released a letter from the D.A.'s office to Weinstein's lawyer, which says in part the witness in question said, among other things, Weinstein offered to give Evans cash if she exposed her breasts to him and that Evans told her Weinstein promised her an acting job in return for oral sex. The upshot -- the witness says Evans was not forced to perform oral sex. According to the letter,...

The NYPD and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office have launched a new investigation in the Harvey Weinstein case ... and the target is the lead police investigator ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us, the investigation centers around the case of Lucia Evans, who claims Weinstein forced her to engage in oral sex. The complaint against Weinstein alleges he grabbed the back of Evans' head and forced her mouth on his penis. Our law enforcement...

NBC News was in October of 2017 where most news outlets want to be: sitting on a juicy scoop. Now its decision to let journalist Ronan Farrow take that exclusive to a rival has developed into a tremendous pain in the rear – and one that isn’t likely to subside.

New scrutiny of the situation sparked last night after Rich McHugh, NBC News’ former supervising producer of investigative reporting, accused top NBC News executives in an interview with The New York Times of trying to block him and Farrow from reporting on sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Farrow’s work was eventually printed in The New Yorker and awarded a Pulitzer. NBC News faced similar opprobrium in the fall of 2016 when it was scooped by The Washington Post on the existence of a tape from “Access Hollywood” — a show that is part of its parent, NBCUniversal – featuring a younger Donald...

Rich McHugh is speaking out against NBC News just a few weeks after leaving the company’s investigative unit. McHugh, a producer for NBC News, worked with Ronan Farrow on the investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual abuse and harassment for an NBC News story, but he says the network effectively killed the investigation.

“At a critical juncture in our reporting on Harvey Weinstein, as we were about to interview a woman with a credible allegation of rape against him, I was told not to do the interview and ordered to stand down, thus effectively killing the story,” McHugh said in the statement to CNN.

McHugh maintains NBC told him to stop the story three days before he was set to interview a credible source. The producer alleges NBC ordered him “not to interview” the woman with rape allegations against Weinstein and “to stand down on the story altogether.

NBC News on Thursday night denied an accusation by a former producer that top executives tried to block Ronan Farrow’s 2017 exposé of Harvey Weinstein, calling the claim “an outright lie.”

“The assertion that NBC News tried to kill the Weinstein story while Ronan Farrow was at NBC News, or even more ludicrously, after he left NBC News, is an outright lie,” read the NBC statement.

Earlier Thursday, Rich McHugh, a producer formerly of the NBC News investigative unit, told the New York Times that people at “the very highest levels of NBC” worked to quash the story at the network.

McHugh said the network was “resistant” during the eight months or so that he and Farrow investigated Weinstein for the story. But in August 2017, when they were set to begin recording the accounts of Weinstein accusers on video, McHugh said the network abruptly pulled support.

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Update: NBC News has issued the following statement in response to the New York Times story and accusations that it tried to stifle the Harvey Weinstein story by Ronan Farrow.

“The assertion that NBC News tried to kill the Weinstein story while Ronan Farrow was at NBC News, or even more ludicrously, after he left NBC News, is an outright lie.

In August of 2017, after NBC News assigned Ronan Farrow to investigate Weinstein and supported his reporting efforts for eight months, Farrow believed his reporting was ready for air. NBC disagreed because, unfortunately, he did not yet have a single victim of — or witness to — misconduct by Weinstein who was willing to be identified.

Dissatisfied with that decision, Farrow chose to leave for a print outlet that he said was willing to publish immediately. NBC News told him “we will not stand in your way,” and allowed him to take...

NBC News generates dozens of news items each day, but there’s one story that the NBCUniversal unit simply can’t bring to an end.

NBC News’ handling of allegations of sexual harassment against powerful men is once again under scrutiny after Rich McHugh, the unit’s former supervising producer of investigative reporting lambasted top management for failing to follow through on a credible probe of accusations levied against Harvey Weinstein. NBC News faced similar opprobrium in the fall of 2016 when it was scooped by The Washington Post on the existence of a tape from “Access Hollywood” – a show that is part of NBCUniversal – that depicted a younger Donald Trump making lewd remarks about women and acknowledging he would grab them by their genitals.

“Is there anyone in the journalistic community who actually believes NBC didn’t breach its journalistic duty to continue reporting this story? Something else must have been going on,...

Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss his sex crimes indictment on Friday, arguing that prosecutors erred by not showing the grand jury friendly emails between Weinstein and one of the alleged victims.

Weinstein’s attorney, Benjamin Brafman, obtained permission Thursday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to include the emails in the motion. The accuser, who contends that Weinstein raped her in a hotel room in 2013, is identified in the motion as “Complaining Witness 1.” Brafman has previously said that the woman had a consensual 10-year relationship with Weinstein.

The motion quotes about 40 emails from her to Weinstein, in which she discusses getting together and comments on their relationship:

“I love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call,” she wrote in 2017, according to the motion.

“I was hoping for some time privately with you to share the direction I am going in life and catch up because its been awhile,...

Exclusive: Over a month before he is scheduled to be back in court on sex crime charges that could see him behind bars for life and less than an month after he last pled not guilty, Harvey Weinstein today took a big swing at having the whole grand jury case dismissed.

“Mr. Weinstein categorically denies that he had non-consensual sex with any person, and specifically the three accusers in the pending indictment,” declared the producer’s primary lawyer Benjamin Brafman in a highly charged motion filed in New York Supreme Court on Friday morning.

“The pending indictment against Mr. Weinstein must be dismissed at the pretrial stage because it is legally infirm based on the District Attorney’s failure to provide exculpatory email evidence to the Grand Jury; failure to give adequate notice to the defense as requested that it was presenting new, far more serious charges to the Grand...

Harvey Weinstein pled not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in 2006 during an arraignment in downtown Manhattan on Monday.

It was a familiar scene for the 66-year old movie mogul. He had previously been arraigned in June on charges of first- and third-degree rape, and a first-degree criminal sexual act involving two other women. The charges stem from incidents that allegedly took place in 2004 and 2013.

A handcuffed Weinstein entered the court room on Monday wearing a dark suit, a white shirt, and a navy blue tie. He looked ashen and appeared to have shed some weight from his hulking frame. He was flanked by his attorney Benjamin Brafman, and whispered to him at various points during the arraignment.

Weinstein, the producer of hit indie films such as “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love,” was a force in Hollywood, renowned for his ability to pick art house fare that could cross over into the mainstream,...

Sandra Bullock never had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein, but she knew of his alleged reputation for mistreating women.

“I heard about Harvey and I was afraid of him,” the Oscar winner, 53, told The Sunday Times. “I wasn’t asked to be in that world. I learnt early on to shut things off so those things didn’t come my way.”

She added, “I only heard what Harvey wanted people to hear, and that made me so f—— angry. People would say, ‘Well, you know how she got that role? She f—– Harvey.’ I would say, ‘Shut the f— up.

Watch @savannahguthrie’s full interview with @MiraSorvino about Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo, Sorvino’s latest project and more. pic.twitter.com/j75xQJ0As3

— Today (@TODAYshow) June 6, 2018

For Mira Sorvino, seeing Harvey Weinstein indicted and arrested last week on multiple charges of rape and criminal sexual act was nothing but a “really good first step.”

The 50-year-old actress — who was one of the many women who came out against Weinstein in the fall, saying that the movie mogul brought her to his hotel room where he massaged her shoulders and tried to make further physical advances by chasing her around the...

As expected, accused rapist and disgraced former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein pled not guilty on to charges of rape and other acts of sexual misconduct during a Tuesday morning arraignment at New York’s Supreme Court.

The appearance marked Weinstein’s second appearance at the court in the space of two weeks, as he was arraigned late last month on charges of rape, a criminal sex act, sex abuse, and sexual misconduct. The charges involve two different victims, including former actress Lucia Evans, who alleges that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him during an audition in 2004.

Variety reports that Weinstein “arrived at a Manhattan court house to enter his plea, while wearing a dark suit and limping slightly. Cameras flashed around him as he navigated the dozens of reporters lining up outside the building. The courthouse was packed, with people turned away. Prominent women’s rights attorney...

Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to rape and sex act charges on Tuesday in Manhattan, according to the Associated Press.

A grand jury indicted Weinstein last week on charges rape in the first and third degrees, as well as on charges of criminal sexual act in the first degree.

At the time, Weinstein’s attorney Ben Brafman said in a statement, “The announcement of Mr. Weinstein’s Indictment, does not come as a surprise… Mr. Weinstein intends to enter a plea of Not Guilty and vigorously defend against these unsupported allegations that he strongly denies. We will soon formally move to dismiss the indictment and if this case actually proceeds to trial, we expect Mr. Weinstein to be acquitted.”

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Weinstein was arrested last month in New York City on three felony charges of rape and criminal sex act stemming...

Harvey Weinstein pled not guilty on Tuesday morning to charges of rape and other acts of sexual misconduct.

The charges involve two alleged victims. The first, Lucia Evans, claims that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex at his Tribeca office in 2004. The other woman has not been named, but she is alleging that Weinstein held her against her will and raped her at a Manhattan hotel room in 2013.

The mogul arrived at a Manhattan court house to enter his plea, while wearing a dark suit and limping slightly. Cameras flashed around him as he navigated the throngs of reporters lining up outside the building.

Weinstein was once a major figure in Hollywood — his volatile personality and penchant for backing award-winning movies like “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love” made him alternately feared and admired. However, his downfall has been stunning and dramatic. Since being accused of assault and harassment by dozens of women,...

“Scarface” director Brian De Palma says he is writing a horror film inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Speaking to French newspaper Le Parisien, the filmmaker said he is “writing a film about this scandal, which I am currently discussing with a French producer. My character will not be called Harvey Weinstein. But it will be a horror movie, with a sexual aggressor, and it will happen in the film industry.”

In another interview with the Afp news agency, De Palma, whose credits also include “Dressed to Kill,” “Carrie” and “Mission: Impossible,” said he had been following the Weinstein story “very closely.”

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“I know a lot of the people involved,” he said. “I’ve heard stories over the years.”

Weinstein was indicted earlier this week on charges of rape in the first and third degrees,...

Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on multiple rape charges by a grand jury in New York City.

“A Grand Jury has voted to indict Harvey Weinstein on charges of Rape in the First and Third Degrees, and Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement.

“This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged,” Vance added.

In response, Weinstein’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman, said in a statement that he was not surprised by the indictment, noting that “the Indictment merely...

Five days after being arraigned and posting $1 million bail, Harvey Weinstein was indicted Wednesday by a Manhattan grand jury, Variety reports. The former Miramax and Weinstein Company co-chairman now formally faces two rape charges — one first-degree, one third-degree — plus one charge for criminal sexual acts. If found guilty, the 66-year-old could earn up to 25 years imprisonment.

New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement, “This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged. Our office will try this case not in the press, but in the courtroom where it belongs. The defendant’s recent assault on the integrity of the survivors and the legal process is predictable. We are confident that when the jury hears the evidence, it will reject these attacks out of hand.”

The alleged victims in this case are Lucia Evans,...

Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on charges of rape in the first and third degrees, as well as on charges of criminal sexual act in the first degree.

“A Grand Jury has voted to indict Harvey Weinstein on charges of Rape in the First and Third Degrees, and Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree,” the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced Wednesday.

“This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged,” added the statement. “Our office will try this case not in the press, but in the courtroom where it belongs. The defendant’s recent assault on the integrity of the survivors and the legal process is predictable. We are confident that when the jury hears the evidence, it will reject these attacks out of hand.”

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A grand jury indicted Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday on two counts of rape and a single count of criminal sexual acts.

The charges match the ones filed in a criminal complaint last Friday by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

“This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged,” D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr., said in a statement. “Our office will try this case not in the press, but in the courtroom where it belongs. The defendant’s recent assault on the integrity of the survivors and the legal process is predictable. We are confident that when the jury hears the evidence, it will reject these attacks out of hand.”

Weinstein’s attorney, Benjamin Brafman, announced earlier on Wednesday that his client would not testify before the grand jury. In a statement to the press, Brafman complained that...

Harvey Weinstein has elected not to testify to a grand jury convened by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, his attorney announced Wednesday.

Weinstein was charged in a criminal complaint on Friday with two counts of rape and one count of a criminal sexual act. He is free on a $1 million bail, and restricted from traveling outside New York and Connecticut. A grand jury is convening to determine whether to issue an indictment on the same allegations. Weinstein’s decision not to testify is not a surprise, as it would be unusual to offer his version of events at this stage of the proceedings.

Weinstein’s attorney, Benjamin Brafman, did offer a glimpse of his defense, saying that one of the cases is 14 years old and the second involves a victim with whom he had a consensual relationship. In the statement, Brafman also objected to being denied access to “critical...

The woman alleging Harvey Weinstein repeatedly raped her in 2013 had a consensual sexual relationship with him for 10 years ... according to Weinstein's attorney. Ben Brafman met with prosecutors and the judge Tuesday, and afterward said he was baffled by the charges because the unnamed accuser carried on her relationship with Weinstein before and after the alleged rape in a hotel room. He also expressed concern about the indictment against Weinstein ... claiming prosecutors had bowed to immense public pressure.

The arrest of Harvey Weinstein feels like the beginning of what justice should look like for his accusers. It’s also symbolic for survivors of sexual violence everywhere that a person of his stature has to answer for his actions. It provides hope for other people that they might have some recourse in their everyday lives. That’s one of the most powerful things about this moment.

I don’t think, however, that this is a moment to revel in how the mighty have fallen. It’s really about the power of community and the power of survivors of sexual violence raising their voices and standing together. It wasn’t one claim. It wasn’t one singular voice. It was a chorus of voices that started rising little by little and crescendoed into this massive chorus. It resulted in what we saw today. And let’s not forget to say...

This morning, Harvey Weinstein surrendered himself to the NYPD to face charges brought on by the multitude of sexual assault allegations lodged against him. Weinstein's surrender was planned, as New York City intends to take action on what is believed to be three allegations that fall under the city's statute of limitations. Weinstein is believed to face first degree and third degree rape charges as well as one other charge of a first degree criminal sexual act:

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— ABC News (@ABC) May 25, 2018

Out of the 80 allegations lodged against him, New York City is focused on the allegations of two women in particular. The first would be former Boardwalk Empire actress Paz de la Huerta who claims that Weinstein raped...

Harvey Weinstein was charged on Friday morning with three felony counts of rape and criminal sex. Here’s what we know about the accusations behind the two rape charges.

One rape charge is first degree, the other is third degree. They stem from an unidentified accuser who said Weinstein kept her against her will and sexually assaulted her in a room at the DoubleTree Metropolitan hotel in midtown Manhattan in 2013.

According to the criminal complaint, filed Friday by Manhattan Assistant Da Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, Weinstein “kept informant physically against her will in a room and engaged in sexual intercourse with informant by forcible compulsion, to wit, defendant penetrated informant’s vagina with his penis and, at the time of the incident informant had clearly expressed her lack of consent to the act.” The complaint says the incident happened on March 18, 2013 at 569 Lexington Ave (the address of the DoubleTree Metropolitan Hotel).

Weinstein...

In a modest courtroom in lower Manhattan, the normally voluble Harvey Weinstein had only one word to say during his 10-minute arraignment: “Yes.” Two hours after turning himself into the police, and nearly eight months after a pair of damning exposes in the New York Times and The New Yorker, Weinstein faced charges of rape, a criminal sex act, sex abuse, and sexual misconduct before Judge Kevin McGrath, who asked the accused if he understood the terms of an order of protection put in place for the safety of one of his unnamed victims.

Weinstein occasionally leaned against the hardwood bench before him, jostling his blazer with his shackled hands, and tossing looks to his attorney, Benjamin Brafman. Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon described his “violent” crimes, and said that the current investigation found that the former Weinstein Company head used his “position, money and power to lure young women into situations...

Update (10:20am Et): Weinstein has surrendered his passport to show authorities he is not a flight risk. He is also being fitted with a monitoring Gps device that will track his movements. Weinstein will have to get approval from a judge if he wants to travel beyond New York or Connecticut.

Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to the rape and sex crime charges. A court date has been set for July. His lawyer, Ben Brafman, has issued the following statement: “Mr. Weinstein has always maintained that he has never engaged in non-consensual sexual behavior with anyone. Nothing about today’s proceedings changes Mr. Weinstein’s position. He has entered a plea of not guilty and fully expects to be exonerated.”

The New York judge has set a $10 million bond, or Weinstein can pay $1 million in cash.

Update (8:55am Et): Weinstein has been officially charged with rape.

Updated with comment from Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer and video:

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was arraigned today on felony sex crime charges in New York Criminal Court, where the judge set bail at $1 million cash. However, the Oscar winning producer’s lawyer says he plans to appeal to get the case tossed out.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said Weinstein has been charged with two counts of rape — one involving force — as well as criminal sexual act in the first degree, for alleged assaults against two women that occurred in 2013 and 2004. (You can read the charging document here).

“Today’s charges reflect significant progress in this active, ongoing investigation,” Vance said in a statement. “I thank the brave survivors who have come forward, and my Office’s prosecutors who have worked tirelessly on this investigation.”

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