Harvey Weinstein To Be Tried For A Third Time In New York After Mistrial On Rape Charge

Harvey Weinstein, nan disgraced Hollywood shaper whose ungraded successful 2017 was pivotal successful drafting world attraction to nan #MeToo movement, will beryllium tried for a third time by New York prosecutors successful the intersexual battle lawsuit of Jessica Mann.

New York Judge Curtis Farber said connected Wednesday that he wants nan proceedings to return spot earlier nan extremity of this year.

A assemblage could not render a verdict successful June connected a rape complaint accusing Weinstein of sexually assaulting Mann, a erstwhile actor.

The aforesaid assemblage recovered Weinstein blameworthy successful June of sexually assaulting erstwhile “Project Runway” accumulation adjunct Miriam Haley successful 2006 and not blameworthy of assaulting Polish erstwhile runway exemplary Kaja Sokola that aforesaid year.

Weinstein will beryllium sentenced for nan blameworthy verdict successful Haley's lawsuit connected September 30, Farber said.

Whitness Mimi Haleyi and Attorney Gloria Allred speak during a property convention extracurricular Manhattan criminal tribunal successful New York connected June 11,. Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images file

Weinstein, 73, denied each of nan charges. Throughout nan retrial, his lawyers insisted nan intersexual encounters pinch his 3 accusers were "transactional" and "consensual," and painted nan women arsenic opportunists.

Weinstein, who co-founded world movie studios Miramax and The Weinstein Company, was primitively convicted of rape and criminal intersexual enactment by nan aforesaid tribunal successful 2020 and sentenced to 23 years successful situation for nan crimes.

The landmark sentencing was seen arsenic a watershed infinitesimal for nan #MeToo movement, which prompted a world reckoning of intersexual harassment and abuse.

Last year, however, New York's highest tribunal overturned nan conviction, prompting Weinstein's retrial this summer.

Weinstein was besides recovered blameworthy by a Los Angeles assemblage of intersexual battle and sentenced to 16 years successful authorities prison, a condemnation he is presently appealing.

The erstwhile jet-setting, Oscar-winning movie shaper has remained successful custody astatine Rikers Island jail, and has often been hospitalized owed to wellness issues.