NEW YORK — Disgraced ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein faces mounting authorized and well being troubles some seven years after scores of ladies got here ahead with allegations of sexual misconduct in opposition to him, serving to launch the worldwide #MeToo motion.
On Thursday, he was indicted on further intercourse crimes fees in New York forward of a retrial this fall. The grand jury resolution stays sealed till he’s formally arraigned in court docket.
Weinstein has maintained that any sexual exercise was consensual.
In the meantime, the 72-year-old stays hospitalized following emergency coronary heart surgical procedure — simply the most recent in an assortment of medical illnesses which have cropped up whereas in custody.
Right here’s a recap of the place issues stand:
In April, New York’s highest court docket overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault fees, ruling that the trial decide had unfairly allowed testimony in opposition to him based mostly on allegations from different ladies that weren’t a part of the case.
A brand new trial was ordered and the tentative begin date is Nov. 12.
One of many two accusers in that case has mentioned she is ready to testify in opposition to Weinstein once more, but it surely stays to be seen if the opposite accuser may even take the stand as soon as extra.
Weinstein had been sentenced to 23 years in jail for that conviction.
Earlier this month, prosecutors disclosed {that a} Manhattan grand jury had reviewed proof of as much as three further allegations in opposition to Weinstein.
They embrace alleged sexual assaults on the Tribeca Grand Lodge, now often called the Roxy Lodge, and in a Decrease Manhattan residential constructing between late 2005 and mid-2006, and an alleged sexual assault at a Tribeca resort in Could 2016.
It’s unclear when Weinstein shall be formally charged on these allegations, given his present well being situation. The following court docket listening to forward of the retrial is slated for Sept. 18.
Additionally it is unclear how the extra allegations will issue within the retrial. Prosecutors wish to embrace the brand new fees within the retrial, however Weinstein’s attorneys oppose that, saying it ought to be a separate case.
In 2022, Weinstein was discovered responsible of rape, compelled oral copulation and one other sexual misconduct depend after a one-month trial in Los Angeles. He was sentenced to 16 years in jail.
In the course of the trial, a girl testified that Weinstein appeared uninvited at her resort room through the LA Italia Movie Competition in 2013 and that Weinstein grew to become sexually aggressive after she let him in.
Weinstein’s attorneys appealed the conviction in June, arguing the trial decide wrongly excluded proof that the Italian mannequin and actor had a sexual relationship with the movie competition director on the time of the alleged assault.
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service introduced Sept. 5 that it had determined to drop two fees of indecent assault in opposition to Weinstein as a result of there was “not a sensible prospect of conviction.’’
In 2022, the company licensed London’s Metropolitan Police Service to file the costs in opposition to Weinstein over an alleged incident that occurred in London in 1996. The sufferer was in her 50s on the time of the announcement.
Weinstein additionally faces a number of lawsuits introduced by ladies accusing him of sexual misconduct.
Among the many newest is one from actor Julia Ormond, who starred reverse Brad Pitt in “Legends of the Fall” and Harrison Ford in “Sabrina.” She filed the lawsuit final 12 months in New York accusing Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 1995 after which hindering her profession.
Nearly all of lawsuits in opposition to Weinstein have been delivered to a detailed by means of a 2021 settlement as a part of the chapter of his former movie firm, The Weinstein Co. The settlement included a victims’ fund of about $17 million for some 40 ladies who sued him.
Weinstein’s attorneys have repeatedly raised issues about his worsening well being since being taken into custody following his 2020 conviction.
Throughout his appearances in Manhattan court docket, he’s repeatedly transported in a wheelchair and his attorneys say he suffers from macular degeneration and diabetes that’s worsened because of the poor jailhouse weight loss program.
Weinstein’s pericardiocentesis surgical procedure final week was to empty fluid round his coronary heart. His attorneys say his medical routine causes him to retain water and that he have to be continually monitored to make sure the fluid buildup isn’t lethal.
A decide has granted his request to stay at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital indefinitely as an alternative of being transferred again to the infirmary ward on the metropolis’s infamous Rikers Island jail complicated.
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Observe Philip Marcelo at twitter.com/philmarcelo.