- Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in jail for rape and sexual attack
- He was condemned of rape and 2 counts of sexual attack in December after formerly being sentenced for sex criminal activities in New York City
- Weinstein, 70, will now serve the 16 years in a California jail after ending up the staying 21-years of his 23-year sentence
- Still, Weinstein keeps he is innocent and his legal representatives argued in court he was the victim of an unreasonable trial
Disgraced Hollywood magnate Harvey Weinstein and his group have actually complained what they view as a ‘terrible’ 16 year sentence in jail for rape and sexual attack.
The when effective media magnate, 70, was condemned of rape and 2 other counts of sexual attack at a trial in Los Angeles in December after formerly being sentenced in 2020 for sex criminal activities in New York City.
As the judge revealed his fate, Weinstein – who is now almost particular to pass away behind bars – groaned: ‘I keep that I’m innocent.
‘I never ever raped or sexually attacked Jane Doe 1. I never ever understood this lady, and the reality is she does not understand me.’
‘Please do not sentence me to life in jail,’ he asked Judge Lisa B Lench, to no obtain. ‘I do not deserve it. There are numerous things incorrect with this case.’
Weinstein was already serving a 23-year sentence for different rape and sexual attack convictions in New York when he was condemned of rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by foreign item of an unnamed Russian-born Italian design. The attack occurred at the Mr C Beverly Hills Hotel in February 2013.
He will now serve the 16 years in addition to the 21 years left in his New York sentence. That would suggest that Weinstein would be extradited to California to serve his 16 years behind bars in the state at the age of 91 – if he’s still alive at that age.
Should Weinstein make it to the end of his California sentence, he’d be launched aged 107.
But he still declares he is innocent, and his legal representatives attempted to argue in court on Thursday that Weinstein was the victim of an unreasonable trial.
And his spokesperson says the sentence is ‘terrible’ provided Weinstein’s age and stopping working health conditions, swearing that his conviction will be reversed.
In a declaration to DailyMail.com, Weinstein’s spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said the sentence is ‘terrible’ provided ‘his age, his health and the conditions of his conviction in Los Angeles when the sole charge was from an individual who lied, with the judge and district attorney aware of it and allowing it, about vital components of her own claim.
‘It’s not justice, however a stack on for a guy many individuals simply chose need to be abandoned and disposed of no matter realities. It will be appealed,’ he swore.
‘The judge, much like the trial judge in his New York trial who was not reappointed to the bench, will become called out for predisposition and oppression.
‘There are lots of out there who will commemorate this action,’ Engelmayer kept in mind, ‘however it is a sad day for justice and fairness, and I hope nobody who is pleased with this is ever captured on the incorrect side of cancel culture while hopelessly and voicelessly announcing innocence.’
The jury in his Los Angeles trial had actually been not able to reach a choice on 3 other counts, consisting of those aired by the other half of California Governor Gavin Newsom, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who declared Weinstein raped her in 2005.
It likewise stopped working to reach a decision on accusations including design Lauren Young, called Jane Doe 2 throughout procedures — requiring jurists to state a mistrial on those counts.
And the disgraced magnate — whose criminal activities generated development of the #MeToo motion in 2017 — was acquitted of a sexual battery accusation made by another lady, an unnamed massage therapist who dealt with Weinstein at LA’s Montage hotel in 2010, called Jane Doe 3.
In overall, the case consisted of 5 sexual attack charges brought by the 4 ladies for occurrences that took place in LA county in between 2004 and 2013, consisting of 2 counts of forcible rape — one including Siebel Newsom, and another including the unnamed Russian design, who said Weinstein appeared unwelcome at her hotel room door throughout a Los Angeles movie celebration in 2013.
Weinstein had actually pleaded innocent to all the charges, which might have seen his existing sentence boost by as much as 65 years
Over the course of the trial, the accusers shared their stories.
A lady just described in court as Jane Doe 1, an unknown Russian, Italy-based design, said she was sexually attacked by Weinstein in 2013 and was required to carry out foreplay when he had trouble keeping an erection,
She dealt with a heated line of questioning from Weinstein’s legal group in October, with the defense implicating her of lying — arguing that at the time of the event, Weinstein’s testicles had actually been surgically moved to his inner thighs.
Jane Doe 1 said the attack occurred in Los Angeles at an Italian movie celebration, throughout which Weinstein got here unwelcome at her hotel room in February 2013 and raped her. The attack, throughout which Weinstein likewise permeated her with a foreign item, caused psychological suffering and abuse of alcohol, she said.
‘I was ruining myself,’ she affirmed early on throughout procedures, while resisting tears. ‘I was feeling extremely guilty. Most of all since I opened that door.’
She included that she has actually been the victim of rape in the past and feared being beaten if she didn’t follow Weinstein’s needs for sex.
Lauren Young, 29, likewise declared that throughout a 2013 conference with the magnate about a script, Weinstein caught her in the restroom of his Beverly Hills hotel, searched her, and masturbated in front of her.
The declared event taken place quickly after the supposed 2013 rape of Jane Doe 1, according to the design, who ended up being familiarized with Weinstein while pursuing a profession in acting and screenwriting.
She was the only one of the 4 accusers to inform her story at both trials, in Los Angeles and New York.
‘I was terrified of Harvey Weinstein — that he would harm me, or send out somebody to harm me, or destroy my profession, or make my life hell,’ Young said throughout a psychological statement.
Weinstein’s lawyers rejected the encounter ever happened, and said there was no proof she was required to stay in the room.
A 3rd accuser, a massage therapist called Jane Doe 3, was worked with by Weinstein in May of 2010 for a massage, throughout which she said he caught her in a hotel restroom, searched her, and masturbated in front of her, in an event strangely comparable to the one stated by Young.
Tearing up at the stand, the masseuse said she was ‘young and naïve’ when Weinstein presumably abused her, and seemed like she could not confide the experience to the authorities or her fiancé — however ultimately informed another of her A-List customers, Mel Gibson, after he showed he’d be dealing with Weinstein.
She revealed pity and disgust that she consented to see and deal with Weinstein once again later, something the defense tried to focus on throughout interrogations.
‘That’s among the reasons I didn’t wish to step forward, since this is humiliating,’ she informed the court in defiance of the defense’s claims worrying expected disparities.
‘He approached me in an extremely aggressive way. He pressed me versus the wall. That’s when he began to put his hand under my bra and feel my chest.’
She included: ‘I was horrified, I believed I will get raped.’
Perhaps the most popular of the 4 accusers, nevertheless, was Siebel Newsom, called Jane Doe 4 in court, who offered an extremely painful account of what she referred to as a rape by Weinstein at a Beverly Hills hotel in September 2005, where she had actually been expected meet the manufacturer about her ambitious acting profession.
Shouting through tears sometimes throughout her impassioned statement, the 48-year-old left observers stunned upon airing her allegations in court for the very first time, throughout which she was implicated of lying by Weinstein’s defense.
In court on Thursday, the victims when again got the possibility to inform their stories as Lench thought about the length of time Weinstein would serve in jail for his actions.
‘Ten years later on, the results of this rape are still raw and hard to go over,’ Jane Doe 1, the Italian design, said. ‘I have actually been bring his weight this injury, this illogical belief that it was my fault.
‘His self-centered, horrible actions have actually considerably affected my life,’ she continued, explaining that ‘prior to that night I was an extremely happy and positive ladies. I valued myself and the relationship I had with God.
‘I was thrilled about my future,’ Jane Doe 1 said. ‘Everything altered after the offender extremely attacked me.
‘I quickly ended up being undetectable to myself and to the world/ I lost my identity. I was sad, empty and alone. My rapist did that to me.’
She concluded: ‘Your Honor, I hope you can comprehend my suffering. There is no jail sentence enough time to reverse the damage.
‘I hope you offer him the optimal sentence permitted.’
But Weinstein’s defense lawyer, Alan Jackson, declared that the sexual attack trial was performed unjustly stating that ‘by enabling perjury on the stand to go unattended and undisputed, the court permitted what can just be referred to as a waterfall of mistakes.’
He argued that the district lawyer presented ‘incorrect statement,’ and the defense lawyer were not permitted to cross-examine among the victims who took the stand as Jane Doe.’
What she said throughout the trial, Jackson declared, was not pertinent to the charges versus Weinstein.
And, he said, the reality that she took legal action against Weinstein after the statement shows she had a monetary inspiration to affirm versus the manufacturer.
‘She actually camouflaged her real intents, her real intention.’
‘The jury got drawn into the lies informed by Jane Doe 1, since they didn’t get the entire story,’ he declared. ‘The fact was actually concealed from them.
‘There is no concern Mr. Weinstein suffered a massive bias in regard to these mistakes.’
‘When all the sound and the smoke and all the interruption is eliminated, the conviction boils down to the word of a single witness: Jane Doe 1. And that’s it,’ he explained.
Jackson then painted Weinstein as ‘simply an implicated individual, absolutely nothing more, absolutely nothing less.
‘Like anybody lese he is entitled to the outright finest this justice system needs to use.’ Jackson concluded as he argued for a lax sentence. ‘He did not get a reasonable trial. He is entitled to a brand-new one.’
But district attorney Paul Thompson argued that the court acted correctly in performing the trial, keeping in mind that Jane Doe 1 was on the mean 2 days and the judge never ever prevented defense lawyer from asking her about her ulterior intentions.
‘Now they desire a brand-new trial so they can [go] back and ask,’ he declared. ‘After 2 days.’
And Judge Lisa B. Lench appeared to concur, dismissing a movement for a brand-new trial.
Defense lawyers then asked the judge to sentence Weinstein simultaneously to his New York sentence, keeping in mind that ‘all 3 counts happened in one sexual attack.’
Mark Werksman likewise says Weinstein is a ’70-year-old guy in bad health,’ who has actually already lost 4 teeth while in Los Angeles County prison.
And, he argued that Weinstein ‘did a great deal of helpful for a great deal of individuals in a 50 year profession. He produced numerous movies that were a happiness to countless individuals. He was a guy that lots of well-known motion picture stars would thank in their Oscar speeches.
‘He lived a complete, abundant and efficient life that consisted of being a daddy to 5 kids,’ Werksman continued. ‘He has actually ended up being to his kids the disembodied voice on the telephone.
‘I ask Your Honor to sentence that guy, that caring and effective guy, please do not sentence the guy who has actually ended up being a caricature since of the #MeToo motion.’
At that point, Weinstein himself spoke prior to the court stating that Jane Doe 1 is a starlet who ‘can turn the tears on.
‘This is a setup,’ he declares. ‘This is not the method to act in this scenario.
‘I plead your grace,’ he informed Lench.
But Lench then moved on with the 16 year sentence.
