The Los Angeles County Superior Court (USA) sentenced former producer Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison this Thursday after being found guilty of three counts of rape and sexual abuse of a model of Italian origin.
The jury acquitted Weinstein of charges related to a second alleged victim and failed to reach a unanimous verdict on charges stemming from two other accusers.
One of them, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, now the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, had revealed that she was the alleged rape victim listed in court records as Jane Doe 4.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench declared a mistrial on the stalled charges.
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Defense attorneys argued that the women willingly had sex with Weinstein because they believed he would advance their careers.part of what they said was a pervasive “casting couch” culture” in the film industry. In two of the cases, they said the alleged sexual contact was fabricated.
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Weinstein was convicted of sexual misconduct in New York in February 2020. He was extradited from New York to Los Angeles prison in July 2021. Weinstein is appealing the New York prison conviction and sentence.