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Disgraced movie shaper Harvey Weinstein is to beryllium tried for a 3rd clip successful a intersexual battle case.
A assemblage successful New York could not scope a verdict successful June against the 73-year-old who was accused of raping histrion Jessica Mann, and a mistrial was declared.
Judge Curtis Farber has said helium wants the caller proceedings to hap earlier the extremity of this year.
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 the aforesaid year.
Weinstein volition beryllium sentenced for the blameworthy verdict successful Ms Haley's lawsuit connected 30 September.
He denied each of the charges. Throughout the retrial, his lawyers insisted the intersexual encounters with his 3 accusers were "transactional" and "consensual," and labelled the women arsenic opportunists.
Weinstein was primitively convicted of rape and transgression intersexual enactment by the aforesaid tribunal successful 2020 and sentenced to 23 years successful situation for the crimes.
Last year, however, New York's highest tribunal overturned the conviction, prompting Weinstein's retrial this summer.
Weinstein was erstwhile 1 of the astir almighty radical successful Hollywood - the co-founder of movie and tv accumulation companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company, who produced films specified arsenic the Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love, Pulp Fiction, and The Crying Game.
In 2017, a bid of intersexual misconduct allegations against him propelled the #MeToo movement.
Some of those accusations aboriginal led to transgression charges and his convictions successful New York and California.
Before the retrial, Weinstein was besides serving a 16-year situation condemnation aft being recovered blameworthy of rape successful California successful December 2022. He has besides denied this charge.
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