Since 2017, the film producer Harvey Weinstein has been involved in a scandal, since, through an article shared on The New York Timesit was revealed that he was accused of sexual abuse and harassment by several women who, at the time, were related to the film industry.
Far from clarifying their innocence and stopping the accusations against them, as soon as some women realized that they were not Weinstein’s only victims, they decided to raise their voices and denounce that they suffered harassment under #MeToo on Twitter, a movement that in 2020 He ended up sentencing him to 23 years in prison after being found guilty of crimes of rape and harassment in New York.
As if that sentence were not enough, this February 23, who was known as one of the most famous film producers in Hollywood received an additional 16 years in prison to those he already had for sexually abusing a woman in a hotel in Beverly Hills. in February 2013.
The trial took place on February 23 in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, California, where the jury determined that the former American film producer was guilty of three more charges, which relate to Jennifer Siebel Newsom, filmmaker and wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Harvey’s new sentence came despite his lawyers stating that he was a 70-year-old man with health problems. In addition, the former film producer himself pleaded not guilty to all charges of abuse exposed against him, as he assured that it was a set-up and begged that life imprisonment not be imposed on him.
I insist that I am innocent. I have never raped or sexually assaulted Jane Doe 1. I have never met this woman and the fact is that she does not know me. This is about money. Please don’t sentence me to life in prison. I do not deserve it.
–Harvey Weinstein
After it was proven that Weinstein used his influence to pressure and abuse women seeking an opportunity in the entertainment industry and that more than 80 women have accused him of rape and improper conduct since the late 1970s, Harvey did not he will see sunlight again, at least not beyond the prison yard, for he will spend the rest of his days in jail.