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The California court has decided that Harvey Weinsteina former Hollywood producer, is not returning to court on unconfirmed sexual assault charges at his recent trial in Los Angeles.
Judge Lisa B. Lench announced that she was dismissing the three pending charges and that he will not place Weinstein on the stand again, this as part of a request from the ex-producer’s defense.
In turn, the prosecution had announced that it would not insist on the accusations.
Weinstein, 70, was sentenced last February to 16 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in a Beverly Hills hotela crime that occurred more than a decade ago.
The former producer is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for another case of sexual crimes in New York, That is why, added to the previous sentence, it means that Weinstein will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
During the Los Angeles trial, several women described in court how Weinstein sexually assaulted themAmong them is the now first lady of California, Jennifer Siebel.
While, Weinstein claims to be innocent of all charges and his team of attorneys is working on appeals for the New York and California cases.
More than 80 women have accused him of rape and misconduct since the late 1970s.
Weinstein’s conviction was a milestone in the #MeToo movement, which denounced, among other things, cases of sexual abuse and harassment in the film and television industry.
Paris Hilton confesses that she was harassed by Harvey Weinstein
Paris Hilton revealed in an interview that she had an awkward incident with Harvey Weinstein at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, when he was only 19 years old.
Hilton was at the festival to attend the annual amfar gala for AIDS research, which Weinstein was hosting that year. The model herself said that she met Weinstein the day before the gala.
“I was having lunch with my boyfriend and he came up to the table and said, ‘Oh, do you want to be an actress?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I really want to be in a movie,’” Hilton said. “I was a teenager, so she impressed me. I was like, ‘OMG, Harvey Weinstein is great!’ and he said: ‘Well, we should have a meeting. You can go up to my room and read scripts’… and I just didn’t want to go, so I never went.”
Hilton went on to say that Weinstein became hostile towards her at the gala by following her into the women’s bathroom yelling, “Do you want to be a star?”
“I went to the bathroom and then he followed me. He tried to open the door, he was banging on the door, banging on it,” Hilton told the outlet. “And I didn’t open it. And security came and literally took him away and he was like yelling, ‘This is my party,’ going crazy.”
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