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Convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein's irate lawyers said the former mogul was “confused” and that the the judge and jury in his trial had discarded "90%" of the evidence in the case – evidence of ongoing relationships with his accusers. "I think he sits there very confused," said Donna Rotunno speaking outside the…

The jury in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial ended its first day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict. They will resume tomorrow. Earlier today, the deliberating jury asked New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke questions about the role of actress Annabella Sciorra in the case. Specifically, why The Sop…

UPDATED 3:38 p.m./ET, with additional jury requests: The jury in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial has requested to view emails written in 2017 by Harvey Weinstein to his private detectives “red flagging” women he felt were top-priority for investigation. One of the flagged women was actress Annabella Sciorra. Earlier…

UPDATED THROUGHOUT: Harvey Weinstein’s defense concluded its closing arguments this afternoon, saying that the accused rapist is “the target of a cause and a movement,” and that the six women who testified about their alleged abuse at his hands often couldn’t remember dates, changed their stories, and demanded that…

Harvey Weinstein defense attorney Donna Rotunno began cross-examining a key prosecution witness Friday afternoon, aiming to portray her to the jury as a careerist scenester and not a victim of sexual assault. “You wanted the benefits of the relationship,” Rotunno said to Jessica Mann, who earlier in the day had detaile…

The end of the first official week of Harvey Weinstein's rape trial began Friday with a new legal grenade being tossed into the proceedings. "Most people don't speak in front of the international media," the disgraced producer's co-counsel Arthur Aidala told Judge James Burke in the New York City courtroom this…

Harvey Weinstein defense attorney Donna Rotunno told CNN host Michael Smerconish on Friday that jurors in his upcoming rape trial “don’t have to like everything he’s ever done in his life to find that he’s not a rapist.” Weinstein faces trial next week on several sex-crime charges. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to…

A group of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims has issued a statement condemning remarks made by his attorney Friday night on ABC’s Nightline. Weinstein appeared in a Manhattan court Friday for a bail hearing. Prosecutors sought to have his bail increased to $5 million from its current $1 million, arguing he violated…

While the real action is set to unfold in January when Harvey Weinstein finally faces criminal trial, a hearing Friday morning brought spirited jousting between his defense team and prosecutors over two separate requests by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. One of the asks, which took up most of the 45-minute…

After a hearing Thursday morning in Manhattan two months before the criminal trial of Harvey Weinstein, the fallen mogul’s new defense lawyer blasted the #MeToo movement as she stepped into the spotlight. “The emotion of this case has taken over,” attorney Donna Rotunno said in a post-hearing news conference alongside…