Latest in Harvey Weinstein

EXCLUSIVE: UPDATE, 1:11 PM:  When and how Harvey Weinstein will be coming out to Los Angeles to face rape and other sexual assault charges won’t be known until next year. An early morning extradition hearing scheduled in upstate New York tomorrow for the incarcerated producer is going to be pushed back until April 9…

Despite what you may have read, The Right Girl is not a musical about Harvey Weinstein. Then again, having been created by one of the first women to speak out against the rapist, it’s not not a musical about Harvey Weinstein. Had Broadway not gone dark with the coronavirus pandemic last March, audiences might already…

UPDATED with latest: Harvey Weinstein has tested negative for coronavirus, his reps confirmed Thursday, days after the jailed ex-mogul fell ill with a fever. He continues to be “closely monitored” at the maximum-security Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, NY. According to a statement today from spokesman Juda…

George Gascón's bid to be Los Angeles County's next District Attorney replacing two-term incumbent Jackie Lacey has all the drama of a Hollywood production, and the challenger has a lot of the industry’s backing to support that idea. Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings, newly minted Warner Bros TV boss Channing Dungey, FX…

A Delaware judge Tuesday denied a motion by some victims of jailed former mogul Harvey Weinstein to convert Weinstein Co.’s bankruptcy proceeding from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, allowing the long process to move forward. Chapter 7 can dispense with classes of creditors – of which abuse victims are one in this case — and…

The Right Girl, a new musical based on (and co-written by) the real-life story of former screenwriter Louisette Geiss and the sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein she says ended her film career, will be presented in a film version to a live audience for the first time next month. The production features music by…

As the deep-pocketed runoff campaign between incumbent Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey and challenger George Gascón heads into its final month, the L.A. DA’s office Friday filed even more new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein. "Case BA483663 was amended today to add three felony counts each of…

Harvey Weinstein has been stripped of his honorary CBE following his conviction for rape and sexual assault. An announcement in The London Gazette confirmed that British monarch Queen Elizabeth II has annulled the award, which was originally bestowed in 2004 for services to the film industry. Disgraced mogul Weinstein…

Once thought blocked, the long road to a global settlement for victims of Harvey Weinstein got a green light of sorts today in federal court. A Delaware judge Wednesday allowed attorneys for debtors to start contacting potential Weinstein victims who might want to file claims in the more than two-year-old bankruptcy…

(Updated with Weinstein lawyer statement) A new proposal to settle sex crimes claims against Harvey Weinstein should be DOA, lawyers representing several of the now incarcerated producer's victims say. "Filed in the middle of the night to avoid attention, the latest Weinstein settlement plan is more offensive than the…

Despite having the Oscar-winning Reversal of Fortune made from his book of the same name, it seems Alan Dershowitz this week had to have the difference between fact and fiction painstakingly explained to him by one of ViacomCBS' top lawyers over Jeffrey Epstein. "If we understand your letter correctly, you are…

(UPDATED with statement from Weinstein lawyer) More than four months after being sentenced to 23 years behind bars for rape and other sex crimes, Harvey Weinstein now will have to finally face Ashley Judd in court in the Berlin Station actor's sexual harassment case. Reversing a lower court's 2018 decision on the…