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Harvey Weinstein’s defense team may think his sentence is “obscene,” but mere minutes after the much-accused prodicer was sentenced to almost the maximum for his sex crimes conviction, the Manhattan District Attorney that put the once mighty movie mogul away hailed the 23 years behind bars as giving “hope.” “We thank…

Five days before sex offender Harvey Weinstein is due to be sentenced in a New York City courtroom, prosecutors made it clear they want the judge to throw the Oscar-winning producer in jail and toss away the key. Listing off a multi-page recount of rapes and other sexual assaults of which the February 24-convicted…

As Harvey Weinstein was led off in handcuffs to the Riker’s Island , the New York County District Attorney's office declared a "new day" for sexual assault survivors in America. "This is the new landscape for survivors of sexual assault in America I believe, and this is a new day," said D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr to the…

UPDATE, 12:54 PM PT: Bill Clinton was the focus of the latest dispute between Harvey Weinstein’s defense team and New York prosecutors Wednesday. During her opening arguments, prosecutor Meghan Haft referred to Weinstein’s relationship with Clinton, and on a courtroom screen displayed a picture of Weinstein with the…

UPDATED, 1:21 PM:  Jury selection has ended for the day with another two jurors being selected. With opening statements penciled in to start on January 22, that brings the total jurors now up to seven. There are four men and three women picked out of the literally thousands called to serve. The Manhattan D.A.’s office…

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again is clearly the mantra of Harvey Weinstein's defense lawyers in the much-accused producer's rape trial in New York City. Having failed repeatedly to get the case moved out of Manhattan, toss media out of the courtroom, gain a self-described "cooling off period," and…

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…

The judge in Harvey Weinstein's New York rape trial won't be stepping down from the case today nor putting the brakes on it, despite a harsh January 8 request by the disgraced producer's defense team. State Supreme Court Judge James Burke ripped through the defense's five-point motion calmly but like a sharp knife…

Defense lawyers for Harvey Weinstein want the judge in the disgraced producer’s rape trial to recuse himself from the New York case after he threatened the Pulp Fiction executive producer yesterday with prison time over incessant cell phone use in court. “These comments reflect the Court’s animus towards the Defendant…

The mother of one of Harvey Weinstein's former attorneys and one of America's most well-known lawyers was the object of the Oscar-winning producer's legal derision on the third day of his rape trial in New York City this morning. "I am not trying to attack Ms. Allred, I am trying to protect Mr. Weinstein's right to a…

Events on the West Coast and cell phones dominated the early part of the second day of Harvey Weinstein's rape trial in New York City on Tuesday – and almost landed the disgraced producer behind bars. With far less press and far fewer onlookers than Monday at the 15th-floor courtroom of the Criminal Courts Building in…

EXCLUSIVE: The second official day of Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial for rape in New York City may be the last – at for a while, if the producer gets his way. Following Weinstein being charged with four counts of sexual assault by the Los Angeles County District Attorney earlier today, lawyers for the much-accused…