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Two of the alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein are pushing to have the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process conclude, with plaintiffs able to pursue individual cases through Chapter 7 instead. Actresses Wedil David and Dominque Huett are referred to in court documents as “non-settling plaintiffs.” Both are already pursuing…

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden denied Tara Reade’s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a Senate office building in 1993. In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe anchor Mika Brzezinski, Biden said of the allegations, “It never, never happened.” Reade claims that Biden pinned her up against a wall and…

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…

UPDATED at 1:50PM ET with additional testimony. In vivid testimony wrapping up the fourth week of Harvey Weinstein’s trial in New York, hairstylist and actress Jessica Mann described her dealings with Weinstein, which she says culminated in sexual assault. Mann is one of two accusers whose allegations against…

Harvey Weinstein’s hiring of Black Cube, a private intelligence agency run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies, became a key topic on an otherwise subdued day at his rape trial in New York. The trial is likely to heat back up Friday when prosecutors call Jessica Mann to the…

Defying initial projections that it would last well into March, Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in New York Supreme Court is moving at a steady pace as it nears the end of its fourth week. The major prosecution witnesses are likely to have taken the stand by early next week. Wednesday’s testimony saw onetime aspiring…

The names of Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek surfaced Wednesday during Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in New York Supreme Court during testimony about his alleged intimidation tactics. Dawn Dunning, who says Weinstein sexually assaulted and threatened her in 2004, though she is not one of the two formal accusers in his…

Actress Rosie Perez testified for nearly an hour Friday afternoon in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial in New York, corroborating friend Annabella Sciorra’s previous testimony that Sciorra had told her of the rape back in 1993. Prosecutors and defense attorneys raised repeated objections and continued to clash about the…

UPDATE, 3:25 PM ET: Harvey Weinstein’s defense team tried to raise doubts about the validity of Annabella Sciorra’s claim that he raped her in the winter of 1993-94 in an extensive cross-examination that included the airing of a short clip of her appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. The clip was from Aug. 6…

UPDATED, 12:45PM ET: The jury in Harvey Weinstein’s criminal rape trial has been seated after a final series of brief verbal clashes in a New York courtroom over the gender and racial makeup of the panel. The jury consists of seven men and five women. Three alternates were also designated – fewer than the customary…

Gigi Hadid, the 24-year-old supermodel who made headlines by appearing at New York Supreme Court this week in response to a jury summons in the Harvey Weinstein trial, has officially been dropped from the jury pool. The move, which was expected, came Thursday as the rape trial nears the end of its second week. Jury…

On Monday morning, after the Oscar nominations were announced, onetime awards potentate Harvey Weinstein returned to a New York City courtroom, where he stands trial for rape. Pushing a walker as he has in recent weeks, his posture stooped after back surgery, Weinstein appeared before New York Supreme Court Judge…