More than two years after allegations of a decades-long pattern of sexual predation upended his Hollywood legacy, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday on two of the less serious counts against him.
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The International Criminal Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal from an accused Islamic militant who argued his charges aren’t serious enough to justify a trial.
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Detailing evidence that the movie producer “tricked and deprived” young women in his orbit to sustain his control over them, a New York prosecutor urged jurors Friday to convict Harvey Weinstein as “an abusive rapist.”
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French police on Thursday searched the home of a writer accused of raping a minor and who repeatedly described relationships with young teens in his work, a source said.
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Demanding $50 million in damages, a New Yorker claims in court that Rick James raped her at a group home in 1979, two years before the release of the late singer’s career-defining track “Super Freak.”
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“Believe women,” the slogan goes. But when it comes to deciding whether to convict Harvey Weinstein of rape, a defense lawyer urged the jury Thursday not to let a fad fill in for flimsy evidence.
Read moreJane Doe sued Uber in Baltimore Federal Court, claiming its driver forced nonconsensual sex upon her, and the driver’s accomplice raped her.
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A producer friend of one actress who accused Harvey Weinstein of rape took the stand as the film honcho’s first defense witness Thursday, rebutting Annabella Sciorra’s testimony and then detailing his recent loyalty to Weinstein.
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A legal fight by soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo against a Nevada woman who wants more than the $375,000 she received in a rape case hush-money settlement in 2010 should be decided by an arbitrator, not in a courtroom, a U.S. magistrate judge said Tuesday.
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Interrogating a woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her, a lawyer for the disgraced Hollywood producer pushed the aspiring actress Monday to name herself as the aggressor in the relationship.
Read moreMelissa Thompson sued Gramercy Global Media dba The Blast and its founder Mike Walters in federal court, claiming they violated a nondisclosure about her alleged 2017 rape by Harvey Weinstein by disclosing her tale “to Weinstein’s public relations team, who then widely smeared and disparaged Ms. Thompson.”
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A former Los Angeles actress who has accused disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of raping her seven years ago took the stand at his criminal trial Friday to recount her claims against the producer in graphic detail.
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Lawyers for an author who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s asked Thursday that he provide a DNA sample to see if it matches stains left on the dress she was wearing.
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A woman who was roommates with the former “Project Runway” assistant accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape testified Tuesday that the attack brought the producer’s reputation into stark reality.
Read moreA Jane Doe claims in federal court that longtime Columbus, Ohio police Officer Andrew K. Mitchell, raped her twice while on duty, and that he has been federally charged with “depriving victims of their constitutional rights while acting as an officer ‘by kidnapping them under the guise of an arrest and forcing them to engage in sex for freedom.’”
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The iconic actress Rosie Perez choked up on the stand Friday as she recounted the promise of secrecy she made after her friend told her she had been raped by Harvey Weinstein.
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers went to court Thursday with a last-minute demand to halt jury selection and move his rape trial out of New York City, where they say intense publicity, protesters and even the consideration of supermodel Gigi Hadid as a juror have turned the case into a “media and entertainment circus.”
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With a nod to the endless stream of tweets emanating from the White House, a New York judge refused Friday to nix a defamation lawsuit from an advice columnist who says President Donald Trump raped her.
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The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial denied Thursday that his recent terse admonishment of the producer requires him to step aside from the long-delayed prosecution.
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