A lawyer for convicted movie producer Harvey Weinstein has challenged his extradition to California to face charges of assaulting five women, citing a paperwork technicality after his requests for a “humanitarian” delay to attend to medical needs were rejected.
Harvey Weinstein has launched an appeal against his convictions for rape and sexual assault, more 12 months after he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
A US judge has approved a revised Weinstein Co bankruptcy plan that provides about 35 million dollars (£25 million) for creditors, with roughly half that amount going to women who have accused disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
Gwyneth Paltrow has said the “shine of acting” wore off following her Academy Award win, blaming working for Harvey Weinstein and intense public scrutiny.
Harvey Weinstein has been charged with a further six counts of sexual assault involving two victims from incidents that allegedly happened more than a decade ago, prosecutors in Los Angeles said.
Comedian Katherine Ryan has criticised “cancel culture,” saying the practice of attempting to shun high-profile figures over perceived wrongs “doesn’t offer progress”.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles has filed a request to extradite Harvey Weinstein from New York, in a bid to try the disgraced Hollywood producer on five counts of sexual assault.
Dame Judi Dench has admitted to being unhappy about how her character in the much-derided Cats film turned out, saying she looked like a “battered, mangy old cat”.
The problem of sexual harassment and abuse in the film industry is bigger than “the ‘bad men’ and their bad behaviour,” the director of a new film about a predatory Hollywood executive has said.
A woman allegedly raped by controversial filmmaker Roman Polanski when she was 13-years-old has criticised protesters who stormed out of France’s version of the Oscars when he was named best director.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have started the extradition process to bring Harvey Weinstein to California, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said.
One of the actresses who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment has said she “cried tears of amazement” when he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers argued on Monday he deserved mercy for his already “historic fall from grace” and serious health issues, as prosecutors sought a severe punishment for the disgraced movie mogul.
Harvey Weinstein deserves a harsh sentence for having “trapped women into his exclusive control” in a cycle of abuse going back to the 1970s, prosecutors said.
Harvey Weinstein, who was admitted to hospital following his conviction last month on rape and sexual assault charges, is being moved to Rikers Island jail, one of his lawyers said.
Woody Allen’s son and prominent journalist Ronan Farrow has threatened to walk away from his publisher after it emerged it was putting out the filmmaker’s memoirs.