Harvey Weinstein accuser details sexual assault allegations in court

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s fate is in the hands of a New York City jury in the first trial for the man whose alleged misconduct helped spark the #MeToo movement.

NEW YORK -- Jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial began deliberating Tuesday in a case pitting accusers’ often-harrowing testimony against the defense’s contention that the acts were consensual, surrounded by friendly, flirtatious emails and further meetings with the film producer.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial began deliberating Tuesday in a case pitting accusers’ often-harrowing testimony against the defense’s contention that the acts were consensual, surrounded by friendly, flirtatious emails and further meetings with the film producer.

Seven men and five women will be sent out of courtroom 99 at the New York supreme court on Tuesday carrying the fate of Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement on their shoulders.

NEW YORK -- By the time prosecutors at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial give their closing argument on Friday, it will have been more than a week since jurors heard one of his accusers recount what prosecutors describe as a vile sexual encounter with the disgraced Hollywood mogul.

NEW YORK -- In the strongest defense testimony yet, a Mexican model on Monday denied a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul sexually assaulted the woman at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013.

By Greg Evans

NEW YORK — Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will not testify in his own defence at his rape trial, his lawyers said on Tuesday as they rested their case.

Harvey Weinstein is being currently tried for rape and sexual misconduct in New York’s Manhattan courtroom. The latest update about the trial is that the disgraced producer’s defence team called psychologist and memory expert to the witness stand in an attempt to discredit all the allegations level against him by his accusers during the hearing, Page Six reported.

Harvey Weinstein’s lead lawyer claimed in court Friday that a controversial interview she gave to the New York Times was “taped a long time ago” — but it was actually recorded last week.

NEW YORK — A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday that her relationship with the Hollywood producer was “complicated” but said that did not change the fact that he had raped her.

NEW YORK — A onetime aspiring actress told a Manhattan jury on Friday that Harvey Weinstein invited her to his hotel room to read a movie script and then, after saying he was going to “do something for her,” the former Hollywood producer sexually assaulted her.

By Dade Hayes

By Dade Hayes

By Dade Hayes

NEW YORK — The former roommate of Mimi Haleyi, one of the women who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, took the stand on Tuesday in the former Hollywood mogul’s rape trial.

Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in New York continued Tuesday with the former roommate of one of the ex-movie mogul’s accusers corroborating details of Weinstein’s alleged 2006 sexual assault.

By Dade Hayes