Harvey Weinstein expected in court as rape trial jury selection starts

Actress Rosie Perez took the stand during Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial in New York on Friday (24Jan20) to recount the conversations she had had with pal Annabella Sciorra about her alleged rape.

Hollywood star Annabella Sciorra has confronted Harvey Weinstein from a New York witness box, her voice quivering as she recounted a rape accusation she kept largely private for decades.

NEW YORK — Prosecutors on Monday portrayed former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein as a serial predator who used his power to manipulate and sexually assault young women, while the defence argued that his accusers engaged in consensual sex that they later reframed as attacks.

A novelist who has an upcoming book about predatory older men in New York will remain on the Harvey Weinstein jury, despite vociferous objections from the defense.

By Dade Hayes

Gigi Hadid has been dismissed from her role as a juror for Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial.

Gigi Hadid has been dismissed from her role as a juror for Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial.

Harvey Weinstein’s trial was always going to be a public spectacle but is now shaping up to be the trial of the century with the news that his fate may be decided by another celeb.

Gigi Hadid has been called as a potential juror for Harvey Weinstein’s sex assault case.

NEW YORK — More than 100 potential jurors showed up on Monday in a Manhattan courtroom for the rape trial of former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, including model Gigi Hadid.

By Dade Hayes

Harvey Weinstein has had another court motion denied after the judge overseeing his New York trial for rape and sexual assault refused to continue jury selection in secret.

The officials are having a hard time finding impartial jurors for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s trial. The filmmaker is currently facing life in prison over criminal charges that he raped woman in a New York hotel room in 2013, and forcibly performed oral sex on another woman in Manhattan in 2006.

An organized group of women performed a feminist anthem and dance in protest outside of Harvey Weinstein’s trial in New York late Friday morning, while the disgraced movie mogul was inside the courthouse for jury selection for his rape trial, which began earlier this week.

Attorneys for Harvey Weinstein want reporters barred from jury selection for the movie producer’s rape trial in New York. To act on that desire, Weinstein’s attorneys filed a new motion on Friday asking for individual jury selection — a move that was swiftly denied by Justice James Burke.

Harvey Weinstein struck out in his attempt on Thursday to get a new judge assigned to his rape trial in New York.

Harvey Weinstein wants the judge overseeing his New York trial for rape and sex assault removed from the case after the producer was threatened with jail for using his cell phone.

By Dominic Patten

Considering the long list of allegations levelled against Harvey Weinstein, it is proving hard to find jurors who could look at the case impartially. The disgraced Hollywood producer’s New York trial has already hit the first rock.

Harvey Weinstein’s New York trial just got underway, but it’s already proving hard to find potential jurors who don’t think they movie mogul’s guilty. Thanks to wall-to-wall media coverage, most people have heard about the dozens of women who have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct or assault. That’s making it difficult to find a bench of 12 jurors and six alternates willing to enter the trial with a presumption of innocence.