Harvey Weinstein boasted about the role sexual favours allegedly played in Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek’s careers after an aspiring actress rejected a threesome request from the disgraced producer, a court has heard.
10.01.2020 - 18:16 / deadline.com
By Dominic Patten
Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic
The end of the first official week of Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial began with a new legal grenade being tossed into the proceedings.
“Most people don’t speak in front of the international media,” the disgraced producer’s co-counsel Arthur Aidala proclaimed to Judge James Burke in the New York City courtroom this morning in submitting an almost unprecedented motion for individual jury sequestration. “Our only motivation is to make
Harvey Weinstein boasted about the role sexual favours allegedly played in Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek’s careers after an aspiring actress rejected a threesome request from the disgraced producer, a court has heard.
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Appeals court officials have shot down Harvey Weinstein’s last-minute motion to move his rape trial out of New York City.
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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.
Gigi Hadid will not be a juror in the upcoming Harvey Weinstein trial.