The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has filed a detainer on the New York prison holding Harvey Weinstein, the first step in bringing him to Los Angeles for a second trial on rape and sexual assault charges.
03.03.2020 - 06:31 / deadline.com
By Dominic Patten
Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic
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The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has filed a detainer on the New York prison holding Harvey Weinstein, the first step in bringing him to Los Angeles for a second trial on rape and sexual assault charges.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Harvey Weinstein is being transferred to New York State prison, following a two-day stay at Rikers Island.
Harvey Weinstein is being sued for sexual assault and battery by an actress who accused him of coercing her into having sex with him by teasing her with a potential role in a film.
Harvey Weinstein is reportedly being sued for sexual assault and battery by an unnamed woman who claims he used his position of power in Hollywood to coerce her into having sex with him. TMZ reports that a lawsuit has been filed in Los Angeles in which an anonymous woman is joining the myriad of others who claim that the now-convicted rapist dangled a role in front of her and threatened to end her career if she did not give him what he wanted.
Harvey Weinstein is being sued for sexual assault and battery by an actress who has accused him of coercing her into having sex by teasing her with a potential role in a film.
Kate Beckinsale has told of her "huge relief" at Harvey Weinstein's prison sentence after revealing she was "punished" by the former movie mogul.
NEW YORK -- A day after receiving a 23-year prison term in his New York City rape case, Harvey Weinstein was in medical and legal limbo on Thursday but indicated through a lawyer that he is still eager to fight looming criminal charges in Los Angeles.
Kate Beckinsale has told of her “huge relief” at Harvey Weinstein’s prison sentence after revealing how she was “punished” by the former movie mogul.
Harvey Weinstein's legal troubles are far from over. The disgraced movie mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York City on Wednesday after he was found guilty of third-degree rape and a criminal sex act -- all of which he claimed resulted from extramarital affairs.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles are seeking to have convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein extradited from New York to face separate charges of sexual assault.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have started the extradition process to bring Harvey Weinstein to California, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said.
The process has begun for Harvey Weinstein to be sent to Los Angeles to face charges of sex abuse. The news from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office was announced the same day the 67-year-old disgraced former movie mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a New York City judge after being convicted of similar crimes there.
By Dominic Patten, Jill Goldsmith
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have started the extradition process to bring Harvey Weinstein to California, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said.
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault on Wednesday in a New York City courtroom. The former movie producer had been convicted last month of raping a woman in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his apartment in 2006.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) — Ben Affleck was on Harvey Weinstein‘s “red flag list,” according to recently unsealed court documents.
Harvey Weinstein was moved Thursday to an infirmary unit at New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex after undergoing a heart procedure at the hospital where he’d been held since his conviction last month on rape and sexual assault charges.