From #MeToo to trial: A look at the fall of Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse to attend jury selection in his trial on rape and sexual assault charges, in New York, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK, N.Y. – As Harvey Weinstein goes through his New York trial on rape and sexual assault charges, here's a look at the movie mogul's past and his multiple legal fights. A COLLAPSING CAREER:Following the deluge of allegations, Weinstein became a film industry pariah. Women globally began using the hashtag #MeToo to share their own stories of sexual assault. Los Angeles prosecutors allege he raped a woman at her Los Angeles hotel, then sexually assaulted a woman in his Beverly Hills hotel suite the next day.
Jury of 7 men, 5 women selected for Weinstein rape trial
Harvey Weinstein and his attorney Donna Rotunno arrive at a Manhattan courthouse to attend jury selection for his trial on rape and sexual assault charges, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK, N.Y. – A jury of seven men and five women was selected Friday for Harvey Weinstein's rape trial after an arduous, two-week process in which scores of people were dismissed because they had already made up their minds about the disgraced Hollywood mogul. During jury selection, prosecutors accused Weinstein's lawyers of systematically trying to keep young women off the panel, though the final gender makeup of the jury turned out to be more closely balanced. For its part, the defense raised an outcry and demanded a mistrial because one of the jurors is the author of an upcoming novel involving young women dealing with predatory older men. The defense said it wasn’t specifically trying to exclude young women but didn’t want jurors too young to understand the way men and women interacted in the early 1990s.