• Harvey Weinstein challenges NY law protecting sex abuse victims

    Harvey Weinstein challenges NY law protecting sex abuse victims

    Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is claiming New York’s Child Victims Act is unconstitutional — in a bid to get a court to toss accusations that the fallen movie mogul sexually abused a woman nearly 20 years ago when she was just 16, court papers show. Weinstein’s right to due process was violated when Kaja Sokola …
  • Harvey Weinstein appears by video in upstate New York courtroom

    Harvey Weinstein appears by video in upstate New York courtroom

    Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein appeared by video in an upstate courtroom Friday after Los Angeles authorities filed paperwork to bring him to California to face sex-crime charges there. Weinstein, who appeared virtually from the Wende Correctional Facility in Erie County, had already struck an agreement with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office to delay the …
  • Harvey Weinstein hit with yet another sexual assault suit

    Harvey Weinstein hit with yet another sexual assault suit

    Harvey Weinstein was hit with a new lawsuit Friday by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her at film festivals in France and Canada. The accuser, who filed the Manhattan federal suit under the pseudonym Jane Doe, claims the fallen Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist first approached her at the Cannes Film Festival in …
  • Johnny Depp’s lawsuit was to prove he is not an abuser like Harvey Weinstein: lawyers

    Johnny Depp’s lawsuit was to prove he is not an abuser like Harvey Weinstein: lawyers

    Johnny Depp launched his explosive libel trial over “wife beater” allegations to prove he was not part of the “rogues’ gallery of abusers” like Harvey Weinstein, his lawyers said Tuesday. The 57-year-old “Pirates Of The Caribbean” star is suing The Sun newspaper over a 2018 headline that branded him a “wife beater,” allegations he vehemently …
  • Mira Sorvino thought her career was over after speaking out against Weinstein

    Mira Sorvino thought her career was over after speaking out against Weinstein

    Mira Sorvino thought her career was over for speaking out against Harvey Weinstein. “I actually thought it would end my career for good and I’d never work again. There haven’t really been whistle-blowers before that who continued to work. If you look at people who brought these accusations forward, they were not believed and they …
  • #MeToo activist Katherine Kendall says she was ‘misquoted’ amid Johnny Depp case

    #MeToo activist Katherine Kendall says she was ‘misquoted’ amid Johnny Depp case

    A #MeToo activist who says she was targeted by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told the a court Friday she was “misquoted” in a newspaper article that’s at the center of Johnny Depp’s explosive libel trial. Actress Katherine Kendall — who was quoted in an article in The Sun calling Depp “wife beater” in 2018 …
  • Federal judge rejects proposed global settlement against Weinstein

    Federal judge rejects proposed global settlement against Weinstein

    A federal judge Tuesday rejected a proposed global settlement against Harvey Weinstein over concerns that his accusers’ claims are too disparate for a class action. “Women who have been raped are entitled to a much greater recovery than women who just met Harvey Weinstein,” ruled U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein during a hearing in Manhattan …
  • Weinstein’s accusers want federal judge to block global settlement

    Weinstein’s accusers want federal judge to block global settlement

    Six Harvey Weinstein accusers want a judge to block the proposed $46.8 million global settlement against the convicted rapist and his production company, calling it one-sided and unfair. A lawyer for the women, Douglas Wigdor, filed a motion Monday in Manhattan federal court opposing the deal touted last month by New York state Attorney General …
  • James Gandolfini once threatened to beat up Harvey Weinstein

    James Gandolfini once threatened to beat up Harvey Weinstein

    Bada-bing! “Sopranos” star James Gandolfini once got so upset with a pre-scandal Harvey Weinstein’s heavy-handed ways that he exasperatedly threatened to “beat the f–k” of the mogul. Fellow “Sopranos” star Steve Schirripa revealed the anecdote on his “Talking Sopranos” podcast, which he co-hosts with another of the show’s alumni, Michael Imperioli, explaining that Gandolfini spent …
  • Harvey Weinstein raped 17-year-old in 1994, new lawsuit claims

    Harvey Weinstein raped 17-year-old in 1994, new lawsuit claims

    Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein was hit with a new lawsuit Thursday from four anonymous women who say he sexually abused them over the last four decades — including a victim who says she was just 17 at the time. The Manhattan Supreme Court filing accuses the imprisoned ex-producer of using his power to entice women …