Harvey Weinstein convicted of rape in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape, delivering a verdict that further condemns the disgraced movie titan whose treatment of women helped spur the #MeToo movement.
The decision all but assures that Weinstein, who is 70, in poor health and serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York for other rapes, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is scheduled to be sentenced in the Los Angeles case early next year but must complete his current prison sentence before being transferred to California.
Following a bitter trial that stretched over a month, jurors deliberated for more than nine days before returning to convict Weinstein of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object. The charges were based on the account of a woman who accused Weinstein of attacking her in a Beverly Hills hotel room in
