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PARIS — Roman Polanski scooped France’s Cesar Award for best directing for his film An Officer and a Spy on Friday, prompting a walkout by several women in the audience in protest at honouring a man facing rape accusations.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) — Harvey Weinstein is “in disbelief,” but “not delusional,” about his conviction, as he remains under care at Bellevue Hospital before being transferred to Rikers Island, where he’ll be put behind bars.

Harvey Weinstein is “upbeat” and “energized” about challenging his sexual assault convictions despite his hospitalization, according to one of his attorneys.

NEW YORK — Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sexual assault and rape in a New York court on Monday and taken off to jail in handcuffs, a victory for the #MeToo movement that inspired women to publicly accuse powerful men of misconduct.

NEW YORK — The judge in the Harvey Weinstein rape case on Tuesday warned his lead defence lawyer that she must not talk to the press until the jury has reached a verdict, two days after the attorney wrote an opinion piece in Newsweek magazine about the case.

A woman is suing the late singer Rick James’ estate for US$50 million, alleging he raped her when she was just 15 years old.

NEW YORK — Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will not testify in his own defence at his rape trial, his lawyers said on Tuesday as they rested their case.

NEW YORK — A psychology professor called by the defence as an expert witness at the New York rape trial of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein testified on Friday that people’s memories can become distorted.

Hitmaker Dr. Luke has scored a big victory in court in his long-running legal spat with Kesha.

NEW YORK — The first defense witness in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial acknowledged on Thursday sending messages to the former producer in which he disparaged the “dog pile of actresses” who had accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct.

NEW YORK — A woman testified at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial on Wednesday that the film producer trapped her in a hotel bathroom in 2013 and masturbated in front of her while groping her breasts, and told her: “This is what all the actresses do to make it.”

NEW YORK — A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday that her relationship with the Hollywood producer was “complicated” but said that did not change the fact that he had raped her.

NEW YORK — A onetime aspiring actress told a Manhattan jury on Friday that Harvey Weinstein invited her to his hotel room to read a movie script and then, after saying he was going to “do something for her,” the former Hollywood producer sexually assaulted her.

NEW YORK — A costume designer and former actress told jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial on Wednesday that the former producer groped her under her skirt and later propositioned her for sex in exchange for movie contracts.

Jessica Simpson forced herself to endure an “extremely painful” confrontation with her childhood abuser in order to allow herself to heal from the trauma.

NEW YORK — The former roommate of Mimi Haleyi, one of the women who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, took the stand on Tuesday in the former Hollywood mogul’s rape trial.

Jailed R&B star R. Kelly was forced to miss a court date this week due to hernia surgery.

NEW YORK — A forensic psychiatrist took the stand at former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan rape trial on Friday, explaining why some sexual assault victims do not report attacks or avoid their abusers.

NEW YORK — Prosecutors on Monday portrayed former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein as a serial predator who used his power to manipulate and sexually assault young women, while the defence argued that his accusers engaged in consensual sex that they later reframed as attacks.

NEW YORK — Actress Annabella Sciorra took the stand in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape trial on Thursday as prosecutors try to prove that the former Hollywood producer was a serial predator who sexually assaulted young women.

Jessica Simpson has opened up on her life threatening battle with alcohol and drugs in her new memoir, Open Book.

Lawyers in Harvey Weinstein‘s New York rape trial finished selecting 12 jurors on Friday to decide the former Hollywood producer’s fate, as prosecutors renewed an accusation that the defence had unfairly tried to block white women from serving on the jury.

NEW YORK — Four men and three women were chosen on Thursday as jurors in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein, as the judge cautioned against using the case to make a broader statement about the #MeToo movement.

NEW YORK — Former film producer Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday asked a New York state appeals court to delay his rape trial and move it out of Manhattan, the day before the final phase of jury selection is scheduled to begin.

Lawyers for Bill Cosby on Thursday asked the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to hear his appeal of his 2018 sexual assault conviction, a month after a lower court rejected their argument that the disgraced comedian did not get a fair trial.

Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon is scheduled to undergo a five-day trial in June in the case where he is charged with rape and indecent assault.Rozon 65, was not required to be present for a brief hearing at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday w

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein arrived at a Manhattan court on Monday for the start of his landmark trial on charges of rape, allegations that helped fuel the #MeToo movement and a reckoning for powerful men accused of sexual misconduct.