After
a
month-long
trial
and
nine
days
of
deliberations,
Los
Angeles
jurors
on
Monday
found
Harvey
Weinstein
guilty
of
the
rape
and
sexual
assault
of
just
one
of
the
four
accusers
he
was
charged
with
abusing.
But
the
three
guilty
counts
involving
an
Italian
actor
and
model
known
at
the
trial
as
Jane
Doe
1
still
struck
a
major
blow
against
the
disgraced
movie
mogul,
and
provided
another
#MeToo
moment
of
reckoning,
five
years
after
he
became
a
magnet
for
the
movement.
Weinstein,
who
is
two
years
into
a
23-year
sentence
for
a
rape
and
sexual
assault
conviction
in
New
York
that
is
under
appeal,
could
get
up
to
24
years
in
prison
in
California
when
he's
sentenced.
He
was
found
guilty
of
rape,
forced
oral
copulation
and
another
sexual
misconduct
count
involving
the
woman
who
said
he
appeared
uninvited
at
her
hotel
room
door
during
a
Los
Angeles
film
festival
in
2013.
"Harvey
Weinstein
forever
destroyed
a
part
of
me
that
night
in
2013
and
I
will
never
get
that
back.
The
criminal
trial
was
brutal
and
Weinstein's
lawyers
put
me
through
hell
on
the
witness
stand,
but
I
knew
I
had
to
see
this
through
to
the
end,
and
I
did," the
woman
said
in
a
statement
after
the
verdict.
"I
hope
Weinstein
never
sees
the
outside
of
a
prison
cell
during
his
lifetime." Weinstein
was
acquitted
of
a
sexual
battery
allegation
made
by
a
massage
therapist
who
treated
him
at
a
hotel
in
2010.
The
jury
was
unable
to
reach
a
decision
on
counts
involving
two
accusers,
notably
rape
and
sexual
assault
charges
involving
Jennifer
Siebel
Newsom,
a
documentary
filmmaker
and
the
wife
of
California
Gov.
Gavin
Newsom.
A
mistrial
was
declared
on
those
counts.
Weinstein
looked
down
at
the
table
and
appeared
to
put
his
face
in
his
hands
when
the
initial
guilty
counts
were
read.
He
looked
forward
as
the
rest
of
the
verdict
was
read.
Prosecutors
and
defense
attorneys
had
no
immediate
comment
on
the
verdict.
"Harvey
Weinstein
will
never
be
able
to
rape
another
woman.
He
will
spend
the
rest
of
his
life
behind
bars
where
he
belongs,"
Siebel
Newsom
said
in
a
statement.
"Throughout
the
trial,
Weinstein's
lawyers
used
sexism,
misogyny,
and
bullying
tactics
to
intimidate,
demean,
and
ridicule
us
survivors.
The
trial
was
a
stark
reminder
that
we
as
a
society
have
work
to
do."
Siebel
Newsom's
intense
and
dramatic
testimony,
in
which
she
described
being
raped
by
Weinstein
in
a
hotel
room
in
2005,
brought
the
trial
its
most
dramatic
moments.
But
only
eight
of
the
12
jurors
agreed
to
find
Weinstein
guilty
of
those
counts.
Jurors
were
deadlocked
10-2
on
a
sexual
battery
count
involving
Lauren
Young,
the
only
accuser
who
testified
at
both
Weinstein
trials.
She
said
she
was
a
model
aspiring
to
be
an
actor
and
screenwriter
who
was
meeting
with
Weinstein
about
a
script
in
2013
when
he
trapped
her
in
a
hotel
bathroom,
groped
her
and
masturbated
in
front
of
her.
Lacking
any
forensic
evidence
or
eyewitness
accounts
of
years-old
allegations,
the
case
hinged
heavily
on
the
stories
and
credibility
of
the
four
women
at
the
center
of
the
charges.
The
women's
stories
echoed
the
allegations
of
dozens
of
others
who
have
emerged
since
Weinstein
became
a
#MeToo
lightning
rod
starting
with
stories
in
the
New
York
Times
in
2017.
A
movie
about
that
reporting,
"She
Said,"
was
released
during
the
trial,
and
jurors
were
repeatedly
warned
not
to
see
it.
It
was
the
defense
that
made
#MeToo
an
issue
during
the
trial,
however,
emphasizing
that
none
of
the
four
women
went
to
the
authorities
until
after
the
movement
made
Weinstein
a
target.
Defense
lawyers
said
two
of
the
women
-
including
the
one
he
would
be
found
guilty
of
raping
-
were
entirely
lying
about
their
encounters
with
Weinstein.
They
said
the
other
two
had
"100%
consensual"
sexual
interactions
that
they
later
reframed.
Defense
attorneys
said
during
the
trial
that
if
Siebel
Newsom
hadn't
reached
her
later
prominence
she
would
be
"just
another
bimbo
who
slept
with
Harvey
Weinstein
to
get
ahead
in
Hollywood."
"Regret
is
not
the
same
thing
as
rape,"
Weinstein
attorney
Alan
Jackson
said
in
his
closing
argument.
He
urged
jurors
to
look
past
the
the
women's
emotional
testimony
and
focus
on
the
factual
evidence.
"Believe
us
because
we're
mad,
believe
us
because
we
cried,'"
Jackson
said
jurors
were
being
asked
to
do.
Well,
fury
does
not
make
fact.
And
tears
do
not
make
truth."
All
the
women
involved
in
the
charges
went
by
Jane
Doe
in
court.
The
Associated
Press
does
not
typically
name
people
who
say
they
have
been
sexually
abused
unless
they
come
forward
publicly
or
agree
to
be
named
through
their
attorneys,
as
the
women
named
here
did.
Prosecutors
called
40
other
witnesses
in
an
attempt
to
give
context
and
corroboration
to
those
stories.
Four
were
other
women
who
were
not
part
of
the
charges
but
testified
that
Weinstein
raped
or
sexually
assaulted
them.
They
were
brought
to
the
stand
to
establish
a
pattern
of
sexual
predation.