Harvey Weinstein convicted of rape at New York trial
(The Guardian Culture News)

Film mogul found guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree, and acquitted on three further chargesHarvey Weinstein, the fallen titan of Hollywood whose sexual abuse of aspiring young female actors sparked the #MeToo movement, has finally been brought to justice after a New York jury found him guilty of two of the five charges he faced.The jury of seven men and five women at the New York supreme court took five days to reach their verdict. They found the defendant guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree for forcing oral sex on the former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. Continue reading...