Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in LA trial

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Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in LA trial

Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault for one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing.

The 70-year-old former film executive has been on trial for more than a month, based on allegations by four women stemming from 2005 to 2013.

The trial on Monday heard how he used his influence to lure women into private meetings before allegedly assaulting them.

A jury of eight men spent nine days deliberating on three charges of rape and four other sexual assault counts.

The jurors found Weinstein guilty of rape and two sexual assault charges involving an accuser named “Jane Doe 1”.

Jane Doe 1, a Russian-born model, testified that she was in LA for an Italian film festival in February 2013 when the producer arrived uninvited at her Beverly Hills hotel room and raped her.

“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back,” she said.

“The criminal trial was brutal and Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand. I knew I had to see this through to the end, and I did. I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.”

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