Los Angeles (USA) (EFE).- The Los Angeles County Superior Court sentences former film producer Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison after being convicted of three counts of rape and sexual abuse of a model Italian origin.
A California jury had convicted him last December of rape, sexual penetration and “forced oral intercourse” against that woman.
The 70-year-old former Hollywood magnate will have to serve 16 years of sentence after the 20 years that he still has to complete, the result of the trial he faced in 2020 for similar conduct.
On December 19, 2022 Harvey Weinstein, creator of an empire in the film industry, was found guilty of three counts of abuse after a trial held in Los Angeles that lasted approximately two months.
The producer was tried on seven counts based on accusations by four women who were sexually assaulted between 2005 and 2013, all allegedly in Los Angeles hotel rooms.
Two of them were for rape while the other five were for sexual harassment. Weinstein was acquitted of one of the charges against him and the jury could not reach a plea agreement on the rest.