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Karen Gillan has noticed "some changes" post-MeToo movement - but insists more needs to be done to stop abusers from getting into "positions of power". The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' star, 36, believes the movie business is making a "concerted effort" to ensure actors are working in "safer" spaces but she feels there is still a way to go. She told the London Evening Standard: “I believe in positive reinforcement, you know, and I do see some changes being made. “I see a concerted effort to create a safer environment for people to work in. We have the introduction of intimacy coordinators. I've s...
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Jennifer Esposito’s career was nearly cut short by a “Harvey Weinstein-esque person”. The ‘Crash’ actress and filmmaker, 51, did not name the man, but branded him a “notorious” and “brutal” producer and accused him of spreading lies about her as part of a mission to derail her path to fame when she was only 26. She told the ‘She Pivots’ podcast: “He fired me for no reason. He wanted someone else and he got her.” Jennifer also told the show’s lawyer host Emily Tisch Sussman the producer discouraged others who wanted to hire her, and added about his lies: “He said I was a drug addict – (that) ne...
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Harvey Weinstein has launched an appeal against his Los Angeles rape conviction. Lawyers for the 72-year-old former film producer have claimed that he didn't get a fair trial in his case in California in 2022, when he was convicted of rape and sexual assault. Weinstein was handed a 16-year jail sentence, but he's now requesting a new trial. According to Weinstein's lawyers, he "stands wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting Jane Doe 1". In documents seen by NBC, it's also claimed that evidence was wrongly excluded from the trial and that the jury was unfairly prejudiced by testimony from o...
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Lea Seydoux claims that growing older is "like a disease" in the United States. The 38-year-old actress admits that she feels fortunate to be a film star in Europe as she thinks that famous faces are judged are differently on the other side of the Atlantic. Speaking to The Sunday Times newspaper, Lea said: "You have to enhance everything in the States. Everything has to be heightened. It's a whole way of thinking that is different to here in Europe. "Maybe because it's a young country? So people want to stay young for ever? It's a society that is infantilising and you cannot get older in Ameri...
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Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalised after having his 2020 rape conviction overturned. The fallen Hollywood mogul, 72, was returned to New York City jail Rikers Island on Friday (26.04.24), a day after the New York Court of Appeals ruled he didn’t receive a fair trial when he was convicted four years ago. His lawyer Arthur Aidala announced on Saturday (27.04.24) Weinstein had been transferred to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on Friday in New York. He said: “They examined him and sent him to Bellevue. It seems like he needs a lot of help, physically. "He’s got a lot of prob...
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Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned. The New York Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday (25.04.24) with a majority 4-3 vote that the disgraced movie mogul did not receive a fair trial after they found prosecutors were allowed to call witnesses whose accusations were not the focus of the case. As a result, the ruling declared Weinstein - who will remain in prison for a separate 2022 rape conviction - had been tried on his past behaviour, not solely the crimes he had been charged with. They stated Justice James Burke, the judge in charge of the 2020 trial “erroneously admitt...
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Mira Sorvino grew emotional as she discussed how Harvey Weinstein "stifled" her career. The 56-year-old star was inundated with offers after winning the Best Supporting actress Oscar in 1996 for her work on 'Mighty Aphrodite' but after she "rejected" the disgraced movie mogul for "the third time", she struggled to land jobs and was no longer a "viable movie actress". Speaking on a panel at 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut, People magazine reports she said: "When I was nominated versus won, there were clauses in my contracts that were present at the time that 'if she wins, she gets this...' But...
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Actress Julia Ormond is suing Harvey Weinstein for sexual battery. The ‘Legends of the Fall’ star, 58, filed a lawsuit against the disgraced Hollywood producer on Wednesday (04.10.23) alleging he sexually assaulted her following a business dinner in 1995. Julia claims in the lawsuit 71-year-old Weinstein – who has been accused by more than 100 women of sexual abuse and is behind bars serving a 23-year sentence for raping an aspiring actress and sexually abusing a TV and film production assistant – told her he would only discuss a project “back at the apartment Miramax had provided for Ormond a...
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Jennifer Aniston is “so over” cancel culture and refuses to put “everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket”. Despite currently making millions starring in #MeToo-themed drama “The Morning Show’, the former ‘Friends’ actress, 54, hit out over the army of stars who have been “cancelled” in the wake of serial rapist Weinstein, 71, being sentenced to 39 years behind bars on four counts of rape and one of sexual assault. Jennifer told the Wall Street Journal: “I’m so over cancel culture. “I probably just got cancelled by saying that. I just don’t understand what it means. “Is there no redemption? I ...
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Molly Ringwald "worries" about cancel culture. The 55-year-old actress doesn't believe something like a Harvey Weinstein scandal - which saw the disgraced film producer jailed for 23 years after more than 80 women accused him of sexual assault and sparked the #MeToo movement as a result - could happen in 2023 but thinks the more people who are "unfairly cancelled" could have a detrimental effect in the long run. She told The Guardian: "I don’t think a Harvey Weinstein situation could exist now. But, again, a lot of people have gotten swept up in ‘cancellation’, and I worry about that; it’s uns...
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