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Lawyers for Cuba Gooding Jr. alleged on Monday that the actor’s rape accuser bragged about having consenual sex him on the same night that she claims he attacked her inside a New York City hotel room in 2013.
A Los Angeles County judge determined that Weinstein cannot serve his two terms concurrently, which means the disgraced Hollywood mogul could be behind bars for the rest of his life.
The once-heralded producer behind both Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company built an empire from scratch out of Buffalo, New York. He became a major fundraiser for the Democratic Party, positioning himself as a liberal lion and champion of feminism.
These ideals are in stark contrast to allegations of sexual harassment and rape from more than 80 women that span decades, leading to his ouster from the companies he founded and his eventual arrest, Insider reported. Prosecutors in both New York and California alleged that Weinstein used his position atop one of Hollywood’s most powerful film studios to sexually harass and rape women for years.
Here’s a look at the rise and fall of one of the richest and most powerful people in Hollywood.
In 2020, a woman, identified only as “Jane Doe,” alleged in a civil lawsuit that the Oscar-winning actor raped her twice at Manhattan’s Mercer hotel in 2013.
Casey Wolnowski, one of Doe’s attorneys, told Insider that he’s “confident the jury is going to give her testimony the weight it deserves.”
