LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of raping a woman, delivering a verdict that further condemns the disgraced movie titan whose treatment of women helped spur the #MeToo movement.
The decision all but assures that Weinstein, who is 70, in poor health and currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York for other rapes, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is scheduled to be sentenced in the Los Angeles case early next year, but must complete his current prison sentence before being transferred to California.
Following a bitter trial that stretched over a month, jurors deliberated for more than nine days before returning to convict Weinstein of a count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object. The charges stemmed from allegations made by a woman who came forward to report Weinstein for attacking her in a Beverly Hills hotel room. The jury either acquitted Weinstein or could not reach a verdict on charges based on allegations of three other women who also accused him of sexual assaulting them in hotel rooms between 2004 and 2013.
