Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein has chronic myeloid leukemia: reports
The former Hollywood producer is currently in prison at Rikers Island in New York to face trial on rape charges.
- by Chandni Shah and Harshita Meenaktshi
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Harvey Weinstein rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery
Weinstein is due in court this week where prosecutors had been presenting evidence to a grand jury as they work to secure a new indictment against him.
- by Michael Sisak
‘Part of this conspiracy’: The Australian journalist at the centre of the Trump trial
The criminal trial of former president Donald Trump has heard much about Australian journalist Dylan Howard’s role in perfecting the dark art of “catch and kill”.
- by Kate McClymont and Cameron Houston
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York top court
The ruling is the second major #MeToo setback in the last two years and reopens a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures.
- by Michael Sisak
Disney, Miramax sued for ‘enabling’ Harvey Weinstein in new assault claim
Actor Julia Ormond accuses The Walt Disney Co., Miramax and her former agents of knowing Weinstein presented a danger to women but did nothing to stop him or to help her.
- by Deepti Hajela and Andrew Dalton
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Russell Brand was a loudly ticking time bomb. How the hell wasn’t he detonated earlier?
Could we have done more, asks the BBC? Ummmm, yes.
- by Julia Baird
The former cheerleader with ‘a ton of guts’ taking on Donald Trump
Writer E. Jean Carroll says her life was forever altered by a chance encounter with Trump at a New York department store in the mid-1990s.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Hello sailor! Yachties mutiny over lewd boats
A complaint over “offensive and misogynistic” boat names has prompted Mornington Yacht Club to warn members.
- by Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
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‘I beg your mercy’: Weinstein asks for leniency as he’s sentenced after rape conviction
Allegations against Weinstein helped fuel the #MeToo movement, which has encouraged women to speak out about sexual harassment and abuse by powerful men in media, politics and other endeavours.
- by Steve Gorman
Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in Los Angeles trial
Weinstein was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving a woman known as Jane Doe 1.
- by Andrew Dalton
How Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer became one of Australia’s biggest film and TV producers
Few people in the local industry had realised the role a leading producer played in securing settlements with Harvey Weinstein’s victims - until now.
- by Karl Quinn
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