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CelebrityYahoo CelebritySalma Hayek says she was warned her 'career would die': 'They told me a Mexican is never going to make it'
The star is opening up about pushing back against negative feedback, and moving on from the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
CelebrityYahoo News UKQueen strips Harvey Weinstein of CBE following his sex offence conviction
The former director had received an honourary CBE in 2004.
NewsPA Media: World NewsJudge rejects tentative 19m-dollar Weinstein deal with accusers
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison earlier this year.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKEllie Goulding made to feel like 'sexual object' by music producers at start of career
Ellie Goulding has said music producers made her feel like a 'sexual object' and 'vulnerable' at the start of her career
NewsAssociated PressWeinstein reaches tentative $19M deal with accusers
Harvey Weinstein and his former studio’s board have reached a nearly $19 million settlement with dozens of his sexual misconduct accusers, New York state's attorney general and lawyers in a class-action lawsuit said Tuesday. The agreement was announced by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Chicago attorney Elizabeth A. Fegan. The deal, if approved by judges in federal courts, would permit accusers to claim from $7,500 to $750,000 from the $18.8 million settlement.
NewsReutersHarvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus in prison: union official
Weinstein, 68, has been placed in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility, said Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association. Powers said he learned that the test came back positive on Sunday morning and is concerned about the corrections officers, who he said lack proper protective equipment. Weinstein arrived at Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison east of Buffalo, New York, on Wednesday after being housed at New York City's Rikers Island jail.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity UKKate Beckinsale says Harvey Weinstein told her to 'shake her a**' on red carpet
The actress said it's a 'huge relief' that Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in jail.
NewsPA Media: World NewsTrump calls Weinstein conviction ‘great victory’
The US leader said he was 'not a fan' of the disgraced movie mogul.
NewsAssociated PressJury ends 1st day of deliberations in Weinstein's rape trial
Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial ended their first day of deliberations Tuesday with lots of questions and no verdict in the landmark #MeToo case that could put the once-powerful Hollywood producer behind bars for the rest of his life. The jury is weighing charges that Weinstein raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performed oral sex on another woman, TV and film production assistant Mimi Haleyi, in 2006. In deciding the most serious charges against Weinstein, which allege that he is a sexual predator, jurors must also weigh actress Annabella Sciorra’s account of a mid-1990s rape.
NewsPA Media: World NewsWeinstein defence ends case without film mogul giving evidence at rape trial
Weinstein has maintained any sexual encounters were consensual.
CelebrityYahoo CelebrityHarvey Weinstein accuser has panic attack as her credibility is questioned: 'You're confused a lot'
Jessica Mann broke down after she was grilled by Harvey Weinstein's lawyer, Donna Rotunno, in court Monday.
NewsYahoo Celebrity UKGigi Hadid called as potential juror in Harvey Weinstein trial
The model admitted having met Weinstein but said: “I think I’m still able to keep an open mind on the facts."
NewsPA Media: World NewsWeinstein jury selection to start in New York amid new charges in LA
Harvey Weinstein has said any sexual activity was consensual.
EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UKRose McGowan told she needed long hair in Hollywood to be more desirable
The actress said she feels less powerful with long hair.
NewsPA Media: World NewsHarvey Weinstein faces claims he tampered with electonic tag
A judge will decide whether to vary the bail conditions for the Hollywood mogul ahead of his trial on sex charges.
EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UKCara Delevingne: 'Harvey Weinstein told me to get a beard'
The model and actress recalls ignoring the advice of the disgraced movie mogul.
EntertainmentYahoo Celebrity UKJohn Malkovich: 'It’s not a very sane or pretty world'
The actor weighs in on why he decided to star in a play about a Harvey Weinstein-like character.
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Former Russell Simmons adviser on sexual assault claims against the icon: ‘I believe women’
Michael Skolnik was a former political adviser to Russell Simmons, who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. Skolnik says that regardless of their relationship, he believes women.
EntertainmentAssociated PressAttorneys in Weinstein case buy some extra time before trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault trial, postponed until September, is now poised to end two years after a wave of women's allegations against him sparked the #MeToo movement.
EntertainmentSky NewsWorld exclusive: Video shows Harvey Weinstein behaving inappropriately with businesswoman
Sky News has obtained a video that shows Harvey Weinstein behaving inappropriately with a young woman at a business meeting. The footage, which has never been broadcast before, shows him hugging, touching and making sexually suggestive comments to 28-year-old Melissa Thompson. Ms Thompson was at The Weinstein Company offices in New York in September 2011 to pitch her tech start-up company's new video and analytics service.
NewsEvening StandardHarvey Weinstein London 'victims' quizzed by Met Police detectives in US
Scotland Yard detectives investigating disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein have flown to the United States to interview his alleged victims, the Evening Standard can reveal. The police team has spoken to a number of women who claim they were assaulted by Weinstein when he visited London for events such as film premieres. Among his alleged victims is the actress Uma Thurman, who has claimed he attacked her in his Savoy hotel suite in the mid-Nineties.
EntertainmentYahoo Movies UKRosanna Arquette brands Asia Argento sexual assault allegations 'a set up'
Rosanna Arquette has called the sexual assault allegations that have emerged against actress Asia Argento 'a set up'.
NewsReutersFilm mogul Weinstein appears handcuffed in court to face rape charges
By Alice Popovici and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein appeared in handcuffs in a New York court on Friday to face charges of rape and other sex crimes against two of the scores of women who have accused him of misconduct, ending his reign as a Hollywood kingpin. Weinstein, the 66-year-old co-founder of the Miramax film studio and the Weinstein Co, intends to plead not guilty to the charges, his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told reporters outside the Manhattan courthouse. Prosecutors charged him with two counts of rape and one count of a criminal sexual act following a months-long investigation with the New York Police Department.
NewsSky News'I cry for my children': Harvey Weinstein's estranged wife breaks silence
The estranged wife of Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein has spoken out for the first time since allegations of sexual misconduct were made against her former partner. British designer Georgina Chapman, who is in the middle of divorce proceedings, said she was sickened by the claims, which came to light in October last year. The co-founder of the Marchesa fashion label told Vogue magazine she would sometimes "have moments of rage" and "cry for my children".
NewsReutersFemale-led investor group to buy Weinstein Co assets
Former Small Business Administration chief Maria Contreras-Sweet plans to launch a new company, save about 150 jobs, protect the small companies that are owed money, and create a victims' compensation fund that will supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed, she said in a statement. The Weinstein Company's board of directors confirmed it had reached a deal with Contreras-Sweet and supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle. The studio nearly went bankrupt after more than 70 women accused co-founder Harvey Weinstein, then one of Hollywood's most influential men, of sexual misconduct including rape.
