“Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, testifying that the former Hollywood studio boss overpowered and raped her and made other crude overtures that included sending her X-rated chocolates and showing up uninvited in his underwear with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a video in the other. In a quivering voice,…

Harvey Weinstein spawned the #MeToo movement. Now, the former film titan is starring in the biggest trial of its era — a landmark moment in a global reckoning that has empowered women while shining a light on power dynamics in workplaces from Hollywood Boulevard to Main Street.

Defense lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorneys said Tuesday on the eve of opening statements in Weinstein’s rape trial in New York City. The defense has “dozens and dozens and dozens of loving emails...

The lawyers and judge halted the selection process after 12 jurors and three alternates had been seated. Of the total, eight were men, seven were women. The final tally mostly erased a gender imbalance that, just hours earlier in the day, led to complaints by prosecutors that the defense was deliberately trying to keep young women off the panel. Weinstein...

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers went to court Thursday with a last-minute demand to halt jury selection and move his rape trial out of New York City, where they say intense media coverage, protesters and even the consideration of supermodel Gigi Hadid as a juror have turned the case into a “media and entertainment circus.”

The defense said the “carnival-like atmosphere” surrounding jury selection, coupled with prospective jurors’ social media comments showed Weinstein won’t get a fair shake in his hometown

Jury selection at Harvey Weinstein’s New York City rape trial has resumed a day after supermodel Gigi Hadid caused a stir by emerging as a potential juror.

Jury selection resumed Monday at the trial of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has pleaded not guilty to charges he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulted another in 2006. The initial screening process, now on its fifth day, has been stymied by a host of challenges and distractions, including repeatedly denied requests from…

The women who formed the flash mob Friday chanted slogans that appeared to be derived from a feminist movement in Chile, where in recent months demonstrators have reportedly rallied against inequality and what some see as the failure of the criminal justice system to protect victims of sexual violence.

The judge in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial has declined a defense request that he step aside. Judge James Burke announced his decision Thursday, the third day of jury selection in the New York case.

A second day of jury selection in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial has wrapped up in what is expected to be a lengthy process. The judge denied a request Wednesday by Weinstein’s lawyers to ban attorney Gloria Allred from the courtroom because the defense is considering calling her as a witness.

The judge at Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial pressed ahead with the start of jury selection Tuesday, rejecting a defense request for a “cooling-off period” following the burst of publicity over the filing of new charges against the Hollywood mogul in Los Angeles. Weinstein’s lawyers suggested that the timing of the new sex-crime charges, announced on Monday, was deliberate...

On the same day his trial began in New York, the L.A. County District Attorney announced Monday that it had filed criminal charges against film producer Harvey Weinstein in connection with two instances of sexual assault.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney has filed criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein in connection with at least two instances in which the producer sexually assaulted women, officials announced in a Monday morning news conference. Weinstein was charged in Los Angeles with forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint. He will…

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers have asked a judge to sequester the jury for the entirety of his rape and sexual assault trial in Manhattan, arguing that should some criminal action against the disgraced movie mogul be filed in another jurisdiction, it could prejudice the members sitting on this case. Harvey Weinstein and several of the women who have accused him...

More than two years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Jury selection is scheduled to start this week in New York City in a case involving allegations that…

Rose McGowan and Rosanna Arquette are among the more prominent women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. Now the two actresses are gearing up for the fallen mogul’s criminal sex assault trial, which is scheduled to begin on Monday.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing eight cases accusing disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, an official said Thursday. The Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police departments each brought four investigations to prosecutors, according to Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The office will decide whether to move forward with prosecution....

Former Polish runway model Kaja Sokola filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her when she was 16-years-old, NBC News reported. Sokola said in a statement that she crossed paths with Weinstein a month after she left Warsaw for New York City to pursue a modeling and acting career.. When NBC News reached out to...

In Harvey Weinstein’s first sit-down interview in more than a year, the Hollywood producer who’s facing rape and sex assault charges says his work has been “forgotten” due to the allegations.