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A look at past and future cases Harvey Weinstein has faced as his New York conviction is thrown out

Harvey Weinstein could be brought to California to serve the sentence in that case, or he could remain behind bars in New York while awaiting retrial Harvey Weinstein’s landmark New York sexual assault conviction was thrown out by an appeals court Thursday, and most of the dozens of civil cases filed against him since he became a central target in the #MeToo movement in 2017 have either been settled or dismissed. Here’s a look at those, and at some that have come and gone: THE LONE LOS ANGELES CONVICTION Weinstein was found guilty in 2022 in Los Angeles of the rape and sexual assault of Italian actor and model Evgeniya Chernyshova, and his 16-year sentence in that case will keep him in prison despite the reversal of the New York verdict. Weinstein could be brought to California to serve the sentence in that case, or he could remain behind bars in New York while awaiting retrial. Her lawsuit, which came after director Peter Jackson said Weinstein told him 20 years earlier that Judd was a “nightmare” to work with when Jackson was considering her for a major role in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, accused Weinstein of defamation, sexual harassment and violating California’s unfair competition labor law.

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