A California appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for rape and sexual assault, but vacated his 16-year prison term and said he must be resentenced.<\/p>\n
The decision from the three-judge panel came in relation to Weinstein’s conviction in 2022 for the 2013 rape and assault of an actress in a Los Angeles hotel room.<\/p>\n
“The sentence is vacated and the matter is remanded for re-sentencing,” said an online docket update posted Friday by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal. “In all other respects, the judgment is affirmed.”<\/p>\n
The full ruling was not made available and it was not immediately clear on what basis it had been made.<\/p>\n
The decision came one day after prosecutors in New York said they would drop a sex assault case against Weinstein over an alleged 2013 attack on an aspiring actress after three trials fell apart.<\/p>\n
The now-74-year-old Oscar winner is still awaiting sentencing in New York for sexually assaulting former “Project Runway” assistant Miriam Haley.<\/p>\n
Weinstein once ruled Hollywood as a producer powerful enough to make or break projects — and careers.<\/p>\n
But after years of rumors, 2017 investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times exposed a raft of abusive behavior and prompted an avalanche of allegations from more than 80 people.<\/p>\n
The ensuing furor snowballed into the global Me Too movement and a reckoning that rocked the world of entertainment, with multiple men called to account for abusing their positions to exploit young women in the industry.<\/p>\n
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