Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers React to His Overturned Rape Conviction

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Ashley Judd is among aggregate Harvey Weinstein accusers who are expressing disappointment with the overturning of the movie mogul’s 2020 rape conviction. Judd, who was the archetypal histrion to publically travel guardant with intersexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein, shared her absorption to the quality during a property conference. “This is what it’s similar to beryllium a pistillate successful America, surviving with antheral entitlement to our bodies,” Judd said, per Entertainment Weekly. “This, today, is an enactment of organization betrayal,” she added, “and our institutions betray survivors of antheral intersexual violence.” Judd has previously alleged that Weinstein sexually harassed her successful the ‘90s, claiming that helium had her sent to his edifice room, wherever helium showed up successful a bathrobe and asked if she would ticker him ablution oregon fto him springiness her a massage. “The misguided sentiment of 4 judges contiguous does not alteration what we survivors know, and we admit the fierceness of the minority opinion,” Judd said successful a statement to USA Today. “The information is consistent.”

New York’s highest tribunal overturned Weinstein’s 2020 condemnation due to the fact that it recovered that the justice successful his high-profile Me Too proceedings had unfairly allowed grounds against him based connected allegations astir his erstwhile behaviour that weren’t portion of the case. The Manhattan territory attorney’s bureau said it intends to retry Weinstein. (In the meantime, helium volition enactment successful situation due to the fact that helium was convicted successful 2022 successful Los Angeles of a antithetic rape.)

Actress Jessica Barth, who accused Weinstein of intersexual misconduct aft she met him astatine a Golden Globes enactment successful 2011, told USA Today that today’s determination sets a “dangerous” ineligible precedent. “Evidence of anterior atrocious acts successful bid to beryllium a signifier of behaviour is often allowed successful transgression cases and should perfectly beryllium allowed successful intersexual battle cases,” Barth said. She added that Voices successful Action, her nonprofit supporting intersexual battle survivors, volition proceed to “support and combat for justness for victims of these horrific crimes.”

Lauren Sivan, a erstwhile broadcast writer who alleged that Weinstein forced her to ticker him masturbate into a potted works astatine a New York edifice successful 2007, reacted to what she described arsenic a “legal loophole” to Rolling Stone. She said she’s grateful that Weinstein volition stay successful jailhouse due to the fact that of the L.A. trial, but feels for the women who testified successful New York. “The thought that they mightiness person to bash it each implicit again is truly heartbreaking,” she said. “It’s similar picking a scab disconnected a coiled for these women who mightiness person to spell done this each implicit again.”

Caitlin Dulany, who alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted her during the Cannes Film Festival successful 1996, said successful a connection to Rolling Stone that the ruling is simply a “terrible setback for survivors everywhere.” “There are truthful galore of america who lived silently with our stories for years, for fearfulness of retribution and with the content that we could not question and execute justice,” she said. “What Harvey Weinstein did to america affected our lives and careers successful ways that we volition ne'er retrieve from. What happened contiguous is simply a travesty of justness – but I’m not surprised. The justness strategy is successful heavy request of reform.”

Actress and writer Amber Tamblyn told the Times that the overturning is “a nonaccomplishment to the full assemblage of women who enactment their lives and careers connected the enactment to talk out,” adding that she hopes it tin reinvigorate the Me Too movement.

The Silence Breakers, a radical of much than 10 unnamed Weinstein accusers, called the determination “disheartening” and “profoundly unjust” successful a connection to USA Today. “But this ruling does not diminish the validity of our experiences oregon our truth; it’s simply a setback,” they said. “The antheral recovered blameworthy continues to service time.”

Filmmaker and She Said prima Sarah Ann Masse, who alleged that Weinstein harassed and assaulted her erstwhile she was interviewing for a occupation arsenic nanny successful 2008, shared her absorption successful a connection to Rolling Stone. “Please cognize that thing astir today’s determination implies oregon states that Weinstein is innocent,” she said. “And the satellite has been everlastingly changed by the women who were brave capable to situation him successful court.”