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Harvey Weinstein appearing in court in Los Angeles in Oct. 2022.

Arts

Harvey Weinstein will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after LA sentence

3:01pm February 23, 2023

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, the 70-year-old former film producer will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison. He is already serving a 23-year sentence in New York.

R. Kelly appearing in court in Chicago in Sept. 2019, alongside his attorney Steven Greenberg (L).

R. Kelly sentenced to one more year in prison for child pornography

1:01pm February 23, 2023

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The disgraced former R&B star is already serving 30 years for sex trafficking and racketeering. On Thursday, he was given one more year in prison for having made pornography with three children.

South Korean actor Oh Young-soo speaks Sept. 21 during a press conference at the Welcome Daehakro Festival 2022 in Seoul, South Korea.

'Squid Game' actor Oh Young-soo is indicted on indecent assault charges

1:11pm December 01, 2022

by The Associated Press

The 78-year-old Emmy nominee is accused of inappropriately touching a woman during a meeting in 2017. A South Korean outlet says Oh denies wrongdoing in the incident.

New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor (Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan) investigate allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in She Said.

Arts

'She Said' follows the journalists who set the #MeToo movement in motion

1:26pm November 18, 2022

by Justin Chang

An engrossing new film focuses on New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, whose reporting uncovered the crimes of Harvey Weinstein — and the vast network of people who enabled him.

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In this courtroom artist sketch, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, takes the stand Monday at the trial of Harvey Weinstein in Los Angeles.

National

The wife of California's governor gives tearful testimony at Weinstein's rape trial

3:28pm November 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker, nearly screamed through tears Monday as she told the court Harvey Weinstein raped her 17 years ago and spoke of the devastating effects it has had on her since.

World News

A high-profile Australian #MeToo trial ended unexpectedly — and without a verdict

11:01am October 27, 2022

by Emily Olson

Jurors spent five days deliberating Brittany Higgins' claim of being raped in Parliament house before a judge discovered of of them brought outside research into the court, scrapping the whole trial.

UCLA gynecologist James Heaps appears in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2019.

National

Court finds former UCLA gynecologist guilty of sexually abusing patients

12:56pm October 21, 2022

by Emily Olson

A jury was hung on nine additional felony counts against James Heaps. The doctor is facing thousands of accusations of abuse and has cost UCLA $700 million in lawsuits.

Pablo Neruda, then serving as Chile's ambassador to France, talks with reporters in Paris after being named winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He's known as Chile's greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is canceled

6:02am October 15, 2022

by John Otis

"He's been canceled," a Chilean activist says of 20th century poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda. Five decades after his death, feminists are denouncing him as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.

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Brittany Higgins, center, leaves the courthouse in Canberra, Australia, on Wednesday.

World News

Trial opens for the case that ignited Australia's #MeToo movement

6:13pm October 07, 2022

by Emily Olson

The trial of parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins' alleged rapist, which began on Tuesday and could last up to six weeks, may become one of the country's most-watched court cases in decades.

Opera star Plácido Domingo, performing at a concert in Marbella, Spain on July 11.

Plácido Domingo linked to criminal ring in Argentina, prosecutors say

7:53pm August 17, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Media in Argentina have broadcast audio recordings of police wiretaps that prosecutors say includes the voice of the famed singer making plans for a sexual encounter arranged by the crime ring.