Harvey Weinstein's legal team address a crowd of reporters during a press conference following the New York State Court of Appeals overturning Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction in New York on Thursday. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA
The actor Katherine Kendall, one of Weinstein’s accusers, was among several expressing dismay. “I’m completely let down by the justice system right now. I’m sort of flabbergasted,” she said. Amber Tamblyn, another actor at the heart of the #MeToo movement, described the ruling as “a loss to the entire community of women who put their lives and careers on the line to speak out”.
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years for forcing oral sex on a production assistant and for rape in the third degree of an actor. A retrial may still take place. Many close to the case were unsurprised at the developments. The scandal won those two periodicals the Pulitzer Prize – Zoe Kazan played Kantor in She Said, a 2022 film on the Times’ investigations – and triggered an upheaval whose aftershocks have not yet fully died away. A year later, the New York Times reported that, of 201 men who had lost their jobs following accusations of sexual harassment, close to half were replaced by women.
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