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Ashley Judd Slams 'Institutional Betrayal' After Harvey Weinstein's Rape Conviction Is Overturned

Ashley Judd has slammed 'institutional betrayal' after Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction was overturned in New York: 'This is what it's like to be a woman in America.'

"This is what it’s like to be a woman in America, living with male entitlement to our bodies,” the 56-year-old actress said of the development during an afternoon press conference, before recounting her own allegations against Weinstein, which she said occurred in a hotel room, between her filming the 1997 movie Kiss the Girls. We need to be able to contribute without fear, without terror, of violence, of our voices being muted," Judd said at the conference, after noting that she heard the news from Jodi Kantor, one of the New York Times journalists she worked with to tell her story about Weinstein in a 2017 bombshell exposé detailing numerous allegations against the producer. Arthur Aidala, Weinstein's lawyer, praised the court in a statement to The New York Times, thanking it "for upholding the most basic principles that a criminal defendant should have in a trial."

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