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Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers React to His Overturned Rape Conviction
“This, today, is an act of institutional betrayal,” Ashley Judd said.
New York’s highest court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction because it found that the judge in his high-profile Me Too trial had unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations about his previous behavior that weren’t part of the case. Lauren Sivan, a former broadcast journalist who alleged that Weinstein forced her to watch him masturbate into a potted plant at a New York restaurant in 2007, reacted to what she described as a “legal loophole” to Rolling Stone. Caitlin Dulany, who alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted her during the Cannes Film Festival in 1996, said in a statement to Rolling Stone that the ruling is a “terrible setback for survivors everywhere.” “There are so many of us who lived silently with our stories for years, for fear of retribution and with the belief that we could not seek and achieve justice,” she said.
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