After a flood of allegations that launched a movement, Harvey Weinstein will finally face rape and sexual-assault charges. But nothing in the case has been simple. Reporting by irin. Portfolio by Amanda Demme.
Photo: Delphine Diallo Twenty-one of Weinstein’s accusers photographed in Los Angeles and New York. Photo: Amanda Demme
From left, Ashley Judd, Tara Subkoff, and Erika Rosenbaum. Photo: Amanda Demme With no other recourse, Gutierrez decided that accepting payment from Weinstein in exchange for her silence was the least-worst option. She couldn’t have known at the time how many other women had faced the same decision. Two years later, in 2017, Gutierrez chose to break her NDA, playing the Weinstein recording for The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow. “I hope the other girls get justice,” she told him.
The testimony that may pose the greatest risk to Weinstein’s defense is that of Annabella Sciorra, who has said Weinstein raped her in the early 1990s and afterward attempted to destroy her career. Prosecutors are hoping Sciorra’s account will convince the jury that Weinstein was a serial offender, the gravest charge brought against him under New York’s predatory-sexual-assault law, which carries a minimum sentence of ten years to life in prison.
Melissa Sagemiller, Larissa Gomes, and Rosanna Arquette. Photo: Amanda Demme In August 2018, Weinstein’s team asked judges to dismiss the criminal case, claiming their client had a “long-term, consensual, intimate relationship” with the unnamed woman; emails between her and Weinstein, wrote his attorneys in filings, are “so unlike what one would expect to be communications between a true rape victim and her alleged rapist.
What’s left after the bones are picked is around $18.5 million, Fegan tells me. “We recognize that there’s not enough money,” she says. “For what Harvey did, there’s no amount of money that could really heal any of these women.” She has defended taking up to 25 percent of that pot in attorneys’ fees, calling it “less than the value of time spent on the case using industry-standard-defined billing rates.
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