Judge: Human trafficking law OK against Harvey Weinstein
Source: Associated Press
Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
Updated 7:16 pm CST, Monday, January 28, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) A second judge ruled Monday that a human trafficking law can be used in a civil lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein.
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In her 2017 lawsuit, Canosa alleged that Weinstein on multiple occasions from 2010 to 2017 raped, sexually abused, intimidated and harassed her during what he maintained were business meetings in New York, Los Angeles, Malaysia and Budapest.
Canosa, a producer on Netflix's "Marco Polo," sought unspecified damages, saying Weinstein threatened she'd lose her job and he'd blackball her in the entertainment industry if she rejected sexual advances.
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Engelmayer said Carnosa had "plausibly alleged" that Weinstein knowingly enticed or recruited her knowing he would use force or fraud to cause her to engage in a commercial sex act. Her lawsuit alleged that she expected and received career advances after coerced sexual activity.
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madaboutharry
(40,224 posts)So many great movies have his name to them. It is sickening to see his studio name in the opening credits. I hope he spends the whole rest of his life in prison.
efhmc
(14,732 posts)How were people like him and B. Crosby able to get by for so long?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I wonder what "commercial" sex act is.
Apollyonus
(812 posts)as a transaction wherein anything of value is traded for said consent is a commercial sex act.
Polybius
(15,492 posts)I wonder how that would fall into this law. It's reverse though, because in this case the person offering the sex was the briber.
Needless to say though, I was broke the next day.
you did pay something of value for sex ....
Although ... you won't be in trouble because it was not "I won't take you to the mall unless you had sex with me" variety which is more problematical.