The “MeToo” movement appeared on social networks in 2017, following a tweet from the actress Alyssa Milan who urged victims of sexual harassment or assault to use the hashtag. The label, invented in 2006 by the African-American activist Tyrant … Burkewent viral and what seemed at first to be a phenomenon of solidarity with the victims ended up becoming the perfect alibi for accusations, public lynchings and media trials.
The list is long: starting with Harvey Weinsteinwith whom he dynamited everything, passing through Gérard Depardieu, Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Nicolas Cage, Terry Richardson, Bruce Weber either David Alan Harveyamong many others.
The beginning of the end
For decades, Harvey Weinstein was an untouchable figure in Hollywood, until in 2017 investigations by the “New York Times” and the “New Yorker” revealed more than 80 testimonies of harassment, abuse and coercion.
In 2020, he was sentenced in New York to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual abuse. Later, in Los Angeles, he was sentenced to an additional 16 years. In April 2024, the New York Court of Appeals overturned the 2020 conviction on the grounds that testimony unrelated to the case was admitted.
Currently, Weinstein is being held at Rikers Island Prison, while Hollywood continues to treat him like a ghost that no one wants to remember. The Academy unceremoniously expelled him and his businesses disappeared from the map.
Weinstein is currently serving a 16-year sentence at Rikers Island prison.
This week, the British actress Judi Dench spoke out on the Harvey Weinstein situation. He did so through an interview with ‘Radio Times’ in which the Oscar-winning actress for the film ‘Shakespeare in Love’ (1998) declared that the filmmaker “had already served his sentence”, without specifying whether she was referring to the time he spent in prison or to his disgrace, both professionally and personally.
The interpreter assured that during all the time she worked with Weinstein, she never suffered any of the behavior for which he was condemned, despite everything, she has deep respect for the victims who suffered from it: “I don’t want to minimize what they went through.. For me, forgiveness is something deeply personal,” although “I saw him in some pictures walking with two canes and I thought, ‘Well…’. “I knew him well and worked with him, and fortunately I never had any of those experiences,” he said.
After the interview was revealed, Weinstein released a statement in which he thanked her for her words and described her as “an extraordinary person”: “I have been in prison for over six and a half years, including a year and a half at Rikers, which amounts to double punishment,” he said, once again defending his innocence because many of the accusations against him “turn out to be false or unfounded” and the only thing he wants now is “to return to my family and my children.
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