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  Harvey Weinstein was once the king of the independent film world. But the career and reputation of the Oscar-winning producer has imploded since the fall of 2017, when dozens of women stepped forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Here is a breakdown of what happened.

  
  

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  OCT. 5, 2017

  The New York Times published a story revealing that Harvey Weinstein had paid financial settlements to at least eight women who accused him of sexual harassment or assault. Actress Ashley Judd is the only accuser to have been recorded, accusing the tycoon of assaulting her in her hotel room. In a statement, Weinstein apologizes, vows to take voluntary leave from his company and bizarrely declares war on the NRA.

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  OCT. 6, 2017

  Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, along with other Democrats in Congress, donate campaign contributions they received from Weinstein to charity.

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  OCT. 8, 2017

  Weinstein is licensed as CEO of The Weinstein Company.

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  OCT. 10, 2017

  The new yorker publish his own play, written by Ronan Farrow, in which three women, including Italian actress Asia Argento, accuse Weinstein of rape. Through a spokesperson, Weinstein denies any account of non-consensual sex.

  
  

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  Model and actress Cara Delevingne also shows up on October 11 to accuse Weinstein of making sexually inappropriate comments and harassing her.

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  OCT. 12, 2017

  The NYPD and London Underground police are both launching criminal investigations into Weinstein. On social networks, Rose McGowan accuses Weinstein of raping her. (He always denied having had non-consensual sex.)

  
  

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  OCT. 13, 2017

  Director Quentin Tarantino, arguably Weinsteins' greatest discovery, says he is shattered by the scandal. A petition to expel Weinstein from AMPAS passes 100,000 signatures.

  
  

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  OCT. 14, 2017

  The AMPAS Board of Governors expels Weinstein. The Weinstein Company development list is collapsing, losing projects with David O. Russell and more. The release of Benedict Cumberbatchs "The Current War" is delayed.

  
  

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  OCT. 15, 2017

  Actress Alyssa Milano launches a cultural movement by encouraging women to share their stories of sexual harassment and aggression on social networks. She asks them to mark the #MeToo stories.

  
  

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  OCT. 17, 2017

  Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy promises to create an industry-wide commission to create protections against harassment and abuse. Weinstein's frequent collaborator and filmmaker Kevin Smith promises to donate all of his Weinstein Company residue to Women in Film.

  
  

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  OCT. 25, 2017

  Taylor Sheridan's film "Wind River", which was successfully released by the Weinstein Company in August, excises Weinstein's name from his video and streaming. Principal financier Acadia Entertainment buys the film from TWC and self-finances an awards campaign. (He doesn't win any Oscar nomination.)

  
  

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  NOV. 6, 2017

  Television Academy bans Weinstein for life. The New Yorker publishes a follow-up article saying that a battery of former Mossad agents and communications experts have been used to silence Weinsteins' stories of misconduct for years.

  
  

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  NOV. 15, 2017

  TWC is hit by a class action brought by several of the accusers of Weinsteins. The company is forced to sell its "Paddington 2" directly to Warner Bros. to help infuse the studio with money and keep the doors open.

  
  

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  DEC. 6, 2017

  The Academy announces its standards of conduct, which read in part, The Academy is adamantly opposed to any form of abuse, harassment or discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation , race, ethnicity, disability, age, religion or nationality.

  
  

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  JAN. 1, 2018

  #TimesUp was born when four female CAA agents created a legal defense fund for women in the US workforce to protect them from sexual harassment. The effort is announced and endorsed by contributors like Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Fox Film head Stacey Snider, Fox TV honcho Dana Walden, Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey, among others.

  JANUARY 7

  To draw attention to the mistreatment of women in Hollywood, virtually all women who frequent the Golden Globes wear black.

  JANUARY 8

  Immediately after winning a Golden Globe wearing a #TimesUp pin, James Franco was charged with sexual misconduct by several women. The charges, which the actor denies, come in the middle of the voting period for the Oscar nomination.

  JANUARY 9

  Writer-director Lady Bird Greta Gerwig joins Mira Sorvino, Chloe Sevigny and others to say that she would not work in the future with director Woody Allen, who had been accused of Sexual assault by her adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. (He repeatedly denied the accusation.)

  
  

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  JAN. 10, 2018

  Page six reports that Weinstein and Chapman entered into the terms of an eight-digit divorce settlement, with Chapman providing primary custody of the couple's two children.

  
  

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  JAN. 27, 2018

  The Academy sends an email to members to let them know the process by which violations of its code of conduct can be reported.

  
  

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  FEB. 6, 2018

  I may be a 75-year-old white man, said Academy President John Bailey at the annual Oscar nominee lunch, but I'm as happy as any of them. sure that the fossilized bedrock of many of Hollywood's worst abuses (either) is shaken into oblivion. (A month later, the Academy was investigating – then to reject – charges of sexual harassment against Bailey himself.)

  
  

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  FEB. 8, 2018

  Los Angeles police send three cases of Weinstein sexual assault to the city attorney for possible charges.

  
  

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  MARCH 19, 2018

  Weinstein filed for bankruptcy in Delaware, claiming to have less than $ 500,000 in cash. Dallas-based Lantern Capital Partners has become a stalking bidder ready to buy almost all of the company's assets for $ 310 million.

  As part of the company's bankruptcy, TWC also released all of Weinstein's accusers from any non-disclosure agreement that would have prevented them from speaking about Weinstein's alleged fault.

  
  

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  MAY 8, 2018

  Despite a last-minute offer from Broadway producer Howard Kagans Inclusion Media, a Delaware bankruptcy judge approves Lantern Capital's purchase of the assets of The Weinstein Company.

  
  

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  MAY 25, 2018
  

  Following a multi-month investigation by the NYPD, Weinstein is arrested on three counts of rape and criminal sex in relation to two accusers. Weinstein pleads not guilty and was released on a million dollar bail pending trial.

  
  

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  MAY 30, 2018

  Weinstein is charged with first and third degree rape, as well as first degree criminal sex, as reported by the Manhattan District Prosecutors' Office. Then, on June 1, three women laid additional charges against Weinstein in a class action claiming that Weinstein had isolated the women in an attempt to engage in unwanted sexual conduct that took many forms: blinking, groping, petting , harassment, beatings, improper imprisonment, sexual assault and attempted rape, and / or complete rape.

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  JULY 2, 2018

  Grand jury served Weinstein with three more charges of sexual assault, one count of first degree sexual assault for forcing a woman to have sex in 2006 and two counts of predatory sexual assault. The latter charge is punishable by a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of a life sentence. Weinstein would plead not guilty.

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  AUGUST. 3, 2018

  Weinstein lobbied for a New York judge to dismiss a criminal sexual assault case against him, stating in a file that the Manhattan prosecutor had failed to provide the Grand Jury with evidence to discharge from the long-term, consensual and intimate relationship between Mr. Weinstein and the alleged rape victim.

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  AUGUST. 19, 2018

  A New York Times report said that Asia Argento paid actor Jimmy Bennett $ 380,000 after accusing him of sexually assaulting him when he hadn't than 17 years old. Argento has denied the charges. Rose McGowan distanced herself from Argento and Weinstein issued a statement saying that Argento displayed an astounding level of hypocrisy. The sheer duplicity of his conduct is utterly extraordinary and should demonstrate to everyone how thoroughly the allegations against Mr. Weinstein have been investigated and therefore we will all require a break and due process, not a conviction for fundamental dishonesty, the statement continued. .

  
  

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  AUGUST. 30, 2018

  Former NBC News producer Richard McHugh said that people at the highest levels of NBC worked to cancel the story of Ronan Farrows Harvey Weinstein that was eventually published in The New Yorker. Then, on September 3, NBC News President Andy Lack sent an internal memo saying that after eight months, Farrow's story had not had a single victim or a single witness ready to be registered. Farrow disputed the memo and said the list of NBC sources was incomplete.

  
  

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  SEVEN. 6, 2018

  The U.S. prosecutor's office in New York opened an investigation into Weinsteins' involvement with the private spy company Black Cube to see if he had violated federal fraud laws by thread. Weinstein had hired Black Cube to gather information on those who accused him of sexual assault.

  
  

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  AUGUST. 26, 2019

  Weinstein is charged with two new charges of predatory sexual assault. He faces seven counts, including first and third degree rape.

  The new indictment also allows Annabella Sciorra to testify at her trial. Although Weinstein cannot be charged with raping Sciorra at her apartment in 1993, as she had said in a2017 interview with the New Yorker, the actress’s testimony could strengthen D.A’s case against Weinstein.

  The criminal trial, which was originally scheduled to start on September 9, is also postponed to January 2020.

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  SEVEN. 6, 2019

  A judge grants consolidation of the charges against Weinstein, reducing the number to five. The consolidation, which was requested voluntarily by the district attorney's office, dismisses previous charges of prosecutors for predatory sexual assault and essentially replaces them with the two new charges of predatory sexual assault that appeared in the 39 indictment last month.

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  SEVEN. 10, 2019

  Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times journalists who first broke the story of Weinstein, publish their book "She Said", which recounts their investigation of the tycoon and the consequences of their original story.

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  OCT. 15, 2019

  Ronan Farrow publishes "Catch and Kill", his own story about Weinstein and the roadblocks he encountered while trying to publish his work to NBC News. The book includes overwhelming revelations about NBC News leadership and a detailed rape charge against Matt Lauer. (Lauer denied the charge and NBC News repeatedly denied many of the details in the book.)

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  Time & # 39; s Up denounces the provisional settlement, describing it as emblematic of a "broken system which favors powerful aggressors at the expense of survivors".

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  DEC. 11, 2019

  After charges of tampering with the ankle bracelet, Weinstein's bail is raised to $ 5 million.

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  JAN. 6, 2020

  The first day of Weinstein's criminal trial begins in Manhattan.

  As court meets, group of "silence breakers", including Rosanna Arquette, Rose McGowan, Lou Godbold, Sarah Ann Masse, Dominique Huett, Lauren Sivan and Paula Williams, hold press conference outside from the courtroom to ask Weinstein to be held accountable for his actions.

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  Just hours after Weinstein left the courtroom after the first day of his trial, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced new charges of sexual assault against 39-ex-tycoon: one count of rape, forced oral copulation, sexual penetration by force, and sexual battery by restraint.

  An impeachment date has yet to be set, but a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office told The Wrap that they expected the Weinstein trial in New York. be finished first.

  Weinstein's bail is set at $ 5 million and, if found guilty, he faces up to 28 years in prison.

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  JAN. 17, 2020

  The jury is selected for the criminal trial of Weinstein. The panel of 12 people includes seven men and five women. Three alternates are also chosen to sit on the trial, should one of the chosen jurors be removed from office.

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  JAN. 23, 2020

  Actress Annabella Sciorra from "Sopranos" testifies that Weinstein broke into her apartment in Gramercy Park around 1993 or early 1994, raped her, and then sexually assaulted her orally.

  My body stopped, she said. It was so disgusting that my body started to shake in a way that was very unusual. I didn't even really know what was going on. It was like a seizure or something. "

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  JAN. 27, 2020

  Miriam Haley (ne Mimi Haleyi), former production assistant for the TV show "Project Runway" produced by Weinstein, testifies that Weinstein pushed her onto a bed, took out her tampon and took it out. sexually assaulted orally.

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  JAN. 29, 2020

  Dawn Dunning, a former aspiring actress who now works as a costume designer, testifies as one of the "previous bad acts" of the charge. Dunning says that Weinstein put his hand on her skirt and touched her genitals in 2004, and then later offered her a trio with one of her assistants in exchange for film roles.

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  FEB. 24, 2020

  After four days of deliberations, a New York jury convicted Weinstein of third degree rape and criminal sex but did not convict him of the more serious charges of predatory sexual assault .

  
  

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