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Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was arraigned today on felony sex crime charges in New York Criminal Court, where the judge set bail at $1 million cash. However, the Oscar winning producer’s lawyer says he plans to appeal to get the case tossed out.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said Weinstein has been charged with two counts of rape — one involving force — as well as criminal sexual act in the first degree, for alleged assaults against two women that occurred in 2013 and 2004. (You can read the charging document here).

“Today’s charges reflect significant progress in this active, ongoing investigation,” Vance said in a statement. “I thank the brave survivors who have come forward, and my Office’s prosecutors who have worked tirelessly on this investigation.”

Court documents charge that one woman, believed to be Lucia Evans, an...

Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities on Friday in connection with a sexual assault case.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is expected to charge Weinstein with at least one case. The New York Times and the New York Daily News reported the case would involve allegations that he forced Lucia Evans to perform oral sex during an audition in 2004.

Weinstein’s attorney, Ben Brafman, declined to comment.

Evans first told her story to the New Yorker in October, saying she went to the Miramax offices in Tribeca for a daytime meeting. She said she was ushered into a room where Weinstein was alone. During the meeting, Weinstein said she would be great for “Project Runway,” if she lost weight, and mentioned a couple of scripts. He then took out his penis and forced her to perform oral sex, she said.

“I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this,...

Exclusive: As tonight’s deadline approaches for bids for The Weinstein Co., a new player might emerge with an offer that includes compensation for the women who say they were sexually assaulted or harassed by the company’s disgraced co-chairman, Harvey Weinstein, according to multiple sources.

The New York-based bidder with ties to Broadway is contemplating a bid that would maintain TWC as an active film and television studio headquartered in New York City, sources say.

This interested party also envisions honoring the commitments that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman secured on behalf of victims from an investor group led by Maria Contreras-Sweet and Ron Burkle, whose deal to buy the Weinstein Co. ultimately collapsed.

The bidder asked to remain unidentified because the offer has yet to be made, and might not come to fruition. However multiple parties are aware of this well-established entertainment figure’s interest in The Weinstein Co.

The unsecured creditors in the Weinstein Co. bankruptcy have hired Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones, a firm that has represented sexual abuse victims in a dozen bankruptcies involving the Catholic Church.

The five-member committee of unsecured creditors includes two alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein’s abuses: his former assistant Sandeep Rehal and former actress Louisette Geiss. The committee also includes Wme, Cinedigm, and Light Chaser Animation, a Chinese animation studio. Geiss, who filed a suit alleging that Weinstein tried to force her to watch him masturbate in 2008, will chair the committee.

James Stang, a partner at the firm, will be among the attorneys representing the unsecured creditors. The committee’s goal will be to maximize the value of the Weinstein Co. estate in order to get the greatest possible recovery. The firm’s involvement is a sign that the committee may take an aggressive approach, possibly even suing Harvey Weinstein to...

A committee that includes two of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers as well as talent agency Wme has been formed to represent creditors owed money by The Weinstein Company, according to a bankruptcy court document obtained by TheWrap. The one-page document, filed Wednesday at a U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware, shows that Weinstein’s former assistant Sandeep Rehal is a member of the committee, as is Louisette Geiss, who claimed Weinstein assaulted her at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and who is part of a federal Rico class action lawsuit filed against Weinstein and TWC. Also Read: Malia Obama, David Bowie and Blockbuster Video...

Unsecured creditors trying to extract compensation from the Weinstein Co. will be represented by a five-member committee that includes two of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers and major talent agency Wme.

According to a one-page document filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, the committee includes Louisette Geiss and Sandeep Rehal as well as Wme, Cinedigm and China-based Light Chaser Animation. The document, signed by the trustees in the bankruptcy case, doesn’t offer any specifics about what the quintet will be charged with doing. Essentially, they are the elite guard fighting for the thousands of unsecured creditors collectively owed more than $500 million by the company.

Geiss has been part of a class-action lawsuit filed under the federal Rico Act and also alleged that Weinstein sexually harassed her at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Rehal, Weinstein’s former assistant, is pursuing her own separate sexual-harassment suit in New York.

The legal fight between Harvey Weinstein and his former personal assistant is moving to state court after being dismissed on jurisdictional grounds by a federal judge.

Sandeep Rehal in January filed a graphic discrimination and harassment complaint against Harvey and Bob Weinstein and The Weinstein Co., and against the Weinstein brothers and human resources exec Frank Gil for aiding and abetting that conduct.

Rehal worked for Harvey Weinstein from 2013 to 2015 and claims she was subject to severe and pervasive harassment and a hostile environment, including taking dictation of emails while Weinstein was naked, keeping a list...

The legal fight between Harvey Weinstein and his former personal assistant is moving to state court after being dismissed on jurisdictional grounds by a federal judge.

Sandeep Rehal in January filed a graphic discrimination and harassment complaint against Harvey and Bob Weinstein and The Weinstein Co., and against the Weinstein brothers and human resources exec Frank Gil for aiding and abetting that conduct.

Rehal worked for Harvey Weinstein from 2013 to 2015 and claims she was subject to severe and pervasive harassment and a hostile environment, including taking dictation of emails while Weinstein was naked, keeping a list of contacts that ...

Sandeep Rehal alleges she had to clean up after producer’s sexual encounters and take dictation from him while he was naked

A former personal assistant for the fallen movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has alleged she was forced to undertake such tasks as cleaning up after his sexual encounters and taking dictation from him while he was naked, amid a working environment that was “severely sexually hostile”, according to a federal lawsuit on Thursday.

Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant has sued the disgraced Hollywood mogul claiming she was required to clean up after his “sexual encounters,” according to court documents filed Thursday .

Sandeep Rehal is suing Weinstein, his brother Bob, The Weinstein Company and the company’s head of human resources Frank Gil for being “forced to work in a pervasive and severe sexually hostile work environment,” The Hollywood Reporter reports.

Rehal — who began working for Weinstein in 2013 when she was 26 years old — quit in February 2015 when she reached “an emotional breaking point,” per the documents.

Weinstein has denied Rehal’s allegations. A...

Harvey Weinstein has been hit with another lawsuit, this time by a woman who says, among other things, that the disgraced producer dictated emails while naked. In the lawsuit filed Thursday, Sandeep Rehal says that she began working at The Weinstein Company in 2013, and worked as Weinstein’s personal assistant until February 2015. During that time, the suit says, Rehal was subjected to “a personal and severe sexually hostile work environment” that was “defined endless offensive, degrading and sexually harassing actions, statements, and touching at the hands of her boss, Harvey Weinstein.” Also Read: The Weinstein Co. Makeover: Breastfeeding Rooms, Free Food...

More than a month after a former personal assistant to the much-accused and disgraced Harvey Weinstein said she was planning a sexual harassment lawsuit of her own, Sandeep Rehal has taken her ex-boss and The Weinstein Company to court, gruesome details and all. “For over two years Plaintiff Sandeep Rehal was forced to work in a pervasive and severe sexually hostile work environment at The Weinstein Company LLC and The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC, defined by endless…...

1:48 Pm Pt -- A rep for Weinstein tells us, "Mr. Weinstein categorically denies these claims and his lawyers will respond in the appropriate legal forum with evidence proving they are untrue. The evidence will show these claims for money are in the realm of a science fiction movie." Harvey Weinstein is being sued by a woman who claims a variety of terrible things, including that Weinstein allegedly forced her to take dictation while he was naked.

Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant says she was forced to work in a "pervasive and severe sexually hostile" environment for the more than two years she was employed by The Weinstein Co., according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in New York federal court. 

Sandeep Rehal is suing Harvey and Bob Weinstein and TWC for discrimination and harassment, and has a claim against the Weinstein brothers and human resources exec Frank Gil for aiding and abetting that conduct. She claims that by February 2015 she hit an emotional breaking point and had no choice but to quit.

Rehal ...

Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant says she was forced to work in a "pervasive and severe sexually hostile" environment for the more than two years she was employed by The Weinstein Co., according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in New York federal court. 

Sandeep Rehal is suing Harvey and Bob Weinstein and TWC for discrimination and harassment, and has a claim against the Weinstein brothers and human resources exec Frank Gil for aiding and abetting that conduct. She claims that by February 2015 she hit an emotional breaking point and had no choice but to quit.

Rehal ...