A Timeline of the Harvey Weinstein Case
March 27, 2015: The Manhattan district attorney's office declines to prosecute Harvey Weinstein after a Filipino Italian model, Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, tells the police that Mr. Weinstein groped her breast and slid his hand up her skirt during a business meeting at his Manhattan office. Cyrus R. Vance Jr., then the district attorney in Manhattan, made the decision despite a secret recording obtained by Ms. Battilana Gutierrez in which Mr. Weinstein can be heard apologizing and offering what seems like an admission.
Oct. 5 and Oct. 10, 2017: Investigations by The New York Times and The New Yorker reveal accusations that Mr. Weinstein mistreated women and that his company covered it up.
March 19, 2018: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York orders a review of the decision not to charge Mr. Weinstein in 2015, calling Mr. Vance's decision-making into question.
Early April 2018: Mr. Vance assigns a new prosecutor to lead the investigation.
May 25, 2018: Mr. Weinstein surrenders to the police after being indicted on charges of rape and criminal sexual act. The rape charge stems from an alleged assault on an aspiring actress, Jessica Mann, at a Manhattan hotel in 2013. The criminal sexual act charge involves Lucia Evans, a marketing executive who told investigators that Mr. Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him during a meeting in his office in 2004.
July 2, 2018: Prosecutors add charges against Mr. Weinstein related to accusations that he forced oral sex on Miriam Haley, a former production assistant on the television show 'Project Runway,' in his Manhattan apartment in July 2006.
Oct. 11, 2018: A judge dismisses the forcible oral sex charge against Mr. Weinstein involving Ms. Evans after prosecutors acknowledge that the lead detective in the case withheld pertinent information about a witness who had cast doubt on Ms. Evans's account.
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