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Time of India
9 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Harvey Weinstein Net Worth: Where does the Hollywood Mogul's fortune stand after being convicted as a sex offender?
Harvey Weinstein's legal saga is all over the internet now. And so is his downfall. On June 11, after a jury convicted Weinstein of one count of criminal sexual act involving Miriam Haley, a former production assistant, dating back to 2006, and acquitted him of another charge involving Kaja Sokola, a 2002 allegation, the third charge, a third-degree rape accusation from Jessica Mann regarding a 2013 incident, remained unresolved due to the jury's inability to reach a consensus. On June 12, a Manhattan judge, Judge Curtis Farber, declared a mistrial on the final rape charge against the disgraced Hollywood producer due to a deadlock and intense discord among jurors. This decision followed a mixed verdict in his retrial, which had commenced in April 2025. This time, the jury foreperson reported feeling threatened and bullied by fellow jurors, which contributed to the decision to halt further deliberations. As a result, the charge involving Jessica Mann has not been adjudicated, and a new trial is being considered. A hearing is scheduled for July 2 to discuss the future of the retrial and potential sentencing. Despite the partial conviction, Weinstein has maintained his innocence, claiming that all encounters were consensual. He plans to appeal the recent conviction. To keep up with all these hefty legal procedures, how much of a financial toll is it taking on Weinstein? Let's take a look. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like This Device Made My Power Bill Drop Overnight elecTrick - Save upto 80% on Power Bill Pre-Order Undo Harvey Weinstein's net worth: As of June 2025, Harvey Weinstein's financial standing has experienced a significant decline from his peak net worth of $300 million. Once a powerful figure in Hollywood, his estimated net worth now stands at approximately $25 million, a dramatic reduction, thanks to the legal battles, settlements, and the collapse of his production company. From Hollywood mogul to financial downfall: Weinstein's fortune was primarily amassed through his co-founding of Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company, both instrumental in producing critically acclaimed films. However, the #MeToo movement, ignited by allegations against him in 2017, led to his ousting from the company and a series of legal challenges that have eroded his wealth. Legal battles and financial strain: Weinstein's legal expenses have been substantial. Reportedly, he paid some lawyers up to $100,000 per month each, potentially amounting to tens of millions in legal expenses since 2017. Additionally, his 2018 divorce from Georgina Chapman reportedly cost between $15 million to $20 million. Class action lawsuits by alleged sexual assault victims have resulted in settlements totaling at least $43 million. To fund these legal defenses and settlements, Weinstein sold approximately $62 million worth of property between 2017 and 2019. Collapse of The Weinstein Company: The Weinstein Company's bankruptcy in 2018 marked a pivotal point in Weinstein's financial decline. The company, once valued at over $500 million, declared bankruptcy following the scandal. A private equity firm purchased the studio's assets for a reported $289 million, but this sum did not go directly to Harvey Weinstein. The funds were largely used to settle debts and lawsuits, leaving Weinstein with only a fraction of his former wealth. Real estate liquidation: To cover mounting legal expenses and settlements, Weinstein sold several properties, including high-end real estate in New York and Los Angeles. Reportedly, Weinstein sold six homes for a total of $56 million between October 2017 and April 2018. For example, a townhouse in New York City was purchased in 2006 for $15 million and sold in March 2018 for $25.6 million, yielding a $10.65 million profit. Remaining assets and income streams: From a peak net worth of $300 million, Weinstein's estimated worth has plummeted to around $25 million. While his wealth has significantly diminished, he may still have residual income from royalties and residuals from films produced during his tenure in Hollywood. However, much of this income could be claimed by his accusers in future settlements. Additionally, any remaining liquid assets or undisclosed holdings could contribute to his current net worth.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Harvey Weinstein Accuser Miriam Haley Recounts 2006 Assault in Rape Retrial
Former television production assistant Miriam Haley took the stand Wednesday morning at Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial in New York to recount how the disgraced Hollywood producer allegedly assaulted her in 2006. The retrial began April 23, a year after Weinstein's original 2020 rape conviction was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals due to improper testimony and rulings. Weinstein, now 73, is being retried on a criminal sex act charge for forcing oral sex on Haley and for third-degree rape against Jessica Mann, an actress who maintains Weinstein raped her at a hotel in 2013. Both Haley and Mann were involved in Weinstein's original trial, and Mann is also expected to provide testimony against him in his current retrial. Kaja Sokola, a Polish model who claims that Weinstein held her down when she was 16 years old and forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006, is also expected to take the stand. Sokola's accusation was not a part of Weinstein's 2020 trial. The former Hollywood mogul is, consequently, facing an additional criminal sex act charge this time. Haley claimed Tuesday to have met Weinstein at a London film premiere in 2004. She crossed paths with him again at the Cannes Film Festival and inquired if he knew of any production assistant openings in New York. While still in France, he invited Haley to a hotel for what she thought was going to be a business meeting. Instead, Haley was met with comments about her appearance and a request for a massage. Afterward, Haley told those in attendance at the retrial's Manhattan courthouse, 'I felt taken aback. I felt humiliated.' Weinstein did eventually help Haley land a production assistant position in 2006 on the reality show 'Project Runway,' which The Weinstein Company produced at the time. That year, Haley alleged Weinstein continued to make advances toward her, which she rebuffed. When Weinstein invited her to a film premiere in Los Angeles, Haley said she accepted his invitation. After she agreed to attend the premiere, the producer asked her to meet him at his Soho apartment. Haley said Wednesday that Weinstein lunged at her after getting her alone, holding her down and forcing her onto a bed. 'He was grabbing me and touching me,' Haley recounted. 'I realized that I'm getting raped.' Haley said she remembered telling Weinstein in the moment that she was on her period, but that did not stop him from continuing his assault. 'He took out my tampon and orally forced himself on me,' the former PA said. 'I decided in that moment that the safest thing to do is just to check out, endure it and have it over with and leave,' Haley continued. Last week, Haley's friend and former roommate, Elizabeth Entin, told the jury of seven women and five men about the moment Haley shared her experience with Weinstein with her. 'I said, 'Miriam, that sounds like rape,'' Entin recounted. Weinstein, who now sits in a wheelchair due to his declining health, has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and has denied sexually assaulting anyone. His lawyers have further argued that the sexual encounters Weinstein had with his accusers were all consensual and part of mutually beneficial agreements he made with them as a powerful Hollywood figure and producer. While Weinstein's 23-year New York prison sentence was overturned last year, the 16-year sentence he received in 2022 from his rape conviction in Los Angeles still stands. Weinstein is currently appealing that conviction, but it is in effect for the time being. As a result, New York authorities have been able to keep him in state custody throughout the past year. Weinstein's legal team has so far called for a mistrial three times during the New York retrial. All three motions have been denied by Judge Curtis Farber. Weinstein attorney Arthur Aidala's latest mistrial attempt came Wednesday after Haley testified that she kept quiet about Weinstein's assault and stayed in contact with the producer afterward because she did not know that there were other women who had also been assaulted by him. In response, Aidala motioned for that remark to be stricken from the court record and called for a mistrial, claiming that Haley's statement had contaminated the jury. Judge Farber had the statement stricken but denied Aidala's mistrial motion. Weinstein's retrial is currently expected to last several weeks, if not longer. The post Harvey Weinstein Accuser Miriam Haley Recounts 2006 Assault in Rape Retrial appeared first on TheWrap.
ABC News
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
What to know about Harvey Weinstein's rape and sexual assault retrial
Former Hollywood magnate Harvey Weinstein is set to face a retrial in the United States, a year after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned. Warning: This story contains details about sexual abuse that readers may find distressing A driving force for the #MeToo movement, the allegations against the 73-year-old will be heard by New York's highest court in proceedings starting Wednesday, local time. The retrial involves accusations from three women — an aspiring actor who said Weinstein raped her in 2013; and two women who made separate allegations of forced oral sex in 2006. One of the latter two was not part of the original trial. Here's what to know. What was Weinstein's original sentencing? In February 2020, the Manhattan Supreme Court found Weinstein guilty of raping then-actress Jessica Mann at the DoubleTree Hotel in New York on March 18, 2013. Photo shows Three photographs of women; left with long blonde hair, middle with short dark hair, right with long dark hair. The voices of the #MeToo movement hail the conviction of Harvey Weinstein as a victory for women who have gone public with allegations against powerful men. Ms Mann said following that incident, she became involved in a romantic relationship with Weinstein for several years during which she was the Weinstein was also convicted of sexually assaulting Miriam "Mimi" Haleyi , a film production assistant, at his New York apartment in 2006 after the pair worked together on The Weinstein Company. She Ms Mann and Ms Haleyi were among six women who testified against Weinstein in that trial, following which he was Outside of court, more than 100 women, including high-profile Hollywood names Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Rose McGowan, have accused him of sexual misconduct stretching back decades. Weinstein was, however, acquitted on the most serious of the charges — a single count of first-degree rape as well as two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carried a potential life sentence. He has maintained his innocence and denies raping or sexually assaulting anyone. Why was Weinstein's conviction overturned? New York's Court of Appeals in April 2024 ruled that the original trial judge, James Burke, allowed prejudicial testimony in what he termed "egregious errors". "We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes because that testimony served no material non-propensity purpose," the ruling read. Judge Burke's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench. The reversal of Weinstein's conviction dismayed #MeToo activists and was seen by the United Nations as a failure for women survivors who "risked their safety, livelihood and jobs to bravely come forward and share their ordeal". "If a new trial goes ahead, survivors will be asked to relive their alleged experiences, which may lead to further retraumatisation and unnecessary distress," UN experts said at the time. What is Weinstein's retrial examining? Weinstein will again be tried on the same rape and sexual assault charges from the first trial, with an additional count of violent sexual assault brought forward by an The three allegations to be visited include: Sex crime (of Miriam Haleyy in 2006) Third-degree rape (of Jessica Mann in 2013) Forced oral sex (of an unnamed woman in 2006) The retrial is expected to last up to six weeks. Weinstein is also challenging another 2022 rape conviction in Los Angeles for which he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. He currently remains imprisoned at the notorious Rikers Island prison in New York's Bronx. Who is on the jury? A majority-female jury will be deciding the landmark #MeToo case in Weinstein's retrial, in contrast to the five women-seven men board that delivered the conviction in 2020. This time the selection process for the main panel has yielded a seven-woman, five-man jury and five alternate jurors. Alternates step in if a member of the main panel cannot see the trial through. Photo shows Harvey Weinstein leaves New York court with a walker. Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison over rape and sexual assault convictions in a case hailed as a victory for the #MeToo movement. The 12 members, drawn from Manhattan's jury pool, include a physics researcher, a photographer, a dietitian, a therapist, an investment bank software engineer and a fire safety director. Others have experience in real estate, TV commercials, debt collection, social work and other fields. Some have served as jurors or grand jurors multiple times before, and others, never. Those chosen were quizzed about their backgrounds, life experiences and various other points that could relate to their ability to be fair and impartial about the highly publicised case. Hundreds of other potential jurors were excused for reasons ranging from language barriers to strong opinions about Weinstein — "the first word that came in my head was 'pig,'" said one man who was soon let go. "You may hear sexual allegations here of a salacious nature — graphic, perhaps. Would hearing that indicate that … Mr Weinstein must be guilty?" defence attorney Mike Cibella asked one prospective juror on Monday. The woman, who ultimately was chosen, answered no. Prosecutor Shannon Lucey sought assurances that prospective jurors could put aside any position or feelings they had about the #MeToo movement. "Is there anyone who is going to think of the movement and think, 'OK, that's just something that I have to keep in the back of my mind when I'm deciding this case?' Everyone can put that aside?" she asked a group of 24 possible jurors. All indicated they could do so. ABC/AP
Telegraph
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The director who makes A-listers cry – and is still loved by Hollywood
Whenever David O. Russell gets a new film green-lit, I have flashbacks to 2012-2013, the year we might call Peak Russell. In the summer of 2025, he is about to shoot Madden, a comedy-drama about the origin story of the video game Madden NFL, starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale. No one is stopping him, even though a significant subset of the actors who've worked with him in the past – Bale excepted – appear to consider him far too toxic to sign on ever again. His films got most of these people Oscar nominations, some of them Oscars. But there was only so much of Russell's alleged abuse they could cope with on set. Russell's bull-in-a-china-shop energy was already recognised long before 2012, but that year, when I met him, was very much his red carpet moment. He was all over the awards circuit with one smash hit – the neuro-divergent romcom Silver Linings Playbook, which won Jennifer Lawrence the Best Actress Oscar. He was also preparing to shoot his next one, the real-life swindling saga American Hustle, which scored ten nominations, including, for a third time in a row, Best Picture and Best Director for Russell, and acting nods for all four of its principal cast. Both films were produced by The Weinstein Company, back when that was a feasible entity. They got the most lavish promotional pushes of their day. Even Jacki Weaver was astonished when she got a supporting actress nod for the former. It was a good time in general to be David O. Russell, despite claims that he was the most vexatious director at large in Hollywood. We already had the infamous video of him blowing up at Lily Tomlin on the shoot of his zany corporate farce I Heart Huckabees (2004). If you watch the very Not Safe For Work footage, Tomlin seems to be truculent about taking direction, but Russell absolutely explodes, calling her a B-word, and an effing C-word, and stomping around his own set like Godzilla, while everyone ducks for cover. This incident alone could easily have been a career-ender. No wonder George Clooney, who worked with Russell on the Iraq war heist movie Three Kings (1999), recently branded the director a 'miserable f___' who allegedly 'made every person on the crew's life hell'. When Clooney intervened to try and help Russell cool off from all the yelling and screaming, it had the opposite effect. As Clooney often tells it, the pair wound up trying to strangle one another. 'He goes, 'Hit me, you p____. Hit me,'' the actor said. 'Then he got me by the throat and I went nuts.' ('I never physically attacked him,' Russell later claimed. 'If I ran into him, I'd say, 'Shut the f___ up, you lying-a__ bitch.'' 'Will I work with David ever again?' Clooney asked in a 2000 Playboy interview. 'Absolutely not. Never. Do I think he's tremendously talented and do I think he should be nominated for Oscars? Yeah.' He clarified in that interview that making Three Kings was 'truly, without exception, the worst experience of my life'. The winter of Peak Russell – it was December 2012 – I did not have an unpleasant or scary experience interviewing the director in the Connaught Hotel's dining room. He never lost his temper. It wasn't the worst experience of my life. Even so, it was probably the weirdest interview. I've never known anyone to over-order more maniacally. We had 45 minutes, and it took 20 for him to settle down. Coffee was demanded, then refused on arrival; he wanted green tea instead. This came. Chilli flakes were then essential. And honey. Don't forget lemon. Each one of these extras needed a member of the waiting staff to be beckoned over as a matter of urgency. Getting any kind of conversational flow going was next to impossible. I'm nursing an earl grey on my side of the table, but it starts to get crowded out by this deluge of politely added silverware. I'm certainly glad the publicists are picking up the bill. The recording device I'm using has to perch, if memory serves, on top of a sugar bowl. 'Can you do a grilled chicken sandwich?' Russell abruptly asks the hounded-looking waiter who has just shown up with the lemon. The poor man goes to check, which takes a few more minutes. It's a yes. But wait – scratch that, the bread and condiments leave too much to chance. 'Actually, just make it a chicken Caesar salad,' Russell declares. Off the waiter goes to give that a whirl. I remember stammering out questions while dreading the answer being hijacked by a sudden dressing crisis, or an unconscionable dearth of anchovies. The interview, when it finally gets going, is all about Silver Linings Playbook. This being the film's promo tour, we play nice by running it respectfully, and not mentioning the many Russell controversies that are already a matter of record. We didn't even discuss Nailed, a failed comedy he partially shot in 2008, starring Jessica Biel as a waitress who accidentally gets a nail buried in her head, then travels to Washington to petition a clueless Congressman (Jake Gyllenhaal) for better healthcare. Production on Nailed was shut down 14 times when the financier stopped paying everyone. James Caan simply walked off the film, after a testy disagreement with Russell over the scene where his character was supposed to choke to death on a cookie. (The ill-fated Nailed was eventually released as Accidental Love in 2015, cobbled together by producer Kia Jam, and without Russell's name on it: the credited director is the pseudonymous 'Stephen Greene'.) Few were aware when I interviewed him that Russell had already admitted, in 2011, to groping his own transgender niece while they were in a gym in Florida together. Peloquin, who was just 19 at the time and is not blood-related to Russell, said the encounter made her feel uncomfortable. Russell - who has always denied wrongdoing - claimed that the incident was consensual and happened after Peloquin, who was undergoing the transition from male to female at the time, complained that her breasts were different sizes. When the #MeToo movement came for Harvey Weinstein in 2017, Russell's career nearly went down with the ship. A $160m TV series the pair were developing for Amazon, to star Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore, was scrapped. On his previous film Joy (2015), a Fox production, sailing was not smooth: there were rumours of an 'ear-piercing' bust-up between Russell and his golden-girl star, Jennifer Lawrence. There was also, according to TMZ, a Weinstein visit out of the blue to hang out with Lawrence in her trailer, which understandably annoyed Russell, seeing as the producer had nothing to do with that film. More and more allegations emerged of how terribly Russell had been behaving. Amy Adams starred for him in the electric boxing drama The Fighter (2010) and the fitful, frustrating American Hustle, getting nominated for both. And then, never again. She said he made her cry on the latter film, she confided in a 2016 GQ interview. 'He was hard on me, for sure. It was a lot. I was just really devastated on set.' And would return home that way. 'I mean, not every day, but most.' Christian Bale admitted in 2022 that he tried to mediate between them, whereas Lawrence just let it all bounce off her. 'She's Teflon,' Adams added. 'And I am not Teflon.' While all this sank in, during the period when allegations of Hollywood misbehaviour led to cancellations on an industrial scale, it was entirely plausible to everyone but Russell that his game might be up. It took him seven years to get his next film out, the all-star period crime caper Amsterdam (2022), which was a humiliating flop, losing around $100m for New Regency and 20th Century Studios (Disney's Fox arm since the merger). Amsterdam, which few critics liked, not only felt like a self-conscious reinvention of quip-happy screwball comedies. It felt like a throwback to the decidedly more brief era when David O. Russell was a force, and could whip his projects into production with the biggest names in Hollywood signing on. On this occasion, no Weinstein was around to flex his promotional muscles, and no one was buying. And yet, for this Teflon director, the last chance saloon seems to be hosting an indefinite lock-in. He now has Madden, which will star Cage as the titular American football icon, John Madden, and Bale (Russell's American Hustle and Amsterdam stalwart) as former Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis. Will Ferrell and Hugh Jackman were previously circling Cage's role, but dropped out during the film's circuitous path to the screen, which has involved Russell rewriting Cambron Clark's script to his own specifications. Amazon/MGM Studios are backing the Atlanta-based shoot this summer. Everyone is surely, quietly, hoping that the production budget can be capped some way below the $80m that Amsterdam cost. Russell, as Clooney rightly conceded, has unmistakable talent. I have a huge soft spot for the tonal curveballs of I Heart Huckabees, his most underrated and intellectually ambitious film. I also think The Fighter, while more square and familiar, is directed just about perfectly, showcasing the best performances of almost everyone in it. It's hard not to presume that the era of Peak Russell went to Russell's head. His inventions got wayward, his scripts wonky, his knack for casting started to desert him. The era of tough, white male auteurs getting away with frankly questionable antics came to an end. Female directors – what will they think of next? – started ruling the box office and muscling in on those Best Director nominations. Madden would need to be quite a comeback to bring critics, audiences, and a sceptical industry back on side all at the same time. Sure, Cage and Bale may be willing to back him up as frontmen, but one is Nicolas Cage, who works with all kinds of weirdos, and the other is Christian Bale. Every time he and Russell make a film together, they apparently squabble, and every time they thrive on it. The kicker is that Russell suddenly has everything to prove, which hasn't been the case since his earliest films. We can question his continued employment, which is morally justifiable if kind of boring, or fantasise about him coming good again, even if it means sitting through all the performed penitence his interviews will need to entail. Either way, I'm warning the Connaught months in advance to stock up on… well, everything.
Fox News
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Harvey Weinstein mandated reshoots made actress feel ‘slimy'
Julia Stiles didn't care for Harvey Weinstein's demands for reshoots on a film she starred in, saying it made her feel "slimy" and the final product was "executed very poorly." Stiles spoke about the making of her 2000 teen rom-com "Down to You," on the "Films to Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein" podcast. "It was a time when teen rom-coms were really popular," she explained. "The director [Kris Isacsson] wrote the script. He was a first-time director, and he was a very, very intelligent, capable guy. The script was very good. And then Harvey Weinstein got his hands on it and decided to capitalize on this trend. And it just became dumb." "Down to You" also co-starred Freddie Prinze Jr., who Stiles noted was "lovely, [and a] wonderful actor." According to Stiles, Weinstein wanted to make the most of her recent success with other teen-oriented films that featured her dancing. "They're pouring money at it in stupid ways," she said. "So when we went and did reshoots, and I'm told that he [Weinstein] decided that because of the success of 'Save the Last Dance' or the success of '10 Things I Hate About You' with me dancing on the pool table, he needed to have me dancing in the film." While the "Mona Lisa Smile" actress admitted she liked dancing in her projects and would "make a whole movie dancing," she felt it didn't make sense for her character. "I love to dance, but it was dumb. It was like, 'OK, let's get her on a pool table.' It wasn't even imaginative," Stiles said. "And I felt so slimy doing it the whole time. I don't know if that actually made it in the film, but it was annoying, 'cause I was like, this is so cheap and it's not adding to the story." In a statement to Fox News Digital via a representative, Weinstein said, "Julia Stiles is a talented and charismatic actress who naturally connects with audiences. Beyond her acting skills, she's also a fantastic dancer, which was something fans really wanted at the time. I included that scene in 'Down to You' to enhance the film's appeal, and her chemistry with Freddie Prinze Jr. made it work seamlessly." He continued, "As a filmmaker, I've always sought ways to elevate a project, and when I see an opportunity to make a film better, I take it. That same instinct led David O. Russell and me to cast Julia in 'Silver Linings Playbook,' where she once again delivered a standout performance." "Silver Linings Playbook" was produced by The Weinstein Company and released in 2012. Weinstein is currently due in court on April 15 for a retrial of his 2020 overturned rape conviction. In a 4-3 decision, a court found that Weinstein's trial judge allowed prosecutors to call women who said Weinstein had assaulted them to testify, even though their accusations did not specifically relate to the entertainment mogul's charges. His retrial in April will feature the same allegations, with the addition of a new accuser. Weinstein is being retried on charges he forcibly performed oral sex on a movie and TV production assistant in 2006 and raped an aspiring actor in 2013. The additional charge, filed last September, alleges he forced oral sex on a different woman at a Manhattan hotel in 2006.
