(11 Mar 2020) The 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault that will send Harvey Weinstein to prison is bringing a sense of closure for many of his accusers.
Model Tarale Wulff, who says she was raped by Weinstein in 2005, said she never thought she would find healing.
Judge James Burke’s sentence, she told journalists outside a Manhattan court on Wednesday, brought a sense of joy.
"I couldn’t believe what I was about to hear," she said referring to hearing the judge say the world "twenty".
"No one thought we’d be here today. No one thought we’d — Harvey would ever see a courtroom and even still, no one gave him more than 10 or 12 years," she added.
Accuser Ambra Battilana Gutierrez said she came forward to help others and felt happy "to be contributing to change."
Gutierrez, who was not involved in Weinstein’s New York trial, says he assaulted her in 2015.
Weinstein, who has been accused of violating scores of women, was convicted last month of raping a once-aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on former TV and film production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and faced a maximum of 29 years in prison.
Weinstein was convicted on two counts: criminal sex act for the 2006 assault on the production assistant and rape in the third degree for a 2013 attack on another woman.
He was acquitted of the more serious charges against him of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault.
Weinstein could get up to 28 years in prison on charges of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery in the California case. Authorities have not said when he would go there to face those charges.
Three more sexual assault cases under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department and Beverly Hills’ police could mean that he’ll face additional charges. No details have been provided on these cases.
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