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.
Aug. 26, 2019: Prosecutors obtain a new indictment against Mr. Weinstein, allowing them to call as a witness Annabella Sciorra, an actress who said that Mr. Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment in 1993 or 1994.
Jan. 6, 2020: Mr. Weinstein is indicted in Los Angeles, where he is accused of raping one woman and groping and masturbating in front of a second within two days in February 2013. The California charges are filed the same day that the parties in Mr. Weinstein’s New York trial first gather in Manhattan to discuss jury selection and other legal matters.
Feb. 18, 2020: After a monthlong trial in which they hear testimony from Ms. Sciorra, Ms. Haley and Ms. Mann, among other people, jurors in New York began deliberations.
Feb. 24, 2020: The jury, consisting of five men and seven women, finds Mr. Weinstein guilty of rape and criminal sexual act but acquits him on three other counts, including the two most serious charges against him: being a sexual predator.
March 11, 2020: Mr. Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison. His first stop in New York’s penal system is the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, where he becomes inmate No. 3102000153.
April 10, 2020: Prosecutors in California add a charge against Mr. Weinstein, alleging that he committed an assault at a Beverly Hills hotel in May 2010.
April 5, 2021: Mr. Weinstein appeals his New York conviction, saying several women who had accused him of sexual assault, but whose allegations were not the basis for any charges, should not have been allowed to testify.
June 2, 2022: A New York appeals court upholds Mr. Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crimes in a unanimous decision.
Dec. 19, 2022: After a trial that began in October 2022, jurors in Los Angeles return a mixed verdict, finding Mr. Weinstein guilty of raping and sexually assaulting an actress in 2013, but not guilty of one other charge. They are unable to reach a decision on three additional counts.
Feb. 23, 2023: Mr. Weinstein is sentenced to 16 years in prison in the Los Angeles case, with that prison term to begin after he serves his time in New York.
April 25, 2024: New York’s highest court overturns the 2020 conviction, ruling that Mr. Weinstein had been tried not solely on the crimes he was charged with, but instead on much of his past behavior.
May 1, 2024: Manhattan prosecutors announce in Manhattan criminal court that they will retry Mr. Weinstein on charges of rape and sexual assault.
June 6, 2024: Mr. Weinstein appeals his California conviction, arguing that he did not receive a fair trial. The judge excluded evidence that the model and actress he was convicted of raping had a romantic relationship with a film festival director, which Mr. Weinstein argues could have affected the jury’s decision.
Sept. 9, 2024: Mr. Weinstein has emergency heart surgery.
Sept. 18, 2024: Mr. Weinstein pleads not guilty to a new sex-crime indictment on the charge of sexually assaulting Kaja Sokola, a model, in a Manhattan hotel in 2006.
April 15, 2025: The new trial against Mr. Weinstein begins with jury selection in Manhattan Criminal Court.
April 22, 2025: Twelve jurors and six alternates are selected to decide Mr. Weinstein’s fate for a second time.
June 4, 2025: After a six-week trial — and testimony from nearly 30 witnesses — prosecutors and defense lawyers rest their case. Jurors begin to deliberate.
June 11, 2025: Mr. Weinstein, now 73, is convicted of a single count of criminal sexual act. The jury of five men and seven women finds him not guilty on another count of criminal sexual act and reaches no verdict on the single count of rape he had faced. The judge, Curtis Farber, orders the jurors to return the next day to continue deliberations on the rape charge.
Jan Ransom is an investigative reporter for The Times focusing on the criminal justice system, law enforcement and incarceration in New York.
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