[Josiah.]

Harvey Weinstein has been stripped of his CBE following his conviction for rape and sexual assault earlier this year.

The disgraced producer, 68, is currently serving a 23-year jail sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping former aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013.

More than 100 women, including famous actresses such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek and Uma Thurman, had accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct stretching back decades - fuelling the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and harassment.

Weinstein, who has consistently denied all charges, says he will appeal his conviction.

Now, six months after the landmark trial, the Honours Forfeiture Committee have voted to strip him of his honour.

The announcement was published in The Gazette, the UK's official public record.

The notice said: "The Queen has directed that the appointment of Harvey Weinstein to be an Honorary Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 29 January 2004, shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order."

The removal of honours - formally called "forfeiture"- is done when someone is judged to have brought the honours system into disrepute.

Numerous other distinctions bestowed on Weinstein during his career - including France's prestigious Legion of Honour - have been revoked since allegations against Weinstein first surfaced.

The multi-Oscar winner, who was responsible for blockbusters including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, Gangs Of New York and Shakespeare In Love, was expelled from the Academy in 2017.

They had previously nominated his work for 341 awards, earning him 81 statuettes over the last 26 years.

His Order of the British Empire is his final award of note to be rescinded.

Weinstein was awarded the honorary CBE in 2004, for services to the British film industry. It was honorary as he is not a citizen of a Commonwealth country.

CBE stands for Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and is one step below a knighthood.

Set up in 1917 by King George V, the honours are spit into civilian and military divisions, the most senior of which make the recipient into a knight or dame.

Story Link: https://news.sky.com/story/harvey-we...ction-12074953

[Jake.]

Good. Should be the least of his worries.

[Ammi]

...I was just searching for the original thread to post it in, Josiah......yeah, I just read it...

[Shaun]

bit worrying that it took them this long...

[arista]

Yes Josiah
Had to be done.

[bitontheslide]

will Andrew be next?

[Swan]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

will Andrew be next?

He must be sweating right now.

Oh wait

[Tom4784]

The fact that it took this long is gross.

[Swan]

I surprised they even stripped him of it given The Royal Family's track record!

[arista]

BBC News Text:
[The Metro splashes on the "sensational"
overturning of Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction.
A New York appeals court said prosecutors
in the pivotal #MeToo case called witnesses
whose accusations were not part
of the charges against him.
The paper points out the disgraced
Hollywood mogul will remain in prison.
He was separately convicted of rape in LA.]

[Mystic Mock]

It's devastating tbh.

But this is why following legal procedures is so important, so that monsters like Weinstein can't try to wriggle his way out of trouble.

[Oliver_W]

Even ("alleged") scum like him deserves a fair trial tbh, or the system doesn't work. We can't overlook an unfair trial just because it gave us the result we wanted.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Even ("alleged") scum like him deserves a fair trial tbh, or the system doesn't work. We can't overlook an unfair trial just because it gave us the result we wanted.

…I was just thinking, actually…and not in relation to Harvey Weinstein but your words here have just broken into my thoughts……because of the age of the internet and social media etc…an uninfluenced trial is going to become less and less, I would say…I know that the police say…’please do not post on social media’ …etc…but that’s kind of after that horse is bolted, isn’t it…and also, it’s not something that can be policed very effectively…

[thesheriff443]

Just the other week an innocent man was set free after 17 years in a uk prison for a crime of rape which he clearly did not do as the dna was linked to another man.

[bitontheslide]

he was released on a technicality. He will be re-tried so he isn't off the hook

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

he was released on a technicality. He will be re-tried so he isn't off the hook

He isn’t free he is still in prison

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I was just thinking, actually…and not in relation to Harvey Weinstein but your words here have just broken into my thoughts……because of the age of the internet and social media etc…an uninfluenced trial is going to become less and less, I would say…I know that the police say…’please do not post on social media’ …etc…but that’s kind of after that horse is bolted, isn’t it…and also, it’s not something that can be policed very effectively…

Makes me think of Chicago, where the lawyer Billy Flynn made Roxy into media star, and the papers were running the story that they "both reached for the gun" which inevitably influenced the jury.

[arista]

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