It said Domingo had frequently pressured women into sexual relationships, and sometimes professionally punished those who rejected him.
In his statement, Domingo said he had "taken time over the last several months to reflect on the allegations that various colleagues of mine have made against me.
"I understand now that some women may have feared expressing themselves honestly because of a concern that their careers would be adversely affected if they did so. While that was never my intention, no-one should ever be made to feel that way."
Domingo, who is 79, is one of opera's biggest stars, commanding sell-out audiences around the world.
He has been married to his second wife, the soprano Marta Ornelas, since 1962.
For anyone who has suffered from option-overload on Netflix and spent too much time looking for something to watch, the streaming service is rolling out a new Top 10 feature. In the Netflix app, you'll see a new banner with the 10 most popular titles in your country.
Netflix will update the list daily, and when you click on the Movies or TV tab, you'll see separate lists for those categories. The position of the list will vary depending on how relevant the titles are to you, and titles that make the cut will get a "Top 10" badge, so you'll be able to spot them when you're scrolling through other sections too.
While Netflix has featured popular and trending content in the past, this is the first time it's ranking titles in order. Netflix has been talking about the new feature since last spring, and it has already tested the lists in the UK and Mexico. Now, Netflix says it's ready to start rolling the feature out to users worldwide.
"When you watch a great movie or TV show, you share it with family and friends, or talk about it at work, so other people can enjoy it too. We hope these top 10 lists will help create more of these shared moments, while also helping all of us find something to watch more quickly and easily," Netflix said in a press release.
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Harvey Weinstein arriving on Monday at State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his rape trial.Credit...Anna Watts for The New York Times
The jury delivers a guilty verdict.
Harvey Weinstein, who long reigned as one of the most influential producers in Hollywood, was found guilty on Monday of two felony sex crimes after a Manhattan trial that became a watershed moment for the #MeToo movement.
But the jury acquitted Mr. Weinstein of the two most serious charges against him, predatory sexual assault.
The verdict offered a measure of justice to the dozens of women who have come forward with similar allegations against Mr. Weinstein. For many, the trial was a crucial test in the effort to hold powerful men accountable for sexual harassment in the workplace.
The jury found Mr. Weinstein guilty of two counts, criminal sexual assault in the first degree and rape in the third degree. On the two counts of predatory sexual assault, the not guilty verdicts suggested that one or some jurors did not believe the testimony of Annabella Sciorra, an actress best known for her work in “The Sopranos.”
He faces a sentence of five to 25 years on the top count.
Jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s trial found him guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree.CreditCredit...Anna Watts for The New York Times
Mr. Weinstein was ordered to go to jail.
As the jury walked into the courtroom to announce that it had reached a verdict, Mr. Weinstein sat between his lawyers, staring straight ahead, as four court officers stood behind him.
Mr. Weinstein appeared unmoved as the verdict was read. Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, was nearby, in the front row.
After the verdict was read, Justice James M. Burke thanked the jurors for their “care and concentration” before they left the courtroom. As they filed out, Juror No. 6 stared at Mr. Weinstein.
The judge then announced that Mr. Weinstein would immediately be sent to jail to await his sentencing. But as court officers approached him, the producer seemed stunned and refused to move.
Moments later, he was handcuffed and removed from the room, limping with two officers standing by his side.
Weinstein was facing five charges in Manhattan.
Six women testified at trial that he had sexually assaulted them, though Mr. Weinstein had faced criminal charges in connection with only two of them. The others were allowed to testify to establish a pattern of behavior.
The indictment rested on the accusations of Miriam Haley, a former television production assistant who testified that Mr. Weinstein forced oral sex on her at his Manhattan apartment in 2006; and Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress, who says he raped her in a Midtown Manhattan hotel room in 2013.
Ms. Mann and Ms. Haley both acknowledged that they continued to see Mr. Weinstein after the alleged assaults and later had consensual sex with him, testimony that complicated the prosecution’s case.
Justice Burke allowed the prosecution to call four women as witnesses to corroborate the five charges stemming from Ms. Mann’s and Ms. Haley’s claims against Mr. Weinstein.
One of those witnesses was Ms. Sciorra, who says she was raped by Mr. Weinstein nearly 30 years ago in her Manhattan apartment. She was called to support the charges of predatory sexual assault, which require proving that a defendant attacked at least two victims. The jury ultimately did not convict Mr. Weinstein on those counts.
The three other women were permitted to testify to bolster the prosecution’s contention that Mr. Weinstein engaged over time in a pattern of sexually abusive behavior.
None of the four women’s accounts could be formally charged as crimes on their own because the alleged attacks were too old to prosecute under New York’s statute of limitations.
Prosecutors had described Mr. Weinstein as a clever predator who kept his victims close to control them, using his power over their careers in the film industry as leverage.
But defense lawyers had said the women had willingly had sex with Mr. Weinstein to further their careers and only years later, after he had been accused in news reports of sexual harassment, began to remember their encounters with him as nonconsensual.
Here’s a timeline of the path toward a verdict.
Accusations of sexual misconduct and assault against Mr. Weinstein have swirled for decades in New York and Los Angeles. The trial in Manhattan was only the latest step in a lengthy saga.
Mr. Weinstein had avoided prosecution in connection with an alleged groping incident in 2015, and was indicted in New York in 2018 only after scores of women came forward to accuse him in the media.
Regardless of the verdict in New York, Mr. Weinstein still faces charges in a separate case in Los Angeles. In a highly unusual move, California prosecutors announced their indictment on the first day of Mr. Weinstein’s trial in Manhattan.
The Los Angeles case is based on the accounts of two unidentified women, who have accused him of attacking them — just a day apart — in February 2013.
One of the women, an Italian model and actress, has told prosecutors that Mr. Weinstein raped her in the bathroom of a Beverly Hills hotel after she met him at a film festival.
The next day, the other woman has said, Mr. Weinstein invited her and another woman to his room in a West Los Angeles hotel after meeting them in the restaurant downstairs. There, prosecutors said, Mr. Weinstein trapped his victim in a bathroom, grabbed her breasts and masturbated.
These six women testified against Weinstein.
One actress accused Mr. Weinstein of raping her in the early 1990s. A second woman said he forced oral sex on her in 2006. A third accused him of raping her in 2013.
Annabella Sciorra testified that after a dinner party in the winter of either 1993 or 1994, Mr. Weinstein barged in to her Manhattan apartment and raped her. The alleged attack was too old to be prosecuted separately as rape under New York law.
Miriam Haley told jurors that in 2006 the producer forced oral sex on her at his apartment in Lower Manhattan, despite her protests. Mr. Weinstein was charged with one count of criminal sexual act and predatory sexual assault involving Ms. Haley, who previously went by the name Mimi Haleyi.
Jessica Mann testified that Mr. Weinstein injected his genitals with an erection medication and raped her in a hotel room in Midtown Manhattan. He was charged with first- and third-degree rape, and predatory sexual assault involving her allegations.
Dawn Dunningaccused Mr. Weinstein of touching her genitals in a hotel room in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood.
Lauren Youngtold jurors that the producer pulled down her dress, groped her breasts, masturbated and ejaculated onto the floor in a hotel room in Los Angeles.
Ms. Young’s account, like those of Ms. Dunning’s and Ms. Wulff’s, were allowed in an effort to show the producer’s history of abuse, prosecutors said.
Reporting was contributed by Jan Ransom, Alan Feuer, Liam Stack, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.
Capping one of the most dramatic falls from power in Hollywood history, Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday on one rape and one criminal sex act count, guilty verdicts that could put him in prison for up to 25 years.
The shamed former movie producer, 67, was found guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree for forcibly performing oral sex on former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haleyi and rape in the third degree for an attack on hairstylist Jessica Mann.
But the verdict wasn’t a total victory for prosecutors. The seven-man, five-woman jury found Weinstein not guilty of the top charge of predatory sexual assault, which carried a life sentence.
Manhattan Assistant DA Joan Illuzzi-Orbon and her co-counsel, Meghan Hast, had argued that Weinstein preyed on vulnerable, naive women who tried to pursue professional relationships with him to advance their careers — only to be sexually attacked.
The once-powerful Hollywood mogul stared straight ahead as the verdicts were read in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The prosecutors paraded 28 emotional witnesses in front of the jury, including six women who tearfully recounted their experiences in harrowing detail, although Weinstein was not charged in three of their cases.
“To the defendant, it has been said he was the master of his universe and the witnesses here were merely ants that he could step on without consequences,” Illuzzi-Orbon said in her closing statements.
“When you’re the only one and he’s a giant — not only in his own industry — but he’s someone who gets presidents on the phone and he’s talking to A-listers and people you will never meet in your entire life … you’re really freaking hesitant to report,” she said of Weinstein’s accusers, many of whom did not report their claims to authorities.
Haleyi testified that he invited her to his Soho apartment, where he held her down and forcibly performed oral sex on her July 10, 2006.
Sciorra told the jury that Weinstein barged into her apartment in the winter months of 1993-1994, held her down by her wrists and violently raped her before ejaculating on her heirloom nightie. Her allegations were backed up by pal Rosie Perez, who told jurors Sciorra confided in her about the rape.
Defense lawyers Donna Rotunno and Damon Cheronis countered that the accusers had consensual sex with Weinstein that they later regretted and only “relabeled” as rape for the jury.
“The irony is the ADAs, in this case, are the producers, and they are writing the script. In their story, they’ve created a universe that strips adult women of common sense, autonomy and responsibility,” Rotunno said in her closings.
“In this script, a powerful man is the villain, and he is so unattractive and large that no woman would ever want to sleep with him voluntarily. Regret does not exist in this world, only regret renamed as rape,” she said.
She reminded the jury that Mann and Haleyi admitted on the stand that they had consensual sex with Weinstein after the alleged attacks. They also continued to send him affectionate emails and accept his gifts, including tickets to premieres and invitations to Oscar parties.
The defense called seven witnesses, including Weinstein pal Paul Feldsher, who said Sciorra told him days after the alleged rape that she had done something crazy with Weinstein, casting the encounter as unseemly but consensual.
They also tapped Mann’s ex-friend Talita Maia, who said Mann called Weinstein her “spiritual soulmate” who had given her the “best orgasm” she ever had.
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The other three accusers who took the stand — model Lauren Young, waitress Tarale Wulff and aspiring actress Dawn Dunning — were permitted to testify about uncharged conduct to show a pattern of predatory behavior.
“They came to be heard,” Illuzzi-Orbon said in her closing, referring to the trio. “They sacrificed their dignity, their privacy and their peace for the prospect of having that voice and their voices would be enough for justice.”
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The jury in the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct trial has reached a verdict. The verdict has not been announced yet.
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The jury resumed deliberations Monday morning, returning after Friday’s cliffhanger in which jurors questioned New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke as to whether they were legally allowed a deadlock on two charges with the heaviest possible prison sentence while reaching consensus on lesser counts of rape and assault.
On Friday, Burke instructed the jury to continue its deliberations, urging a consensus on all charges. After a weekend off, jurors were back in the jury room at 9:30 AM ET today. Weinstein arrived at New York State Supreme Court with what looked like a bit more unshaven scruff than usual.
The possible deadlock involves two counts of predatory sexual assault, each carrying a possible lifetime prison sentence and each involving actress and rape accuser Annabella Sciorra and one of the two primary accusers in the trial. To convict on the predatory counts, the jury must find that Weinstein committed crimes against Sciorra and Miriam Haley, and/or Sciorra and Jessica Mann.
Mann and Haley have accused Weinstein of, respectively, rape and sexual assault by forced oral sex. The jury could vote to convict Weinstein of their individual charges — the most serious of which carry possible prison sentences up to 25 years — while either deadlocking or finding not guilty on the predatory charges.
Although the statute of limitations has expired on Sciorra’s claim of rape in 1993-94, her testimony is permitted in conjunction with that of Haley and Mann to establish predatory behavior.
In addition to the predatory counts, which carry prison sentences of 10 years to life, Weinstein is charged with one count of a criminal sexual act in the first degree (against Haley) and two counts of rape (one in the first degree, one in the third, both involving Mann). The first degree counts carry possible prison sentences of five to 25 years; the third degree count, up to four years.
Haley, now 42, was a Project Runway production assistant in 2006 when, she says, Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in his Soho apartment on a July night in 2006. Mann, 34, a former actress, model and hairstylist, claimed Weinstein raped her on March 18, 2013, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, resulting in the two counts of rape; the jury can convict on only one of those counts.
