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Harvey Weinstein is considering a guilty plea to a third-degree rape charge to avoid a third trial, amid ongoing legal proceedings related to multiple allegations of sexual assault, with his third trial scheduled for March 2024.
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of one sexual assault charge from 2006 in a retrial, while other charges were dismissed or resulted in acquittal, marking a significant development in his long-standing legal battles related to sexual misconduct allegations that fueled the #MeToo movement.
A woman who posed as a boy to have a sexual relationship with a teenage girl has been found guilty of one charge of sex assault but cleared of 16 other charges. Georgia Bilham, 21, deceived her victim into thinking she was a young man after they began messaging online. She would wear boys’ clothes, keep her hood up and hide her long blonde hair, even when the pair slept together, claiming to be "paranoid" because of ties to an Albanian drug gang. Bilham was only found out when the girl’s mother became suspicious and told her that George was a girl, causing her daughter to "burst into tears."