Mariska Hargitay, the longtime star of TV’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, lamented a court’s decision to overturn the rape conviction of Hollywood heavyweight producer Harvey Weinstein during a speech Thursday in New York.
The actress spoke at Variety‘s Power of Women event, presented by Lifetime, where she railed at the courts for discounting the testimony of women who say they suffered abuse at Weinstein’s hands.
The disgraced Hollywood mogul chalked up a huge legal victory late last month after a New York court overturned his 2020 conviction of two felony sexual assaults.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge in Weinstein’s case should not have allowed “prosecutors to call as witnesses a series of women who said
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