Weinstein faces trial in Los Angeles for 11 charges - four counts of rape and seven counts of sexual assault - that carry a maximum sentence of 140 years. The women who came forward one by one in 2017 to end the code of silence still often feel silenced themselves.Īs Weinstein’s second trial began in Los Angeles County this week, the “Silence Breakers” are once again living through a barrage of coverage of their alleged perpetrator. Survivors told The 19th that often, articles, TV segments, books and movies about Weinstein are done without anyone reaching out to them. As more and more people tell the story of what happened with Weinstein, the individual people - their lives, their experiences - can feel diminished. In seemingly countless interviews, alleged Weinstein survivors told their stories, paving the way for others to find their voices in Hollywood and beyond.īut their names and individual identities are still so often erased. So much of the reporting that led to charges being brought against Weinstein relied on women stepping forward to share some of their darkest moments. A week after the initial wave of reporting published, actor Alyssa Milano, who alleged she had been assaulted by Weinstein, tweeted: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” Five years later, #MeToo - first coined by activist Tarana Burke in 2006 as a way for Black women and girls to share their stories of sexual trauma - has become a rallying cry worldwide.
While the aftershocks of this reporting rippled through Hollywood, its impact quickly expanded far outside the industry. Ronan Farrow’s reporting for The New Yorker spotlighted 13 additional firsthand accounts of alleged sexual violence, documenting a seemingly well-established pattern of the film mogul isolating women in the industry and allegedly violating them, all while those around him at the companies he helmed enabled, facilitated and covered it up. New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey detailed decades of Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment and abuse, silenced by payoffs and nondisclosure agreements. In October 2017, sexual misconduct allegations against Hollywood producer and film industry titan Harvey Weinstein dominated headlines.
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