Harvey Weinstein wears a face mask as he listened in court during a pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles, on July 29, 2021. The lawsuit dismissed on Monday alleged that the disgraced movie mogul conspired to defraud, smear and marginalize Rose McGowan during the run-up to the #MeToo movement. (Etienne Laurent/The Associated Press) The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they were victims of sexual abuse, unless they come forward publicly as McGowan repeatedly has. In a different Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday, a judge rejected a motion from Weinstein's lawyers to dismiss a criminal indictment of Weinstein for 11 counts of sexual assault. Weinstein's lawyers had argued that an expert in "rape trauma syndrome" was improperly used by prosecutors in grand jury testimony. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts. He is awaiting trial. No date has been set. The 69-year-old former movie mogul is serving a 23-year prison sentence after convictions of rape and sexual assault in New York.
