Harvey Weinstein has been granted the right to appeal by New York State Court of Appeals, paving the way for oral arguments to be heard next year – and his 2020 conviction potentially overturned.
The 70-year-old was found guilty in 2020 of rape, and sentenced to 23 years.
He insisted that his relations with the women were consensual.
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has spoken out from behind bars to deny his youngest accuser’s claim that he sexually assaulted her when she was just 16