HOW WEINSTEIN’S DOWNFALL UNFOLDED

5 October 2017

The New York Times publishes a story alleging decades of sexual harassment by Weinstein.

8 October 2017

Weinstein is sacked by his own company.

10 October 2017

Allegations from 13 more women are published in The

New Yorker. His wife Georgina Chapman (right) leaves him.

12 October 2017

Police in the US and UK start investigating allegations from 2004 and the 1980s. No charges are yet brought.

14 October 2017

The organisation behind the Oscars votes to expel Weinstein.

15 October 2017

The Met Police says Weinstein is accused of assaulting three women in separate incidents in London in the late 1980s, 1992, 2010, 2011 and 2015, accusations he ‘unequivocally denies’.

19 October 2017

The British Film Institute withdraws Weinstein’s fellowship.

7 November 2017

The New Yorker claims Weinstein used spies to prevent his accusers going public.

20 March 2018

The Weinstein Company files for bankruptcy.

25 May 2018

Weinstein surrenders to New York police on sexual misconduct charges.

26 May 2018

He is released on $1 million bail but must surrender his passport and wear a GPS tracker.

31 May 2018

A grand jury in New York indicts Weinstein on charges of rape and committing a criminal sexual act.

5 June 2018

Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape and sexual-assault charges in the New York Supreme Court.

2 July 2018

Weinstein faces fresh sexual-assault charges in New York from another woman.

9 July 2018

Weinstein again pleads not guilty to the new sexual-assault charge.

3 August 2018

Weinstein seeks to dismiss the criminal case, claiming to have received ‘warm’ emails from one of his accusers after an alleged rape.

24 May 2019

Weinstein and his former board members reach a tentative deal to resolve civil suits with women who accuse him of sexual misconduct.

11 December 2019

Bail is increased to $5 milllion after it is claimed he disabled his tracker. His lawyer claims the issue was caused by tech problems.

15 December 2019

Weinstein gives an interview to the New York Post.

6 January 2020

The trial begins in New York, while LA prosecutors charge Weinstein with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents over a two-day period in 2013.