Weinstein lawyer: Harvey can return to make important, brilliant films

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Harvey Weinstein could return to the entertainment industry and make &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;important&comma; brilliant films”&comma; his lawyer has said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Weinstein was one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers before dozens of women – including many high-profile actresses – came forward to allege he had sexually assaulted them&comma; with accusations ranging from inappropriate touching to rape&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His downfall led to the rise in prominence of the &num;MeToo movement as well as to a wider debate about the treatment of women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Weinstein&comma; the 66-year-old former boss of Miramax and The Weinstein Company&comma; has since been charged with rape in New York and is awaiting trial&period; He denies all allegations of non-consensual sex&period; Weinstein’s lawyer&comma; Benjamin Brafman&comma; believes his client’s career can still be salvaged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;64E735BE-D8DB-4C25-8A3B-B10CDDF55E52&period;jpeg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;10&sol;64E735BE-D8DB-4C25-8A3B-B10CDDF55E52&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"476" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119183" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He told the Press Association&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mr Weinstein will be making important&comma; brilliant films soon again and if these legal proceedings are resolved in his favour&comma; as I am hopeful and confident they will be&comma; there’s no doubt in my mind that he will again continue to what he has done for almost 40 years and this is make brilliant&comma; good&comma; important films&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As well as the case in New York&comma; Weinstein is being investigated by police in London and Los Angeles&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His accusers include Mexican-American actress Salma Hayek&comma; who alleges he sexually harassed her&comma; and British model Cara Delevingne&comma; who said he tried to kiss her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prosecutors in New York last week dropped part of their case against Weinstein&comma; dismissing allegations by one of his three accusers in that case&period; Mr Brafman said the accusations have been &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very hard” on the once-acclaimed producer&comma; but Weinstein is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;confident he will be cleared”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s not easy to be accused of crimes publicly&comma; that according to Mr Weinstein he did not commit&comma; and it’s very difficult for his family&comma; especially where there are children involved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s one of the unfortunate prices you pay when you are a famous person and what gets forgotten in this media coverage is we are dealing with someone who is maybe the single best and most brilliant filmmaker of this generation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He is saddened by what has happened but also confident that he will be cleared and I think he is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances&comma; being accused of serious crimes that you did not commit&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s very hard for anyone to go through and when it’s being done in such a public&comma; mean-spirited manner&comma; it’s not easy&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Brafman added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He has gone through important therapy and he wants to be a better father and friend and he is doing pretty well under the circumstances&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Brafman is a well-known New York-based lawyer who has defended high-profile clients including Sean &OpenCurlyQuote;P Diddy’ Combs&comma; former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Jay-Z&period; The lawyer suggested Weinstein was being targeted because he is seen as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;vulnerable” after being &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;publicly vilified by the media”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When you do that in the media&comma; it’s different than when you come into court and have to suddenly produce really credible&comma; honest evidence and I think once they start&comma; these legal proceedings&comma; even more charges may well be dismissed&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Brafman said the &num;MeToo movement can be a positive force for change but warned it should not &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;panic” prosecutors into bringing cases to court without enough evidence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed1213aa379">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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