In a statement on Thursday in New York, Hollywood heavy producer Harvey Weinstein’s former co-defendant, Mariska Hargitay, the lifelong sun of Law &, Order: Special Victims System, lamented a judge’s decision to reverse Weinstein’s rape conviction.
The artist spoke at Variety’s Power of Women function, presented by Lifetime, where she railed at the judges for discounting the evidence of people who say they suffered abuse at Weinstein’s arms.
Late last month, the disgraced Hollywood mogul won a significant constitutional win after a New York court overturned his 2020 conviction for two misdemeanor physical attack.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled that the test prosecutor in Weinstein’s situation should not have permitted “prosecutors to visit as witnesses a number of people who claimed Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them — but whose charges were not included in the charges against him.”
This finding flabbergasted Hargitay, who accused the judge of discounting children’s tones.
” I want to talk now about reversing views”, Hargitay said citing Weinstein’s situation. ” It’s impossible to change my faith that survivors issue, that what happened to us matters, and that our nation may react to survivors more compassionately, more thoroughly, with a deeper, more subtle understanding of what treatment means”.
” I do want to say something about the overturned Harvey Weinstein conviction”, she added. ” Specifically, about the reason it was overturned: Too many women’s voices. There were too many women who could speak.
” Risky to let women speak? You’re damn right it is. Too many women speaking brings change”, she said. She blasted the “powerful voices that are” that the backlash against# MeToo demonstrates.
” It’s impossible to reverse my conviction that we must listen to survivors”, Hargitay exclaimed.
In 2004, Hargitay established the Joyful Heart Foundation to support domestic violence victims and advocate for women who have been sexually assaulted.
As part of her activism, Hargitay worked with the NFL in 2014 to create a public service ad called” No More” to bring awareness to domestic violence. That season, the advertisement aired on Thursday Night Football.
In 2022, after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she also took to social media with a campaign in support of abortion.
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