Harvey Weinstein hires Bill Cosby’s lawyer for Los Angeles appeal

Disgraced film mogul, who is serving 23 years for rape and sexual assault in New York, was sentenced to 16 years in LA conviction

Harvey Weinstein has hired Bill Cosby's lawyer to appeal his conviction in Los Angeles for sexual assault and rape, after a jury found him guilty and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

The former film producer, whose exposure as a sexual predator in October 2017 via investigations by the New York Times and the New Yorker precipitated the #MeToo movement, has hired Michael Freedman and Jennifer Bonjean as his lead legal counsel. Bonjean got Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania overturned on a legal technicality in 2021. The disgraced comedian, who has been accused by more than 60 women of rape, was released from prison after serving two years of a 3-to-10 year sentence.