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Harvey Weinstein wanted to kill Jennifer Aniston

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Harvey Weinstein wanted to kill Jennifer Aniston

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his rape and criminal s** act convictions.

Over 80 women, many in the entertainment industry, have accused Weinstein of s**ual assault and harassment, and six women testified against him during his trial.

Just prior to his sentencing, Jennifer Aniston’s name was brought up in the case.

Recently unsealed documents revealed correspondence between Weinstein and others in 2017.

In an email from October of that year, Weinstein was asked to respond to an inquiry from The National Enquirer.

The tabloid had alleged that Jennifer Aniston told a friend that she was s**ually assaulted by Weinstein.

The tabloid claimed Aniston remained silent because she was “too embarrassed.” It is unclear if Weinstein responded to this email, but he did respond to one from the Miami New Times regarding Aniston: “Jen Aniston should be killed,” he wrote.

Aniston’s spokesperson stated that the actress had never been alone with Weinstein, and the story that he’d groped her was unfounded.

“The National Enquirer claims are false.

“Jennifer has not been harassed or assaulted by Harvey,” Stephen Huvane told Variety.

Aniston was not one of the many high-profile actresses to accuse Weinstein of s**ual misconduct, fueling the rise of the #MeToo movement.

At Weinstein’s trial, actress Annabella Sciorra testified that he raped her in the mid-1990s.

Her friend, actress Rosie Perez, testified that Sciorra told her about it at the time but didn’t want to go to the police because “he’d destroy me.” The documents released Monday also show that Weinstein reached out to around two dozen high-profile figures, including Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg, to ask for help after the allegations against him went public.

“My board is thinking of firing me,” Weinstein wrote to Bloomberg.

“All I’m asking for is, let me take a leave of absence and get into heavy therapy and counseling whether it be in a facility or somewhere else, and allow me to resurrect myself with a second chance.” Bloomberg did not reply, his spokesman told The New York Times.

Last month, Weinstein was convicted of rape in the third degree for assaulting aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a New York City hotel room in 2013, and of committing a criminal s** act for forcing oral s** on former production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006.

The 67-year-old faced a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 25 years on the criminal s** act count.

The third-degree rape count carried a maximum penalty of four years, meaning Weinstein faced a maximum possible sentence of 29 years.

The judge sentenced him to serve 20 years on the first count and three years on the second count.

He must also serve five years of post-release supervision and register as a s** offender.

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