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British grime musician Solo 45 has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for raping four women in what police said was among the most violent sexual behavior they had seen.

A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her when she was 17 is among four plaintiffs in a new lawsuit against the imprisoned movie mogul

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been convicted in New York of rape and sexual assault against two women and has been led off to prison in handcuffs

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers have turned to an expert known for studying of false, repressed and unreliable memories

A key accuser in Harvey Weinstein’s trial testified Friday that he trapped her in a New York hotel room, angrily ordered her to undress and raped her, but that she stayed in contact with him because “his ego was so fragile” and she wanted to be seen as naive. Sobbing at points, she described a “degrading” relationship and sometimes forcible sexual...

“Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, testifying that the former Hollywood studio boss overpowered and raped her and made other crude overtures that included sending her X-rated chocolates and showing up uninvited in his underwear with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a video in the other. In a quivering voice,…

Harvey Weinstein spawned the #MeToo movement. Now, the former film titan is starring in the biggest trial of its era — a landmark moment in a global reckoning that has empowered women while shining a light on power dynamics in workplaces from Hollywood Boulevard to Main Street.

Defense lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorneys said Tuesday on the eve of opening statements in Weinstein’s rape trial in New York City. The defense has “dozens and dozens and dozens of loving emails...

A jury found a Boston-based Internal Revenue Service agent guilty Thursday of raping a college intern at gunpoint in 2017. A Suffolk County jury convicted James Clarke, 45, of aggravated rape, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and indecent assault and battery in the July 2017 assault of a 21-year-old woman, the Boston Globe reported. Clarke invited the victim…

A Massachusetts pastor is behind bars, accused of rape and kidnapping following an investigation in New Bedford, police said Thursday. Elmer Perez, 44, was arrested Wednesday following the investigation into accusations of sexual assault, police said. He faces charges of rape, witness intimidation, kidnapping, indecent assault and battery and threatening to commit a crime. Perez is a pastor at Iglesia…

Authorities are looking for a man who allegedly raped two women at a Queens spa, then tried to rape another at a wellness center just more than a month later, police said Tuesday.

A Massachusetts man has been convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl. The Cape Cod Times reports that 26-year-old John Dias IV, of Barnstable, was found guilty Tuesday of multiple charges including aggravated rape of a child.

The former president of a Massachusetts city council has been sentenced to 2 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a teenage boy. The Newburyport Daily News reports that Bert Reed, of Newburyport, was sentenced Monday.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested on child rape charges and his home, which serves as a home day care in Brimfield, has also been shut down, according to the Hampden District Attorney’s office. Lawrence Mongeon, 63, was arrested Friday at the residence on Apple Road following an investigation. He was charged with two counts of aggravated rape of a...

Police are urging a New Bedford, Massachusetts man to come forward after he allegedly raped a 19-year-old student at a school for students with disabilities.

A 27-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested on charges that include rape after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman he met on a dating app. Wareham police said Plymouth resident Garry Marshall met his alleged victim on the app, MeetMe, where he advertised himself as single despite him being married and having a child.

A former student at an elite Massachusetts college convicted of raping a woman on campus has been sentenced to three years in prison. The Berkshire Eagle reports that 27-year-old Yoonsang Bae, of Boston, was sentenced Monday after he was convicted Friday of raping a then-19-year-old woman at a Williams College dorm room in July 2014.

A man accused of kidnapping and raping a woman in Lowell, Massachusetts in a home that’s the center of a death investigation is due in court.

An investigation into the Massachusetts man facing charges in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl left at a Lawrence hospital in May could reveal more victims and additional charges, according to the Essex County District Attorney’s office. Carlos Rivera, 47, is being held without bail following his indictment Friday in Salem Superior Court on seven charges including two...