Overview
- Speaking to The Radio Times, Dench framed her view as personal forgiveness, saying she has empathy for Weinstein’s victims but believes he has “done his time.”
- She said she remains in contact with Spacey, describing him as “exonerated,” a reference to past cases in which he was acquitted or found not liable.
- Weinstein is incarcerated at Rikers Island after a 2023 Los Angeles conviction carrying a 16-year sentence, alongside a 23-year New York sentence from 2020.
- A 2025 New York retrial delivered mixed results for Weinstein, with a conviction for a criminal sexual act against Miriam Haley, an acquittal related to Kaja Sokola, and a mistrial on a third allegation.
- Spacey was acquitted in a 2023 U.K. criminal trial and found not liable in a 2022 New York civil case, with three additional London civil claims scheduled for next year.