Disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein is currently serving a 39-year sentence for rape and sexual assault charges. But the 72-year-old was permanently removed from the guest list of one of the most prestigious parties in Hollywood long before his fall from grace. In his book, When the Going Was Good, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter revealed the convicted sex offender was the one celebrity "banned" for life from the publication’s coveted Oscars party.

Carter claimed that Weinstein "regularly showed up with more guests than his invitation indicated and would bully the staff," explaining that his disrespectful behaviour eventually led to a permanent exclusion. "He got banned from everything because he was rude to the staff and I didn’t like that,” Carter said. While it was assumed Westein's behaviour could have been influenced by alcohol, Carer insisted this wasn't the case.

"It was not from drink. It was just within him," Carter added. More than 80 women have come forward with sexual harassment, assault or rape allegations against Weinstein since 2017.

In 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for forcibly performing oral sex on a production assistant in 2006 and the rape and sexual assault of an aspiring actress in 2013. He was found guilty of three more charges in 2022, receiving an additional 16 years.

However, the 2020 rape conviction was overturned after the judge in charge of the trial "erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes".

Weinstein is being retried on the 2006 and 2013 charges, as well as additional charge, filed in September 2024, alleging that he forced oral sex on a different woman at a Manhattan hotel in 2006.

The woman, who has not been identified publicly, came forward to prosecutors just days before the start of Weinstein's first trial, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said in court papers.

Prosecutors said they didn't pursue the allegations after he was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but revisited them and secured a new indictment after his conviction was overturned.

Weinstein's retrial is to start April 15 in state court in Manhattan. During his last court appearance in January, Weinstein pleaded with the judge to move his retrial forwards because of his rapidly declining health.

He said: "Everyday I'm at Rikers Island [prison], it's a mystery to me how I'm still walking. I'm holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with. I'm asking and begging you, your honor, to move your trial."