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BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein Kicked Out Of Academy

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Film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been booted from the motion picture academy over mounting sexual abuse allegations.

“The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors has voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority to immediately expel him from the academy,” the Academy said in a statement.

“We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over,” it added.

Weinstein has been accused of various sexual abuses ranging from harassment to rape. (RELATED: ‘Like A PERVERT’: Woman Describes How Harvey Weinstein Allegedly Harassed Her)

Weinstein has not yet been charged with a crime and has said that he is seeking mental health treatment.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is most famous for the “Oscars” award show.

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