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A Los Angeles actress testified on Monday that after she was lured to a Beverly Hills resort in 2013 beneath the guise of getting Harvey Weinstein learn certainly one of her scripts, the disgraced film producer and since-convicted rapist sexually assaulted her in a rest room.
The lady, who was recognized in court docket as Jane Doe 2, advised Los Angeles Superior court docket jurors that in February 2013, she was invited to the Montague Lodge by a Mexican mannequin to speak to Weinstein about job alternatives and a script she had been engaged on. As a substitute, she stated the mannequin trapped her and Weinstein inside a resort room rest room, the place he instantly “took off his garments.”
“I used to be disgusted. I had by no means seen a giant man like that bare. I truly laughed nervously and thought, ‘No, no, no,’” Jane Doe 2, who was 23 on the time of the assault, stated.
Regardless of her verbal pleas for Weinstein to cease, she stated, the now 70-year-old groped her breasts and masturbated. In the course of the assault, she claimed, Weinstein was speaking to her about “film stuff” whereas she remained frozen in concern. She stated that after a number of minutes—and blocked makes an attempt to the touch her vagina—Weinstein ultimately ejaculated on a towel and promptly left the lavatory.
When requested Monday to explain Weinstein’s physique in the course of the assault, Jane Doe 2 stated the toppled titan “was actually bushy and there was moles on his physique.”
“His penis was disgusting. It appeared prefer it had been chopped off and sewn again on, like one thing wasn’t proper about it,” she added, noting that she didn't see his testicles—which have been a focus all through Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial.
Weinstein has pleaded not responsible to a number of prices, together with rape, in his second-crimes trial. Prosecutors allege that between 2003 and 2013, Weinstein sexually assaulted 5 Los Angeles girls. No less than eight girls—together with Jane Doe 2—are set to testify in opposition to Weinstein to indicate his alleged sample of predatory conduct and energy to make sure their silence.
Protection attorneys for Weinstein say these accusers knowingly had “transactional intercourse” with their once-powerful consumer—and at the moment are altering their model of occasions out of embarrassment.
Throughout cross-examination, Weinstein’s lawyer grilled Jane Doe 2 about her allegations—and a number of other inconsistencies between her time on the stand and her earlier interviews with police. As protection Alan Jackson questioned how Weinstein would be capable of undress as shortly as Jane Doe 2 described, she talked about that the swift motion isn’t that unusual in modeling.
“Does Mr. Weinstein strike you as a mannequin?” Jackson requested.
“No, however he’s undoubtedly a monster,” Jane Doe 2 answered.
Earlier on Monday, Jane Doe 2 confused to jurors that she was petrified of Weinstein—and what would occur after the alleged assault.
Particularly, she stated she feared “that he would harm me, or ship somebody to harm me, or smash my profession, or make my life hell.”
When Weinstein’s lawyer pressed Jane Doe 2 additional about her concern about not going to the police—the mannequin revealed that she believed “he might have me killed.”
“I didn’t know what he was able to,” she added.
On Friday, when she started her testimony, Jane Doe 2 testified that she first met Weinstein at an Oscars social gathering in February 2012, shortly after she had moved to Los Angeles to work as a mannequin and actress. Then 22, she stated she met mannequin and actress Claudia Salinas on the dinner they usually instantly hit it off. There, she stated, she advised Salinas that she was “engaged on a script for a film.”
A couple of yr later, Jane Doe 2 stated that out of the blue Salinas referred to as her about organising a gathering about her script with Weinstein.
“I assumed that it was actually thrilling for me, as a result of anyone of such significance within the movie business was taking an curiosity in my script,” she added, noting that the assembly was speculated to be on the bar on the Montage resort.
Weinstein ultimately joined her and Salinas, although she stated he was totally on his cellphone as two others had been discussing her script. She stated he talked about that she ought to be on America’s Subsequent High Mannequin—which she dismissed.
Instantly, she stated, Weinstein claimed he needed to go upstairs to prepare for an occasion later with Quentin Tarantino—and requested Jane Doe 2 and Salinas to hitch him to complete their dialog.
She stated after the trio went upstairs, she noticed Salinas shut the lavatory door behind her and Weinstein. In Weinstein’s New York trial—the place he was convicted of comparable crimes—Salinas denied her involvement within the alleged assault. Quickly after, Jane Doe 2 stated, Weinstein shortly jumped into the bathe to rinse off earlier than assaulting her.
“All the things occurred so quick,” she stated. “I used to be very numb. I felt like I used to be exterior of my physique watching what was taking place, I couldn’t transfer. I used to be frozen. I used to be so scared.”