Harvey Weinstein L.A. Rape Trial: Accuser Says She Felt Like She “Wanted To Die” During Alleged 2013 Assault

A model-actress, recognized as Jane Doe #1, resumed her account of a 2013 encounter with Harvey Weinstein, telling jurors that she “needed to die” as he sexually assaulted her in her lodge room lavatory.

“It was disgusting. It was humiliating, depressing. I didn’t struggle,” Jane Doe # 1 stated. “I keep in mind how he was trying within the mirror and he was telling me to take a look at him. I want this by no means occurred to me.”

She testified for the second day within the Los Angeles trial of Weinstein, 70. He has pleaded not responsible on eleven sexual assault expenses that contain claims of 5 ladies between 2004 and 2013. His lawyer claimed in his opening assertion that the sexual encounters had been consensual and even “transactional,” and that claims had been fabricated.

In her testimony, Jane Doe #1 stated that she was “panicking with concern” as Weinstein pressured her to carry out oral intercourse on him, however that she didn’t struggle or hit him. “I don’t know. I remorse this lots,” she stated, as prosecutor Paul Thompson requested her why she didn’t accomplish that.

“I didn’t have even one thought to run or scream,” she stated. “I didn’t understand how loud I used to be. I believe sufficient loud that folks may hear me from one other room…however I didn’t scream assist. I can do extra.”

Jane Doe #1 had traveled from Rome to participate within the Los Angeles Italia Movie Pageant, the place she noticed Weinstein and stated that she spoke to him briefly within the VIP room. She testified on Monday that, after a competition occasion, Weinstein tracked down her lodge after which demanded to be let into her room. Her testimony was ended when she broke down in tears as she described how Weinstein pressured her head on his genitals.

On Tuesday, she apologized “for my breakdown yesterday,” including that she “can’t management it.”

With English as her second language, she testified that she initially feared that Weinstein “misunderstood ” her when, shortly after getting into lodge room, he started speaking a couple of therapeutic massage.

She stated that after their dialog, “his face modified. His eyes modified. His conduct modified.”

She stated that she was afraid of him bodily, noting that she had been in “dangerous conditions the place males beat me.”

She stated that there was a substantial dimension distinction between her and Weinstein, and that he was as much as 150 kilos heavier than her.

“He was anticipating that I’m doing what he’s saying and he qas … transferring me by means of the bed room like I’m an object.” She stated that Weinstein didn’t scream or flip violent, however pressured her mouth towards his penis. He struggled to get an erection, she stated, holding her by her hair, and she or he did what he demanded.

He then walked her to the toilet, she stated, and pulled her in entrance of the sink whereas be was masturbating. “He put his fingers inside me…my personal half,” she stated.

“He maintain me and he attempt to get inside me together with his penis however I used to be transferring,” she stated. “I used to be crying. I say cease. I say no.”

She described how she was struggling in opposition to him so he couldn’t get inside her.

“I keep in mind how he was trying within the mirror and he was telling me to take a look at him. I want this by no means occurred to me,” she stated. Weinstein, she stated, advised her, “C’mon little woman. Inform me you prefer it. You prefer it.”

She stated that the assault ended when Weinstein masturbated and ejaculated.

She stated that she doesn’t understand how lengthy she was within the lavatory however described it as “lengthy.” She then put her bathrobe again on, she stated, and Weinstein “was performing like nothing occurred. He was giving me compliments after which stated that it was higher” that she not discuss to anybody about it.

“My understanding was that he’s someone highly effective so it’s higher I not discuss,” she stated.

A jury of 9 males and three ladies is listening to the Los Angeles case, following about two weeks of jury choice. The trial is predicted to final till late November.

Weinstein was convicted in 2020 on expenses of rape and legal sexual acts, and he was sentenced to 23 years in jail. He was granted an attraction by New York’s highest court docket in August, elevating the possibility that his conviction in that state shall be overturned.

Weinstein, who had been transferred to Los Angeles county jail to await the second trial, faces a most sentence of greater than 100 years in jail if convicted of the extra expenses. The grand jury expenses are for 4 counts of rape, 4 counts of forcible oral copulation, one rely of sexual penetration by use of power, plus one rely of sexual battery by restraint and sexual battery.

The choose within the case, Lisa Lench, dominated afterward Tuesday that prosecutors may introduce one other witness, recognized as “Rowena C.,” who settled a declare in 1998 that isn’t a part of the Los Angeles case. The witness has beforehand publicly recognized herself as Rowena Chiu, a former assistant. She got here ahead in a New York Occasions op ed in 2019, describing how he tried to rape her.

Prosecutors even have indicated that 4 accusers would testify, fairly than 5 within the authentic criticism.

Weinstein’s lawyer Mark Werksman argued that Rowena C.’s testimony was a means of “getting in one other sexual assault” within the case despite the fact that her claims should not a part of the fees. As a substitute, she is being introduced in as prosecutors attempt to set up Weinstein’s “prior dangerous acts,” he stated.

However Lench stated that Rowena C.’s testimony would have “probative worth” to the case.