NEW YORK — Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will not testify in his own defence at his rape trial, his lawyers said on Tuesday as they rested their case.
23.01.2020 - 23:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Hollywood star Annabella Sciorra has confronted Harvey Weinstein from a New York witness box, her voice quivering as she recounted a rape accusation she kept largely private for decades.
"I was punching him. I was kicking him. I was just trying to get him off of me" after he pushed his way into her apartment and pinned her on a bed in the early 1990s, Sciorra told the jury.
She said he overpowered her, seizing her hands and holding them over her head, and raped her.
"I didn't have very much fight
NEW YORK — Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will not testify in his own defence at his rape trial, his lawyers said on Tuesday as they rested their case.
Harvey Weinstein is being currently tried for rape and sexual misconduct in New York’s Manhattan courtroom. The latest update about the trial is that the disgraced producer’s defence team called psychologist and memory expert to the witness stand in an attempt to discredit all the allegations level against him by his accusers during the hearing, Page Six reported.
Harvey Weinstein’s lead lawyer claimed in court Friday that a controversial interview she gave to the New York Times was “taped a long time ago” — but it was actually recorded last week.
NEW YORK — A woman who says Harvey Weinstein raped her told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday that her relationship with the Hollywood producer was “complicated” but said that did not change the fact that he had raped her.
Italian actor Emanuela Postacchini testified that Harvey Weinstein pressured her and key witness Jessica Mann to have a threesome in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2013.
Former actress Jessica Mann choked back tears in court on Friday as she detailed the sexual assaults she allegedly suffered at the hands of Harvey Weinstein.
By Dade Hayes
Harvey Weinstein hired top private detectives in a desperate bid to bury the 2017 New York Times expose outing him as an alleged sexual predator, a court has heard.
Harvey Weinstein hired top private detectives in a desperate bid to bury the 2017 New York Times expose outing him as an alleged sexual predator, a court has heard.
Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in New York continued Tuesday with the former roommate of one of the ex-movie mogul’s accusers corroborating details of Weinstein’s alleged 2006 sexual assault.
NEW YORK — One of the women Harvey Weinstein is charged with sexually assaulting told a jury on Monday that the former Hollywood producer forced oral sex on her in his New York City home in 2006.
The Birds of Prey actress Rosie Perez has testified in court in New York, backing the claim made by Annabella Sciorra that Harvey Weinstein raped her. The story goes back to the year 1993, when on a night Rosie Perez spoke to Annabella Sciorra if she wanted to hang out.
Actress Rosie Perez took the stand during Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial in New York on Friday (24Jan20) to recount the conversations she had had with pal Annabella Sciorra about her alleged rape.