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Mel Gibson Won’t Be Testifying In Harvey Weinstein’s LA Rape Trial After All
17.11.2022 - 06:43 / deadline.com
Mel Gibson will not be taking the strand in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial.
Prosecutors wouldn’t reveal in Judge Lisa Lench’s Los Angeles courtroom today why they’ve decided not to have the Oscar winner testify after all. However, Deputy District Attorneys Paul Thompson and Marlene Martinez made it very clear that Gibson will not be trekking down to the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. The DA’s office did not respond to request from Deadline for more details about why Gibson won’t be testifying.
Long on the witness list in the case, Gibson was set to speak in corroboration for Jane Doe #3. In an interview last year with investigators, the Passion of the Christ and Oscar-winning Braveheart director said that when he casually mentioned Weinstein’s name to Jane Doe #3 while getting a massage, she noticeably tensed up and became upset. That “PTSD reaction,” as Gibson termed it, made him think his friend perhaps had been assaulted by the Pulp Fiction producer.
Court documents and subsequent testimony claim that Weinstein did assault the massage therapist in an L.A. County hotel in 2010. “He was the first person that I finally opened up with about what happened,” Jane Doe #3 told the DTLA courtroom earlier this month of her conversations with Gibson years later. “I told him that [Weinstein] sexually assaulted me, but I didn’t want to get into all the details. I was embarrassed and humiliated.”
Disallowing a defense motion to be able to bring up Gibson’s own ominous past of anti-Semitic, racist and sexist statements, Judge Lench in a pre-trial hearing on October 14 permitted the DA’s office to have the former Mad Max as a witness. In that context, the defense also seemed intent on highlighting a perceived
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