LOS ANGELES (AP) – The New York trial of Harvey Weinstein and its California sequel had an unusual crossover on Monday as an accuser from the previous film Magnet took the stand in Los Angeles to testify on each and mention that he sexually assaulted her at Beverly. harassed. Hills lodges the rest room in 2013, while he repeatedly told her “no.”
Lauren Young said she was paralyzed by anxiety when Harvey Weinstein stopped her from leaving the toilet, masturbated in front of her and groped her breasts.
“I was afraid of Harvey Weinstein—that he would hurt me, or send someone to hurt me, or ruin my career, or make my life hell,” Young advised the courtroom.
When Young testified in New York in February of 2020, she was not one of several charges whose stories would result in Weinstein being convicted of rape and sexual assault and sentenced to 23 years in prison. But prosecutors asked him to testify to help establish a sample of Weinstein preying on women.
In Los Angeles, Weinstein has been charged with abstinent sexual battery for similar charges.
She mentioned on Monday that in early 2013, she was a model who aspired to be an actress and screenwriter, and through Weinstein’s assistant, who had become a friend, she spent a February night at the Montage Hotel. arranged a meeting with him. 19, 2013, on some scripts she was engaged.
Young testified that Weinstein was distracted and disinterested during the assembly, suggesting as an alternative that he may have been a reality TV host on shows such as “America’s Next Top Model”, which his firm helped create.
Weinstein immediately said that he would like to be able to present an award to director Quentin Tarantino at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival, and that he should accompany him to his room to continue talking.
Young mentioned that Weinstein took her to the room followed by the toilet, and that her assistant closed the door behind them and left them alone.
She said that she was shocked as she took off her clothes in no time and went out for a shower, then came out and stopped her from going when she went to the door.
“I was disgusted,” she mentioned. “I had never seen such a big man naked. I laughed really nervously.”
She mentioned that she headed towards a sink and turned away from it. Then he unbuttoned her dress and groped her with one hand while masturbating with the other.
Young mentioned, “I was really impressed by his body and the look he was giving me.” “I was wondering how do I get out of here safely, what am I going to do?”
She mentioned that he advised her “no” over and over again. When he was done, he left the hotel and never saw her again.
Weinstein, like all women who have been accused of sexual assault since the trial, goes to court by Young Jane Doe. The Associated Press sometimes does not publish the names of persons accused of sexual assault unless they have given their consent, as Young has terminated by his attorney.
Young’s testimony during the New York trial drew attention to his account. But during cross-examination, Weinstein’s attorney Alan Jackson recognized that it differed in many ways from his initial accounts to police beginning in 2018, when he set up a hotline for reports about Weinstein following the explosion of the #MeToo movement. Called the system.
Young initially advised detectives that the attack had happened 12 months earlier, when she had gone out to dinner with Weinstein at a Beverly Hills restaurant. Jackson recognized that she was saying the same thing by 2020.
“I was sure I was sexually assaulted,” Young noted.
“That was not my question,” replied the lawyer. “I’m asking about time. Something that will settle in your mind.”
Jackson also referred to his earlier confusion about the website of the attack in an initial interview with officials.
“As you told your story three times the first time, you had no idea in which hotel it happened,” Jackson noted. “You didn’t even mention the montage.”
“I had made it out of my memory,” Young noted.
He admitted that he didn’t know the lodge was the montage, now often referred to as Maybourne, until a police detective signaled it and went to see it.
According to allegations in the indictment and court testimony, Young’s assault occurred on the day that Weinstein raped an Italian model at an exclusive hotel for that year’s Academy Awards, where Weinstein was a key annual participant.
Weinstein, 70, has pleaded not responsible for 11 counts of rape and sexual assault involving 5 women, and has repeatedly denied that he was involved in any sexual intercourse that was not consensual.
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