Harvey Weinstein L.A. Rape Trial: In Opening Statement, Prosecutor Details Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Claim Of Sexual Assault
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deadline.comA Los Angeles prosecutor told jurors on Monday that multiple accusers will provide graphic and violent accounts of being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, as the producer faced his second criminal trial.
In his opening statement, Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson did not directly name the women accusers, but identified one of them as the wife of California governor Gavin Newsom.
The attorney for Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a California filmmaker, had already said that she would be among those to testify during the trial.
Thompson described to the jury Siebel Newsom’s account of being raped by Weinstein, having been lured to his hotel room with the promise of career assistance in 2005.
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