New York – The friends of one of the accusers of Harvey Weinstein said Thursday that the woman had told them a long time ago that Weinstein had sexually assaulted her.
Adding a new perspective to the new trial of the ex-Film, a witness said that she had suggested once the accuser Miriam Haley was leaving the film’s magnate, but Haley had fallen.
“She had no interest in going out with him or sleeping with him,” said Christine Pressman, describing Haley as “distraught” when she later revealed the alleged sexual assault.
Some of the emerging details show how this trial is a resumption – but not an exact repetition – of the trial in 2020 in which Weinstein was initially found guilty of rape and sexual assault. This conviction has since been canceled.
Pressman did not testify during the initial test. The prosecutors brought him at that time to support Haley’s allegations, but Weinstein’s lawyers questioned him if Haley had a voluntary sexual intercourse with the boss of the Oscar-winning studio.
“Never,” said Pressman.
Haley is a former production assistant on the television show produced by Weinstein “Project Runway”.
Weinstein, 73, argues that he has never assaulted or raped sexually. His lawyers argue that his accusers have accepted sexual meetings with the Oscar -winning producer in the hope of taking front in the entertainment sector.
Weinstein was transformed in 2017 of a Hollywood magnate by nasty of the #MeToo movement after a series of allegations of sexual misconduct against him has become public.
He was found guilty in 2020 to have violated Jessica Mann, who was once a budding actor, and to force oral sex in Haley. Last year, New York’s highest court rejected the conviction, concluding that the trial initial judge had granted detrimental testimonies.
The new trial includes an additional allegation of forced oral sex on a different woman, the old model Kaja Sokola. Weinstein pleaded not guilty to all accusations.
None of the accusers have yet testified, but two of Haley’s friends took a position on Thursday to attest that she had told them about the alleged sexual assault in July 2006 at that time.
Elizabeth ENTIN, Haley’s former roommate, said that Haley told him this month that Weinstein had forced oral sex on her. Echoing her testimony during the first trial, ENTIN said that she suggested Haley to call a lawyer, but her friend seemed little inclined.
Pressman, however, said that she had advised to turn to the police when Haley, of Finnish origin, had made a disclosure similar to her in August or September 2006.
“I said,” Harvey Weinstein is the king of New York. He is extremely powerful. You are not. You are here with a tourist visa. Let him go, ”recalls the old model, musician and actor. She torn apart, adding that she now knows that her advice “was wrong”.
In interrogation by Weinstein Jeninnifer Bonjean’s lawyer, Pressman recognized that at one point before the alleged assault, she suggested to Haley Date Weinstein. Pressman later explained that she had been frustrated by the taste of her friend among men – guys who were tagged, cerebral “and broken”, as Pressman said.
Haley rejected Weinstein’s notion of dating, she said. But Bonjean continued by asking if Pressman knew that Haley “had consensual sex with Mr. Weinstein”. Pressman said her friend had done nothing like it.
Haley testified during the initial trial she had declared “no, no, no” during the alleged assault. A few weeks later, she did not protest when Weinstein pulled her towards a bed and had sex with her, she said, explaining that she was “just numb”.
After the jurors’ departure for the day, Weinstein’s lawyers asked for a trial, saying that Pressman’s testimony was detrimental. They were refused by judge Curtis Farber, who now supervises the case.
Although there are many similarities with the first try, there are also many changes.
Entin found herself to answer questions about what she said and wrote about the first trial himself, as described her participation as her “15 minutes of renown”. ENTIN said it was a joke.
And we were not asked about a memory that made a memorable and rare moment of light during the first trial – an era when she said that Weinstein presented herself without an invitation to the apartment that she shared with Haley and had been chased by the Pet of Entin Chihuahua.
Farber had indicated that he did not think that Entin described the alleged episode was a fair game for the trial.
The Associated Press does not identify the people who allege having been sexually assaulted unless they agree to be appointed. Haley, Mann and Sokola did it.
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