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LOS ANGELES: Harvey Weinstein used his energy and affect in Hollywood to rape girls, leaving them terrified for his or her careers in the event that they stood as much as him, a courtroom in Los Angeles heard Monday.
The film magnate exploited each his bodily dimension and his place as “king” of the movie trade to assault his sufferers in lodge rooms, the prosecution stated, as a two-month trial started to listen to proof.
“They feared that he may overwhelm their careers in the event that they reported what he had finished,” Deputy District Legal professional Paul Thompson informed the packed court docket.
Thompson stated jurors would listen from 8 girls who have been sexually assaulted through the “Pulp Fiction” manufacturer, who’s credited with making the careers of one of the crucial film trade’s greatest names, together with Quentin Tarantino, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow.
“Every of those girls got here ahead unbiased of one another, and none of them knew one every other,” he stated.
The jury will listen testimony from those girls, he stated, together with how they begged the now-70-year-old to prevent, however that he persevered in raping them, forcing them to accomplish oral intercourse on him, or making them watch him masturbate.
Legal professionals Alan Jackson (left), Mark Werksman (centre), and Jacqueline Sparagna, representing Harvey Weinstein, arrive on the Los Angeles County Awesome Courtroom on October 24, 2022 | AP
Weinstein, who produced “The English Affected person” and “Excellent Will Searching,” is already serving 23 years in prison in New York after being convicted there of a sequence of intercourse crimes.
He now faces 11 extra fees, together with sexual battery through restraint, forcible rape and forcible oral copulation towards girls in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles lodges between 2004 and 2013.
If convicted, Weinstein — who has pleaded no longer responsible to all counts — may well be sentenced to greater than 100 further years in the back of bars.
Thompson performed jurors a sequence of quotes from the alleged sufferers, describing Weinstein as “essentially the most robust particular person within the trade,” and “the king.”
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“A part of me was once considering will have to I simply make a run for it, however he is a large man,” some of the girls informed investigators.
“He is giant. He’s huge. He’s obese. He’s domineering,” one stated.
“I nonetheless sought after to paintings in Hollywood so I used to be afraid to do anything else as a result of that,” one girl stated.
“I used to be scared that if I didn’t play great one thing may occur within the room or out of the room as a result of his energy within the trade,” every other girl stated.
In commonplace with maximum sufferers of sexual attack, the ladies within the case are being known as “Jane Doe,” so as to maintain their anonymity, however one has been publicly recognized as Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the spouse of California governor Gavin Newsom.
#MeToo
Protecting, Mark Werksman stated the prosecution’s case was once one among amount, no longer high quality, and pushed through emotion, no longer explanation why. He stated intercourse in Hollywood was once a commodity, and that this was once all exploded through the arrival of the #MeToo motion.
“It was once transactional intercourse. It should were ugly, and embarrassing… nevertheless it was once consensual.
“It was once the casting sofa. Everybody did it. He did it. They did it. As a result of each and every sought after one thing from every other,” Werksman stated.
Legal professional Mark Werksman, representing Harvey Weinstein | AP
“Take a look at him. He’s no longer Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Do you assume the ones stunning girls had intercourse with him as a result of he’s sizzling? No. They did it as a result of he was once robust.”
“An asteroid known as the #MeToo motion hit the earth with such ferocity that the whole thing modified in a single day. And Mr Weinstein was the epicentre.
“The accusers, on this case, girls who willingly performed the sport through the principles that carried out again then, they’ll come into this court docket now… and declare they have been raped and sexually assaulted,” Werksman stated.
In style sexual abuse and harassment allegations towards Weinstein exploded in October 2017, and his conviction in New York in 2020 was once a landmark within the #MeToo motion.
In June, he misplaced a bid to have that intercourse crimes conviction overturned. He has been one by one charged through British prosecutors with the 1996 indecent attack of a lady in London. In overall, just about 90 girls, together with Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Salma Hayek, have accused Weinstein of harassment or attack.
ALSO READ | Harvey Weinstein to be charged in UK over attack claims
Prior to the allegations emerged, he and his brother Bob have been Hollywood’s final energy avid gamers.
Their hits incorporated 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love,” for which Weinstein shared the most efficient image, Oscar. Through the years, Weinstein’s movies won greater than 300 Oscar nominations and 81 statuettes.
“She Mentioned,” a movie concerning the 2017 newspaper investigation into Weinstein that sparked the death of his film empire, is about for huge unlock on November 18 in the US.
LOS ANGELES: Harvey Weinstein used his energy and affect in Hollywood to rape girls, leaving them terrified for his or her careers in the event that they stood as much as him, a courtroom in Los Angeles heard Monday.
The film magnate exploited each his bodily dimension and his place as “king” of the movie trade to assault his sufferers in lodge rooms, the prosecution stated, as a two-month trial started to listen to proof.
“They feared that he may overwhelm their careers in the event that they reported what he had finished,” Deputy District Legal professional Paul Thompson informed the packed court docket.
Thompson stated jurors would listen from 8 girls who have been sexually assaulted through the “Pulp Fiction” manufacturer, who’s credited with making the careers of one of the crucial film trade’s greatest names, together with Quentin Tarantino, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow.
“Every of those girls got here ahead unbiased of one another, and none of them knew one every other,” he stated.
The jury will listen testimony from those girls, he stated, together with how they begged the now-70-year-old to prevent, however that he persevered in raping them, forcing them to accomplish oral intercourse on him, or making them watch him masturbate.
Legal professionals Alan Jackson (left), Mark Werksman (centre), and Jacqueline Sparagna, representing Harvey Weinstein, arrive on the Los Angeles County Awesome Courtroom on October 24, 2022 | AP
Weinstein, who produced “The English Affected person” and “Excellent Will Searching,” is already serving 23 years in prison in New York after being convicted there of a sequence of intercourse crimes.
He now faces 11 extra fees, together with sexual battery through restraint, forcible rape and forcible oral copulation towards girls in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles lodges between 2004 and 2013.
If convicted, Weinstein — who has pleaded no longer responsible to all counts — may well be sentenced to greater than 100 further years in the back of bars.
Thompson performed jurors a sequence of quotes from the alleged sufferers, describing Weinstein as “essentially the most robust particular person within the trade,” and “the king.”
ALSO READ | Ex Hollywood magnate Harvey Weinstein is going on trial in LA, the place he as soon as reigned
“A part of me was once considering will have to I simply make a run for it, however he is a large man,” some of the girls informed investigators.
“He is giant. He’s huge. He’s obese. He’s domineering,” one stated.
“I nonetheless sought after to paintings in Hollywood so I used to be afraid to do anything else as a result of that,” one girl stated.
“I used to be scared that if I didn’t play great one thing may occur within the room or out of the room as a result of his energy within the trade,” every other girl stated.
In commonplace with maximum sufferers of sexual attack, the ladies within the case are being known as “Jane Doe,” so as to maintain their anonymity, however one has been publicly recognized as Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the spouse of California governor Gavin Newsom.
#MeToo
Protecting, Mark Werksman stated the prosecution’s case was once one among amount, no longer high quality, and pushed through emotion, no longer explanation why. He stated intercourse in Hollywood was once a commodity, and that this was once all exploded through the arrival of the #MeToo motion.
“It was once transactional intercourse. It should were ugly, and embarrassing… nevertheless it was once consensual.
“It was once the casting sofa. Everybody did it. He did it. They did it. As a result of each and every sought after one thing from every other,” Werksman stated.
Legal professional Mark Werksman, representing Harvey Weinstein | AP
“Take a look at him. He’s no longer Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Do you assume the ones stunning girls had intercourse with him as a result of he’s sizzling? No. They did it as a result of he was once robust.”
“An asteroid known as the #MeToo motion hit the earth with such ferocity that the whole thing modified in a single day. And Mr Weinstein was the epicentre.
“The accusers, on this case, girls who willingly performed the sport through the principles that carried out again then, they’ll come into this court docket now… and declare they have been raped and sexually assaulted,” Werksman stated.
In style sexual abuse and harassment allegations towards Weinstein exploded in October 2017, and his conviction in New York in 2020 was once a landmark within the #MeToo motion.
In June, he misplaced a bid to have that intercourse crimes conviction overturned. He has been one by one charged through British prosecutors with the 1996 indecent attack of a lady in London. In overall, just about 90 girls, together with Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Salma Hayek, have accused Weinstein of harassment or attack.
ALSO READ | Harvey Weinstein to be charged in UK over attack claims
Prior to the allegations emerged, he and his brother Bob have been Hollywood’s final energy avid gamers.
Their hits incorporated 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love,” for which Weinstein shared the most efficient image, Oscar. Through the years, Weinstein’s movies won greater than 300 Oscar nominations and 81 statuettes.
“She Mentioned,” a movie concerning the 2017 newspaper investigation into Weinstein that sparked the death of his film empire, is about for huge unlock on November 18 in the US.