New York – A former model reproached one of Harvey Weinstein The lawyers to suggest that their accusations of sexual abuse against the former head of study are lies.
“You should be ashamed of yourself” Kaja Sokola Replicated. On its fifth and last day of testimony in Weinstein’s sexual crimes programHe argued that he was telling the truth and that Weinstein’s supposed behavior in his adolescence had changed the course of his life.
“Did the course of your life change because you obtained $ 3.5 million of false accusations?” The defense lawyer Mike Cibella pressed, referring to the compensation that was granted through civil procedures in recent years.
“No. That is very unfair,” Sakola said gently. “That is not true.”
During his days in the witness position, he said that Weinstein repeatedly offered to foster his ambitions, but then made unwanted physical advances, starting When I was 16 years old In 2002.
Weinstein, 73, faces a position of sexual assault related only to his accusation that he forced oral sex when he was 19 years old. It also faces charges based on two other statements of women. He declared himself innocent of all the positions, and his lawyers affirm that his accusers had agreed sexual encounters With the Oscar -winning producer because they wanted the work of films and television.
Weinstein’s lawyers roasted Sokola about their requests for professional aid after the alleged assault, their reasons for their civil demands and testimony of criminal trial, as well as their personal struggles, and even A private newspaper that kept for alcohol abuse Program in his native Poland.
After he apparently receives the writings of a decade through the witness’s sister, he was allowed to present portions in which Sokola said that two other men had sexually assaulted her over the years, but they did not say the same about Weinstein. Instead, she wrote that he promised help but did not comply.
Sokola testified on Wednesday that he had left out Weinstein’s alleged sexual abuse in part because he could not accept it at that time. In addition, he said, his sponsor was in the cinema business in Poland and knew who Weinstein was.
Cibella questioned that explanation, pointing out that the text mentioned only “Harvey W” and nothing about his profession. Sokola said his sponsor, however, knew his identity because they talked about it.
Saying while talking, he said he had not seen the black notebook for 10 years, never gave anyone permission to share it and was stunned and horrified to face him in court.
“I felt very raped,” said Sokola, now 39 and psychotherapist.
She was the second of Weinstein’s accusers to testify in the new trial, and the only conviction That was later overturnedconfiguring the trial. The prosecutors decided to add the accusations of Sokola.
Another woman, Miriam Haley, has already told the jury In the new trial that Weinstein made oral sex in 2006. The third accuser, Jessica Mann, is expected to testify in the next few days or weeks. She claims that Weinstein raped her in 2013.
Associated Press generally does not name the people who claim that they have been sexually assaulted unless they give permission to be identified. Haley, Mann and Sokola have done it.
