“She may regret the transactional sex, but regret is far from rape,” one said in closing arguments after having tried to make her fake an orgasm on the stand.
Throughout the proceedings, Weinstein’s defense went to great lengths to diminish Siebel Newsom’s allegations against their client, even going so far as to prompt her to detail and demonstrate an orgasm she said she’d faked to escape him. “I could tell he just needed, he was so determined, just so scary, just all about him and his pleasure, his need for satisfaction, so I just did it to make it stop,” she told the court of the alleged assault.
. Weinstein, as detailed by scores of other accusers, invited her for a meeting at a hotel to discuss her film projects. Once she arrived, Siebel Newsom said, he dragged her to the bedroom and raped her. “He was asserting himself and tried to tell me that he—he mentioned several actresses names—he tried to tell me that this was the industry, and in a way, like, threaten me,” she testified.
” he said. “She dares to equate that to violent rape. There are women out there who have been violently raped. She contrived this entire performance to paint herself a victim for choices she’s made.”He also referenced their continued correspondence after the alleged assault. Siebel Newsom argued it was purely to aid in professional advancement and that she’d put the more traumatic memories of the assault “in a box.
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