Prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial rested their case after more than two weeks of testimony punctuated by harrowing accounts from six women who say the movie mogul ignored pleas such as “no no no” and excused his behavior as a Hollywood norm.
Lauren Marie Young, a model from suburban Philadelphia, testified that Weinstein invited her to his Beverly Hills hotel room, lured her to the bathroom, stripped off his clothes, pulled down her dress and groped her breast.
Her testimony bookended that of the first accuser to testify, actress Annabella Sciorra, who alleges Weinstein barged into her apartment in the mid-1990s, threw her on a bed and raped her as she tried to fight him off by kicking and punching him. Most were aspiring actresses. Sciorra was a star on the rise. Another, the 2006 accuser Mimi Haleyi, was looking to get more involved in behind-the-scenes aspects of the entertainment business.For example, the woman Weinstein is charged with raping faced three days of questioning, much of it on cross-examination, as Weinstein’s lawyers scoured friendly, sometimes flirtatious emails she sent the film producer after the alleged assault.
At one point, Weinstein lawyer Donna Rotunno asked the woman why she would accept favors from “your rapist.”On Wednesday, prosecutors showed jurors emails they didn’t see during that exhaustive cross-examination that showed it was Weinstein trying to keep their complex relationship afloat, pining for meetings as she latched onto excuses to avoid him.
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