Here’s Weinstein’s response. Sounds like he says, “It’s perfect.”
Should make for interesting times in the local prison.
If her accusation is factual it seems to me his ability to commit the crime of rape to be rather difficult. I'm not sticking up for the scumbag I'm just wondering. Maybe she's getting paid off to turn Harvey into a trans...so dumb.
I guess the court will get to see pictures of his junk....fitting.
No testicles? Explains his strong support for the left.
(02-01-2020 03:54 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: [ -> ]
Here’s Weinstein’s response. Sounds like he says, “It’s perfect.”
Should make for interesting times in the local prison.
If her accusation is factual it seems to me his ability to commit the crime of rape to be rather difficult. I'm not sticking up for the scumbag I'm just wondering. Maybe she's getting paid off to turn Harvey into a trans...so dumb.
If he gets convicted of raping this whore, as men we are all one made up story of going to prison.
I dont care how big of a scum bag he is when it comes to the laws of this country they should be upheld for everyone. She sounds more like a prostitute than a rape victim. You dont get raped then have a long relationship with a man. You dont send him 400 text and emails, some flirty, some really nice and some thanking him for a role...if you were raped. Who thinks it normal to get into a relationship after being raped? As the expert testified to [/quote]
Quote:Mann testified she and Weinstein had a relationship that started in Los Angeles but by the time she got to New York around St. Patrick's Day she was trying to break up with him.
At a hotel, they got into an argument and he told her to go to his room. Once there, he prevented her from leaving, and forced her to undress and get on the bed where he raped her, she said. Previously, their relationship did not include intercourse, she said.
"I was panicked, because my worst nightmare was about to happen," she said. "I was very angry inside and very scared... I gave up at that point."
After she returned to Los Angeles, she sent flattering emails to him, trying to prop up what she said was his "fragile" ego. She said there were "a lot of dynamics" in their relationship.
"I wanted to be perceived as innocent and naive and not a threat. I didn’t want to trigger his anger," she said.
She said she was sometimes afraid of Weinstein and that fear drove the tone of her emails.
On cross-examination defense attorney Donna Rotunno challenged Mann by suggesting she "manipulated" Weinstein in their initial Los Angeles encounters to boost her career.
"You decided that you could overlook what you found grotesque about his appearance because you wanted what he could give you," Rotunno said. "Ms. Mann, you were using Harvey Weinstein. You were lying to Harvey Winstein. You never wanted to have sex with Mr. Weinstein, even when you said it was consensual?"
"Correct," she responded.
When she was asked why she didn't immediately flee after an early unwanted encounter, she said she didn't want to offend someone with so much power in Hollywood.
"You wanted to benefit from the power he had, whether it was professional or otherwise. Correct?," Rotunno asked. [b]
Under prosecutors' questioning, Mann had described a failed threesome, which she said was arranged by Weinstein, as a traumatic event. Rotunno made her read a never-posted blog entry from her phone that described it in explicit detail but lacked a traumatic quality.
"This is what really happened that night?" Rotunno asked.
"No, it isn't," Mann responded. "I wanted to re-frame it for comedy...(The actual event) was painful for me."
Rotunno suggested that Mann interacted with Weinstein even when she didn't want to because she hoped to be cast in one of his movies.
"The movie was important to my career," she said. "It would've made a life-altering difference in my career at that point."
Later, she and a friend met him at another Beverly Hills hotel for drinks and they went up to his room to retrieve scripts he said he had for them.
"I didn’t think with my friend there it’d be anything bad,” Mann testified. But once there she said, Weinstein called her into the bedroom, told her friend they'd just be a minute and closed the door. She described tussling with him as he became angrier.
She began crying as she described how he forced oral sex on her after pulling down her underwear.
She told her friend what happened but the friend had encouraged her to accept Weinstein's invitations to parties and events.
She said she was confused about that but "made a decision" to be in a relationship with him. "I entered into what I thought was going to be a real relationship with him, and it was extremely degrading from that point on," she said. She said she later did engage in non-forced oral sex with the Weinstein.
Why did she continue to have a relationship with him, asked Illuzzi.
"There’s a lot of layers to that question," Mann answered.
Mann said she maintained an email relationship with Weinstein for years after the alleged New York rape, with multiple messages and text messages from Mann to Weinstein suggesting a friendly, even loving relationship.
Weinstein's defense team says that in more than 400 messages between the two, she never accused Weinstein of raping her or harming her. She testified she was too scared of him. The prosecution argued in opening statements, and is expected to argue again in closing statements, that Mann feared for her career, as well as herself, if she said anything.
Questions about why accusers maintain contact with their alleged assailants have been a key issue in the trial. Prosecutors called an expert witness to testify that this is "normal" behavior by victims and it's a "rape myth" to suggest it isn't.
