Harvey Weinstein L.A. Rape Trial: Accuser Wraps Up Testimony After Contentious Cross-Examination
27.10.2022 - 04:31
/ deadline.com
A model-actress who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault finished her testimony on Wednesday, as she faced a contentious cross-examination from a defense attorney who tried to raise doubts about her version of events.
The accuser, identified as Jane Doe #1, told attorney Alan Jackson that after the alleged assault occurred in February, 2013, she was “trying to act like nothing happened,” having previously told jurors of the trauma she experienced.
Jackson had questioned her on why she posted an Instagram photo shortly after the alleged assault, in which she is shown smiling with Al Pacino at a Los Angeles Italia Film Festival event. The caption included a few smile emojis.
Jane Doe #1 said that she could not recall whether the photo was posted by her or by her PR team.
She claims that, after a festival event, Weinstein tracked down her room and, when she let him in, he sexually assaulted her on the hotel room bed and in the bathroom.
Jackson also showed her another social media photo, a selfie taken in the hotel bathroom.
“This is a post that you put up 11 days after you claim the incident occurred in that very spot,” Jackson said.
But Jane Doe #1 insisted that, after the alleged assault, she had to keep up appearances for career purposes.
Jackson also questioned her about a fire alarm that he said went off at the hotel on Feb. 18, 2013, “basically the same time Mr. Weinstein was in your room … raping you, you think you would remember that fire alarm?”
But she said that she did not recall an alarm, and pushed back on the idea that the alarm went off in the time frame of the alleged rape. Jackson did not present a record that it went off.
She also told jurors that, once back in Rome, that she took two