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“I have never raped or sexually assaulted a Jane Doe,” Mr. Weinstein said. “I never knew this woman, and the thing is, she doesn’t know me.”
Prosecutors sought to establish a pattern in Mr. Weinstein’s behavior based on the testimony of four witnesses, which led to seven criminal charges, and the statements of four other women who were allowed to testify about his ill-treatment.
The defense argued that the women did business with Weinstein and knowingly had sex with him in exchange for professional services. In some cases, they said the memories were inaccurate.
During cross-examination of Ms. Sibel Newsom, lawyer Mark Werksman accused her of reframing her experience with Mr. Weinstein as negative only after the explosion of the #MeToo movement in 2017. At one point, he told jurors that Ms. Sibel Newsom was “another prostitute who slept with Harvey Weinstein to make it big.”
According to Ms. Siebel Newsom, within two days of giving evidence that she was raped by Mr. Weinstein in 2005 in his Beverly Hills hotel room after she agreed to meet him to discuss her career. She said she didn’t come forward before because she tried to ignore the incident as “a way to get rid of my sadness, my fear, my trauma so I can move forward with my life.”
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