California Governor’s Wife Testifies Harvey Weinstein Sexually Abused Her

the filmmaker jennifer siebel newsomwife of the Governor of California, Gavin Newsomassured that the American producer Harvey Weinstein he raped her in a hotel room in 2005, she testified at his trial in Los Angeles.

Siebel Newsom was the fourth woman to testify in a Los Angeles court against Weinstein, who is serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York for a series of sexual assaults and now faces 11 other charges.

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According to local media reports, the filmmaker told the court on Monday that she met Weinstein when she was 31 years old in a bar with friends from the industry, during the Toronto Film Festival.

He asked to see her later to continue the conversation and she felt that “I had to stay with him” for advice or because he thought Weinstein had a “genuine interest” for talking about your job.

It wasn’t until September 2005 that Weinstein contacted her again. The documentary director explained that the producer showed interest in discussing her film projects, which led her to accept her invitation at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.

She does not remember if it was Wenstein or his assistant who asked the rest of the people present to leave the room to leave them alone, at which time, according to her testimony, he crouched down wearing a bathrobe and asked her “You can help?”.

siebel newsom remembered that at that time “he was touching himself” and later he grabbed her and took her to the bedroom, where, he claimed, he raped her.

“I don’t know how it happened” the filmmaker apologized tearfully, who also admitted that she did not see “the clues” nor did he know how to escape from that situation.

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On cross-examination, the defense attorney Mark Werkman suggested instead that siebel newsom she had consensual sex with the producer because she wanted him to help her in her career.

The lawyers of weinstein they stressed that Gavin Newsom He accepted campaign contributions from the producer despite the rape allegations, but his wife said the governor returned the funds as soon as he realized something was up.

siebel newsom is one of Weinstein’s anonymous whistleblowers according to court documents cited by CNN.

Source: Elcomercio

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