Jennifer Siebel Newsom Testifies At Harvey Weinstein Rape Trial; Witness Breaks Down In Tears On The Stand – Deadline

“He was actually centered on telling me I used to be particular, and I used to be totally different,” Jennifer Siebel Newsom instructed a downtown Los Angeles jury as we speak of her first assembly with Harvey Weinstein.

“He was just like the kingmaker, he was the highest of the trade,” Siebel Newsom acknowledged encountering Weinstein in 2005 on the Toronto Movie Pageant. “I used to be a working actress, I had little roles, visitor starring roles on TV reveals and movies, and I used to be engaged on some quick movies, I’d been in two options … however they have been small roles,” she added in her testimony that began simply earlier than the lunch break.

Anticipated to proceed her testimony this afternoon, Siebel Newsom broke down in tears at one level when requested to level out Weinstein within the Clara Shortridge Foltz Felony Justice Middle courtroom.

Having first revealed in late 2017 an interplay with Weinstein years beforehand, Siebel Newsom went public by way of her lawyer on October 10 that she was Jane Doe #4 within the incarcerated producer’s LA trial. “Like many different ladies, my consumer was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein at a purported enterprise assembly that turned out to be a lure,” mentioned legal professional Elizabeth Fegan in an announcement “She intends to testify at his trial with a purpose to search some measure of justice for survivors, and as a part of her life’s work to enhance the lives of girls.”

Extensively seen as a possible Presidential candidate sooner or later, final week Gavin Newsom was simply reelected Governor of California.

Weinstein is dealing with grand jury indictments of 4 counts of rape, 4 counts of forcible oral copulation, one rely of sexual penetration by use of power, plus one rely of sexual battery by restraint and sexual battery in incidents involving 5 ladies in L.A. County from 2004 to 2013. Sentenced to 23-years in jail by a Manhattan jury in March 2020 for a number of intercourse crimes, and now on attraction, 70-year previous Weinstein is up in opposition to 140 years imprisonment if discovered responsible in L.A.

In his opening assertion within the trial final month, Weinstein lawyer Mark Werkman dismissed the First Associate of California as not more than “simply one other bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get forward in Hollywood” if she hadn’t married now Governor Gavin Newsom. As testimony from different Jane Does and witness commenced in late October within the West Coast trial, info appeared within the press of contributions Weinstein made to Newsom’s numerous campaigns over time and encounters one-time filmmaker and actress Siebel Newsom, who married the then Mayor of San Francisco in 2008, and her husband had with the producer after the alleged assault in late 2004/2005.

In late October, Choose Lisa Lench curtailed the protection’s skill to query Siebel Newsom about her 2007 communication with Weinstein over an affair her then boyfriend Mayor Newsom had with a marketing campaign aide’s partner.

Weinstein’s trial is predicted to run till the tip of the month earlier than the case goes to the jury for deliberation.