“No Recollection” Of Assembly Accuser In Puerto Rico – Deadline

Considered one of Harvey Weinstein’s former private assistants, who was talked about prominently in accuser Ashley M.’s testimony, took the witness stand at the moment within the disgraced former mogul’s sexual assault trial in Los Angeles, saying she has “no recollection of assembly [Ashley M.] in Puerto Rico.”

Bonnie Hung, who met Weinstein in 2001 and have become his private assistant two years later, was requested by prosecution lawyer Marlene Martinez about Ashley M.’s alleged 2003 lodge encounter with Weinstein throughout the manufacturing of Soiled Dancing: Havana Nights in Puerto Rico that ended with Weinstein allegedly masturbating on her.

The accuser talked about Hung by title throughout her testimony final week, saying that when as a result of the assistant was current that night time, “At that time I felt higher simply figuring out that I wasn’t alone.”

Martinez requested Hung if she had learn media accounts of Ashley M.’s testimony. She answered sure however added, “I’ve no recollection of assembly her in Puerto Rico” and, later, “I don’t recall going to the lodge together with her and Mr. Weinstein.” Hung did say it was “potential” that she met Ashley M. there and “potential that she, as Martinez requested, “walked as much as the lodge room with Mr. Weinstein and the girl, and that you just closed the door behind them.”

Later, when Martinez requested Hung to elucidate how it might work when Weinstein instructed her to go away a room whereas they had been on journeys.

“He would inform me and all people else to go away so he might have a personal phrase with whoever he was assembly with,” Hung mentioned on the stand.

The prosecution then completed with Hung, and the protection opted to not cross-examine her.

Harvey Weinstein faces a most sentence of greater than 100 years in jail if convicted of the grand jury costs for 4 counts of rape, 4 counts of forcible oral copulation, one rely of sexual penetration by use of pressure, plus one rely of sexual battery by restraint and sexual battery. A jury of 9 males and three girls is listening to the Los Angeles case. His attorneys have mentioned the sexual encounters had been consensual and even “transactional,” and that claims had been fabricated.