Gavin Newsom’s Wife Bursts Into Tears at Weinstein’s Rape Trial: ‘He’s Staring at Me’ - Yahoo! Voices

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s woman took the basal successful Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape trial Monday, and astir instantly burst into tears arsenic she was asked to constituent retired the antheral she has accused of sexually assaulting her twice.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a 48-year-old erstwhile histrion and producer, admitted to prosecution lawyer Marlene Martinez that she was “a small nervous” to springiness testimony. Newsom told the tribunal that she archetypal met Weinstein during the Toronto Film Festival much than 15 years ago.

“Do you spot that idiosyncratic present successful tribunal today?” Martinez asked, prompting Newsom to interruption into tears.

“Yes,” she replied, according to excavation reports from the courtroom. “He’s wearing a suit, and a bluish tie, and he’s staring astatine me.”

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Newsom went connected to accidental their archetypal meeting—in Sept. 2005, good earlier she met her now-husband—happened successful a edifice arsenic she was huddling with immoderate manufacture friends. At the time, she was a moving histrion who had done immoderate “small roles” successful immoderate tv shows and a mates of movies, she testified.

Weinstein, connected the different hand, was a “kingmaker” and “at the apical of the industry,” Newsom said. As the mogul approached her “everybody benignant of similar backed away,” she recalled, adding that it “felt similar the Red Sea was parting.”

“He wanted to cognize who I was, what my sanction was, wherefore I was there,” Newsom said. “...I felt a spot intimidated. He was charming. He treated maine initially similar helium was truly funny astir me. Maybe flattered is however I felt?”

Weinstein told her helium wanted to conscionable up with her again, and they arranged to get unneurotic astatine the hotel’s barroom later. “I felt similar determination was a genuine involvement successful talking astir my work,” Newsom, who said she brought a person on to the meeting, told the court.

A luncheon interruption was called soon aft her little testimony, with the governor’s woman scheduled to proceed her grounds aboriginal connected Monday. She is 1 of 5 women expected to instrumentality the basal successful this latest proceedings to impeach Weinstein of sexually assaulting them.

Through her attorney, Newsom revealed connected Oct. 10 that she was the pistillate referred to successful the proceedings lone arsenic Jane Doe #4. “Like galore different women, my lawsuit was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein astatine a purported concern gathering that turned retired to beryllium a trap,” lawyer Elizabeth Fegan said successful a connection astatine the time.

“She intends to attest astatine his proceedings successful bid to question immoderate measurement of justness for survivors, and arsenic portion of her life’s enactment to amended the lives of women.”

Weinstein’s lawyers person argued that the disgraced shaper did not sexually battle Newsom, but alternatively had “consensual,” “transactional” enactment with her successful speech for helping her career. In his opening connection past month, defence lawyer Mark Werkman called Newsom “just different bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get up successful Hollywood.”

Fegan told Variety shortly aft that she recovered Werkman’s words insulting. “Using adjectives similar ‘bimbo’ and different over-the-top words to picture the elements, to me, reflects that Harvey doesn’t person facts to enactment his defense,” she said, “so they’re going to effort and triumph based connected play and attacking the victims, arsenic opposed to based connected the evidence.”

The imaginable instauration of a 2007 email from Newsom to Weinstein arsenic grounds had the defence and prosecution locking horns successful precocious October. The email, a petition for proposal connected dealing with the media, was sent aft quality broke that Gov. Newsom had antecedently had an matter with a joined adjutant portion successful bureau arsenic San Francisco’s politician successful 2005. (The Newsoms didn’t statesman dating until 2006.)

Judge Lisa Lench granted curtailed support to the defence to present the email successful court, forbidding them from discussing the communicative down the message. She explained that the matter was “too tangential successful narration to this trial.”

Weinstein, present 70, is already serving a 23-year condemnation aft being convicted of rape and intersexual battle successful New York successful 2020. In Los Angeles County, helium faces 4 counts of rape, 4 counts of forcible oral copulation, 1 number of intersexual penetration by usage of force, 1 number of intersexual artillery by restraint and intersexual artillery successful incidents ranging from 2004 to 2013.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges. The proceedings is expected to tally until the extremity of the period earlier being kicked implicit to the assemblage for deliberations.

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