Harvey Weinstein sighed, shook head as accuser detailed alleged rape - Insider

• Harvey Weinstein's LA proceedings connected rape charges continued Tuesday with witnesser testimony.
• One of Weinstein's accusers described successful harrowing item her alleged battle successful February 2013.
• Weinstein reacted successful tribunal with a caput shingle aft she said she was acrophobic helium mightiness person killed her.

Harvey Weinstein visibly reacted successful tribunal connected Tuesday arsenic 1 of his accusers testified successful harrowing item astir the battle she says she suffered astatine his hands.

The disgraced mogul's Los Angeles proceedings connected rape charges continued Monday with opening arguments and the commencement of witnesser testimony. LA County prosecutors person charged Weinstein with 11 counts of intersexual battle stemming from allegations by 5 antithetic women who accused the one-time shaper of abusing them successful LA hotels betwixt 2004 and 2013.

Weinstein is already serving a 23-year condemnation successful a New York prison pursuing an East Coast proceedings but faces an further beingness condemnation heading into the West Coast proceedings. He has denied the charges and pleaded not guilty.

All 5 women are expected to testify against Weinstein during what volition apt beryllium a weeks-long trial. Several of Weinstein's pistillate accusers are utilizing pseudonyms successful court.

The archetypal pistillate to instrumentality the stand, identified arsenic Jane Doe 1, continued her grounds connected Tuesday greeting aft she broke down successful tribunal connected Monday afternoon. She began the time by apologizing for her affectional outburst, telling the tribunal she "can't power this."

Jane Doe 1, an histrion who lived successful Italy, has accused Weinstein of raping her successful a edifice country successful February 2013 during the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival. She told the assemblage connected Monday that helium showed up unannounced to her edifice country precocious astatine nighttime and forced his mode inside.

She wasn't initially fearful, she said, but became frightened erstwhile helium began to speech astir a massage: "I felt blameworthy I did oregon said thing to marque it look okay," she testified.

Jane Doe 1 testified successful disturbing item astir the assault, during which she said Weinstein forced her to execute oral enactment and raped her successful a bathroom, contempt her pleas for him to stop. She said she was terrified, disgusted, and panicked arsenic she tried to fend him off, but credited his ample size with her inability to debar the battle oregon combat back.

She told the courtroom that she considered trying to tally distant oregon adjacent hitting Weinstein with a lamp, but was frozen successful fear.

"I regret this a lot," Jane Doe 1 testified, saying that her assemblage felt frozen. "My assemblage wouldn't perceive to me. I was frightened he'd termination me."

In tribunal astatine this moment, Weinstein reacted to her grounds by shaking his caput and sighing.

Jane Doe 1 paused respective times passim her graphic grounds to instrumentality heavy breaths successful an evident effort to support composure. 

"I wanted to die," she said arsenic she recounted the experience. "It was humiliating, miserable. I didn't fight. I conscionable retrieve however helium looked successful the mirror, telling maine to look astatine him. I privation it ne'er happened to me."

"I wasn't determination successful my head," she added. "I was praying."

After the assault, Jane Doe said Weinstein cleaned himself with a towel and acted similar thing happened. He complimented her and past warned her not to accidental thing to anyone, she testified.

"I was feeling — and I inactive person this feeling — precise guilty," she said. "Humiliated."

Jane Doe 1 didn't spell to the constabulary until October 2017, aft she was inspired by her ain 16-year-old daughter's acquisition with intersexual harassment, she said. When prosecutors asked wherefore she waited truthful agelong to report, she said she had been afraid.

"It is hard to unrecorded with this guilt. I realized helium indispensable beryllium idiosyncratic atrocious to bash this to me," she testified. "I was acrophobic for my life, for my kids, for my reputation."