Harvey Weinstein’s L.A. Rape Trial Is Already a Horror Show
LOS ANGELES—In what was poised to serve as a fresh blow at violent male predators, prosecutors on Monday argued that convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted several women and used his power to ensure their silence.
But the legal team of the disgraced Hollywood titan did not hold back in their own attack—insisting during their opening statements in the latest criminal trial against Weinstein that his accusers were merely “playing the damsel in distress.”
Defense attorney Mark Werksman wasted no time insisting to the jury that the women set to testify against Weinstein were liars, insisting that two of them had made up encounters and the other two had “transactional sex” with him.
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