“He got on top of me and he raped me … I said, ‘No, no,’ but there was not much I could do. My body shut down. It was so disgusting my body started to shake in a way that was unusual. It was like a seizure or something,” said Annabella Sciorra
Photo: JEENAH MOON/Getty Images Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual-assault trial began in New York this month. Although over 100 women have publicly accused the disgraced producer of various forms of sexual misconduct, ranging from unwanted touching to rape, he is currently facing five felony counts for alleged nonconsensual encounters stemming from the accusations of two women: Mimi Haleyi and Jessica Mann.
Sciorra testified that Weinstein continued to harass her in the years following the rape. Once, she said, he showed up unannounced at her hotel room in London, forcing her to change rooms. In the late ’90s, at the Cannes Film Festival, Sciorra said she’d opened the door of her hotel room at 5 a.m to find Weinstein standing in the hallway in his underwear, with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a videotape in the other.
On the stand, Haley described the alleged assault, which she says occured in Weinstein’s apartment in 2006: “Really soon into me being there, he kind of came towards me and lunged at me, trying to kiss me. I got off the sofa and said, ‘Oh, no, no…’ We were having normal conversations, the television was on, we were sort of watching it … and then, at some point … he came forward to me and lunged at me, trying to kiss me,” she explained.
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