He lower the appointment quick after about 40 minutes, and when she was within the lavatory washing her palms, Weinstein entered, blocked the door, and started masturbating in entrance of her.

“I said, ‘What are you doing?’” the lady remembered saying as she sat on the witness stand on the Los Angeles trial of the 70-year-old former film magnate. “This is not appropriate! Can you please go back in the other room, and get your clothes on?” She started to cry as she stated “I was terrified. I thought I was about to get raped.”

She stated Weinstein was blocking the door then pushed her towards a wall and groped her breasts earlier than ending. “I was in shock. I felt frozen, I felt paralyzed. I was trying to understand,” she stated. The lady, who’s going by Jane Doe in court docket, was the second of 5 ladies Weinstein is charged with sexually assaulting to take the stand at his trial.

The Associated Press doesn’t sometimes title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused. The lady stated Weinstein referred to as and texted her repeatedly after the incident.

A month or extra later, she reluctantly agreed to see him once more with the reassurance there could be no sexual contact. But Weinstein did open his gown and expose herself to him throughout that therapeutic massage, she testified. She later noticed Weinstein once more, to work solely on an injured foot, however when she was performed he started masturbating in entrance of her once more.

She refused to take any cash, she stated, and cried as she stated she was “disgusted”. “Disgusted that that just happened to me, and I just stood there.”

“That’s one of the reasons why I didn’t want to come forward,” she stated, “because this is embarrassing.” She stated she noticed Weinstein another time a number of months later, when she launched him to a pal who was publishing a espresso desk e book about Los Angeles. She thought she might keep away from being alone with him, however Weinstein requested to talk to her alone, he once more started masturbating, and moved towards her, grabbing at her breasts once more.

“This time I screamed.” She stated. Asked why she didn’t go to police, she stated, “I was humiliated, I was scared.”

“I work on high-end clients that trust me,” she stated. “If I went public that I was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, and I didn’t win, I wouldn’t have been able to work with high-profile clients and that’s all I work with.”

When she lastly did go to police years later, she instructed them solely concerning the first incident. She solely divulged the others slowly in conversations with authorities and in testimony to the grand jury that indicted Weinstein.

He is charged with one rely of sexual battery towards the lady and in whole faces 11 rape and sexual assault counts in California. He is serving a 23-year sentence for a conviction in New York.

Weinstein has pleaded not responsible, and denied partaking in any non-consensual intercourse. The lady’s willingness to see Weinstein once more after the preliminary alleged assault is prone to be on the middle of her cross-examination Thursday by his protection attorneys.

She stated the primary individual she instructed concerning the assault was actor Mel Gibson, one in every of her shoppers and a pal. He is anticipated to testify later within the trial.

The concern got here up involuntarily, when she was giving Gibson a therapeutic massage and the actor-director introduced up a film that he is perhaps working with Weinstein on. “I went into shock and I started crying,” she stated. “He was the first person that I finally opened up with about what happened. I told him that he sexually assaulted me, but I didn’t want to get into all the details, I was embarrassed and humiliated.”