NEW YORK (AP) — Two sisters testified at Harvey Weinstein’s most up-to-date legal trial. Kaja Sokola accused the disgraced film mogul of sexual assault. Ewa Sokola was referred to as as a witness to spice up her claims, however in the end ended up serving to the protection.
Now, Ewa Sokola is suing Kaja for defamation, alleging in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court docket that the psychotherapist and ex-model’s public remarks quantity to libel and are damaging Ewa’s status and enterprise as a heart specialist in Poland.
Ewa Sokola says that her youthful sister has made false statements subjecting her to public hatred, disgrace, contempt, ridicule, ostracism and shame in Wrocław, Poland. She seeks unspecified damages.
Messages in search of remark had been left for Kaja Sokola’s attorneys and spokesperson on Thursday and Friday.
In a cut up verdict in June, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral intercourse on movie and tv manufacturing assistant and producer Miriam Haley and acquitted on a cost involving Kaja Sokola’s allegations of comparable conduct. Each girls stated they had been assaulted in 2006.
The choose declared a mistrial on the ultimate cost, alleging Weinstein raped former actor Jessica Mann, after the jury foreperson declined to deliberate additional.
Weinstein has not but been sentenced as a choose weighs a protection request to throw out the decision after two jurors instructed Weinstein’s attorneys that different jurors had bullied them into convicting him. Decide Curtis Farber is anticipated to rule on Jan. 8.
Kaja Sokola has stated her sister’s testimony at Weinstein’s state court docket trial in New York earlier this 12 months undermined her personal testimony that he compelled oral intercourse at a Manhattan lodge simply earlier than her twentieth birthday.
Weinstein had organized for Kaja Sokola to be an additional for a day within the movie “The Nanny Diaries,” and individually agreed to fulfill her and Ewa. After they chatted, she testified, Weinstein instructed her he had a script to indicate her in his lodge room, and he or she went up with him. There, she stated, Weinstein pushed her onto a mattress and assaulted her.
After the trial, Kaja Sokola criticized her sister’s testimony, saying that although she was referred to as as a prosecution witness, she ended up serving Weinstein’s trigger by offering his attorneys with a journal by which she wrote concerning the males who had sexually assaulted her in her life however didn’t embrace Weinstein.
In accordance with the lawsuit, Kaja Sokola repeatedly characterised her sister’s testimony as a private “betrayal” and falsely accused her of omitting journals by which she described what occurred with Weinstein.
The lawsuit additionally stated Kaja Sokola had falsely accused Ewa Sokola of murder, theft, falsification of medical information, sexual impropriety and immoral conduct, and of colluding with Weinstein’s protection staff.
The lawsuit stated Kaja Sokola’s false claims have value Ewa Sokola referrals and led to a discount in sufferers and workers for her medical apply whereas damaging her skilled status and her standing inside the medical group.
